Abstract

HERNANDEZ TRIANA, Manuel. Nutrition recommendations for adults presenting with excess weight . Rev Cubana Invest Bioméd [online]. 2008, vol.27, n.2, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-3011.

Health can be supported with consumption of diets differing in a amazing way in its fats, carbohydrates and proteins content, whose net production of ATP is of 90%, 75%, and 55%, respectively. Change of its ratios in diet has a narrow rank generating poor differences in energy decrease. Thus, recommendations to control of body weight must be mainly based more on effect of micronutrients and energy ingestion than that showed in yielding of APT. These recommendations must to consider that the selection of nutrients isn't similar for maintenance or reduction of body weight. Body glycogen, genetic load, and life styles may influence on fat oxidation, and fatty tissue dimension, so, fat ingestion and oxidation be proportional. In Cuba, obesity increase is generated by cultural patterns, food habits, and by a combined effect of changes in nutrients ingestion and physical activity on glycogen levels and body fat oxidation. Biological and social evolution present in our country has leads to more effective mechanisms for searching of not much healthy foods, and not toward decrease of food energy. A future and better availability of desirable foods leads to an excess weight body in more than 50% of adult subjects. These nutrition recommendations must to contribute to prevention of this increase

Keywords : Obesity; nutrition recommendations; food energy; diet; macronutrients; vitamins; minerals.

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