The Happy Lemba

 Carbohydrates are easy to find in many foods, potatoes, quinoa, oats, and beets. During the last years, carbohydrates had had bad press, however, humans need carbs for their organism, they are a source of energy and many food that are high in carbs also provide fiber.  On the other side, added sugars are a serious issue in nourishment. Much of the food industry rely in sugars, like cookies, sodas, sauces, candies, and pastry, it is cheaper but unhealthy. Nevertheless, there are a difference in Carbs and added sugars; while the first is something we can find naturally in food, sugars are added intentionally in products to enhance the flavor.  Today, it is recognize that eat big amounts of products with added sugars, damage our health. "Eating a diet that’s high in added sugar is bad news for your heart, according to a major 2014 study. The researchers found that eating more than the recommended amount of added sugar may increase your risk of dying from heart disease".(D...

As a future chef I consider that nutrition is an important topic in cooking. Nowadays, this discipline is taking relevance in the cuisine world, since there is a growing trend about health food and take care of our body through what we eat. Breakfast, by Daniela Constantini Personally, I am really interested about healthy diets and how we can learn to improve our meals through better recipes and techniques. I discovered that is not so difficult to enhance our diet, however, there is this idea that make our own food takes too much time and effort; a wrong idea. I am confident that this way of thought is changing, and nutrition is taking an important role today. The increasing of obesity and health issues related with bad nutrition were the red flag to draw the attention about how we eat?, and what are we eating? Having a poor diet can affect our bodies in many ways, and it is not strange the high rates of obesity and heart conditions related with the food quality we eat. Nutrition is th...