In today’s fast-paced lifestyle, the use of things that can be prepared in less time has increased a lot. Due to lack of time, the use of frozen food, packed food and junk food has increased a lot among people these days. But as easily as these food items are prepared, they also harm your health at the same speed. Eating too much of these is not only increasing obesity but the risk of diseases like heart attack, cancer and diabetes is also increasing rapidly.
Use of frozen food items is increasing
The use of frozen food and packed food is increasing rapidly, especially among working people. Youngsters who are short of time and stay out of home often use such food items. Frozen food is considered bad for health as compared to fresh food prepared at home. Hydrogenated palm oil is used in frozen food that is stored for a long time, which contains harmful trans fat.
Frozen food items contain a lot of chemicals
Apart from this, frozen food contains high amount of starch and glucose. For your information, let us tell you that many types of chemicals are used to keep frozen and preserved food fresh. All these things together make frozen food and outside food with preservatives dangerous. From America to India, the craze of such food has increased rapidly in the last few years. If we talk about India, the trend of junk food and outside food has increased a lot among the youth in metro cities. There is a high risk of food infection from this type of food. Apart from this, this food harms obesity, liver, kidney, heart and every part of the body. Due to the high amount of sodium in frozen food, this food causes many problems in the body.
Excessive consumption of frozen food increases the risk of these diseases
Risk of diabetes: Starch is used to keep such frozen food fresh. This starch enhances the taste of the food but it becomes difficult to digest. By eating such food, the body converts glucose into sugar. Excess sugar increases the risk of diabetes. This also damages the body tissues.
Dangerous for the heart: Eating frozen and processed food increases the risk of heart disease. Frozen food contains high amounts of trans fat which increases the problem of clotting in arteries. Trans fat increases bad cholesterol in the body and reduces good cholesterol. This increases the risk of heart attack significantly. Also, such food contains high amount of sodium which also increases BP.
Obesity increases: Frozen food contains a lot of fat which increases obesity in the body. This type of food is said to be full of nutrients but doctors consider it a slow poison for health. The fat present in this food contains twice the calories as compared to carbohydrates or protein. If you eat 1 cup of frozen chicken, then it gives about 600 calories.
Risk of cancer: People who eat more frozen food have a very high risk of cancer. Many studies have shown that eating frozen food, especially frozen meat, increases the risk of pancreatic cancer. According to a study, eating frozen spicy non-veg, hot dogs and sauces increases the risk of cancer by 65 percent.
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