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Is it valuable to categorize products as healthy or unhealthy?
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1. Dividing products into healthy and unhealthy whether it makes sense
This approach to diet can be classified as an orthorexia disorder, or pathological focus on eating only healthy food. It's not about the quantity but the quality of the food you eat. But what does it mean to eat healthy or unhealthy food?2. Food groups according to the NOVA classification
cereals, legumes, ‡ vegetables, ̊ fruits, ̨ mushrooms, seeds, ̋ nuts, meat, meat, eggs, milk, natural yogurt.3. Group 2 Processed food additives:
Oil, butter, sugar, honey, salt.4. Group 3 Processed food:
Canned vegetables, canned fruit, ‡ canned meat, † canned fish, ¥ wastes, ̊ cheeses, baked goods.5. Group 4 Highly processed foods:
Non-alcoholic beverages, sweeteners, salted snacks, non-processed food However, mainly vegetable products pastes, sausages, ready-to-eat dishes pizza, hamburger, fish strawberries. Currently, the NOVA classification is used worldwide. The four NOVA food groups form the basis of the main nutritional recommendations in Brazil. 1. The basic diet is to be unprocessing or minimally processed, mostly for people of vegetable origin. 2. Food additives such as fats, hamburgers and fish pulses. The presentation of dietary supplements, such as fat, eggs and eggs, should also be used in a minimum way of achieving the dietary objective.6. The 80/20 rule is what it is and whether it's worth applying
The 80/20 rule is a concept that says that 80 percent of the products you eat should be low-processed and full-fat, and the other 20 percent is what's called comfort food, or eating for pleasure. It's worth eating healthy every day and getting into those 80 percent, and leaving the rest to go out with friends at the restaurant, eating batons or fries, drinking a drink or other appetizers.
