Health and Fitness Tips

Health and Fitness Tips - Unhealthy foods are more dangerous if you are obese:


Apart from contributing to weight gain, meals that are high in fat and carbohydrates have negative short-term effects on the body's chemistry. But new research shows that these harmful effects are far greater if you are overweight.


Here is a typical fast food menu: large hamburger, large fries, large coke and apple pie. (Total damage: 1800 calories (kcal).



Not surprisingly, the fast food meal causes an increase in oxidative stress and inflammatory markers in both groups. But three hours later, when levels had returned to normal the normal weight people, levels continued to climb in the obese group.



This kind of food isn't exactly healthy for anyone. But obese people already suffer from increased oxidative damage and inflammatory stress - which increases their risk of heart disease and diabetes. Plus the damage from eating a single fast food meal is greater and lasts longer if you are obese than if you are normal weight. (And you're not going to remain "normal weight" for long if you regularly consume 1800-calorie meals.)

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