Do we have to prepare for Christmas meals?
Written by:In fact, before Christmas we should take the usual diet, adequate time and needs of each person.
Not very sensible "lose a few pounds" previously controlling the food and then pick them up after Christmas and try to lose them again.
What and how we eat at Christmas
Although during this time the abundant business meals, friends and family happening, tradition is changing. It not happens to ring the bells on 1 December (or earlier) and start eating uncontrollably.
Increasingly, countries like Spain tend to change these traditional and be more frugal habits, since they will in this health, and this is most important.
We must start from the idea that "social" eating meals do not amount to much. You have to eat with measure and encourage conversation and good manners. Increasingly, they tend to reduce the copious dinners with alcohol, sugars and fats abundant, and take healthier foods and better prepared. Vegetables, fish and meats are not only excellent food, if your preparation is lighter (baked, grilled, steamed, salt, etc.), but also more rewarding for our body.
How not to overeat at Christmas
Throughout history, food has always been a necessity for survival, so his absence was a problem (except in certain social strata who flaunted their gluttony and bulging bellies as a symbol of opulence).
This problem is still present in many places.
In addition, obesity is as important as malnutrition, and has become an epidemic in many parts of the world.
Excess food is one of the leading causes of illness, and has a direct relationship with a lifestyle that generates high levels of anxiety in people. One way to control this anxiety is eating, which has turned food into a form more addiction, equally harmful than alcohol, snuff or synthetic drugs.
Therefore, the endocrinologist-dietitian plays a fundamental role in changing the diet, since it can control anxiety and overweight.
How to detox after Christmas
If we have a healthy discipline, important Christmas days are really only 4 to 6, and if we do not commit excesses remarkable increase because no more than 1 or 2 kilos, which can be easily lost. How? Plenty of water, herbal teas, vegetables in abundance, little alcohol, fish, fruit, etc; along with regular physical activity. Walking and cycling much would be adequate, but as happens increasingly, if Christmas is a form of holiday at sea or in the mountains with more exercise, feeding should be more abundant.
