WITH THE COLD WE TAKE MORE CALORIES: the nutritionist's tips

During the winter, to combat the cold, it is important to increase the calorie needs, without exaggerating and strengthening the body's natural defenses through the right foods.

A good diet in the winter season, in addition to providing all the nutrients, should support the production of body heat through the metabolism, without however accumulating too many fats, toxins and cholesterol!

✨ RECOVER with step-by-step DNC® advice

Step 1: SLEEP ENOUGH

Stress and insufficient sleep duration (often due to stress), reduce the efficiency of the immune defenses, increasing the risk of developing diseases. It is therefore important that everyone identifies the best individual strategy for managing stress: music, walking, breathing, yoga.

Step 2: Make sure vegetables and greens

In addition to meat, fish and dairy products, also ensure legumes, seasonal fruit and vegetables, dried fruit because they are some anti-cold foods: in fact they provide the body with an adequate caloric intake and give an energetic boost to the metabolism, thus through nutrition produces more heat.

Step 3: VITAMINS for your ENERGY

Vitamins A, E and C are the vitamins with the greatest antioxidant action; in particular, vitamin E and vitamin C act in synergy with each other thus defending our cells in all their structural parts.

VITAMIN A

Vitamin A is present in all orange or dark green vegetables and fruits (in the form of the precursor b-carotene which is then converted in our body).

So yellow or red peppers, carrots, pumpkin or dandelion, spinach, rocket, green radicchio and broccoli are some examples of vegetables rich in this provitamin.

VITAMIN E

Vitamin E is instead present in vegetable oils (wheat germ, hazelnut, sunflower, olive) and in dry oily seeds (almonds, walnuts, sunflower seeds, etc.).

LA VITAMINA C

Vitamin C is particularly present in citrus fruits, kiwis and brassicaceae (savoy cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, Brussels sprouts).

Step 4: KEEP ACTIVE

Practicing physical activity during the winter months also allows you to maintain greater joint mobility. In the cold months you move less and this leads to a greater stiffening of the spine. Furthermore, the colder climate increases the natural tendency to stiffen by keeping the trapezius muscles more contracted (with the cold one tends to collect the shoulders). Therefore practicing muscle lengthening of the spine and stretching exercises will help you to remain more mobile and less contracted.

The Nutritionist recommends:

No to drastic diets: in winter, diets that are too low in calories and fat are not recommended as they would slow down the ability to regulate body temperature, also favoring the weakening of the immune system. We have created for you a Program Nutri® for your every need. For example, the Program Nutri®DETOX is designed to lighten you after the extravagances of the winter holidays without losing the taste and all the nutrients necessary for your health. Dr. Ravelli Lia