What is real food and the importance it has for our health?
Why avoid ultra-processed foods that harm our body and well-being.
The diet has focused on nutrients and calories, instead of
food, instead of real food. We speak in terms of carbohydrates, fats, proteins,
vitamins, minerals ... when all that has nothing to do with health.
Health has to do with food, which is much more than the sum
of its nutrients and calories. Foods have a complex food matrix, which is
healthy in its natural form and minimally processed. We have overlooked the
degree of processing of these raw materials, ignoring the possible effects that
alter the food and have an impact on our health.
For all this, the Real fooding movement is born, for the
defense and dissemination of real food, real food. For the fight against the
obesogenic environment and the ultra-processed epidemic. The objective is to
improve the health of the population through food.
The real food is cooked
The preparation and cooking together with the methods of
cultivation and conservation of food, have contributed to the survival,
evolution and adaptation of our species. We owe much of the growth and
development of our civilization to how we have obtained, preserved and
processed our food.
However, today we have experienced a rapid change in the way
we process our food, making it the cause of our main morbidity and mortality.
Food education, traditionally provided by the family, is being lost in the
present generations. The population does not know what a real food is or how to
cook it.
On the other hand, most people understand
"dieting" as a drama, a suffering, a condemnation. While it is true
that changing habits has an adaptive and precise process of time, eating real
food should not be a punishment or a bore.
In order not to fall into monotony, we must move away from
dietary models that are very strict or restrictive since long-term adherence
will be difficult. Using the variety of real foods in combination with good
culinary procedures allows us to maintain the lifestyle based on real food in
the long term and the best ... enjoying the food
I find it surprising that you already know about acidic,
alkaline, organic, anti-inflammatory and "autoimmune" foods but you
don't know how to cook.
More market and less supermarket
The actual food is not "enriched in" or is
advertised "rich in", "low in", "light",
"skimmed" why? Because he doesn't need it. You have to learn to read
labels to detect good processed, however, real food does not have a label, or
at least not with large lists of ingredients.
Promote the purchase of food in the local food market,
guarantee a less processed, healthier, more sustainable and beneficial diet with
the food economy of your area
The reformulation of insane processed foods in their
"healthier" adapted variant is still harmful. The message should not
be to eat processed foods with less sugar, with more omega 3 or with less salt,
since, the real food is more than the sum of its nutrients, it is the matrix in
which they come and the interactions between them and our organism.
However, I am not against the food industry or supermarkets.
Thanks to the industry we can have foods with better preservation and duration
(eg: can of sardines, canned vegetables), with good hygiene and food safety
measures (less cases of food poisoning), new foods with a processing that
increases their quality Nutritional (eg, extra virgin olive oil, virgin coconut
oil, etc.), foods that are easier to prepare and consume (eg, cut, clean and
ready-to-serve vegetables), etc.
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