How Highly Processed Food Affect The Body
HOW HIGHLY PROCESSED FOOD AFFECT
THE BODY
The 21st century is so filled
with individuals who don't proritise eating healthy food and diets for their
body metabolism but instead choose to feed on low quality food seeing it as an
easiest and reliable source of growth to the body whereas they are destroying the body functioning.
This post is to enlighten us on the dangers of eating poor quality diet.
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- Highly processed food are food that been changed from their natural
form to processed form making it lose its value and nutritive quality needed by
the body.
- They include food that has high quantity of processed sugar, flavors, and coloring and lot more e.g Junks, carbonated drinks and so on.
- They are food that contain
very low nutrient and some of the processes food product tend to lack vitamins,
proteins, calcium, carbohydrates but are filled fat ( trans-fat ) that are harmful
to the body.
How does highly processed food affect the body?
1.Organ malfunctioning:
It reduces the life span of the various organ of the body because
they contain some element such as nitrite, sulphite and so on which are dangerous to
the functioning of the body system.
2. They weaken the brain activities:
This happen because the brain will lack healthy nutrient required for
its functioning. The brain is said to contain about 80% glucose and other
element. Insufficient supply of the necessary nutrient could lead to brain sickness
or diseases such as brain tumor, migraine etc.
3. Skin/Melanin degradation:
High intake of highly processed food affect the skin so much that it tends
to reduce its melanin beauty in replacement with chemicals that affect the skin
beauty. That is why it is recommended that to have a fresh skin, intake of
fruits and vegetables is very important as it helps in maintenance of the skin.
4.Obesity:
Research has it that 80% of processed food contain 80-90% of calories
which after the body takes what it want, the rest are stored in the different body
and organ as Adipose tissue which when it excess bring about OBESITY.
Obesity is very dangerous to the body system as it;
- Increases heartbeat
- Causes body weakness
- brings about high blood pressure
- causes heart diseases and strokes
5. Fatigue and body weakness
Therefore, highly processed food causes more harm to the body than any good you can think of. It is therefore needed that we go on taking natural food product and diet not in excess but as it is required for the body metabolism.
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