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energy and
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Nutrition refers to the science concerned with food
assimilation metabolisms that allow our body to maintain itself in good
health. Dietetics, on the other hand, is the discipline
that works out rules to be followed for a balanced diet: meal composition,
portion size and energy intake.
Nutrition analyses, interprets and explains, whereas dietetics prescribes : both are complementary. |
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Nutrition takes into account characteristics of a
person’s general state. But we often
find in shops or on the internet ready-made thinning diets claiming to be
fitted to all those who want to loose weight whatever the cause of their overweight condition might be. |
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One of the weak points of many western nutritional
approaches is to sort people into a few statistical categories : obese,
anorexic, bulimic, etc. , and to associate each food stuff with the same
effect on everyone. For example: sugar
makes you put on weight, yogurts help digestion, oranges are
good for C-vitamin, etc. And yet
nothing could be more misleading.
People react differently to the same product: sugar may well cause some
people to put on weight, but others will become constipated,
others will become diabetic, others will be very tired after a
while or have headaches, etc. |
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The myth of calories : a
soupspoon of refined sugar brings us 100 Kcal but has no nutritive value
whatsoever, whereas a bowl of brown rice, which also contains 100 Kcal,
brings us enough nutrients and trace elements for four hours of sedentary
activity. |
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Each person must be looked at as a unique
being. Results of nutritional analyses
will be specific to life and eating habits of that particular person. Dietetic advice and recommendations will
therefore be unique for that person. |
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When we take into account a person’s specific
characteristics, including their preferences, their tastes, their desires and
their objectives, it is quite possible to change their eating behaviour
progressively but permanently. A
successful nutritional approach will result in a person keeping his or her
newly acquired habits permanently without any problem, and without ever
coming back to their previous behaviour. |
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