Real Food – Interview With Dietitian Carlos Rios

The movement called realfooding, that real food is more than a new fashion in the area of food. Its creator, nutritionist Carlos Ríos, trains – and inspires – thousands of people to start a new lifestyle.

Much healthier, thanks to which we realize that sometimes “the simplest is the best”.

We know that the food industry is very eager to get carried away by fashions and transitional gurus who promise us miracles. However, Carlos Ríos’ achievements go much further.

His movement to promote real food started a few years ago. It then grew unstoppable through social networks, achieving two things.

The first is to provide us as consumers with the tools and knowledge to understand what we really eat every day. The second is to encourage you to make a firm resolve: to open your eyes wide and understand the need to eat healthy food, or “real” food.

We discussed this with Carlos Ríos in the interview we quote in this article.

Interview with Carlos Ríos

Carlos Ríos is a nutritionist who graduated from Pablo de Olavide University in Seville and is the founder of the realfooding movement promoting real food. He has thousands of followers on his social networks and his goal of awakening people’s consciousness in the purest Matrix style has had great results.

His book Eat Real Food: A Guide to Transform Your Diet and Your Health ( original title : Come comida real: Una guia para transformar tu alimentacion y tu salud) was a great success.

Today, it is an indispensable textbook, supported by a wealth of scientific literature, which enables us to understand an important fact. It’s about something Carlos Rios often says: ” What we eat is not real food, but products that have been placed before our eyes.”

In our interview with him, we not only delve into what real food is. This interview also encourages us to understand that knowledge is power. Knowing what we eat strengthens us and helps us choose better and thus actually invest in our health.

Where does realfooding – real food come from?

It was something that I started at the in-office consultation level. Seeing the good results that gave me an incentive to focus on food quality and communicating the dangers of ultra-processed foods, I decided to go further.

I have targeted my knowledge at the general population, and because I am good at social networks, I saw them as an opportunity to reach a large audience.

If real food has been in our reach for so long, why are most of the population not eating a proper diet?

Because the food industry has set itself the goal of “using” our way of life in which we must always be in a hurry. The widespread lack of consumer time is an opportunity to sell them quick products for immediate consumption.

This means buying and consuming highly processed foods, and at the same time it causes real food to gradually fade into the background or completely disappear.

What’s the worst we can eat every day? Is there any food that is not real that we should definitely throw out of our diet?

In general, all ultra-processed foods are unhealthy, and the combined consumption of many of them makes it unsafe to eat. One of the most consumed products of this type, and in large quantities, are refreshing drinks, so we should avoid them.

So what should we pay attention to when buying food?

Especially for the ingredients. Before, we always looked at kilocalories or fat content, but it’s the ingredients that really matter.

However, these products are just as unhealthy as their “no light” versions. Therefore, the only way to know what we consume and whether it is healthy is to check the ingredients of the product. Only in this way can we identify real food.

Can you recommend us as snacks or drinks consumed between meals?

We have many options that are real food: natural or roasted nuts without added salt, fruit, natural yoghurts, pickles, olives, legumes etc.

It is best to drink water, although there is a “realfooder refreshing drink” which we can make ourselves from water or sparkling water, lemon and ice.

The media places a large amount of ultra-processed food or sugar in front of our eyes. Let’s talk about the little ones, how can we help them join this initiative?

We need to understand that we cannot make children understand the concept of “this is healthier” or “this is ultrafast”. Children use their imaginations and pay attention to what they perceive with their senses.

That is why we need to present them with real food in a creative, appetizing way, and even as a form of ‘play’. For them, eating a fruit is not the same as eating a fruit that creates a “drawing” on a plate.

Finally, how can we start “real eating” in our lives?

By taking on our 1 month real food challenge. There is a lot of information in our instagram accounts on how to get started. With this challenge, you’ll get so many benefits in just one month that you won’t want to go back to your old habits anymore.