Risk of Eating Unhealthy
As a teen, most of us do not even care if we are eating right,
or begin to understand the implications of poor eating habits.
As we age, however, we do begin to notice the effects of
improper exercise, poor eating habits, and how they affect our
health. Today, as the baby boomers begin their retirement years,
health concerns and questions are on the rise. These aging
boomers are more concerned than any previous generations about
their good health, their ability to keep their good health, and
how their diet affects their health.
You do not have to be a doctor to understand the relationship
between too much consumption of food and health disorders. You
simply have to look around at a nation approaching an obesity
epidemic to understand what happens when you over consume in
general. One a smaller scale we wonder about the over
consumption of just certain kinds of foods? What happens when
you overdo in the sweet department?
There are all kinds of health issues related to over consumption
of sugar. Diabetes would be the number one health concern. But,
diabetes is not the only ill effect from over consumption of
sugar. Obesity, thyroid dysfunction, kidney malfunction, and
intestinal problems can all be directly associated with too much
sugar consumption.
What about too much alcohol? The ravaging effects of alcoholism
are a continual struggle and medical expense to many companies
and citizens in this country, and indeed the whole world. Lost
youth, liver problems, brain deterioration, the speeding of
other age-related diseases are all side affects of too much
alcohol consumption.
Then, we can talk about the effects of too little food
consumption. What happens when we do not consume what we need to
maintain our health? Gum diseases, heart disease, muscle
deterioration, vision loss, and anorexia occur when we do not
get the necessary food our body needs.
Even when we can't consume enough actual food, we can supplement
the vitamins and minerals our bodies need in order to maintain
some healthy functioning. You have only to walk down the aisle
at your local supermarket to discover that there has been a
vitamin revolution. Every possible vitamin and mineral needed by
the body is available in capsule, pill, tablet, or powder form.
Once your body has reached the point of unhealthy functioning,
or you have placed such a strain on your body from over
consumption that one of the related diseases has taken hold,
it's almost impossible to correct one problem without creating
another. Once you have become a diabetic, there are so many
complications, that simply choosing to diet and exercise is no
longer an option. The health concerns you now have far outweigh
the easy solution of diet and exercise. Can you begin to see how
important maintaining your health is to your quality of life?
How important it is to the quality of your spouses' and
children's' lives? Your choices directly affect situations with
their lives. You should make every effort to keep your health;
don't you owe it to your family, if not yourself?