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| Learn about unhealthy eating habits. |
Unhealthy eating habits causes and effects
Causes of unhealthy eating habits
1. Mass availability of unhealthy food
2. Marketing and advertising by the junk food industry
3. Addictive ingredients which create cravings for unhealthy food
4. Modern culture is centered on unhealthy food
5. Children are encouraged to eat unhealthy food
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| Why is unhealthy eating so prevalent? |
Effects of unhealthy eating habits
1. High sugar consumption leads to sugar addiction
2. Preservatives kill good gut bacteria
3. Flavor enhancers in junk food ruin your taste for healthy food
4. High carbohydrate and fat content leads to obesity
5. Heart disease, mental illness and other diseases are caused by unhealthy eating habits
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| The effects are deadly. |
Causes of unhealthy eating habits
1. Mass availability of unhealthy food
One of the biggest reasons why unhealthy eating habits are so prevalent is the fact that unhealthy food is available almost everywhere.People have access to processed food at every food shop at their schools, work places and transit spots. Fast food chains have a restaurant around every street corner.
A very small portion of these outlets will have healthy options like fruit, whole-wheat bread, organic food or additive-free foods available.
If the only choice that people have when they purchase food is an unhealthy food choice, that is the food that they are going to eat. If the only choice is a healthy one, they would make that choice instead.
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| Convenience effects choice. |
2. Marketing and advertising by the junk food industry
More than half of all advertisements ever made are centered on unhealthy food and beverages.Junk food, processed food and fast food companies benefit from advertising because their brand is strongly connected to their product.
This isn’t the case for healthy alternatives. If an apple farmer wanted to advertise his apples, it would be hard for him to differentiate his specific apples from an apple that is farmed somewhere else. This decreases the incentive for healthy food marketing.
We are what we think about. Companies wouldn’t spend millions of dollars on advertising if it didn’t work.
Mass media marketing has persuaded the market to indulge in unhealthy eating habits. Every advert strengthens this trend.
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| What you see becomes who you are. |
3. Addictive ingredients which create cravings for unhealthy food
Sugar, sodium, artificial flavors, fun colors and artificial sweeteners (which are more addictive than cocaine) make unhealthy food addictive.No addictive ingredients are added to natural, healthy food. Natural food is not designed to taste good. Plants and animals are designed for their own survival – not how good they taste on a plate.
Unhealthy food is designed directly with taste in mind.
Companies with the most addictive products are rewarded with higher sales. Products that aren’t as enticing are replaced with more tempting products. This creates a steady rise in the desirability of unhealthy eating habits.
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4. Modern culture is centered on unhealthy food
The national foods of America are hamburgers, brownies and apple pie. Sporting events are synonymous with hot dogs and beer. Holidays and family events are centered on foods that make everybody gain weight at the end of the year. Birthdays are connected to cakes, sweets, pop and alcohol for adults.It is considered normal for people to eat unhealthy food all of the time. We eat unhealthy whenever we are together – it has become a part of our everyday culture.
Imagine how weird it would be to follow a strict healthy diet on Thanksgiving or Christmas day. It’s not the holiday that’s the problem – it is the unhealthy culture that we’ve established around it.
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| People impact people. |
5. Children are encouraged to eat unhealthy food
Our inclination to eat unhealthy food starts long before we can make our own decisions. It might be considered abuse if we refused to allow our children to have sweets and candy from their first birthday – long before they can tell the difference between right and wrong.Schools make tasty, unhealthy food available along with a limited variety of bland, healthy food. This imprints the idea of unhealthy food being tasty and healthy food being bland.
It is easy to follow an unhealthy eating plan when that is all that we’ve done while growing up. We can’t expect people to live differently to the way we allowed them to live while they were growing up.
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| Teach children healthy habits. |
Effects of unhealthy eating habits
1. High sugar consumption leads to sugar addiction
Your body’s primary source of energy is sugar. When we eat sugar, insulin is released to escort it out of the blood stream and into cells for energy. When the cells can’t take anymore sugar, insulin stores the excess sugar as fat.When you eat too much sugar, too much insulin is released. This leads to the rapid storage of sugar as fat and a sharp drop in blood sugar. The sharp drop in blood sugar makes us crave more sugar to bring it back up.
Sugar is known to be extremely addictive. The more sugar a product contains the more addictive the product will be. Every time that you consume an unhealthy food with a lot of sugar, your sugar cravings will increase in intensity.
Excess sugar consumption from sugar addiction caused by unhealthy eating leads to:
- Weight gain
- Heart disease
- Acne
- Hormonal imbalances
- Diabetes
- Cancer
- Depression
- Accelerated aging
- Low energy
- Fatty liver disease
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| Avoid excess sugar. |
2. Preservatives kill off good gut bacteria
Preservatives keep processed food from going bad. That’s why unhealthy food tends to last a lot longer than healthy food. The preservatives are harmful to us in the same way that they are harmful to germs. They just take longer to kill us because we are much larger than germs.Good gut bacteria are extremely important for your health. They are one of the 7 essential things that you need to be healthy.
Everything that you eat affects your gut – either positively or negatively. Healthy food feeds the bacteria that boost your immune system, produce important nutrients and hormones, destroy toxins and fight against bad gut bacteria.
Good gut bacteria feed on the fiber from plant food. Bad gut bacteria feed on sugar and human flesh. Preservatives in unhealthy food kill good bacteria, but the sugar in unhealthy food feeds bad gut bacteria.
Unhealthy food promotes the growth of bad gut bacteria that can cause infections, produce inflammation, kill good bacteria and encourage metabolic syndrome.
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| Choose your fuel. |
3. Flavor enhancers in junk food ruin your taste for healthy food
Have you ever noticed that the more unhealthy food you eat the more of it you want to eat?Unhealthy food decreases the desirability of healthy food because natural food doesn’t have the same things as processed food.
It is similar to addiction. When you get used to eating food with the flavor enhancers that are found in almost all junk food, everything that doesn’t have these flavor enhancers will taste bland.
You are an accumulation of what you do regularly. If you eat unhealthy food all of the time, you will crave unhealthy food all of the time. When you eat healthy, you will crave healthy food.
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| Continuation leads to enjoyment. |
4. High carbohydrate and fat content leads to obesity
Unhealthy food is sometimes referred to as empty calories.That means that the energy value of food (the parts of food that can be stored as fat) far outweigh the nutritional value of food (the micro nutrients like vitamins, electrolytes, minerals, trace elements, fiber and antioxidants).
A food that is considered an empty calorie will give your body fuel for fat without the nutrients that it actually needs.
Healthy food like spinach and lettuce have almost all of the micro nutrients that you need – with close to zero nutrients that can be stored as fat. In fact, one of the disadvantages of leafy greens like bok choy (or even a fruit salad) is the fact that they can lead to rapid weight loss because they don’t have many calories compared to the nutrients that they provide.
This is why a diet that relies exclusively on fruit can lead to massive weight loss in a matter of days.
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| Ingredients matter. |
5. Heart disease, mental illness and other diseases caused by unhealthy eating habits
Unhealthy food does not have enough micro nutrients like vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and fiber.You need vitamins to perform important bodily functions. Your body will break down when it doesn’t have enough of these vitamins. These can lead to cancer, eye problems, skin diseases, mental decline, and inability to remove toxins, heart disease and early death.
Minerals, antioxidants and fiber are just as important.
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