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With summer rapidly approaching, there is nothing left to do a few weeks to find the line in time for the costume fitting. But a healthy and balanced diet is also important for ours Welfare: just choose foods rich in all those nutrients the body needs to function properly.
A good diet can help us against cystitis, a typically female problem that affects the urinary tract causing burning when urinating and the frequent need to empty the bladder. Not everyone knows that, alongside proper intimate hygiene and adequate fluid intake, it is important to adopt a balanced diet. The intestinal microbiota can in fact invade nearby tissues, triggering annoying urinary infections.
We talked about it with the prof. Pier Luigi Rossi, specialist in nutrition science and preventive medicine in Arezzo, as well as author of the book Intestinal – The sixth sense of our body. The ideal diet to combat cystitis involves the introduction of foods that allow the intestine to rest, so as to promote enzymatic digestion. It is therefore important to eliminate gluten and prefer whole grains, legumes and seasonal fruit and vegetableswhile reducing products of animal origin.
Nutrition is also essential if you suffer from hypothyroidism. This pathology is caused by a slowdown in the thyroid function, which is found to produce an insufficient amount of hormones compared to the needs of our body. The result is a proportional slowing down of all the metabolic processes of the organism, including a reduced energy consumption which can lead to a slight weight gain.
As the dr. Corrado Pierantoni, specialist in endocrinology and metabolic diseases and clinical nutritionist in Lanciano (CH), the thyroid hormone deficiency can be compensated by bringing iodine-rich foods to the table. From iodized salt, which can be used in place of common table salt – it is important to add it raw, because the iodine evaporates easily during cooking. Crustaceans and sea fish, eggs, yogurt and meat also play a fundamental role.
Speeding up the metabolism can prove to be important not only in hypothyroidism: to lose weight, we must in fact burn more calories than we accumulate from the diet. For this reason it is important to do physical activity, but what we bring to the table also has its importance. Following a strictly low calorie diet can have the opposite effect, further slowing down calorie consumption. Rather, it is good avoid skipping meals and eat regularly five times a day, so you don’t get too hungry for lunch and dinner.
All the macronutrients they should be present in our diet, so not in diets that prohibit fat or carbohydrates. Rather, you have to pay attention to which foods to choose: for example, for carbohydrates it is good to prefer complex ones with a low glycemic index. To ensure the body the right amount of waterFurthermore, it is important to consume fruit and vegetables in abundance.
