Why you are what you eat?
Have you ever really thought about what it means? Or do you think about it when you’re deciding what foods to eat?
Just check your cholesterol after eating a fast food hamburger. Medical researches are finding that cholesterol plays other important roles in your body besides clogging your arteries. It is also and indicator of your body trying to fight off an infection or foreign invasion. When checking your blood after a fatty food intake your cholesterol spikes for some time afterwards. This is not seen when eating fruits, whole grain or vegetables.
Chlolesterol and Fat
If your family history includes high cholesterol or high blood pressure, then it may be a good idea to change your eating habits. A more vegetarian diet shows statistically to lower the incidence of diseases of industrialized countries. I read a good book called "The China Study"by Joel Fuhrman, M.D where he describes a study done in China that links diet to wellness. I highly recommend the book. The findings? “People who ate the most animal-based foods got the most chronic disease. People who ate the most plant-based foods were the healthiest and tended to avoid chronic disease. These results could not be ignored,” said Dr. Campbell. Science shows us that when we reduce animal fat intake we reduce cholesterol. When we reduce cholesterol we live longer.
Does our body have a problem eating meat?
Diabetics must also be careful how they choose the food they eat, as each food choice they make has an impact on their health. Diabetes affects people of all ages, genders, and all walks of life. Unchecked, it can cause wounds to heal slowly, infections are slow to cure, blindness, and kidney failure set in as the disease progresses. important ways of controlling diabetes. One of the most important ways of controlling diabetes is a careful watch on the diet, and a vegetarian lifestyle with its emphasis on low fat, high fiber, and nutrient-rich foods is seems to work very well.
The CDC in the United States alone estimates diabetes effects 6.3 percent of the population or over 18.2 million people. The disease disrupts the body's ability to properly processing foods. Normally, the food we eat is digested and converted to glucose, a sugar which is carried by the blood to all cells in the body and used for energy. The hormone insulin then helps glucose pass into cells. Diabetics bodies are unable to control the amount of glucose in their bloodstream. The process that converts their sugar to energy does not function correctly. Glucose builds up in the bloodstream and leads to complications that can even become fatal.
Diabetes diabetics must calculate their total carbohydrate intake. About half their food must be made up of complex carbohydrates. People on a vegetarian diet have been able to reduce their insulin and seem to be much more able to keep their diabetes under control.
If eating meat causes the cholesterol level to be high and diabetics have to eat much less of it to control their disease, why do we eat meat? Do we eat too much? Let's keep looking.