El estilo de vida saludable: Un reto para la industria y la ingeniería de alimentos.

Abstract

Current times have fueled the importance of having a healthy life, so there is more information about the close relationship between health and diet, with many specialists who promote the influence of food consumed on diseases that are suffered. For this reason, diets have acquired a relevant space when forming a healthy lifestyle; Although many of the current "diets" restrict the consumption of any type of food in an extreme way, this research refers to healthy diets, those that 5 respond to the intake of foods that help maintain, recover or improve health. The foregoing opens the way to the accelerated development of the food industry which has received various questions about the components of its elaboration; It is for these reasons that there are many myths around food, such as foods high in sodium or high in sugar. In this sense, the analysis will focus on exposing the challenge facing the wind industry and engineering, as well as the contemplation of foods classified as functional, as a solution to the problem.