2024-09-04 09:19:00
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Back to school, ISS recommendations for students: no supplements but healthy and complete food with meals at the right times
Summer is over and it’s time for 7 million Italian students to go back to school school. For many of them, the return will be harmful and to make it difficult to put their heads back to books, the use of food supplements she vitamins. The truth, however, is that “there is no scientific reason to provide memory supplements or vitamins to students.” To say that it isUniversity of Health (Iss) in his recommendations for the start of the new school year.
L’Iss recommend a healthy and balanced diet that must not exclude anything, unless there are allergies, intolerances or other medical indications. “Additions for children and adolescents are not indicated – explain the experts – unless they work to supplement nutritional deficiencies due to excesses due to allergies or intolerances”.
“In the three meals of the day, – continuedIss – breakfast is the most important, because it prevents the longest fast, the night fast, and this has a strong effect on energy production. In the composition of the first meal of the day, whole-grain carbohydrates should not be lost, which slow down the absorption of sugars: so not classic snacks and cornflakes, but whole-grain bread or whole-grain rusks”.
Health experts also recommend starting to eat at the right times because this has a positive effect “on the production of hormones that regulate blood sugar levels, which are important for concentration and school activities”. For those snack or you mid-morning snack we recommend a fresh seasonal fruitwhile ultra-processed foods rich in salt, sugars and saturated fats should be avoided.
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