How does a healthy diet affect our day-to-day life

Many people are unaware of the high levels of salt and sugar in their daily meals. Most processed foods contain large amounts of salt and sodium, although this isn't commonly notified. Our consumption of sodium also increases when we add salt while cooking or to the food once it is prepared. 

Many other people even put salt to their food without trying it first, creating a bad habit in which no matter how salty food is, it will always have added salt, leading to a sodium excess. 

Eating a lot of sodium may lead to issues with blood pressure issues, the heart and even cause a seizure. 

Argentina:

According to UCA (Catholic University of Argentina), Argentinian diets lack fruits, vegetables, cereals, whole grain flours, legumes, grains and fermented food. Only 11% of the population from this nation follows a high quality diet while 39% has a poor diet that lacks the sufficient nutrients.

Argentinian’s alimentation is principally based on wheat-derived foods, sugar, and red meat. These includes: pasta, cookies, bread, sodas, snacks, sweets, cow meat, etc. Although these foods provide great amounts of energy, they lack some essential nutrients. This incomplete diet may lead to overweight or malnutrition.

But Argentina’s nutrition problems don’t only come out of bad alimentation but also because of poverty. Actually, according to UNICEF, 66% of Argentine children are in a poverty situation. This means that 66% of the children are deprived of an appropriate education and housing. Since that is the main worry of the country they leave malnutrition behind. 

According to Barcellini, a licensed nutritionist, the use of social media has a great influence on these disorders because of the standards it generates. Also the lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic created a great deal of insecurities summed up with the social standards. And because of this the number of cases increased an important amount.

The recovery for these disorders usually lasts two years and requires a lot of help from a professional. 

Vegan Diet:

The vegan diet is based on plants and foods made from them. This includes vegetables, grains, nuts, fruits, etc. Vegans do not eat food that is derived from animals (eggs, meat, milk, etc), and there are many reasons that would make a person want to become vegan:

• Mainly is because of an ethical reason, since they care for animals and don't want to see them suffer. Exploitation of animals is now very common in the food industry. 

• Many others have come to be aware of the impact this has on the environment. There’s a large amount of cereal that is necessary for animal feeding.

Asian Diet: 

Asian food is considered one of the healthiest, since they eat almost no saturated fats or dairy products, they eat very little red meat, replacing it with chicken and fish, and the only complex carbohydrate they consume is rice. 

In addition, their way of cooking also adds value since they use very little oil and almost always use steam cooking. As for added sugar, they hardly consume it, since desserts are usually made from fruits.

Muslim Diet:

On the other hand, another very interesting and distinguished diet, is the one of the Muslims in the ninth month of their calendar: Ramadan. This month is very different from any other, since for religious reasons, they fast from dawn to dusk for the entire month. This is precisely very contradictory to what a healthy diet would be, but it is still a diet. This shows to what extent customs and beliefs can influence what we eat, whether it is good or not.