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La Nutrition it is a young and tremendously complicated science. We are not looking for specificity of action, because with an encapsulated nutrient, we do not find the results that we would have with a drug (in addition to one billion euros) designed for this purpose. We look for the correct combination, a whole.
Writing articles, so fashionable, about the wonders of this or that nutrient and where they are contained in order to gorge ourselves on that food, or the advertised capsules, simply does not lead to anything.
And it is not that one is against the market economy and creating jobs, on the contrary, it is a simple question of values.
Nutrition basics
It is good that we know that fruits have vitamins. It should be a compulsory subject in school (this is the most important thing in this article, I beg the editor to respect it), but as a global learning, because we already know that they play a fundamental regulatory role in the body.
Without them the reactions do not go “Neither palante, nor patrás”. And yes, we know concrete things about them; For example, vitamin C is essential for bone preservation, but what if, in the effort and knowing the latter, thanks to an article focused on vitamin C, the subject concentrates on increasing his consumption of juices (natural I want to think) in the mornings neglecting the dairy (this happens right?), then vitamin C, at that level, will be of little use.
The reductionist model has its function of course, and it is important. The chemical characterization of the thousands and thousands of compounds that we have in food, some of them nutrients, allows us to describe them and also to test them, to know if there is a correlation or not between their levels in our organism, and the adjacent physiological changes, if at all. these occur.
Finding a needle in a haystack is a lot easier!
This reductionist model is nothing more than an insufficient first ladder to extract concrete results in most cases. Meanwhile, scientific studies, publications and other findings sprout like a flowering tree, and like an Olympic springboard, they come to the forefront of the world, and this is where the problem comes from:
By making rules of three, in which such a nutrient does or intervenes in …, which is contained in such food … and therefore its consumption can mitigate or solve a problem … Perhaps we would already be immortal! … (no please) .
Making the power of food earthly
At present, what is most talked about is food in a blue suit and the “S” on the chest.. Please … The qualified health professional for a specific subject is the only one capable of dimensioning and contextualizing the information that comes from the scientific world (or any “other”).
So the “Health Media” They have a very high social responsibility with the information they give. Much more than if they deal with aspects of leisure, automotive, gastronomy, etc.
It is for all this that the greatest advances are usually empirical, observational, and relate the dietary patterns of populations with the physiological or pathophysiological changes that they experience.
Thus, there is a parallel between certain types of cancer and certain dietary patterns, but from there to do a genetic study to know how to eat or what nutrients are antitumor and not suffer from said chronic degeneration is like the distance between the Earth and the Galaxy more distant known.
It is known that certain nutrients can leave a disease in a stationary phase, but as a whole it depends on so many, so many things, that trivializing this in the media, as so frequently happens, or setting up commercial conglomerates, is insurmountable coldness, which generates false expectations in people.
Let’s not forget that we are playing with your health, after all.