How Food Affects Our Health

Lets look at some figures about my beloved country Malaysia before we proceed further:

• 'Fattest' country in SEA, 1 in 6 Malaysian is either overweight or obese
• Death Rate related to cardiovascular system (heart related) = 25.64% (No.1 Killer in Malaysia)
• 22% adults affected by diabetes in 2012 compare to 8.6% in 2006

Just simply google with relevant key words and you will get above figures. Anyway because this is food blog so i am to further elaborate more from food points of view. 

Physically and of the basic, we need energy from foods to generate energy to fuel our daily activity. Without foods, we simply cant move and we will eventually die. But as we become 'richer', in terms of monetary, time and technology, we tend to go beyond the basic needs and that begins the bad cycles. Lets look at below pictures:

Fat, sugar, carbohydrate and unhealthy lifestyle is the main reason for
many NCD and Heart Attack is the No. 1 Killer in Malaysia. 

Above are ordinary foods/drinks that we ate almost everyday: Fried chicken, Air Bandung (Rose Syrup in condense milk), Rice. These evils are high in FAT, SUGAR and CARBOHYDRATE (unused will be turned to sugar). And if with the high intake of these evil foods without proper lifestyle, i.e. without exercise to burn off, all the evil essences will be just stored in your body, day after day, year after year. And subsequently it is not hard to imagine, one will become overweight (Body Mass Index more than 25, click here for the BMI calculator to check your figure)

When one became overweight, health issues follow. Non-Communicable-Disease (NCD) such as stroke, heart attack, diabetic starts from unbalance diet (such as above example) and unhealthy life style (no exercise regularly) and that explained a phrase which you might long heard of "You are what you eat". I'm strong believer of this statement because your digestive system will just absorb anything you eat in and eventually reflected in your health. 

So what do we do? Execute a balanced diet and exercise regularly seems to be the only answer. Read from my another post "5 ways to eat Healthy" for some more tips.