Risk of Unhealthy Eating

As a teen, most of us do not even care if we are eating right, or begin to understand the implications of poor eating habits. As we age, however, do we begin to notice the effects of improper exercise, poor eating habits, and how they affect our health. Today, as the baby boomers begin their retirement years, health concerns and issues are on the rise. These aging boomers are more concerned than any previous generations about their good health, their ability to keep their good health, and how their diet affects their health. You do not have to be a doctor to understand the relationship between too much food consumption of health and disorders. You simply have to look around at a nation approaching epidemic obesity to understand what happens when you over consume in general. One a smaller scale we wonder about the consumption of just over certain kinds of foods? What happens when you overdo sweet in the department? There are all kinds of issues related to health over consumption of sugar. Diabetes would be the number one health concern. But, diabetes is not only the ill effect from over consumption of sugar. Obesity, thyroid dysfunction, kidney malfunction, and intestinal problems can be directly associated with too much sugar consumption. What about too much alcohol? The ravaging effects of alcoholism are a continual struggle and medical expense to many companies and citizens in this country, and indeed the whole world. Lost youth, liver problems, brain deterioration, speeding the other of age-related diseases are side affects all too much of alcohol consumption. Then, we can talk about the effects of too little food consumption. What happens when we do not consume what we need to maintain our health? Gum diseases, heart disease, muscle deterioration, vision loss and anorexia occur when we do not get the necessary food our body needs. Even when we consume not enough actual food, we can supplement the vitamins and minerals our bodies need in order to maintain some healthy functioning. You only have to walk down the aisle at your local supermarket to discover that there has been a vitamin revolution. Every possible vitamin and mineral needed by the body is available in capsule, pill, tablet, or powder form Once your body has reached the point of unhealthy functioning, or you have placed such a strain on the body from over consumption that one of the related diseases has taken hold, it's almost impossible to correct one problem without creating another. Once you have become a diabetic, there are so many complications, that simply choose to diet and exercise is no longer an option. The health concerns you now have far outweigh the easy solution of diet and exercise. Can you begin to see how important maintaining your health is to your quality of life? How it is important to the quality of your spouses' and children's lives? Your choices directly affect their lives with situations. You should make every effort to keep your health, not you owe it to your family, if not yourself?