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In the book From grocery stores to hypermarkets, the doctor in Food Science and Technology Miguel Ángel Lurueña talks about how food has changed in the last 40 years, our behavior when buying and eating and how our environment conditions us in that sense. In Healthy life with Julio Basulto they focus on why we shouldn’t demonize unhealthy foods, How to educate our children in this sense y why we shouldn’t replace the healthy pastries by pastry itself.
‘From the grocery store to the hypermarket’, with Miguel Ángel Lurueña
The difference between unhealthy and toxic
People who worry excessively about wearing a strict healthy eating in the end they end up conceiving the insane food as toxic food and this should not be like this.
“And toxic food It is a food that has contaminants, that is, it has toxic substances that consumed in low quantities can exert a detrimental effect on health. This does not happen with a insane food. An unhealthy food is a food what no can be considered healthy“explains the doctor.
But how do we differentiate a healthy food from one that is not? The doctor healthy food defined as a food that provides the nutrients we need and that they do not have a negative effect on long-term health. “A donut, if we consume it regularly, since it has refined flours, sugars and fats of poor nutritional quality, then in the long term we can end up developing a disease such as type two diabetes, for example,” says Miguel Ángel Lurueña.
This doesn’t mean that you can’t have a donut from time to time if you normally follow a healthy diet. “We should not put our hands on our heads for eating a donut, Don’t even think that this is going to kill us, or that it is a toxic food,” says the writer. What he means is that We do not have to go to the extreme of changing our social habits for not wanting to eat something unhealthy since we think that means we are giving something toxic to our body.
Your children must learn balance
When there is children at home You have to learn to find balance. Miguel Ángel Lurueña tells how he does it with his two daughters so that they do not think that unhealthy foods are toxic while they follow a healthy diet.
The most important thing is that they know that these foods You don’t have to consume them daily. “Before they didn’t even enter the house, but not because of any strict
What do they do with them? Instead of demonizing them and throwing them away, they have decided consume them once or twice a week to celebrate special situations like, for example, watching a movie all together on a Friday: “That’s what those products are for, to enjoy them, to play with them even in this context,” says the writer.
Choose pastries over “healthy” ones
The “healthy” pastries It is a growing trend for a few years that has achieved Disguise as healthy something that really is not. Miguel Ángel Lurueña makes us in his book four questions that will make you rethink whether it is really worth choosing healthy pastries over traditional pastries.
The first is if we consume it for guilty feeling. The doctor affirms that if we do it because that would be going down a very bad path “because that favors the development of eating disorders”. The second is if we do it improve our diet. If so, the writer points out that we have to take into account that this type of pastry “it does not provide interesting nutrients and can also displace the consumption of foods that are healthy.” and that they do provide interesting nutrients.
Another is that if we consume it because we think that we will be able to do so. take more frequently. If you think like that, you are wrong because in the end you stop consuming unhealthy pastries one day a week to consume pastries that give us almost nothing every day. Finally, Do we really like the product? because the good thing about, for example, a croissant is that it is spongy and that can only be achieved with white flour and butter. Therefore, “If we want a croissant with all its letters, then let’s eat a croissant and enjoy the croissant. And as easy as that, but of course for a specific day, not for a moment of each day,” advises Miguel Ángel Lurueña.
