Nutritional deficiencies aren't just a result of a lack of vitamins or minerals. Let's look at the causes.
In common opinion it is easy to associate nutritional deficiencies (perhaps detectable with a energy loss or muscle tone) with a lack of vitamins or minerals.
This way of thinking may in many cases correspond to the truth, but it is certainly reductive as the body's needs are multiple and they are linked not only to micronutrients, but also to proteins.
Furthermore, these needs change enormously according to the stage of life, or the type and amount of work or sporting activity performed.
While it's certainly difficult to lack carbohydrates or fats during a typical Mediterranean diet, it's easier to lack proteins. These are the molecules that not only build but also maintain the functionality of muscles and many other systems and structures in the human body.
Protein deficiency
Protein deficiency, it can have different originsWe go from one typically tasteful choice, for example, many people cannot tolerate the taste of meat, fish and eggs, or, especially in the elderly, it is difficulty chewing protein foods like animal flesh.
Also special diets that do not include these proteins or who avoid them, so as not to introduce the lipid quotas that these foods contain which cause protein deficiencies.
Starting from this assumption, the need to integrate the diet with preparations that have become increasingly widespread has provide a protein quota and at the same time a useful quantity of quality carbohydrates, combined with an important dose of vitamins and minerals.
This type of supplements are real "reconstituents", a category that is difficult to identify but whose word takes on the meaning of something that helps to "rebuild" for restore the body to optimal functionality.
This goal may seem simple, after all, it is easy to find in milk proteins a help both of quality and of excellent taste; yet not all proteins derived from milk are the same. If you use some simple caseins we will have good proteins but with a very high lactose content (lactose is the main cause of intolerances and gastrointestinal disorders that many people suffer from as a result of the use of milk).
Whey protein
Instead there are the whey protein (whey protein in English) which represent the best part of milk, a concentrate of essential amino acids (the components of proteins that the body cannot produce) with low lactose intake.
It is then desirable to have a presence share of fibers with prebiotic action (inulin and fructooligosaccharides) and the enzyme (lactase) responsible for the digestion of the small amount of lactose which is also present in whey.
The proteins present as an additional contribution must represent at least 30% of the product in question.
Carbohydrates
Another matter is about pro-energetic role entrusted to carbohydrates; the carbohydrate quota must not be composed of banal sugars such as sucrose (the classic white table sugar), but it would be desirable to fructose (which raises blood sugar levels less and therefore tends to make you gain less weight) and high-quality maltodextrins (starches that release energy more gradually).
Vitamin
It would be ideal if such a formulation included a supply of the main vitamins of at least 50% of the NRV (Nutritional Reference Value); this is to provide a balanced and easily assimilated intake.
Protein and vitamin supplements for all ages
A supplement with this type of formulation is designed not so much for athletes (who usually have a wide range of protein supplements dedicated to them), but for any person from a child to an old man who, for various reasons, seek the possibility of iintegrate and complete your diet to ensure you get the right doses of crucial nutrients; all this with both an energetic and plastic (i.e. tissue-building) goal.
This goal can be achieved in a simple, but above all tasty, way, with powdered preparations that can be taken for breakfast (when there is usually no protein intake), or as an opportunity for a snack enriched with these important nutrients.
A choice of this type could solve many problems, improving physical efficiency and providing the body with important vital elements. A single product proves successful in addressing multiple problems related to an incomplete diet or unsuitable for our real needs.
