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Do you think you eat healthy but nevertheless your health is not like before? Do you carry a varied diet and yet you feel low energy? Do not commit excesses food but your body does not respond with vitality? Balance your diet and see how much better you feel until you take off years off!

1. Does coffee prevent absorption of nutrients?
Coffee, like tea and all soft drinks with caffeine makes your body absorb more difficult as calcium, which lost more in the urine, such as iron. So you have to try to distance making foods rich in these minerals of making coffee, a contradiction in the case of coffee.

2. Is something if I do several meals?
Apportionment. It is shown that the best way to divide the intake is in five meals. If you make a proportionate contribution of nutrients does not necessarily influence the distribution of meals.

However, it is shown that the best way to divide the intake throughout the day is with three main meals: breakfast, lunch and dinner, and two less important at midmorning and midafternoon. In doing so we have a continual supply of energy and avoiding failings.

3. How much omega-3 and omega-6 should I take?
Very much in vogue lately, omega-3 and omega-6, full of virtues, are usually taken with a rate that is not appropriate.
Omega-3s are present in fatty fish mainly cold water (herring, sardines, tuna and bluefish in general) while the omega-6 are abundant in plant seed oils, nuts, grains, eggs and chicken.

Both are required in the diet but should take a ratio omega-6 and omega-3 from 5 to 1. In the usual diet is excess omega-6 and omega-3 shortage.

4. Does drinking water alters the nutritional balance?
Salted. Your body requires to compensate for making drinking soda. We must drink water whenever you are thirsty, whether before, during or after dinner. When vegetables dominate the menu will be less need for water, while savory menus drink your body requires to compensate for making sodium.

For people with slow digestion, we recommend moderate consumption of water during the meal because the liquid dilutes the fluids responsible for digestion, making their efficiency decreases.

5. And the fruit, should this be taken as a dessert or not?
Generally you can take more fruit if you like. As a matter purely of manners are the most widely done at the end of the meal. However, if your digestion tend to be heavy, espreferible you take the fruit before the rest of food.

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