How does food begin to relate to well -being, quality of life and longevity?
Yes, today it seeks to protect and improve health, avoid overweight, prolong youth and prevent pathologies that are linked to aging, that is, tumors and cardiovascular, metabolic and neurodegenerative diseases. It is to look for a more personalized diet, which protects, improve health but also that there is full awareness and enjoyment.
What are Smart food?
Smartfood food comes from Smart in English “intelligent” or “expert”, that is, having a conscious food and combinations choice, to be able to self -manage, have self -knowledge of our body, health, preferences, tastes and needs of the moment. EJ is not the same biological moment of menopause, adolescence or being vegan, for example.
The Longevity Smartfoods have been identified for example. Natural drugs are some specific smartmolecules that are being isolated and evaluated, present in certain foods, example —quercetin (asparagus, caper, black chocolate, or resveratrol (grape), curcumin (turmeric), anthocyanins present in cherry, strawberries, plums, or, fruits of the forest, eggplant
Each substance has an exclusive role as to speak in chemical processes of the organism.
How could these foods help us against aging?
By biochemical processes, these Smart molecules modify the genetic paths that regulate the duration of life. Consuming these foods, could help, collaborate with a good aging, not prevent the process. But if antioxidant substances of certain foods, serve as an antioxidant barrier to our cells, where free radicals are neutralized, and that decreases the destruction of cell structures, mechanisms, etc. It is what is called, oxidative stress, or aging. Because we age because cells age.
What would be the recommendations then if we wanted to incorporate these foods?
Include protective foods: fruits, vegetables, of all kinds and color, for example, whole grains, certain foods such as natural cocoa, seeds and legumes, which provide all the substances that the body needs for optimal functioning. In addition to proteins, hydrates and fats, such as macronutrients that they already contribute. All this choice, and combination of substances where we also see vitamins and nutrients, causes tumors, diabetes, even digestive disorders to preve
In other words, prioritize what is called nutritional quality, include these longevity foods, smart, protectors, will be decisive, to ensure an optimal health state but also advance to what comes in a preventive way.
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By CEDOC