You need only to view the movie Super Size Me to understand
how foods impact the body.
In the movie, the director Morgan Spurlock
chronicles the adverse health outcomes he experienced from eating
nothing but fast food for several weeks. He not only gained weight, he
experienced alarming metabolic changes that put him at risk for heart disease, diabetes, and hypertension.
Spurlock was eating foods that gave his body the wrong messages. For
instance, in just a few weeks, the excessive amounts of saturated and
trans-fatty acids in the fast food diet led to inflammation and higher
blood cholesterol. In addition, the fast food diet failed to provide the
information necessary for normal metabolic function, which also
contributed to the health changes.
Morgan Spurlock is an example of what happens when food is broken
down into nutrients, which then impact the metabolic programming of
cells and the homeostasis (balance) in the body. There is a growing
realization that the effects of nutrition on health and disease cannot
be understood without a profound understanding of how nutrients act at
this molecular level
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