{"id":13986,"date":"2014-12-31T15:55:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T21:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/?p=13986"},"modified":"2015-01-05T12:30:56","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T18:30:56","slug":"ministry-of-health-recommends-moderate-food-consumption-during-new-years-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/ministry-of-health-recommends-moderate-food-consumption-during-new-years-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry Of Health Recommends Moderating Food Consumption During New Year\u2019s Celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1915\" src=\"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/fiestasdecembrinas.jpg\" alt=\"fiestasdecembrinas\" width=\"196\" height=\"130\" \/>Consuming more food and alcoholic beverages during New Year\u2019s celebrations can represent a consumption of up to five thousand calories<\/strong>, which can affect our health, as people commonly only need around 1,800 calories a day.<\/p>\n<p>In statement by the Ministry of Health, Alejandra Oropeza Colmer, Coordinator of Nutrition of the Obesity and Diabetes Clinic at the General Hospital of Mexico, reported that it is advisable to<strong> consume small food potions<\/strong>, combining animal products such as turkey, chicken and pork with salad and green vegetables. She also said people should<strong> avoid sugary drinks like juices and sodas<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Red wine and white are alternative drinks to enjoy this time, according with Oropeza Colmer, because by consuming them moderately (up to three cups) generates a beneficial effect on the body, as they provide to <strong>antioxidants<\/strong>, <strong>flavonoids<\/strong> and <strong>resveratrol<\/strong> content in grapes.<\/p>\n<p>She added that any other alcoholic beverage must be combined with single or mineral water, which reduces the calories, since if mixed with soda or juices, the caloric intake increases substantially.<\/p>\n<p>On food, she said that people with <strong>diabetes or hypertension<\/strong> should eat cod, because it provides<strong> unsaturated fatty acids<\/strong>, as it is cooked with tomatoes, onions, potatoes and olive oil.<\/p>\n<p>She said that on the morning of 24 and 31 December, people should eat a light breakfast and lunch to enjoy and eat well at dinner time.<\/p>\n<p>The health official emphasized to take into account food portions, not exceeding and combining them properly are important actions to ensure people\u2019s wellbeing, allowing maintaining a good health, without taking the culinary feast of December celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>The health official emphasized to take into account food portions, <strong>not exceeding and combining them properly are important actions to ensure people\u2019s wellbeing<\/strong>, allowing maintaining a good health, without stopping the culinary feast of December celebrations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><em> Notimex<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consuming more food and alcoholic beverages during New Year\u2019s celebrations can represent a consumption of up to five thousand calories, which can affect our health, as people commonly only need around 1,800 calories a day. In statement by the Ministry of Health, Alejandra Oropeza Colmer, Coordinator of Nutrition of the Obesity and Diabetes Clinic at &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-13986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad-en-la-salud","tag-casalud","cat-3-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13986"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14044,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13986\/revisions\/14044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}