"Don't dig your grave with knife and fork". - An Old English Proverb
Stop killing your health with your fork. There are two ways that unhealthy foods can hijack your health. One way harms you in the same manner that nicotine robs the neurons - by clogging arteries and restricting blood flow. This reduces the levels of oxygen and healthy nutrients reaching the heart.
The second way food's make the "bad for the health" list is by causing a rollercoaster or crash and burn effect in your body. These foods not only harm your heart but also can cause wild mood swings and unproductive behaviors as well as obesity.
Dr. David Kessler, former FDA chief, calls the "culprit foods" layered and loaded with combination of fat, sugar, and salt - and often so processed that you don't even have to chew much. Medical studies continue to report that foods laden with fat/sugar combinations turn on excess insulin pathway. It has even been reported recently that saturated bad fats can be causative factor in stroke patients by damaging the blood vessel lining of the brain just as it does in the heart. The wide variety of "inert substance" from which all nutrients have been removed and then bleached out in food are having a detrimental effect on health in general. The list of these toxic substances is long, but includes certain artificial sweeteners and monosodium glutamate, a common food additive.
Most people have such hard time eating a healthy diet. Those who have great difficulty controlling what they eat are know as "conditioned hyper-eaters". It was found in a major study that this population of people reports feeling a loss of control over food and is preoccupied by food. It is estimated that up to seventy million people have some degree of "conditioned hyper-eating".
People who are overweight or obese are becoming more at risk for a variety of chronic illnesses and cardiovascular risks as they add few pounds with each passing year. Research is now showing that "a new study finds obese people have 8 percent less brain tissue than normal weight individuals. Their brain looks 16 years older than the brains of lean individuals. Those classified as overweight have 4 percent less brain tissue and their brain appears to have aged prematurely by 8 years. What it means is that if you do grow old, and you don't get the weight under control, you'll also be at risk for Alzheimer's, since your BMI right now is 32.5 and 30 or more is the definition of obesity.
As dangerous as saturated fat is in your food, sugary treats vie for first place among heart-damaging assassins. Sugar and processed flour can rob you from enjoying a superb healthy life. However, your body do need proper nutrients when it comes to glucose and insulin levels...the major fuel the body burn for energy is sugar, or more precisely glucose.
Proper sugars (glucose), like good-fats, are vital to the functioning of your heart, and your system grabs onto 20 percent of the carbohydrates that we consume. Problems arise when you ingest sugar and simple carbohydrates in the wrong amounts and at the wrong time. Bad foods cause the blood sugar levels to shoot up temporarily, which puts stress on the pancreas and triggers a powerful rush of insulin to be released into your bloodstream. This overabundance of insulin leads to plummeting blood sugar levels along with a release of hormones manufactured in the adrenal glands, cortisol and epinephrine. High levels of these hormones in turns have the potential to kill body cells and even cause organ malfunction. This rollercoaster effect causes us to shift from feeling happy and energetic while "high" on glucose to becoming sleep, irritable unfocused, or even agitated - not a good way to have a productive day! This cause neurons and other cells eventually become resistant to the action of the insulin. This can lead to diabetes.
Acknowledgements
DAVID B. BIEBEL, DMIN, his website at: https://www.crosshearthealth.com
JAMES E. DILL, MD,
AND BOBBIE DILL, RN
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