Food and Health
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Biology 227
03/28/2014
Food and health How important is your health? Would you consider yourself a health conscious type of person, or perhaps a person who eats anything that is served? Now and days obesity is a major problem in our society, many factors may contribute to this problem but mostly is due to the food that we consume. Therefore, I would like to discuss the role of diet in our daily lifestyles, also some differences between a plant based diets versus a diet with significant amount of animal food in our health. I believe that if we nourish our body with the best foods that Mother Nature has to offer, as a result our bodies will perfume at its optimal level as how it was meant to perform. In a documentary Forks over knives, there was a good amount of information that will definitely get you thinking on what we intake to the body and the way it can do us more harm than good. A diet is what we eat, and how much we eat of it. Therefore in order to help lower our susceptibility to any serious diseases we must watch what we eat. For example, a study that was conducted in 1975 by Dr. Campbell consisted of feeding ½ of the rats in his experiment with 20% casein (Casein is a protein found in dairy products) as to feeding the other ½ of rats with 5% casein. Within the 12 weeks if his research the rats that were being feed with the 20% of casein had shown a significant increase of being prone to early tumor growth, as compared to the rats that were only feed with 5% of casein. Therefore, Dr. Campbell concluded that, “Apparently, we can turn on and off our cancer growth.” Also, if we consume a good amount of animal protein we are being prone to having early growth of cancer. Not only does food play a huge role in the way we perform in our daily lives, but genes contribute in a small portion as well. As Dr. Campbell stated, “Cancer starts with genes, either we are born with it or genes are actually changed by a chemical.” Now that
Biology 227
03/28/2014
Food and health How important is your health? Would you consider yourself a health conscious type of person, or perhaps a person who eats anything that is served? Now and days obesity is a major problem in our society, many factors may contribute to this problem but mostly is due to the food that we consume. Therefore, I would like to discuss the role of diet in our daily lifestyles, also some differences between a plant based diets versus a diet with significant amount of animal food in our health. I believe that if we nourish our body with the best foods that Mother Nature has to offer, as a result our bodies will perfume at its optimal level as how it was meant to perform. In a documentary Forks over knives, there was a good amount of information that will definitely get you thinking on what we intake to the body and the way it can do us more harm than good. A diet is what we eat, and how much we eat of it. Therefore in order to help lower our susceptibility to any serious diseases we must watch what we eat. For example, a study that was conducted in 1975 by Dr. Campbell consisted of feeding ½ of the rats in his experiment with 20% casein (Casein is a protein found in dairy products) as to feeding the other ½ of rats with 5% casein. Within the 12 weeks if his research the rats that were being feed with the 20% of casein had shown a significant increase of being prone to early tumor growth, as compared to the rats that were only feed with 5% of casein. Therefore, Dr. Campbell concluded that, “Apparently, we can turn on and off our cancer growth.” Also, if we consume a good amount of animal protein we are being prone to having early growth of cancer. Not only does food play a huge role in the way we perform in our daily lives, but genes contribute in a small portion as well. As Dr. Campbell stated, “Cancer starts with genes, either we are born with it or genes are actually changed by a chemical.” Now that