Chronic fatigue, what if food was the problem?
When you read some American (or Australian, or English) nutrition books and “diet blogs” you may often come across this definition, ” adrenal fatigue “, which is the equivalent of the Italian “adrenal fatigue” or ” adrenal fatigue ”, that is a form of chronic fatigue which in theory should be caused by a condition of fatigue of the adrenal glands, those which, to be clear, regulate stress hormones. This disorder or syndrome is often referred to as “an insufficiently treated” or “undiagnosed” disorder: the common hypothesis is that the disorder itself does not exist, but that simply what is called adrenal fatigue is a stressful condition , which causes chronic fatigue among other things. However,
THE SYMPTOMS OF ADRENAL FATIGUE OR BETTER SAYING OF CHRONIC FATIGUE
The symptoms of adrenal fatigue are in fact tiredness, insomnia or sleep disturbances, digestive and regularity problems, tendency to get sick often, to get colds or allergies, low blood pressure, coldness , irritability, confusion and ease of distraction, nervous hunger or loss of appetite, hunger disturbances, anxiety, depressive state, mood swings, hormonal problems.
Now: Some experts have wondered , observing their patients, if this adrenal fatigue syndrome could actually be linked to a lack of sufficient daily calories. Well yes. One of the common denominators of people who claimed to suffer from chronic fatigue was the low-calorie or basically low-calorie diet, where the World Health Organization means a diet below the minimum of 1800 calories for women and 2100 for women. man. Normally you should eat more. To know how much you should eat, there is the FAO / WHO formula, the formula of the FAO and the World Health Organization to establish your daily caloric needs. Here.
Doing a calculation for me, for example, comes out over 2100 calories for a moderate level of life: if I put on a light or sedentary level of life, my calories would still exceed 1800. That’s why the World Health Organization is keen to let us know that 1800 calories for a woman is the minimum wage for optimal health.
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