The idea of reducing consumption of carbohydrates in the diet has to do with reducing the amount of calories they bring the body and thus achieve the main task, which is thin. However, we note that a low carbohydrate diet alone does not necessarily make us lose weight.

While there is evidence that lower intake of carbohydrates reduces the amount of calories in the body and help you lose weight after six months is not more effective than other diets. The calories from carbohydrates are lost are offset by the calories that gives us the consumption of fats and proteins. In addition, diet is necessary to burn calories and that is achieved with regular physical activity.

When a person follows a low carb diet, not getting enough vitamins, minerals and fiber, so it must take supplements to produce them. And in some cases it may also suffer Estrin, dizziness, bad breath and headaches.

As always, we advise you in here, the better to achieve a healthy weight is to follow a balanced diet that will provide all the nutrients your body needs, and a good dose of exercise a day.

Essential component for life and abundant in most foods. Water is absorbed in the intestine and then transported by the blood to other organs. Can be found in the body as part of the intracellular cell protoplasm and extracellular, and interstitial fluid, lymph, and as part of blood plasma.

FUNCTIONS

• Transportation of nutrients and waste products
• Regulation of body temperature
• Solvent substances
• Structural component of cells

Water is excreted through urine, feces, skin and lungs. The balance between loss and gain of water should be neutral because a positive balance of ending a picture of water retention and a negative a picture of dehydration.

DAILY NEEDS
Adult 35 ml / kg. weight

Child 50 or 60 ml / kg

PROTEINS

We found in meat, milk and dairy products, eggs, vegetables.

The proteins are broken down during digestion into amino acids, which are transported by the blood and distributed to different tissues.

The amino acids then reunite to form human proteins such as hemoglobin and some hormones. The proteins that the body discards are transformed into urea, which becomes part of the urine and is eliminated abroad.

FUNCTIONS

• Provision of essential amino acids needed for growth and tissue repair
• Balance cell osmic
• Are part of glycoproteins, hormones, lipoproteins, enzymes, antibodies

Constitute 20% of body weight in an adult.

Carbohydrates, carbohydrates or CARBOHYDRATES

They are found in vegetables, fruit, milk.

The simpler molecules of carbohydrates are monosaccharides such as glucose and fructose and the more complex polysaccharides such as starch and glycogen.

The polysaccharides are degraded to simpler molecules in the digestive tract.

They are stored as glycogen in the liver and muscles.

FUNCTIONS

• Main source of energy (when the body lacks them as an energy source used to lipids and proteins)
• Are part of the cell structure
• Are constituents of the antibodies

Lipids or fats

They are found in dairy products, meats, oils and dried fruit.

Their contribution is essential fatty acids (linoleic, linolenic, arachidonic)

Represent 10% of body weight and therefore need to ingest 56 g per day to maintain this ratio.

FUNCTIONS

• Power source
• Protection for blood vessels, nerves and other organs
• Components of the cell membrane
• Appetite stimulants
• Vehicles for the absorption of vitamins A, D, K and E
• Components of the nervous

MINERALS

Represent 5% of body weight and regulate many body processes.

They can be:

Macronutrients or macro which need higher levels than the 100 gr. daily and are calcium, magnesium and phosphorus

• Micronutrients and trace elements which the body needs a few Mg. daily and include iodine, copper, iron, potassium, sodium and chlorine, fluorine, sulfur, zinc and manganese

VITAMINS

Complex organic compound present in plant and animal tissues. They say cell functions and some metabolic processes.

They are produced by the body and enter it with food.

They can be:

• Soluble if they dissolve in water and are: A, D, E and K
• Liposolubles if they dissolve in fats and are C, B1, B2, B5, B6, B12, PP, folic acid and factor H