04/03/2021
THE ROLE OF FOOD IN DISEASES PREVENTION
Eating good nutritious food with disease fighting properties helps the body to fight diseases. What you eat is incredibly important in the cure and prevention of diseases. The immune system of our body is our natural defence system and the first line of defence against dis-eases before medication. We either eat to boost our body natural defences, the immune system, or eat to weaken our natural defences.
The World Health Organization has determined that dietary factors account for at least 30 percent of all cancers in Western countries and up to 20 percent in developing countries.
The following are examples of bad eating habits:
Eating too much red meat (beef, pork, lamb)
Eating foods made from refined white flour,
Sugary foods and drinks,
Saturated fat,
Processed foods, such as bacon, sausages, hot dogs, pepperoni.
Foods with added additives, etc,
The above bad foods are carcinogenic, that is causing or tending to cause cancer. Carcinogens causes body cells to mutate and become diseased. They also weaken the immune system of the body. Eating too much meat and sugary foods are bad for you. Sugar is a cancer feeder according to John Hopkins University hospital. Cancerous cells need sugar (blood glucose) to grow. Meat on the other hand requires a lot of digestive enzymes to be properly digested and that leaves fewer enzymes to attack the walls of cancerous cells so that the body killer cells can destroy them. Diseases also thrive in an acidic environment and a meat-based diet is acidic.
A 2011 study by Harvard University concluded that unprocessed meat leads to an increased risk of type 2 diabetes.
Red meat has been associated with increases in colorectal cancer, heart disease and type 2 diabetes.
These Non-infectious diseases: heart diseases, stroke and diabetes can be inherited from parents, nutritional deficiency, and from car-cinogens in processed food and the environment. The focus of this book is to tell you to stop eating this of food and to replace them with good food that has diseases fighting properties. disease. By eat-ing right, you would be able to live a much healthier life, and will not die prematurely before old age.