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Whole Food Ingredients Can Prevent Chronic Diseases

Foodstuffs intact or only received minimal processing can reduce the risk of various chronic diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. That's because the nutrient content of food is still complete intact, unlike food purification results were so high in sugar.

"Since 1997, the WHO (World Health Organization) said that cancer can be prevented so that all states should remind people to be careful," said Professor of Food Science Faculty of Agriculture, Bogor Agricultural Frances Rungkat Zakaria, Monday (11/5), at Bogor, West Java. One way of primary prevention is a healthy diet and physical activity.

If people eat a balanced nutritious diet and regular physical activity, chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease can be prevented. According to WHO, a healthy diet and regular exercise lowers the risk of cancer by 35 percent, 80 percent of heart disease, and diabetes 90 percent.

"So, of the 100 people with diabetes, 90 people were not in contact with the disease if a healthy diet and physical activity," he said.

A healthy diet is primarily plant-based food consumption, intact, and as natural as possible. Whole food is food with no or little experience omission on the part that can be eaten, such as refining, milling, stripping the epidermis, extraction, or isolation.

For that, people are encouraged to choose food intact compared to food processing results. For example, choose brown rice (filled with bran) rather than white rice, maize than the maize, and cassava starch compared. Food extraction process has a higher glycemic index so quickly digested and absorbed, but the rapid rise in blood sugar levels.

Head of Sub Disease Control Cardiovascular Communicable Disease Control Directorate of the Ministry of Health Lily Banonah Rival states, Indonesia has the Minister of Health Regulation No. 30 of 2013. That regulation includes the inclusion of the information content of sugar, salt, and fat, as well as health messages on processed food and ready to eat.