Advice from nutrition consultant Paolo Bianchini: avoid sugary foods and drinks
When we lose heat energy, what is good to eat? Seasonal fruit?
Or olives, eggs and meat seasoned with butter and salt?
The question is deliberately tricky, because instinctively most will focus on herbal products.
Especially those that contain more sugar, starting with cherries, figs and grapes.
According to Paolo Bianchini, a nutritional and nutrition consultant (i.e. an expert in products that favor the physiological processes of the body), precisely sugar product instead of them, including soft drinks prevent.
Energy: the paradox of sugary foods
“Paradoxically, you have to do it more in the summer than in the winter avoid as much as possible fruitdebunking the fact that sugary foods like soft drinks, beer and ice cream also provide energy,” warns Bianchini.
“To cool off you should do it in the summer to drink water, do not use foods containing sugar or sweeteners.
A theory with a biochemical basis: “Sugary foods or drinks – Salodan nutritionist continues – they cause sudden increase in blood sugar as a result insulin productionit helps the sugar to enter the cells, it acts as a kind of passepartout that opens the locks.
In other words, through hormonal changes increases cellular inflammation“the starting point of every disorder and/or pathology”.
Another common belief that Bianchini invites us to dispel is the prevailing summer heat. don’t sweathelps to eliminate the excess sugar presented.
“This idea – he states – is completely wrong, because only mineral salts are eventually lost: all the sugar stays in the cells.” Furthermore, he concludes:In summer, the thyroid works less and it will make it easier to gain weight.’
Fruits and vegetables: yes, but with caution
Even outside of the specific summer context, Paolo Bianchi urges maximum attention to fruit consumption. “But those who say how much harm an apple can do” – he claims – do not know human physiology. “All sugar in our blood – he continues – almost like this 5 grams. A mela half ha 20 grams a little less sugar, peaches and apricots, like watermelon.’
The problem is always the production of high amounts of insulin, “which is an extremely negative factor for health in general.” Bianchini adds that eating fruit every now and then won’t be a problem. But if the stimulus is repeated over time, especially in the summer with large amounts of fruit instead of lunch, there is a risk of sending it to exhaustion.”
Most AttentionSalò also invites a nutraceutical consultant summer vegetable consumption, centrifuge. That is, we should not exaggerate, “because i vegetables contain slowly absorbed carbohydrates in the form of fiber, normally undigested and passes through the digestive tract unchanged. But when you put vegetables in a blender or juicer, the polydextrose molecules are broken down“. increase glycemia.
Reassessing fats, proteins and salt for energy recovery
“Vegetables – Bianchini concludes – are certainly better than fruit. But there are a lot of them better fats and proteins“.
Lipids are, in fact, an important energy reserve for the body and are essential for the normal functioning of the cell. So are proteins that contain vitamin B12 and mineral salts such as iron and zinc, which are essential for many biological functions, including building cells.A list of the best dishes due to energy recovery therefore it is found dried fruits such as olives, avocados, coconuts, almonds. However, as a spice clarified butter.
“Of course, these foods should also be accompanied by noble proteins meat, fish and eggs and fresh seasonal vegetables“, needed.
And sale? “It is clear – says Bianchini – the use of salt is appropriate. Or you can use it instead of salt anchovies which one is better capers because they represent both source of protein What about lipids, especially omega 3”. “Energy Emergency” also includes a a piece of parmesan. And by exercising, you can add water with a few grains of coarse saltalso flavored with a few drops of lemon, lime, grapefruit or infused with aromatic herbs such as mint, basil, lemon balm, fennel or lavender.