Do You Eat to live? Or, Live to ...............

Link between health and well-being is typically a problem where nutrition and diet are concerned. As the society is composed of many economic strata wherein some fails to make both ends meet, some are surviving and some are overfed. All in all, it looks as if we don’t eat to live but we live to eat. However, in any of these cases, the food is never considered to be the balance diet by any yardsticks.

Moreover, we eat in excess. We eat as if we are always hungry, and eat even when we are not. That too, we eat mostly carbohydrates. Most of what we eat today is made of carbohydrates.

The basic reason is these are easy to prepare, store and sell. And all carbohydrates are same. Whether it is Biscuits, Pies, cakes, Bread, Cookies, Waffles, crackers, Pizzas, Potato chips, French fries, popcorn, breakfast cereal, doughnut, Soups, Noodles, or Spread, all are carbohydrates.

On top of this, our food is unnatural. Some of us believe that by consuming only fruit juice we are dieting. The fact is fruits are more carbohydrates. Fructose from fruits, juices and high fructose corn syrup promotes obesity. All carbohydrates are converted to glucose in our intestine.

This is undeniable fact that only modern man eats so much of carbohydrates. As scientifically reported on several occasions, consequences are that these unnatural food and lifestyle can drive our body system into a tizzy. Consumption of excess carbohydrates could lead to Increase Obesity, Increase insulin and leptin levels, Promote inflammation, Promote growth (even tumors) and many more.

Added to this we also eat bad fats: Omega 6 fats and trans fats. Bad fats promote atherosclerosis, clog our blood vessels and lead to heart attacks and strokes.

Sedentary and stressful lifestyle in the cities adds to the problem; present kids grow up watching TV. Late eating (Just before bed) and lack of sleep worsens obesity, hamper repair and maintenance.

Scientific communiqué suggests that Bad food and stressful lifestyle may result in high levels of insulin and leptin and a spiral of vicious events ensue insulin Resistance that leads to Obesity, Hypertension, Type 2 Diabetes, Dyslepidemia, pro- inflammatory state, Endothelial dysfunction, hyperuricemia, PCOD.

And some more related health problems like Acne, Dandruff, Male pattern baldness, Hirsutism, BPH, Parkinson’s disease, alzeimer’s disease, migraine, myopia, cancers, can make headway into our life.

As our body suffers from a vicious spiral of these metabolic diseases, we are really sucked into another spiral of tests and prescription drugs.

One third of the urban population today suffers from Disease of Civilization. Bulging millions, Overweight Kids, Rising diabetes among adults and kids, Hypertension, Stroke, Heart attacks, PCOS, High Uric acids, Cancers, Osteoporosis, Dyslepidemias are common happenings among the population.

Its time we need to wake up! Otherwise it will be too late to take care of us. We are already fighting with several incurable disease of the era. Lets not invite anymore by our wrong lifestyle and unhealthy food habits.

What could save us from the disease of civilization are Stringent Diet Plan and Regular Exercise. We need to eat more of natural food than the unnatural foods like fried items and high-energy carbohydrates, which get stored quite easily in our body.

This is the time to look back to our ancestors and follow the way they had their diet. They ate all natural food. We are never heard of suffering them from these diseases rather they would have died of starvation and some infectious disease. They were healthier in way than we are today. Lets eat to live and not the other way round.

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