The relationship between obesity and fast food how

A movie trigger a new round of fast-food nutrition controversy

In mid-May of this year show in the United States of a "super-I of the Code" (supersizeme) of the documentary that gave people a little love-hate relationship with the industry to stimulate small. As a film director also was the 24th Sundance Film Festival documentary directed by the award.

In the film, director Morgan Spurlock interviewed 20 American cities (including the nation's most obese city in Houston) experts from the surgeon to the fitness coach, the school cook to the legislators, who have been interviewed to share with the audience Americans are growing their fertility research, as well as the views of mixed feelings.

Not long ago, the Chinese fast-food cooking Association Board held a special "fast-food nutrition expert forum", a number of experts to a forum of non-food related. In fact, as early as 1983, China and the United States by the researchers to conduct joint research on some of the shows that Chinese food is better than people in Europe and America's diet. One of the reasons fast food is obesity in the West to make up. Experts have pointed out that due to the supply of foreign fast-food calories than the body's demand, so people become obese themselves. At that time, set off on a fast-food on the nutrition debate on the issue. However, some experts pointed out that obese people eat fast food is not the root cause of the increase.

Eat fast food you will be fat?

For this long-standing fast-food people's health problems, many nutrition experts have pointed out that the culprit is a bad fat diet and living habits, and not some kind of food. The United States has made clear the key reason for obesity is eating too much, be it fast food, eating dinner at home or as long as the often over-eat high-fat food, do not pay attention to training, will be overweight or cause other health problems. As the modern world of abundant food, as well as the lack of physical activity and the increase in the static way of life, combined with excessive eating habits of energy consumption and aggravated the imbalance between the intake, with the result that obesity is becoming a serious public health problem.

Some experts believe that the foreign fast food can be roughly divided into three categories. First, the main meal categories, including instant noodles, hamburger, bakery, bread, frozen food, fried chicken pieces, the piece of beef, ham, and so on. Second, the type of beverage, including beer, soft drinks, cola, fruit juice, instant coffee, and so on. Third, the snacks category, such as French fries, salad, Xiapian, nuts, ice cream and other fried foods puffing.

In the end is what specific factors in the fast-food when we eat affect our health? Experts believe there are three types of substances can increase blood cholesterol levels, thus increasing the incidence of thrombosis and heart rate. First, the fatty acids in food; Second, the food against the state fatty acids (tfa); Third, cholesterol in food. On the health of people, the intake of calories from saturated fatty acids do not exceed the total energy intake of 10%. People eat butter, lard, ice cream, animal fats such as butter, fatty acid content high. In addition, many fast foods contain high tfa, in particular, deep-fried food. As a result, these food intake should be controlled.

The human body to maintain normal metabolism, the need for dietary intake of a certain amount of nutrients, including carbohydrates (rice, flour, potatoes, sweet potato, maize, sugar, etc.), fats (soybean oil, sesame oil, vegetable oil, lard, cattle Oil, butter, beans, nuts, etc.), protein (milk, yogurt, meat, beans, seafood, eggs, etc.), vitamins (vegetables, fruits, meat, dairy products, etc.) and minerals ( Vegetables, fruits, nuts category, seafood, etc.). At the same time, food was also provided to maintain the body's calorie requirements, it is essential to the human body. But the key is that the nutrients and calorie intake and consumption of the need to maintain the relative balance. How fat do not eat fast food?

Some fast food, especially fried food, if only to provide people with more than the body needs fat, fat is easy, we can adjust the frequency of eating fast food, reasonably and with other food and to strengthen the movement to solve. However, the harmful fatty acids and tfa and a high level, only by food manufacturers to improve the oil in saturated fatty acids and fatty acid content against the state in order to ensure that certain fast food joint both the public taste, not health potential Harm. Of course, consumers can also be food pyramid based on the ratio of the appropriate choice of fast food. Avoid eating too much fried foods (French fries, fried chicken) and cookies, as well as the high-sugar soft drinks.

In general, a weight of 60 kg women, moderate exercise, if she needed a day of energy is probably the 1800 card. One carbohydrate (4 per gram supply of calories), fat (9 per gram supply of calories) and protein (4 per gram for calories) of food, our bodies are the main source of heat. It is generally believed that fat food as an energy source, the best source of energy should not exceed the total of 35% to 25%. Fats are unsaturated fatty acids (from animal fat, coconut oil, etc.) and unsaturated fatty acids (from vegetable oil, fish oil, etc.) composed of as much as possible to eat fatty acids or a high percentage of unsaturated fatty oil (Such as olive oil, sunflower oil) is very beneficial for health, eating fast food can also choose to pay attention to the indicators.

Recently, Chinese cooking, vice president of the association, fast-food committee, executive Yan Yu, deputy director of the "fast-food nutrition expert forum", a modern fast-food industry to promote the importance of nutrition, attended by more than 10 homes in the capital very well-known fast-food Industry is responsible for all introduced their own how to issues of nutrition to fast foods in the solution and it can be an absolute commitment to fast food nutrition issues in the first place. Moreover, the Chinese Nutrition Association of Culinary professionals Committee also is stepping up the development "fast-food industry standards for nutrition," we will give the consumers a specific guidance to fast-food restaurants, fast food companies to comply with a set of norms.
Breakfast: As the night did not eat, blood sugar drop in the human body, if omitted breakfast, we would not be a morning of emotional stability. Breakfast should be reasonable to both staple food and protein, but to avoid fried, deep-fried dough sticks, and other high-fat food, meal and then eat fruit, make you sane and happy all day long.



Lunch: choice of pasta lunch, avoid fried noodles, instant noodles, add noodles and broth to vegetable-based, not necessarily applying hot oil. Eating fried foods, have been stripped of skin eat fried, reduce intake of calories.



Dinner: Dinner is often the workers three meals a crown, but at night it is a day for at least the opportunity to Activities, if consumed in great quantity at this time, the amount of heat can not be metabolized in the body into fat storage, so long on fat A. So dinner should be based on low-calorie and full seven-oriented modest increase in the amount of vegetables, but also keep in mind before going to bed three hours to prohibit meals, and eat the best supper.



On this basis, in order to Shaoshiduocan the best way of catering arrangements for the day, if you want to eat snacks, in the afternoon, eat low-calorie snacks, dinner can also reduce the intake.