The wish of many people is finally a reality. It is a healthy pizza that allows you to enjoy one of the most beloved dishes in the world but in a different way so as not to promote obesity. It is not a dream but it already exists and has just been launched for sale.
What is it made of?
This innovation was made by Knorr and is called “Plizza”. It also stands out for being friendly to the planet because it is made with foods from the future such as spinach and sesame seeds so that this delicious dish is good for people and the environment.
According to a study carried out in 2021 by the United Nations Organization (UN), our food system is key to contributing to climate change, biodiversity loss, water scarcity and soil wear.
The good news is that there is still time to make a change because food is also the most powerful lever to maximize the health of people and the planet.
With the “Plizza”, Knorr is inspiring people to include a greater variety of plants and vegetables, such as the 50 Foods of the Future (F50F) in their dishes and show how easy and delicious it is to make these changes.
For its part, Obesity already represents one of the world’s biggest problems. Each year its prevalence increases and the trend continues to rise in most countries.
To understand the magnitude of the problem, it is estimated that since 1975 this disease has tripled. Thus, in 2016 there were 1.9 billion adults with excess body mass, in addition to 340 million children and adolescents.
With this in mind, Healthy First Pizza seeks to help make a change without sacrificing taste. It is also made without animal protein, which reduces the impact of food on the environment.
Includes Foods of the Future, which provide high nutritional value and low environmental impact.
They use our Knorr products, made from 95 percent globally sustainably grown vegetables and herbs
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In another order of ideas, this 2022 the National Institute of Psychiatry “Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz” published a decalogue to achieve weight loss. What it indicates is that the mental part is of great importance to achieve it. The indications mentioned are the following:
- The relationship between obesity and mental health requires the evaluation and treatment of the main mental health conditions that affect this population: depressive, anxiety and eating disorders.
- People with obesity can experience discrimination, which affects their emotional well-being and undermines their physical and mental health. “For this reason, we must promote strategies and programs to mitigate stigma in all its forms.”
- This discrimination can trigger physiological stress responses that alter neuroendocrine control and contribute to increased adiposity, with an increased risk of metabolic and cardiovascular comorbidities.
- Mental health professionals can provide valuable interventions for a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach to overweight and obesity and reinforce strategies for changing habits aimed at achieving healthy lifestyles.
- Mental health professionals have to develop capacities to integrate multidisciplinary teams in the treatment of obesity, especially during the pre-surgical bariatric surgery protocol to design personalized treatments with a multidisciplinary approach.
- In the treatment of obesity, mental health professionals have to detect depressive or anxiety disorders, which require specialized diagnosis and treatment.
- For psychopharmacological treatment in overweight or obese patients, it is advisable, as far as possible, to choose those with a weight-neutral effect or those associated with weight loss.
- Since the presence of atypical depressive symptoms in patients with affective disorders contributes to weight gain, the choice of therapy should be guided by the clinical response that contributes to weight loss.
- Seeking to avoid stigmatizing patients with obesity, mental health professionals transmit messages of support to patients and include advice on healthy lifestyles in their interventions.
- The NutriCOI initiative based on the Nutricia Code is supported by mental health professionals through which they encourage the different academic sectors to behave in an ethical, transparent and professional manner in the face of possible conflicts of interest.