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Top 5 Problems caused by too much Sugar
Excess sugar causes a variety of problems: 1. High blood pressure Insulin assists in the storage of excess energy as well as magnesium. However, if your cells become resistant to insulin, you can’t store magnesium, which means you lose magnesium via urination. When you can’t store magnesium because the cell is resistant, you lose magnesium, and your blood vessels constrict, which leads to increased blood pressure. 2. Sodium retention and congestive heart failure High insulin also causes the retention of sodium, which leads to fluid retention; fluid retention causes high blood pressure and congestive heart failure. 3. Increased homocysteine A recent study showed that overweight children with high insulin levels…
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What Is the Ketogenic Diet?
Eat Healty! Building a healthy eating is the fuel for a good healthy life. To that end, I am getting started to know more about the Keto Diet. So, What Is the Ketogenic Diet?The ketogenic diet encrourages people to get most of the calories from fat and to severely restrict carbohydrates. In other words, it’s a high-fat, moderate-protein, and low carbohyrate diet. Accordingly, our body’s second preferred source of energy is fat; when carbohydrates are not easily accessible, our body turns to fat to get the energy it needs. Consequently, the liver breaks down fat into fatty acids and then breaks down these fatty acids into an energy-rich substance called…
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What are The top five cancer-causing foods ?
The top five cancer-causing foods are: 1. Hot dogs Because they are high in nitrates, the Cancer Prevention Coalition advises that children eat no more than 12 hot dogs a month. If you can’t live without hot dogs, buy those made without sodium nitrate.
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Eat to combat Stress – Part II
Healthy eating – The Top 7 Poisons What’s your poison? How often do you consume the following? 1. Salt 2. Coffee 3. Alcohol 4. Saturated fats – butter, full cream milk, red meat 5. Processed food (those made in a factory) 6. Hydrogenated fats (in pies, some spreads and other processed food). 7. Fizzy drinks