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11/17/2016
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Following a balanced menu and maintaining a diet is no easy task. You need time and a willingness to prepare light, nutritious and balanced meals, often this is not possible in the midst of day-to-day running. Sometimes there's barely enough time to chew, right? That's where the easiest solution comes in: to not run out of anything or consume calorie foods, you replace your meal with a shake shake and believe you've been able to save on calories and provide all the nutritional needs your body needs to keep healthy. The problem is that the practical and tasty drink does not always have the necessary amount of vitamins and minerals present in a meal and exchanging lunch or dinner for it can leave your immunity low and cause serious illnesses such as anemia and kidney dysfunctions. "The shake is made from milk and therefore carries important nutrients for our body, but does not present all the other vitamins and minerals that should make a balanced meal, which makes the substitution dangerous. As a complement and not as a meal, "explains nutritionist Unifesp Eliana Cristina de Almeida.
X-ray of the drink
A test released in February this year, conducted by the Brazilian Association of Consumer Protection - Protest, challenged the benefits of shakes for health and diet, when their use is continuous. In addition to not having the ideal amount of nutrients, the drink presents an imbalance in the rates of vitamins and minerals it has. Among the five products tested by Proteste, none showed sufficient nutritional balance. The shakes tested were Bio Slim, Diet Shake, Diet Way, Herbalife and In Natura. According to Proteste, three of the five brands analyzed (Diet Shake, Bio Slim and Diet Way), provide in their products excessive rates of carbohydrates and protein and fat less than they should, which can lead to loss of muscle (lean mass) And water instead of body fat, as the packaging and nutrition tables on the labels of these products promise.
About these results, nutritionists from Nutrilatina, a manufacturer of Diet Shake, Daniela Tolari from Herbalife, Lívia Venâncio and the press office of Bio Slim, affirm that they are within the standards stipulated by Anvisa and the WHO and that if indeed their products Offered health risks, as Protest suggests, would certainly not be released by these bodies and that it is necessary to know what criteria were used by the Protest to reach these results, since, according to them, the methods of the research were not disclosed. The makers of the Diet Way shake and In Natura did not comment.
Protein bomb
According to Proteste, excessive consumption of protein promoted by shakes should not exceed 10 to 15% of the energy value of the product, but on average, all brands have 32% protein. Nutritionist at Unifesp, Eliana Cristina de Almeida explains that these dietary substitutes used to lose weight have high protein content precisely to accelerate weight loss, but this excess compromises the metabolism by overloading some important functions, such as renal and hepatic: The excess of proteins compromises the action of the kidneys and the liver, damaging the excretion of toxic substances and the oxygenation of the blood to keep metabolism up to date, "he explains.
Zero fat
As for the amount of fat, Proteste's research shows that levels appear far below normal in all brands, compromising vitamin uptake and hormone synthesis: "Vitamins A, B, E and K are only completely metabolized in Together with the action of fats in the body.When we do not ingest enough fat to metabolize them, we run the risk of developing anemia and, in older people, malnutrition, "says nutritionist Unifesp.
Where are the fibers?
As for fiber, to replace a large meal, the shakes should have about 10 grams per serving, according to the Protest, but none of them comes close to that. "The fibers work like a broom that cleans all the impurities of our body, if we stop consuming it for a long time, we leave our organism vulnerable to infections," explains Eliana.
Weight loss that does not work
The nutritionist explains that this type of supplement does not promote the loss of fat, but of muscles and water, compromising the health of those who consume them: "without energy the muscles will wear out and we lose muscle mass and not fat. That without the muscles we have no strength to perform our activities in particular, the sports, "he says.
Exercises x shakes
A person who substitutes his meals for shakes and keeps his workout pace spends his body's glucose reserves, loses muscle mass and is in danger of becoming malnourished or having a glycemic crisis. "If you spend more energy than you consume and you do not have the right nutrients, you get weak and out of fuel, hence the low glucose rate and sickness typical of metabolic overload," says Unifesp specialist.
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