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Which can Lead to Eating More Fat

Which can Lead to Eating More Fat

Sure you know that excess fat is good for our health, and if you’re dieting is not about choosing not to consume but the quality of fats and control the amount ingested to achieve a balanced diet that benefits the operation of body.

Here what the excess fat can cause:

Hinder digestion: A high-fat meal is heavier, more indigestible and can cause discomfort after eating copious, therefore, best to limit fat in each meal and thus achieve a lighter meal, allowing us to remain active and without discomfort after it.

It makes us eat more: Fats have a high palatability, does not produce a lot of fullness and are easily storable energy, why, how much fat we eat, the more we want.

They are focusing on energy: fats increase the caloric density of the diet as they are the macronutrient that provides more calories per gram, therefore, a high intake of fats in the day may promote positive energy balance and thus lead to an increase weight.

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Calories of Omega 3 in Milk

omega 3 milkThe people are influenced by lifestyle habits (eating, nutritional status, physical activity, consumption of toxic substances). During the past two decades, scientific research has shown that a “proper nutrition”, ie which provides food through all the nutrients (carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals) in quantity and adequate quality, taken regularly, is a vehicle for health promotion.

However, the classical concept of “proper nutrition” tends to be replaced by “optimal nutrition”, which includes, in addition to the above definition, the potential of foods to promote health, improve welfare and reduce the risk of develop disease. In this area are functional foods, and one of them is milk with omega 3.

Whole milk has about 61 calories per 100 ml, ie about 160 calories per cup of 250 ml.

Omega-3 milk has 55 calories per 100 ml of milk, which is about 137 calories per cup of milk instead of whole milk 160.

Oleic acid appears to slow gastric emptying giving a feeling of satiety and also favors the satiating hormone synthesis (peptide Y and cholecystokinin).

On the other hand omega 3 fatty acids, thanks to its structure with many double bonds, are used by the mitochondria as an energy source and do not accumulate as with saturated fat.

But besides milk fats are polyunsaturated fats Omega 3 (EPA and DHA) and monounsaturated (oleic acid) that are healthier for your heart than saturated fats contained in milk. Thus, omega three milk has fewer calories than whole milk but also its component fats are healthier.