People today are now being developed in delicious food. Not in nutritious food. It is true that parents forget the true love for their children because any demand of their children when it comes to food they really give even instantly. But is that really the right love? It should be when we give love to our children of whatever they wanted in terms of their health we must be wise? Is it true that giving love to our children although not necessarily require and it’s not healthy? Should we parents follow what should be and we are more aware than them? But depressing to know when parents have no knowledge about healthy food. Maybe we know but we just ignore it. Isn’t it?
While often delicious at the moment, fast food has a long-lasting impact on our overall health—from our nutritional intake to how we manage weight gain. Though treating yourself to a salty, fatty, carb-heavy meal once in a blue moon isn't a big deal, consistent consumption of these foods can cause issues. There are many dangers of having lunch or dinner frequently at your local drive-thru, but the biggest one is simple: fast food can mean fast calorie says Keith-Thomas Ayoob, EdD, RD,FAND the associate clinical profession emeritus for the department of pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. As he explains, fast food meals tend to be high in three things that most people already eat in excess: fat, salt, and sugar perhaps the least complex way to consume calorie on any given day. It tracks, then, that the burger-and-fries diet can't be "good"— it's simply too easy. This is more than just hearsay or a hunch, though. Studies have warned about the negative effects fast food has on the brain, and mental health, and we've written extensively about the negative effects a quick fast-food meal can have on all parts of your body, from your skin to your waistline. In today's especially infection-averse world, it makes sense to consider how fast food might affect another aspect of a person's well-being: the immune system. We dissected a couple of compelling studies on the topic and found that, yes, fast food is ultimately harmful to the immune system.
In 2018, the University of Bonn ran a now-somewhat-iconic study exploring fast food and the immune system. They placed a group of mice on what they determined to be a "Western" diet: high in fat, high in sugar, and low in fiber. Essentially, a model for fast-food "nutrition." After one month, they found that the animals' immune systems were having an interesting reaction. They'd "developed a strong inflammatory response throughout the body." The study compared this response to the way your immune system would react after being infected with "dangerous bacteria." Also, did you know? Fast food can be as addictive as this Illegal Drugs. Over time, fast food makes your immune system more aggressive. The longer a body is exposed to unhealthy food, the more aggressive the immune system will become. This sounds like it might be a good thing—who wouldn't want a powerful immune system that's ready to go to bat? But that system isn't meant to be in a constant state of intense activation, and when it is, it completely reprograms.
The immune system doesn't regulate when the fast-food intake stops. The study went on to show that once the immune system develops this response to fast food, there's no turning back. When the mice returned to their low-fat diets (i.e., "quit fast food"), their inflammation levels did drop, but the way their immune cells had been reprogrammed stayed the same. "It has only recently been discovered that the innate immune system has a form of memory," said professor Dr. Eicke Latz, director of the Institute for Innate Immunity of the University of Bonn, in response to the study. "After an infection, the body's defenses remain in a kind of alarm state, so that they can respond more quickly to a new attack... These long-term changes may be involved in the development of arteriosclerosis and diabetes, diseases linked to Western diet consumption," reads the statement on the study. So while we always knew fast food was unhealthy, the way it messes with your immune system could make it even more dangerous than expected.
Fast food could make your immune system weaker. Few studies have shown a connection between high sugar consumption and a suppressed immune system. Considering fast food is largely sugar and refined carbohydrates, which your body processes as sugar, there is an argument that your trip to the drive-through could actually be weakening your immune system. One doctor stated in an article published by Piedmont Healthcare, "the next time you reach for junk food, realize that you not only are affecting your weight, but you may be letting down your resistance to bacteria, viruses, and parasites." Either way, the connection between fast food and your immune system is clear: the happy meal does not make you happy.
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