FOOD SOURCES OF DISEASE

Many diseases can occur due to unhealthy eating patterns. Many people suffer from unhealthy eating patterns, and their suffering can actually be avoided if only they choose the right foods. Meat as a source of disease has long been known to mankind. Most animals are carriers of disease which is transmissible to humans. Among the 200 kinds of diseases, more than 100 kinds of diseases can be transmitted from animals to humans. Although some of these diseases can be cured, but also many diseases that lead to death.

Generally each state has a special body to regulate animal slaughter procedures, to assess which animals deserve to be slaughtered and the meat sold in the market. Animals with the disease, by itself is not permitted in circulation in the market. However, in reality it is not always the case. Especially meat imported from another country into our country, which is less stringent in penyembelihannya supervision.

You can imagine yourself, if an animal containing the disease, the disease is not mean only on certain body parts, but to the entire body of the animal. Although the animal's body parts have been removed, this does not mean the disease has also been lost.

What about the situation in developing countries? With loose supervision of the slaughter of animals, often causing the situation to get worse. Could be when he found a diseased animal, it quickly before the animal was dead, then brought to the slaughter, so as not to lose money. And it turns out that diseased meat that's what you often encounter and in buying in the market. As a result you have invited to your body's own disease.

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Proteins Food

Benefits of Proteins Food for Human Body

Protein is one of the most important elements for human body because it serves as the structural proteins that build and guide the development of the human body from childhood to adulthood and make human beings unique creature it is today. And the need for protein can be met by consuming various types of proteins food

Proteins food is food that contain lots of protein, where the protein is a source of nitrogen in the human body. Proteins break down food into nutrients that can be used in the cell. As an anti-body, and protects the body from various kinds of diseases. Amino acids in the proteins are useful in helping the body tissue formation.

Consumption of proteins food in the right amount can help the body to remain healthy and there are many types of protein foods that can be consumed and some of them are

Seafood is a lot of foods containing protein because seafood contains a lot of omega3 fatty acids are known to have a positive impact on heart health. This also can reduce the risk of coronary heart disease, lower triglycerides, and lower cholesterol, prevent blood clotting, and lower blood pressure

Cheese, milk, yogurt is a proteins food that also contain calcium which is useful to prevent osteoporosis, maintain strong bones and teeth as well as improving weight loss.

Other food proteins exist is egg where the egg is one type of protein foods that are cheaper and can be enjoyed safely every day by adults

Tofu or Soy is a source of proteins food that can be consumed every day, this type of protein foods can reduce the risk of heart disease, help lower cholesterol and help prevent low-fat diet programs work better with a blend of protein foods such as tofu or soy foods

Grams of lean beef has only one more saturated fat than a skinless chicken breast. Lean meat as a source of protein also contains various minerals is good for the health of the body such as vitamin B12, iron, and zinc

Proteins food can be prepared in various ways such as baked, steamed, boiled, fried, but if you are in a diet program, it is necessary to avoid fried for foods protein so that your diet programs can run with more optimal

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Have Seed Oils Caused a Multi-Generational Obesity Epidemic?

In 2006, Drs. Gerard Ailhaud and Philippe Guesnet hypothesized that industrial seed oils such as corn, soybean, safflower, sunflower and cottonseed oil are at least partially responsible for the current obesity epidemic (1). These oils were not a significant part of the human diet until very recently, yet they have been promoted due to their supposed ability to prevent cardiovascular disease. The Western world has been living a massive uncontrolled experiment ever since.

Linoleic acid is an omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) that makes up a large proportion of seed oils. It's a very bioactive molecule, in part because it's the precursor of two classes of signaling molecules (eicosanoids and endocannabinoids), some of which influence the development of fat tissue and regulate appetite.

Dr. Ailhaud and his colleagues pointed out that not only are people eating far more linoleic acid than ever before; that very same linoleic acid is accumulating in our fat tissue and showing up in breast milk. Here are a few graphs to illustrate the point. The first graph is of PUFA consumption in the US over the last century, primarily reflecting seed oil intake (based on USDA food disappearance records):

Here's a graph of added fat intake based on USDA data. Added animal fats such as butter and lard have remained stable since 1970 (although total animal fat intake has declined), while seed oil consumption has gone from high to higher:

The following graph shows linoleic acid accumulation in human body fat over the last few decades in Western nations (mostly the US). I put this together based on two references (2, 3). I didn't find any data from the US past 1986. Linoleic acid, unlike most other fatty acids, accumulates disproportionately in body fat (4):

And finally, linoleic acid in the breast milk of US mothers, from Dr. Ailhaud's 2006 paper (the black dots):

In 2009, Dr. Ingeborg Hanbauer published a paper showing that when mice are fed a diet with a poor omega-6:3 balance (77:1), after three generations they develop adult obesity (5). Mice fed the same diet with a better omega-6:3 balance (9.5:1) did not develop obesity, and remained smaller overall. This shows that PUFA imbalance can cause multi-generational effects resulting in obesity and excessive tissue growth. Cmdr. Joseph Hibbeln, a collaborator of Dr. Bill Lands, was an author. The thing I don't like about this paper is they didn't quantify the obesity by measuring fat mass, so we have to take the authors' word that they had more fat.

This week, Dr. Florence Massiera and collaborators published a similar paper titled “A Western-like fat diet is sufficient to induce a gradual enhancement in fat mass over generations” (6). Drs. Ailhaud and Guesnet were both on this paper. They showed that a 35% fat diet with an omega-6:3 ratio of 28 caused obesity that progressively increased over four generations of mice. Although this study was more detailed than the study by Dr. Hanbauer and colleagues, it lacked a comparison group with a more favorable omega-6:3 balance to show that the obesity was specifically the result of omega-6:3 imbalance, rather than the fact that the diet was higher in fat overall or some other aspect of its composition.

Both studies have serious problems. Nevertheless, together they suggest that PUFA imbalance is capable of causing obesity in mice that worsens over several generations.

If this is true in humans, it would be a straightforward explanation for the obesity epidemic that has plagued the Western world in recent decades. It would explain why the epidemic began in children around 1970, but didn’t show up in adults until about 1980. It would explain why the epidemic is less severe in Europe, and even less so in Asia. And of course, it correlates well with trends in seed oil consumption. This graph is based on US NHANES survey data:

We already know that a number of prenatal factors can have an effect on adult body fat levels in rodents, and observational studies have suggested that the same may apply to humans. If a mother’s body fat is full of linoleic acid, she will pass it on to the fetus as it grows, and after birth in breast milk, influencing its development.

As long-time followers of Whole Health Source know, I suspect industrial seed oils contribute to many of our modern ills. I can’t say for sure that seed oils are responsible for the current obesity epidemic, but the evidence certainly gives me pause. In any case, seed oils are an unnatural part of the human diet and it won’t hurt anyone to avoid them. The half-life of linoleic acid in fat tissue is about two years, so reducing it is a long-term prospect.

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