What people consume regularly has an enormous impact on their state of health. At the cellular level of human existence is a cycle of “nutrition in, body energy produced” that continues endlessly throughout a lifetime.
Body cells produce energy from the nutritional sources ingested. This cellular fuel powers all body functions, including the building and repairing of cells. The turnover of cells is a process that literally rebuilds the body over time. The question is “What kind of nutrition built that body?”
The Global Impact of Poor Nutrition
The impact of fast foods and ultra-processed foods has had a negative effect on people’s health around the globe. Worldwide increases in health issues have been associated with the popularity of these unhealthy sources of nutrition.¹
Fast and ultra-processed foods are far removed from the sources of nutrition provided by nature. They contain too much fat, salt or sugar and are made addictively appealing with unnatural flavors, flavor enhancers, colors, emulsifiers, emulsifying salts, sweeteners or thickeners. Furthermore, to make these products alluring visually and texturally, enhancing agents are used, including those for anti-foaming, bulking, carbonating, foaming, gelling and glazing effects. Simply put, a regular diet of unnaturally altered nutrition negatively impacts people’s health.
It’s all about choices. In the end, no beneficial health outcomes result from having a steady diet of fast or ultra-processed foods. In contrast, research on the consumption of wholesome, predominantly plant-based foods and minimally processed foods continues to show a positive impact on body health.
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¹ doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2023-077310
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