21/03/2024
Embrace self-love and holistic health while abandoning food bias.
When you eat pizza or fast food, you go through the same metabolic process as when you eat any other food. As you consume it, it travels through the esophagus, enters the stomach, and then moves into the small intestine. Nutrients are then absorbed into the bloodstream.
The calories in pizza come from a combination of protein, carbohydrates, and fat. Carbohydrates are either directly absorbed into the bloodstream or stored as glycogen in the liver, while the remaining excess is stored as fat. Fat goes to the liver, where some is burned for energy and some is stored in fat cells until needed. Protein is broken down into peptides, which become amino acids and form protein stores. Excess amino acids are either excreted or stored as body fat.
During this process, pizza typically has a higher overall calorie density, but the process is the same. Consuming an excess of calories from any food source, whether it's pizza or salad, will lead to the production of more fat cells if the calories consumed exceed the calories burned.
No single food itself will make you gain weight. A 1000-calorie pizza is equivalent to a 1000-calorie salad. Although natural foods are rich in more micronutrients and fiber to support satiety and functional health, they should form the foundation of our diet.
The harmful or beneficial effects of a food on our health depend entirely on our mental state when we eat it (or afterward), not on its metabolic pathway during a single event, which accounts for 0.0007% of the food we consume in our lifetime.
When you eat your favorite foods, stop blaming yourself; when you eat salad, stop convincing yourself that you are a better person. Instead, look at them objectively and in the context of time, and see how they fit into your overall diet.
If you eliminate false assumptions about food, all foods can support your body goals and your happiness together.
Finally, the key to weight loss is consuming fewer calories than you burn. It doesn't mean giving up on delicious food or starving yourself, but rather achieving a healthy body and ideal weight through smart choices and appropriate control.
