There are many false beliefs about nutrition that are accepted as true by most people. Statements are without foundation and may even interfere with proper nutrition. How much you know about nutrition?
The pasta and bread provide carbohydrates to slow absorption which releases energy slowly longer maintain the feeling of satiety. 50-55% of daily energy need should come from carbohydrates.
What is considered adequate consumption of 3-5 grams of carbohydrate per kilo of body weight per day. Hydrates in the body can be used in different ways:
1. Used as a form of energy.
In fact the brain is the only form of energy use, consuming about 140 grams of glucose per day. If you decrease your intake, as occurs in prolonged fasting, the brain uses so-called ketone bodies from fatty acid oxidation in the liver.
2. Stored as glycogen in the liver and muscle.
3. Carbohydrates that are not used.
They become fat and stored in the liver and adipose tissue. But in this transformation process is spent on 25% of the energy they contain, so that total calories are stored less than if you take the same amount of fat.
The consumption of diets low in carbohydrates leads to a higher intake of fat, leading to increased levels of uric acid and cholesterol in blood. A diet rich in carbohydrates provides fewer calories than a diet high in fat.
Foods such as cakes, muffins or cakes are also foods rich in carbohydrates but unlike pasta or bread, are nothing desirable to have large amount of sugar normally be refined and fatty foods.
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