Food in adults

There is now a global trend towards greater obesity. The company makes that obesity is already epidemic. The sedentary lifestyle is a decisive factor. If it adds to the wide variety of foods prepared at a cost accessible to invade the shelves of supermarkets, and that long ago was consumed only on special occasions, ice cream, desserts, light meals prepared with high-fat, make possible accumulation of the hated rolls.

Obesity leads to other diseases such as diabetes, and the rise of harmful cholesterol in your fraction, which decreases the size and flexibility of the arteries. So, it is not difficult to conclude that obesity and cardiovascular disease are closely linked.

But not only has the heart suffered. They also suffer the joints, having to carry more pounds of relevant, leading to osteoarthritis. It’s like walking with two bags of 20 kilos in each hand. When there is greater difficulty in ambulation, it accentuates the sedentary and is entering a vicious circle.

But being overweight is not only harmful, also the extreme thinness. The problem is malnutrition, which, in turn, brings with it other diseases, some quite serious as tuberculosis. Also in AIDS patients, poor diet allows for the frequent occurrence of opportunistic diseases, which deteriorate even further to these patients.

The target of malnutrition appears to be the immune system, the body’s defenses. In a paper published by the Association Lupus Argentina, referred to the damage that leads to a poor diet on cells in general, and especially in the immune system and the production of antibodies. For example, in experiments done on animals, if there are missing proteins, the thymus, which is the body responsible for the maturation of defensive cells, T-lymphocytes, deteriorates to the point where all the defensive affected his body’s functions normal.

Something similar occurs with zinc, which exists in very small amounts in the normal diet, and vitamin B6. Both act as adjunct substances called enzymes, which are essential in the body’s metabolic processes.

Bulimia and anorexia
Require special treatment other two diseases “epidemic” of the end of this millennium, such as anorexia and bulimia. Dietary habits are conditioned by family and cultural customs of a people. The impact of fashion, television where the bombing was promoted false canons of beauty, on the one hand and on the other hand, promotes the consumption of unhealthy, sedentary life and lack of time to prepare and taste foods quietly, the health. With information would be provided from an early age, you may be able to reverse this process.