📅 3. 9. 2024
One of the primary causes of overweight or type 2 diabetes is considered to be the high consumption of simple sugars or carbohydrates with a high glycemic index and load. In practical terms, most people interested in rational eating face...
📅 3. 9. 2024
Eating disorders are increasingly appearing in modern society and represent a serious health and psychosocial problem. They predominantly affect younger age categories and more often women, especially during adolescence and early adulthood. Besides clinically diagnosed disorders, various forms of...
📅 3. 9. 2024
Metabolic syndrome is a term that is being discussed more and more frequently. The reason is not only that it affects an increasing portion of the population, but also because it is a syndrome. That is, not one specific health...
📅 3. 9. 2024
Humans, as omnivores, differ from other animals in terms of diet with one undeniable advantage: Their metabolism shows considerable flexibility in utilizing energy sources, which allows them to adapt to great extremes. This feature, called “metabolic flexibility” nowadays, is increasingly...
📅 3. 9. 2024
Diabetes (diabetes mellitus) is a chronic disease that manifests as a disorder of carbohydrate metabolism. Several types of diabetes are known, most commonly classified as: Type I Diabetes (insulin-dependent). It most frequently develops in youth. The causes are varied: -...
📅 3. 9. 2024
Hypertension (high blood pressure) is a very widespread health problem. It affects people of various ages, including both the elderly and children. Blood pressure is the force exerted by the blood as it flows through the arteries and veins, measured in...
📅 3. 9. 2024
Menopause (referred to as the female transition or climacterium) occurs in a woman's life when the body is no longer capable of reproduction and carrying a child to term, resulting in the cessation of the menstrual cycle. This state most...
📅 3. 9. 2024
The liver is a key organ in the body where a vast amount of chemical reactions occur. Like other organs in the body, the liver is subject to various diseases, and in relation to lifestyle, the most common is non-alcoholic...
📅 3. 9. 2024
Osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint disease commonly found in individuals over the age of 50. This condition primarily affects the large weight-bearing joints of the lower limbs (knees, hips) and finger joints. The most well-known symptoms and signs include joint pain at the start...
📅 19. 4. 2023
The advertised matches took place in Hungary over the weekend of 15-16 April 2023. At first glance, it may not seem like a major competition, but for the whole team, it was extremely important and even crucial. Lucka had relatively...
📅 16. 3. 2023
The career of a top athlete is practically without exception a roller coaster ride. The external reality, where wins alternate with losses, is just the tip of the iceberg, often distorted by media exposure and the effort to show the...
📅 20. 2. 2023
When working with fats on your plate, it is important to do so judiciously. Because they are a concentrated source of energy, it can easily happen that their poorly estimated or measured amount can interfere with the resulting values of...
📅 10. 2. 2023
Anyone who is somewhat involved in nutrition knows that the attempt to precisely calculate the energy balance - the difference between energy intake and expenditure - doesn't work well in practice. The reason is that the behavior of living systems...
📅 1. 2. 2023
The life of an athlete is not all roses, as often portrayed in the media. The daily physical grind, mental stress, the effort to avoid injuries or not fall into a state of chronic fatigue are just the tip of...
📅 23. 3. 2022
In efforts to rationally adjust the dietary system, the focus is often placed on the ability of food to enhance the feeling of satiety. This makes sense, as it is shown that from a health perspective, in many situations it...
📅 7. 4. 2022
Nuts are a nutritionally very interesting food: They represent a relatively significant amount of proteins (up to 20%), are a source of complex carbohydrates, provide a substantial amount of fiber, and are also an important source of certain minerals, especially...