Eidos-Project
NutriScience for everybody
Eidos-Project
NutriScience for everybody
Hydration: The water we need for survival
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Water is vital for survival, with good hydration people function well, and to look and feel good. People can survival several weeks without food but only can survival few days without water. People can keep well hydrated drinking a variety of fluids during the day such as teas, coffee, low fat milk, soups in add of drinking water... |
Hydration indicator
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Urine Color test chart. The level of hydration is indicated by the color of the urine... |
Drinks for hydration
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To meet the need for adequate daily intake of water or liquids it is possible to drink a variety of beverages as a substitute for water. Although water has the advantage of meeting hydration requirements without providing additional energy, it is not people's preferred drink... |
Dehydration
| Dehydration occurs when water losses are not sufficiently replaced by drinking fluids. When you lose more fluid than you take in, and your body doesn’t have enough water and other fluids to carry out its normal functions; unfortunately, thirst isn’t always a reliable gauge of the body’s need for water, especially in children and older adults... |
Recommended water intakes
| Recommended water intakes by EFSA 2008, IOM 2005 and WHO 2003, 2005... |
The importance of hydration
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Water is vital for survival, and there is currently great interest in the benefits of good hydration for people to function well, and to look and feel good... |
Nutrition science
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Nutrition is defined as the "science of food", the nutrients and other substances therein, their action, interaction and balance in relation to health and disease, and the processes by which the organism ingests, absorbs, transports, utilizes and excretes food substances[1]... |
Diet and Nutrition
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Diet and nutrition are not the same. Diet is the sum of food that people eat each day while nutrition is the science of how living organisms obtain and use food to support all the processes required for life... |
Some Curiosities and a Short History of the Nutrition Science
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Although nutrition research commenced more than 200 years ago in the dawn of the chemical revolution[3], about more two thousand years ago there are evidences that human being began to think how the nutrition, the environment and physical exercises influence on the health and the life... |
Food addiction
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Many people in the world are addicted to certain types of foods that are rich in sugar, salt and fat. Theses persons are experimenting a desire to eat more food to numb the uncomfortable feelings... |
Foods that should be avoided
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Foods at the top of the Eidos diet pyramid should be avoided. These foods are responsable of malnutrition, obesity, nutritional diseases and also they are causing food addiction... |
The Controversial Vending Machines
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Is it possible to teach and convince people to change their nutritional behaviours by choosing and eating healthier foods when vending machines are installed in many hospitals and schools in North America?... |
What are empty calories?
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Empty calories are called food that are rich in calories and hight glycemix load. In these foods vitaminis and minerals are absent or in very few amounts... |
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