Overeating and drinking can cause many harms to your body!

When we open the food delivery app, spicy hot pot, barbecue, milk tea, cakes, and other delicious foods are all available. We don’t know what to eat, so why not have a little of everything? When we are full and satisfied, lying in our seats, savoring the delicious food, we wonder if we can feel the harm that overeating brings to our bodies.

Food is the primary need of the people, which is an eternal theme. However, with the development of economy and technological progress, our lives have gradually become richer, and our dietary structure and eating habits have also undergone tremendous changes. Along with the change in dietary structure, various chronic diseases have come along, such as diabetes, hyperuricemia, hypertension, obesity, atherosclerosis, osteoporosis...

It is better to put down the food in your hand and take a look at what kind of harm eating and drinking too much will cause to our body. If you like to eat sweets, be careful to fall into the temptation of sweetness. Eating sugar can make people feel happy, but a high-sugar diet is accompanied by skin aging, damage to the skin barrier, weight gain, insulin resistance, and the risk of diabetes in the long run. Women also have the risk of breast cancer. For children, a high-sugar diet means tooth decay. Not only that, in recent years, studies have shown that a high-sugar diet can cause mental illness in adolescence. For the elderly, a high-sugar diet will consume too much calcium in the body, causing osteoporosis, which can easily lead to falls and fractures, and then cause life-threatening.

If you like strong flavors and salty foods, you should be aware of the harm of a high-salt diet. Excessive salt intake is closely linked to cardiovascular and kidney diseases. Not only that, a high-salt diet can also reduce your immune function and weaken your antibacterial ability.

If you like to eat spicy food, you will be familiar with the embarrassment of lingering in the toilet. Capsaicin can irritate the gastrointestinal mucosa and accelerate intestinal peristalsis, thus causing diarrhea and abdominal pain. If you already have gastric mucosal damage, continuing to eat spicy food will increase the risk of gastric bleeding.

If you like drinking, you will never be satisfied with a drink when you are with your friends. You must be familiar with the headache and nausea caused by a hangover. Drinking can cause cardiovascular disease, brain disease, neurological disease, liver damage or alcoholic liver disease. Studies have shown that people who blush when drinking are more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease and have a greatly increased risk of gastric cancer. This is because such people have a gene mutation in their bodies, which greatly increases the risk of gastric cancer.

If you like to eat greasy food, such as fried chicken and pork elbow, I believe that in the long run your image will become greasy, plump and shiny like the food you eat. High-fat diet not only contains a lot of fat, which will affect people's blood sugar and blood lipids, but also regulates the satiety center of the brain, leading to overeating. After eating one, you still want to eat a second bite. This is why we can't stop eating fried chicken once we are full, and we can still eat two bites. A high-fat diet can cause atherosclerosis, resulting in a greatly increased probability of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Not only that, a high-fat diet can disrupt the function of immune cells in the body by changing intestinal microorganisms, thereby increasing the risk of intestinal cancer.

With the rapid advancement of science and technology and the rapid development of the economy, humans have freed themselves from the lifestyle of hunting and gathering. They have also manipulated their own nutritional environment, social environment and natural environment through settling down, developing agriculture and complex social culture, and realized the process from "finding" food to "creating" food and "controlling" food. They have ended the state of relying on natural food for survival and entered an era of great material abundance as well as an era of high incidence of chronic diseases. As "A Tale of Two Cities" said, this is the best of times and the worst of times.

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