Dietary recommendations

📅 3. 9. 2024

Scientific Approach to Nutrition

A scientific approach helps distinguish between well-substantiated findings, preliminary conclusions, and mere conjecture. Finding a single study is not enough—the quality of the evidence, its proper interpretation, and the ability to translate general insights into recommendations for a specific individual all matter. It is the combination of scientific evidence, professional judgment, and individual needs that forms the foundation of meaningful nutrition practice.

📅 3. 9. 2024

Selection of Foods for a Balanced Diet

Imagine going shopping with the desire to purchase genuinely healthy foods that will form the foundation of your daily eating. You wander through the supermarket, eyeing the shelves and pondering whether the bread, pasta, canned goods, meat, yogurts, cheeses, eggs,...

📅 3. 9. 2024

Diet composition

Working effectively with this first rule, which creates the gateway to the proper understanding of the Optimal Functioning Zone (OFZ), is greatly aided by specific values. Most of the Western world tends to evaluate diet based on the calculated amounts...

📅 3. 9. 2024

Diet-induced thermogenesis

One of the interesting properties of food, which has been utilized by some Eastern cultures for thousands of years and is very slowly making its way into modern scientific awareness, is their thermal effect on the organism. It is based...

📅 3. 9. 2024

Energy Trends

One of the very particular characteristics of diet, which the Western part of the population finds difficult to understand and perceive, and modern science turns its back on, stems from the East Asian perception of reality. Within the philosophy of...

📅 3. 9. 2024

Dietary Supplements

Currently, in developed countries, approximately one-third of adults use dietary supplements. The tremendous interest in this category of products began in the 1990s, and the number of consumers is continually increasing. The fact is that dietary supplements are nothing new...

📅 3. 9. 2024

Recommended Daily Allowances of Nutrients

The Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA, in English GDA – Guideline Daily Amounts, RDI – Reference Daily Intake, formerly RDA – Recommended Dietary Allowance) refers to the amount of a certain nutrient (vitamin, mineral, or other substances) that we are legislatively recommended to obtain from food to meet...

📅 3. 9. 2024

Detoxification

Detoxification is a frequently cited concept, especially in the context of promoting various foods, dietary supplements, different devices, or general supportive methods aimed at ridding the body of undesirable substances that harm human health in various ways. As a result,...

📅 3. 9. 2024

Mucous formation

Many foods are claimed to increase mucus production, which in turn leads to various health issues. This lay and not entirely accurate notion causes a number of unnecessary complications when trying for rational nutrition. What is the real situation with...

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Anti-inflammatory diet

The term "anti-inflammatory diet" is somewhat tricky in nutrition. It generally refers to situations where an individual is troubled by various forms of inflammation, and there is a belief that dietary adjustments can alleviate, suppress, or even eliminate (cure) these...

📅 3. 9. 2024

Prostate

The prostate or prostate gland is a small organ located (only in men) between the bladder and the rectum and surrounds the urethra. Its function is to produce prostatic fluid, which nourishes and transports sperm. Throughout a man's life, the prostate undergoes various changes. At birth,...

📅 3. 9. 2024

Diet in Pregnancy

The main principles of nutrition for pregnant women include the consumption of a varied and diverse diet, in which all major food groups should be represented. During pregnancy, the demands on food and the feeling of hunger and satiety change,...

📅 3. 9. 2024

The Influence of Diet on Brain Function

A number of people are convinced that individuals who "work with their heads" do not have as high nutritional demands as their physically active counterparts. However, the opposite is true. The brain is the biggest consumer of energy among all...

📅 3. 9. 2024

Carnivore diet

```html The Carnivore diet is a way of eating where the diet consists exclusively or almost exclusively of animal products. It typically includes: red meat (beef, pork, lamb), poultry fish and seafood eggs selected dairy products (with minimal lactose content...

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Guidelines for Hydration Management

Some people completely overlook the importance of proper hydration, while others focus excessively on calculating the exact amount of fluids needed for optimal functioning. Adults have the ability to rely on their own feelings to tell them when they need...

📅 10. 7. 2023

First Complementary Foods

In every parent's life, there comes a moment when they are forced to deal with the transition to a non-dairy diet for their child. Introducing the first complementary foods is a significant change for the child and essentially for the...

📅 29. 4. 2022

Is coffee healthy?

Coffee is a very interesting beverage. It might even be appropriate to label it as highly controversial, at least in relation to human health, but that depends on the perspective of the person assessing its influence. Common logic would not...

📅 15. 4. 2022

We know foods that are just as harmful as smoking

It is well known that smoking significantly damages health. In relation to the promotion of cancer development, it is stated that smokers have up to a four-fold higher risk of dying from cancer than non-smokers. Similar evaluations are conducted in...

📅 21. 4. 2022

Discover How Many Years You Can Add to Your Life by Adjusting Your Diet

The topic of longevity has intrigued humanity since time immemorial. From historical records, we know about alchemists' efforts to find the elixir of life; in modern society, which is based on knowledge, it is the ongoing effort of scientists to...

📅 19. 3. 2022

Education has a positive impact on health

Overweight and obesity shift metabolic balance into a state that gives rise to a wide range of noncommunicable diseases. The most commonly cited are cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes, which we know lead to increased mortality. This is a...