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  How Diet Affects Psychological and Physical Health? Did you know that the food you eat can have a direct impact on your mental and physical health? It’s true! In this blog post, I will explore the link between diet and mental/physical health. We will discuss how different foods can affect your mood, cognitive function, and overall well-being. How do diets affect metabolism? How we eat can have a profound effect on our metabolism. Our metabolism is the process by which our bodies convert food into energy. A slow metabolism can lead to weight gain [1] , while a fast metabolism can help us maintain a healthy weight. Certain foods can help to boost our metabolism,  while others can slow it down. For example, Junk foods [2]  tend to be slowly metabolized by the body, while complex carbs and protein are metabolized more quickly. Eating smaller meals more often can also help to increase our metabolism, as our bodies have to work harder to digest the food. So, if we’re looking to boost our m

  Which One Is The Best Diet? Every day we hear about hundreds of diets promising miracles for losing weight. Mostly we find this kind of diet on the internet, in magazines, on social media, and even because a friend told us about what he or she was doing. – That Jhon did the fruit diet and it was great!. – That Emily did the tomato soup diet and lost 10 pounds. And like that, many others. However, all these miracle diets have something in common: they were not made individually for you, and they certainly don’t have any scientific basis. Even if one of these diets worked for a friend does not mean that will work for you, and more importantly, if you are not careful you can really affect your health. So which one is the best diet? Scientific evidence supports very important aspects to take into account when designing an effective nutritional plan: 1. You have to consume fewer calories  Simple math, if you consume fewer calories than you are currently taking, you will see results. Reduc

  5 Nutrition Tips For Muscle Building Although many people associate nutrition with weight loss, this is not the only area that we cover. Weight gain at the expense of muscle mass is usually way harder than losing fat and it also requires a lot of dedication and discipline. This is because it is an anabolic process, and it contemplates a construction phase that implies an energy expenditure. If our energy and protein intake are not enough, it will be very difficult for us to build muscle. In addition to your energy and protein intake, there are other factors that can affect the increase of your muscle mass and that can sabotage all your work and nutrition goals. Here we share 5 fundamental strategies to promote the increase of your muscle mass. 1. Get enough sleep and go to bed early: it is important to sleep 7- 8 hours a day so our body tissues can repair properly, but it is not the same to sleep these 8 hours from 2:00 am than sleeping them from 10:00 pm. 2. Include strength exercis

  by   Mariana Esparis   |   Jun 2, 2022   |   Nutrition   |   0 comments People tend to mistake nutritional advice with nutritional coaching. However, although many nutritionists use coaching tools in their consultations, nutritional coaches are focused on guiding you to connect with your own emotions and design your own best strategies to implement the professional advice in your phase. What is nutritional coaching? And how does it work? Nutritional coaching is a type of coaching centered on people who needs support to improve and change their daily food habits to achieve a healthier lifestyle. Nutritional coaches believe that there is a strong relationship between emotions and how we eat, so they work with clients to create individualized nutrition strategies, set realistic goals, and provide support and accountability without making them feel judged. Empathy and active listening are some of their best qualities. Over the last years,  r esearch [1]  has shown that nutritional coachi

If you are thinking of transitioning into a vegan or vegetarian diet and want to know a bit more about this lifestyle and how to start, here are some basics that you need to know. Why do people start a vegan or vegetarian diet? There are a lot of different reasons why people transition into a vegan or vegetarian diet. To name a few you can find people transitioning into this lifestyle because of animal care, environmental impact, healthier lifestyles, ethical issues, sometimes even because of medical issues, and other examples. Whatever your reason is for transitioning, there are some very important aspects that you need to know to keep your health to the fullest. What is a vegan or vegetarian diet? As you may already know vegetarian diets are characterized by excluding meat, poultry, and fish from daily consumption. In the case of a vegan diet which is a type of vegetarian diet, dairy products, eggs, and all other animal products are also excluded. Even though starting a vegetarian or