The phrase of Hippocrates is recognized "Let food be your best medicine and your best medicine be your food", which simply wanted to come to say "food is what will give you health." This ancient knowledge, for about two hundred years we are having "through the arc of triumph", since everything we are doing is, simply and simply, breaking our entire nutritional and metabolic system, causing all diseases and health problems In general, we suffer more and more in our days. And all by simple ignorance and neglect on our part (helped, of course, by the interests of the elite and large corporations, for which we are nothing more than cattle that have to gain weight).
For various reasons, especially from the mental control that is established in society so that we simply consume in an uncritical way, we have forgotten how important it is what we consume in our health. And that really, only what we consume affects our health (obviously there are external non-food aggressions, but I want to focus now on these others). Nutrition and health are the same thing, two aspects of the same that is manifested in the way we develop with ourselves and our environment. We have opted, in an unexpected way, for the pleasure of the taste and the full gut that for recognizing what really helps us to be healthy and what makes us sick, so that this happens to the background when it comes to the feeding. But paradoxically, then we give a fundamental importance to health, but totally disconnected from food, to which we give a merely mechanical, circumstantial importance, and of course, as one thing without the other does not make sense, health we lose and we refer it to other issues such as chemistry and commercial products, under the false promise that they will cure us of all our ills. Sad panorama, right?
Let's start with the basics. We introduce foreign elements into our body in two ways: respiratory (air) and digestive (water and nutrients). Air (oxygen), water and food nutrients are the three initial basic elements of nutrition and this is where the metabolism begins. Interestingly, the majority of the population ignores that air is involved in the metabolism, and that water is also a fundamental part of the process. In general, when talking about metabolism, the majority of the population refers to ingested food (that is, food), and these two fundamental elements are completely ignored. The air does not contain only oxygen, but other chemical molecules and large amounts of dust, impurities and microorganisms. The water in turn has three quarters of the same, since it is not only H2O, but also contains many dissolved impurities and microorganisms. In the case of air, the lungs are responsible for filtering and expelling all that excess, although some things escape the filter and get sneak. In the case of water, from the moment we ingest it, it is already being absorbed by the mucosa, and in fact, the one that reaches the colon is practically residual, and a good amount is in fact absorbed by the colon. Both air and water pass directly to the circulatory system and are used by the body directly, but not solid food, which must pass many intermediate processes to be usable by the body. From the beginning, with chewing, a large number of chemical processes begin to occur that lead to an initial degradation of the food that allows its processing in the rest of the digestive system more easily. In addition, saliva is a very potent antibacterial, and allows to eliminate a good part of the unwanted elements before going to the stomach. Here we make the first mistakes: the salivary substances that are produced to process vegetables are not the same as those of meat and fish. In our usual diet, we usually mix these foods in a totally unexpected way, without understanding that their mixture will lead us to the stomach generate different juices for each food and when mixed, many of them cancel each other out and do not get to perform their functions well, making homeless meals among other subsequent consequences. Thus, many times food arrives unprocessed properly in the mouth (the habit that our grandmothers crushed us to chew well is undoubtedly one of the best advice we could receive from our ancestors), and generate stomach problems that end up extending to the intestine.
Here we have to make a subsection. The meat. Without getting into the discussion of good-bad (I want to elaborate on that another day), there are accomplished facts about this food that we should consider before introducing it into the diet. First, like sugars and refined flours, as well as milk, it is a very acidic product, and that acidity will reach the blood. But in addition to that acidity resulting from processing (something that should never be forgotten is that the metabolism itself is a highly acidic process, which leads us to the conclusion that to alleviate that acidity inherent in metabolic processes, we should consume the products more alkaline possible, since the blood must be slightly more alkaline than acidic to function properly), we find another problem for the elderly and that is generating another growing industry in medicine: specialists in the world of the colon or large intestine. One thing must be understood: our body is not accustomed to processing meat. As much as they tell us otherwise, the evidence is there: of the meat we consume, we only process and absorb proteins and fats. The rest of the food becomes waste and is expelled through the colon (that is, we are saying that only a very small percentage of the meat is actually taken advantage of, and the rest, mainly muscle fibers, are expelled). This leads us to think about the route of that meat through the colon, both the thin and the thick, and we see that once it reaches the final part of the colon, this meat remains attached to the intestinal walls (due to a systemic lack of fiber) and can stay there for days. This basically causes two problems: first, constipation, a symptom that should already tell us that something is wrong, and second, that these wastes, although the mental image can disgust us, break down in the colon and in fact, literally rot within U.S. But of course, the problem itself is not that: the colon or large intestine is super-absorbent, that is, try to “suck” everything it contains to take advantage of every minimal element that can be useful for nutrition, with such bad luck, Of course, it does not discriminate in what it absorbs, and it also absorbs that rotten meat attached to the colon. The toxins generated by the decomposition are absorbed and pass directly into the bloodstream, acidifying and dirtying our blood. This effect can be partially mitigated with the adequate intake of food fiber, which we do not do, since our consumption of fruits and vegetables is scarce or zero. A big mistake is to peel the fruits or remove the filaments (like oranges) from the fruit, which contain huge amounts of natural fiber that protect us from this problem. The bread almost does not contain fiber, and although whole wheat bread contains enough fiber, the problem is that it also causes acidification, such as white bread, since they are processed and very refined flours.
You have been able to verify with small examples that only as we behave at a general level is in itself very harmful for us and our organism. We have stopped in the stomach before but it is not necessary to continue: as the processes that have taken place in the mouth and stomach are already vitiated, the rest of the food path during its processing will do nothing but abound in the vices: the The liver has to work twice as much to achieve the same, as does the gallbladder, and the pancreas, in addition to the work it has to do with what comes from the stomach, has another problem for the elderly: in a healthy individual, it produces insulin, which is the hormone that allows you to manage and transport blood sugars. Glucose, as such, is a poisonous product in the blood, and if it is not for insulin, it is impossible for the body to process it normally. But since we are eating sugar all day long, we are constantly producing insulin (the famous “midnight morning bug” is nothing more than a drop in blood insulin that generates a nervous system response in the form of hunger, although in reality our body it does not need more food), and that has an effect that is becoming a plague of our time: the onset of diabetes or type 2, usually given among the population of obese people. Why? Simply because our body cannot tolerate so much insulin in the blood and there comes a time when cells simply stop responding to insulin. Thus, the pancreas atrophies and stops producing insulin, so the sugars are not processed and contaminate the blood until syncope occurs. Everything collapses and pain and disease arise. Although from time to time we can “pamper ourselves”, that does not mean that we can consume refined sugars constantly all day, every day. We must consider the possibility of eliminating these sugars from our diet permanently or reducing it at least up to 10% or less of our caloric intake, since in addition, sugars, unlike fats and proteins, do not fulfill any other function. beyond being consumed by the cells, so that for practical purposes, they can be replaced correctly by those other substances. Yes, it is true that they are a cheap source of heat, and fast, but the advantages are not enough to excuse their consumption. Rather the cons are more important and serious than the benefits.
Another of the great victims of our modern way of eating is fat. They have been blamed for being the cause of obesity and the most serious metabolic diseases of our day, such as coronary heart disease. But we have to get it out of our head: fat (and the famous cholesterol, as we will see now) are not the cause of these problems. Paranoia with obesity has reached the point that it is beginning to be considered a disease (Experts ask that obesity be declared a disease), when it is only a symptom of a metabolic disease that It comes from sugars. Broadly speaking, fat accumulates in adipose tissue (cells that we have naturally and that grow in number because it is necessary to accumulate more fat, but when we stop having that fat they do not disappear, which is why obese people who manage to remove their fat by whatever method they continue to look somewhat like `` chubby '') because at that time the body is left over, but stored in anticipation n from later moments of famine. Of course, in our modern world most of us will never go hungry, so that fat is permanently there for the simple reason that our body is constantly being bombarded by sugars that they meet the body's caloric needs throughout the day. But of course, if we only took sugars we would not accumulate fat, would we? The problem is that with these sugars we consume large amounts of hydrogen fats (that is, basically fats that have burned so much to become carbohydrates, of which glucose is one of its forms ), much worse than conventional sugars. But since they are an intermediate state between fats and sugars, they accumulate as if they were partially fat, and of course, the rest of real fats that we consume (oils and animal fat fundamentally) accumulate mercilessly in adipose tissue. You can easily understand what I mean: fat as such does not generate obesity, but that its accumulation is due to the simple fact that we eat so badly that instead of spending everything we eat, we accumulate it improperly because our body is already satisfied with sugars. And if we only consume sugars, great (although now we will see that it is not like that), but since it is not, we have the problem served in a silver tray. And what about the famous cholesterol. When doctors tell you to eliminate it, or they are dumb or heartless championship. Cholesterol is a substance, such as insulin, that plays a crucial role: transporting fats in the blood. Fats, like hydrates, cannot travel through the blood without more. They have to do it in a suitable means of transport (proteins are the only ones that do not need a means of transport). There are two types of fats: saturated and unsaturated. Saturated fats are called that because they are very complex in their chemical composition (especially of certain chemical factors), and are transported by the so-called low cholesterol (which is popularly called "bad"), and the unsaturated are transported by another called high cholesterol (or "good" as they say there). The difference between the two is that low cholesterol causes that if it saturates in the blood, it accumulates in certain parts causing mainly arteriosclerosis (that is, hardening of the arteries), which causes various problems that can lead to a state of poor health and death. That is why we are supposed to have low levels of this cholesterol. Plaster is achieved in two ways: by consuming few saturated fats or by chemical attack, attacking cholesterol directly through other substances. The first case, the healthiest, tells us to consume less meat (where most saturated fats come from) and more fish and vegetable oils, mostly unsaturated. In addition, the unsaturated ones are very suitable for a whole series of things, such as for the chemical processes in the organism and the coating of the neuronal axons, for example. But that does not mean that we should put aside saturated fats, as they are an irreplaceable source of energy and contain much more energy than unsaturated fats and sugars. Although yes, there is no real need to consume them to be well and healthy. Another thing is certain: if our physical activity required to consume them, instead of being so sedentary and desidious, most of these problems would never appear, since these fats do not accumulate and therefore do not cause the very serious problems to which we we refer In the second case, trying to reduce cholesterol by chemical means, as you can imagine, is a stupidity of maximum degree: by dissolving the cholesterol that transports saturated fats, we are making those fats free and not processed, causing long term worse problems (that is, the logical thing is that if we consume that type of substances, we stop consuming saturated fats ...).
Proteins are also an element to consider. There are literally dozens of different proteins of very different origins, including those that we generate ourselves, and the proteins are fundamentally converted into sugars and amino acids, and acidify the blood. But we need them, since they are used among other things to build the organism (they are the bricks of the body), apart from being able to synthesize other substances that we also need, especially at the cellular level. Proteins are used both for the creation of new cells and for performing their internal functions, in addition to facilitating mitosis among other basic functions. But that does not mean that we should "prime" proteins. They are highly acidic, and their excess generates blood contamination, because as in the rest of the substances we have mentioned, the excess of proteins is not metabolized, but unlike fats, they do not accumulate anywhere. The body will try to use them in all possible ways, but if it is not possible, or necessary, they should be expelled. If they are not expelled properly (the endrocrine system is essential in the metabolism, although it is necessary to dedicate a chapter only to it), its accumulation in the blood generates various problems such as gout and filtering problems in the kidneys and liver. Hyper-protein diets must themselves be the only food to eat, because excess protein must somehow be converted into sugars so that they do not accumulate in the blood. Necessarily should not be consumed extra hydrates or fats, since these will be used first before proteins as food. But we need fats to perform many internal functions in addition to burning them, such as neuronal coatings and gallbladder, in addition to many processes that require fatty acids to function properly, at the cellular level. The long-term consequences of a protein diet can be dangerous and in fact, abandoning such a diet usually ends in obesity since the metabolism no longer tolerates the intake of the other substances well (it is not uncommon for muscular athletes who have followed this type of diets end up encountering serious weight problems after leaving active sports life).
With this I close for now the metabolism of food and its influence on our health. We must understand that what we introduce into our body is not only rich but it affects every second of our existence and conditions our life in many different ways. The minor illnesses and discomforts that we suffer on a daily basis are a direct or indirect consequence of improper use of food and its combination inside. In addition, the consequences are complicated by the fact that each of us is unique in every way and our chemists are different. We must know our bodies and understand how food affects our development and vital course. Our happiness and those around us (and a long and healthy life) depend on it.
Source: http://revolucioninterior.wordpress.com/2013/07/15/nuestro-alimento-es-nuestra-medicina-i/
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