Poor Nutrition affect on Your Health

Health must be the basic concern of every individual. In order to maintain health, individuals must take a balanced diet that consists of adequate quality of vitamins, minerals, and other essential ingredients. Taking too much unhealthy food can affect your health as it might lead to food poisoning. On the other hand, if an individual restricts oneself to eating very little amount of food it can be risky.

Some of the food that can affect your health includes:

Green vegetable/ Fruits

Green vegetables or fruit are a very good source of minerals, vitamins. One part of individual meals should include such green food. But proper care should be taken before eating them. They should be properly washed with clean water so that the effect of pesticides remains no longer. If food is not washed properly it can lead to food poisoning which is very dangerous.

Raw meat

Meat is an essential ingredient of our diet. Proper care should be taken when cooking meat, because uncooked or not properly cooked meat contains salmonella bacteria which may cause food poisoning.

Raw eggs

Egg is one of the commonly used food items for breakfast even lunch and dinner. But something eating things that contain raw/ uncooked eggs can be dangerous. Raw egg may consist of bacteria that may interfere with your digestion process and make you sick.

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Chocolate

Eating chocolate in a balanced amount is not an issue, but problems arise when individuals take a large amount of chocolate. Taking it in large amounts can result in hormonal changes which ultimately will affect your health. It is high calorie and high sugar food which if exceeded beyond the limit could lead to serious problems like obesity.

Potatoes

There are a number of food items that make use of potatoes. Eating potatoes is not a problem but if potatoes are stored for a long period of time they develop green patches that contain solanine, which is harmful to health and lead to poisoning. Diarrhea, vomiting, and stomach cramps are symptoms of solanine poisoning.

Cheese

Cheese is an important ingredient of our everyday routine. It is used mostly in bakery items like pizza. Food containing cheese becomes problematic when the cheese used is expired. It basically contains a product tyramine, which could make you sick if kept for a long period of time. So the expiry date of the product must be given special attention.

Tomatoes

Red colored tomatoes form a part of our salads as well as used in curry. They do not create a problem until and unless if care is not taken while washing them. They make lead to food poisoning as indicated by a report in 2008, according to which a number of individuals have fallen a victim to them.

Seafood

Seafood especially fish is an important source of proteins. But a fish known as Tuna may affect your health because it is polluted by scombrotoxin, which causes headaches and cramps. If proper procedure is not followed before cooking, it releases some toxic substance which cannot be overcome even by cooking. It can cause a mild form of foodborne intoxication when taken in sufficient quantities.

Junk Food

Junk food is unhealthy food! They are regarded as identical to fast food. Junk food is rich in fat, calories, flavours, sugars, and sodium, and it also contains additives and preservatives. Junk food has harmful effects on our health such as:

Psychological problems – Consumption of sugars, flavours, and fats can activate problems such as attention deficit, anxiety, lack of communication, and frustration.

Premature aging – Consumption of junk food is one of the main reasons for premature aging because our dermis (layer of tissues below the skin) is not properly oxygenated (supplied with oxygen) by the saturation of fats and artificial flavours.

Addiction – Having junk food in large quantities stimulates the brain’s pleasure centre resulting in compulsive behaviours and brain effects such as those caused by drug use.

Extreme sadness – People who habitually consume junk food are 51 percent more likely to develop depression.

Death – According to research people who consume junk food even once a week increase their risk of dying from coronary heart disease by 20 percent.

Others – Obesity, diabetes, heart diseases, kidney diseases, and depression.

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White Bread

White bread is gluey indigestible, containing sugar and nutritionally incomplete protein. It affects health poorly and increases the risk of diseases such as constipation, heart diseases, obesity, and diabetes. It increases the level of blood sugar and gives you poor energy.

Chips

Chips are a type of snacks in the form of crisp, which are deep-fried. A packet of chips is high in fat, calories, and sodium. Chips are bad for health and increase the risk of diseases such as obesity, heart diseases (hypertension, heart failure, and coronary heart diseases, etc), kidney diseases, and stroke. Try to eat chips occasionally and not on daily basis.

Conclusion

All of the above mentioned foods are beneficial for health as long as proper care is taken and balance is maintained. Excess of something is always bad, in the same way, if these food are subjected to misuse they can affect your health. A well-known quote should serve as a guiding principle in our everyday life. According to Anne Wilson Schaef:

“Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account”.  What is your opinion?