Processed food and ultra processed food messes with our biological systems on a cellular level. Did you know that you can take control of your diet and it will help your overall health.
According to Robert Lustig, MD, MSL, “Designed to be highly palatable and even addictive like a Trojan horse it looks and seems attractive in many ways only to do it’s damage once inside our bodies and brains which may take years to manifest in a variety of maladies and diseases.
Obesity, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, even cancer, and dementia are among a set of diseases known collectively as metabolic syndrome, and they threaten to bring our entire health care system to its knees.
You don’t have to be obese to have a metabolic disease,after all, up to 40 percent of normal weight adults have it. The relationship between, stress, obesity, and metabolic disease begins with the hormone cortisol, which is released by your adrenal glands(located on top of your kidneys).
Chronic stress or heightened responses to stress due to ineffective coping strategies will unleash a long -term cortisol cascade. In these prolonged stressful situations,the cortisol is unregulated.”
When we are under stress we are a lot more susceptible to simple carbs and sugar and fried foods , called comfort foods that calm us down temporarily but end up becoming discomfort foods later on when they gradually manifest their damage to our body’s and brains in a variety of ways to different people.”
From Fat Chance & The Hacking of the American Mind by Robert H, LUSTIG,MD, MSL.
