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Is One Meal Enough?
Have you heard the news that eating one meal composed of fattening and non-nutritious food will begin the downward health spiral pretty quickly? Just thinking of that should make you want to shutter since it is so easy to grab a quick meal and not even think of how much damage could be occurring in your body after you eat it.
This process occurs because, to digest food, your body breaks it down into glucose (sugar), lipids (fats) and amino acids (the building blocks of protein). As soon as you polish off the last of your high-fat, high-sugar meal, the sugar causes a large spike in your blood-sugar levels called “post-prandial hyperglycemia.” Over time, high consumption of these foods can lead to higher risk of heart problems, but after you eat that meal, there are short-term effects as well, such as:
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Well there is good news to go along with the bad… every meal that you eat that is filled with good food choices, like lots of greens, fruits, and lean proteins, begins the amazing healing process that your body naturally has. Now that is refreshing, thinking that every time you eat something that is good for you, you are starting on the pathway to health.
Eating healthy foods will help to keep your blood-sugar levels even so your body doesn’t have to recover from the negative effects listed above.
The Vicious Cycle of Junk Food.
Researchers have pointed out that the more junk food, or non-nutritive food, you eat, the more your body craves it. After you eat food that doesn’t have nutrition your body can use, your digestive hormonal cycle is thrown off, like insulin production, and your body begins to make you hungry quicker in an initial attempt to get you to eat so it can get some much needed nutrients. Once you routinely miss your body’s signals to eat the good stuff, when you finally do make that change, you throw your body into a tizzy the other way. See. your body forgot how to respond to the healthy foods so now it initially responds by feeling sick! You can always recover and get back to health by eating the right foods. Watch SuperSize me the movie by Morgan Spurlock for a great documentary on this subject.
