Superfoods are foods which are attributed particularly healthy properties due to their high content of some specific nutrients, such as vitamins, fibers, antioxidants or active phytocompounds. Among these there are seaweeds, Goji berries , avocado, chia seeds, blueberries … thanks to the web they are talked about more and more boasting their properties , but […]
Nutrition is an aspect of our life that contains many choices: what do I want to eat, where do I buy food, what products do I buy, how do I choose it? Even if this aspect is often underestimated, the cooking of a food , the method of preparation or conservation affects its nutritional properties. […]
The relationship that many people have with nutrition is influenced by weight or how you look in the mirror in the morning … it’s a complicated relationship. It is almost always wrong. Instead I think it is better to talk about nutrition rather than nutrition. And this is because the issue must be addressed from […]
The metabolic syndrome can be considered as a coexistence of risk factors, which under certain conditions, almost always linked to an incorrect lifestyle, genetic and environmental factors, dangerously increases the probability of get sick with a serious illness (heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes). According to some studies this condition could favor the onset of […]
When it comes to illness, we often focus on drug therapies, leaving out elements such as nutrition and lifestyle, considered only minimally influencing the state of health. I have seen this type of approach especially when there is a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes : all the attention is placed on the drug to be […]
From a medical-scientific point of view, aging is a degeneration process involving cells, tissues and organs. After the age group between 20 and 30 years, a state of slow but progressive decay begins which weakens the organism and slows down the physiological functions. Put in these terms, old age would look like a sword of […]
