What makes eating processed meat unhealthy? Unlike unprocessed meat, "processed" meat refers to any meat that has gone through salting or chemical processes to extend its shelf life. My GO-TO rule of thumb for shopping: if it includes substances to extend its shelf life, it shortens yours.
Here are some of the complications one can suffer from eating processed meat.
1. Water retention
Processed meat is high in calories, fat and sodium. Although you may only used turkey and ham, the sodium lead to water retention and bloating. Many of these processed meats are casually referred to as "luncheon meats" for good reason. They are easy to slap in between two pieces of lettuce with hummus for mid-day meals on the beach.
Another way that processed meat leads to weight problems is that sodium and fat cause our system to slow down. Salty foods, if you plan to exercise, are ill advise as they make you want to take a long nap rather than a long surf in the waves.
2. Heart Disease
Consider the burden of processed-meats: over three times the amount of sodium you'd get from unprocessed. What makes too much sodium so dangerous? High levels of sodium nitrates weaken blood vessels. This leads to heart disease.
Our body can't accommodate large amounts of sodium. Water retention as a result of sodium builds up blood volume; resulting in a vicious chain of events: the more blood volume you have, the more my heart needs to move the blood through my arteries, and the greater the burden on my arteries.
3. Diabetes
Especially if you come from a family history of diabetes (I do and was once gestational-diabetic myself, this is a real concern of mine). Nitrites in processed meats lessen our secretion of insulin and have negative effects on my glucose levels. Harvard researchers recently have proven eating merely one serving a day of processed meats was linked to a 29 percent risk for diabetes. One serving, for example, is just two slices of ham or turkey cold cuts. Yikes.
4. Cancer
Swedish researchers have discovered a higher risk of stomach cancer among those who eat processed meats. A study from Hawaii that followed participants for seven years, revealed that those who ate the most processed meats showed a 67 percent greater risk of pancreatic cancer over those who did not eat the meats or ate the meats infrequently.
Visible abs don't necessarily mean health but when yours disappear, you should know something is immediately wrong. Revisit the content of what you have been eating to find out that something hsd changed in the quality of your food. If only ONE WEEK of a daily serving of nitrates led to the disappearance of your visible abs, it will take another week of removing it for them to return.
Physique doesn't guarantee health but when you keep fit, any negative changes can be immediately detected and early enough to prevent serious long term damage.
Here are some of the complications one can suffer from eating processed meat.
1. Water retention
Processed meat is high in calories, fat and sodium. Although you may only used turkey and ham, the sodium lead to water retention and bloating. Many of these processed meats are casually referred to as "luncheon meats" for good reason. They are easy to slap in between two pieces of lettuce with hummus for mid-day meals on the beach.
Another way that processed meat leads to weight problems is that sodium and fat cause our system to slow down. Salty foods, if you plan to exercise, are ill advise as they make you want to take a long nap rather than a long surf in the waves.
2. Heart Disease
Consider the burden of processed-meats: over three times the amount of sodium you'd get from unprocessed. What makes too much sodium so dangerous? High levels of sodium nitrates weaken blood vessels. This leads to heart disease.
Our body can't accommodate large amounts of sodium. Water retention as a result of sodium builds up blood volume; resulting in a vicious chain of events: the more blood volume you have, the more my heart needs to move the blood through my arteries, and the greater the burden on my arteries.
3. Diabetes
Especially if you come from a family history of diabetes (I do and was once gestational-diabetic myself, this is a real concern of mine). Nitrites in processed meats lessen our secretion of insulin and have negative effects on my glucose levels. Harvard researchers recently have proven eating merely one serving a day of processed meats was linked to a 29 percent risk for diabetes. One serving, for example, is just two slices of ham or turkey cold cuts. Yikes.
4. Cancer
Swedish researchers have discovered a higher risk of stomach cancer among those who eat processed meats. A study from Hawaii that followed participants for seven years, revealed that those who ate the most processed meats showed a 67 percent greater risk of pancreatic cancer over those who did not eat the meats or ate the meats infrequently.
Visible abs don't necessarily mean health but when yours disappear, you should know something is immediately wrong. Revisit the content of what you have been eating to find out that something hsd changed in the quality of your food. If only ONE WEEK of a daily serving of nitrates led to the disappearance of your visible abs, it will take another week of removing it for them to return.
Physique doesn't guarantee health but when you keep fit, any negative changes can be immediately detected and early enough to prevent serious long term damage.
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