How to prevent obesity
By Tess Morgan.
New Zealand is a little green bean on the world map, yet we are capable of so many brilliant things, like our rugby, equestrian, and many more of our achievements. Although there is one thing that around 30% of New Zealanders do struggle with, a particular part is obesity, and eating healthy. A study of obesity scales showed that New Zealand is currently third in the world ranking, and rapidly moving up this chart to the brink of becoming second. Do we really want this for our nation? Do we want to be known for our obesity and eating problems for such a small country compared to the US whom which is in first place? If we go all the way back to what we genuinely eat and embed into our blood and bodies, this is how the problem of obesity and numerous types of diabetes has all started. Thankfully, It’s not too late to change our concrete ways, to have a greater wellbeing, to eat nutrient-filled foods for the sake of ourselves, as well as the benefit of our country.
Figuring out about the many ways a healthier diet can decrease the chance of disease, incorporating fruit and vegetables into meals, how overindulgence of unhealthy foods can affect your immune system and eating enough probiotics and prebiotics is the first step to living a advantageous, beneficial life.
Decreasing Diseases with natural fruits and Vegetables
To begin, Fruit and vegetables decrease the chance of many diseases, like heart disease, high blood pressure and some cancers. Cancer is like a severe battleground and without acting fast, cancer can be deadly. With so many categories of this horrible sickness we have to make sure we have the right balance in the foods we eat. Without the nutrition in fruit and vegetables, blood pressure can rise and the risk of cancers will ultimately have a much higher chance to overcome your body. Although, if you’re eating a variety of different colours of vegetables and fruits full of many different vitamins; your health can change dramatically. Instead of feeling tired and grumpy, you will have much more energy to do things you’d love to do; as well as feeling much better with yourself and your immune system. There are many fabulous ways to involve vegetables into a meal.
Involving vegetables into everyday meals
Secondly, a great way to incorporate vegetables into your diet is to merge it into different meals to add hints of flavour. In addition to a great taste from the delicious colours in your meal, there is many healthy outcomes in vegetables like fibre for a nourished gut biome, many vitamins like L-ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) and potassium to help lower blood pressure, to sustain a full, healthy lifestyle. Vitamin C is found in various amounts of fruits like mandarins and oranges, as it is great to heal inflamed tissue in numerous parts of the body and; to provide help to fight bugs. With all of this goodness involved in your once unhealthy dinner, your meal has now changed to be an enriched supper with wholesome goodness to help your immune system.
In turn, if you are eating the wrong foods it affects our bodies immune system dramatically. Our immune system is like an individual living person, if we give it the wrong food, then it effects how our immune system works. If you continue to feed your immune system unnatural meals and snacks, the immune system will getting weaker; making you feel weaker. The more someone eats unnatural sugar and fat, this unhealthy menace adds itself into the blood providing you with an energy rush or a sugar ‘high’. Once this energy rush has finished, it will leave you feeling bloated, tired and craving for more sugar to have that sugar ‘high’ again. If you let this go on and on, short term may be fine, but this lifestyle will affect your long term life and influence the future ahead; leaving you to high blood pressure, the risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes. Another way to dodge these destructive illnesses is to regularly involve your diet with prebiotics and probiotics.
How prebiotics and probiotics can help
To conclude, Prebiotics and probiotics are soldiers, fighting back against bad bacteria. These two are commonly mistaken for a spelling error although they are two different things altogether. Prebiotics are found in plenty of vegetables and fruits; they also provide help and feed the good bacteria called probiotics. These are found in many dairy products as well as fruit and vegetables. These two bacterias play a huge part in gut health, and absorbing nutrients from foods you eat. If you aren't eating enough of these bacterias, your body won’t have a balanced diet and your colon, skin and gut will be full of substandard bacteria.
In the end
Overall, 30% of our nation is obese and suffering the consequences including children, males and females, this makes us third, in the world obesity rate. We have so many options to choose fruit over deep fried chips, vegetables over a chocolate chip biscuit and providing our gut with natural and healthy bacteria. Do we really want to represent our ‘proud’ country as obese, unhealthy humans? I wouldn’t.
