Food Education, what it is and how to learn to eat healthy

Food Education, what it is and how to learn to eat healthy
Eating in a healthy and conscious way is the new frontier of well-being. The World Health Organization and FAO have drawn up a document in which nations are encouraged to promote the concept of Food Education aimed at improving the health conditions of all individuals.

What is Food Education Food

Education is a training course necessary to understand that food is not only nutrition but also the simplest and healthiest way to take care of one's health. Obesity problems have increased dramatically, especially in childhood, eating disorders or metabolic diseases due to a wrong conception of food, aimed at compensating for deficiencies and daily dissatisfactions. Food Education is a way to recover the simplest and most genuine meaning inherent in nutrition: food is used to nourish one's body. If it is true, as Feuerbach said, that we are what we eat, giving value to a single food, knowing it and learning the properties and benefits that belong to it is the first step to feel good and fit.

Know the needs of your body

The first step for a conscious Food Education must start from the deep knowledge of one's needs and one's lifestyle. Knowing how many calories you need to eat daily will help you determine how much to eat to feel good. Eating too much or too little are two harmful habits for the body that must receive from food the necessary energy to carry out daily activities.

The Mediterranean diet

According to the WHO, the Mediterranean diet is the ideal dietary regimen. The food pyramid, conceived in the USA in the nineties, is the graphic and intuitive representation of this diet. The base consists of foods to be consumed daily such as cereals, pasta, rice followed by fruit and vegetables. At the top we find instead foods whose consumption must be sporadic such as sugar and sweets. Respecting this scheme by integrating it with moderate physical activity to be practiced at least three times a week is the key to achieving psycho-physical well-being.

Four nutritional education tips

To eat properly and consciously, just follow small and simple rules:

1) Never skip breakfast

Starting the day with the right amount of carbohydrates and proteins, such as milk and cereals and the vitamins given by fresh fruit, is the secret to a day full of energy.

2) 5 servings a day of fruit and vegetables

A simple rule to fill up on vitamins, minerals and trace elements.

3) The hunger-break snacks

The two mid-morning and afternoon snacks help you not get too hungry for the next meal and give you a quick release surplus of energy.

4) 8 glasses of water a day

Water eliminates waste, toxins, maintains hydration and helps you feel less tired and hungry.

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