Our
ideal diet
Modern diet vs. ideal diet  The basic
rule of a healthy diet is to eat food of highest quality in the
right quantity. The great changes in the daily assumption of nutritional
substances occurred in the modern age cannot be compared to the
whole past human history.
In the last 30 years the assumption of saturated fats (of animal
origin) and of simple sugars enormously increased, while there has
been a reduction of complex carbohydrates and polyunsaturated fats.
Such a variation in our diet while contributing to solve the problems
of serious nutritional insufficiency, typical of lower classes,
it is on the other side very far from what we call an ideal diet:
often problems and illnesses are caused by our bad nutritional habits.
The two following schemes show us the difference between an ideal
diet and the typical diet of today:
The most part of the foods of modern diet (sugars and saturated
fats) do not have any micronutritional substances (such as vitamins
and minerals) to turn calories into energy. Such foods should be
drastically reduced, preferring those giving much nutritional substances
and less calories. A daily nourishment based on all sorts of vegetables,
preferably raw ones, of fresh fruits together with a good assumption
of cereals, such as pasta and bread, and legumes, with a moderated
assumption of fish and meat, helps us not only maintaining the right
weight, but also to live longer and better. A nourishment based
on such kind of foods has a limited calories content, helping the
body to work better and reducing the will of eating other foods.
As for Patrick Holford, a world famous nutrition expert (founder
of The Institute for Optimum Nutrition) the aging process and illness
typical of degeneration can be slowed down through an optimum nutrition.
Important is to reduce and keeping low the percentage of fat in
the body.
The optimum nutritional need
In order to develop one’s own physical and mental potentiality,
it is important to establish the optimum nutritional need.
Everybody has an optimum individual nutritional need. The most important
scientists have been developing a system to analyze the nutritional
need of every man, starting from the evaluation of the main factors
influencing each person.
As for Patrick Holford, the main factors influencing the individual
need are at least 8:
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Age |
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Sex |
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Physical training |
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Pollution |
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Stress |
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Individual anamnesis |
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Genetic factors |
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Nutritional (and no nutritional) factors contained in the personal diet |
While from one side it is very simple to consider the effects of some of the above
mentioned factors on our body, it is on the other side not so easy
for factors like pollution and stress.
People suffering from some already diagnosed illnesses contact a specialist
in nutrition, in order to have a careful analysis of their own nutritional
need.
Here attached you will find an easy but valid instrument to value
what we need to reach a psyco-physical well-being through nourishment.
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