Unhealthy Eating Habits

Are you guilty of unhealthy eating habits? If you are, are you aware that they can also be symptoms of eating disorders? They greatly affect your food choices. They can even be leading causes of colon cancer, other types and diseases as well.

Look inside your refrigerator or your pantry. Do you see unhealthy foods that cause cancer? More often than not, unhealthy foods are bought or are eaten because of unsound eating habits.

List of Symptoms of Eating Disorders

This is an eating habit many busy people are guilty of. Skipping meals, particularly breakfast, messes up your metabolism and blood sugar levels.

Your metabolic rate may decrease as much as 10-15% and your blood sugar level dips.

Why is this a no-no? Because when your blood sugar is way too low, you will crave for a quick fix which may be a bar of chocolate, a bag of chips, or a burger. Such types of food are unhealthy.

Binging

This unhealthy eating habit is an effect of skipping a meal. Skipping a meal makes you really hungry, so when you do go to eat your next meal, you'll probably end up overeating and even, eating anything.

If you skip meals, you also tend to snack more on fatty snack foods like chips, pizza or cookies.

Starving

Some people think starving themselves is an effective way to lose weight. What they are not aware of is it simply doesn't work that way.

When you starve yourself, your body holds on to fat and burns your lean muscle for energy instead, and so, the fat stays. Worse is just like when you skip a meal, starving makes you hungrier and prone to overeating.

Eating right before bedtime

If you eat fatty foods before going to bed, the fats you just ate will slow down the emptying of your stomach and if you eat this way all the time, it may lead to chronic indigestion.

A diet that has red meat as a major part is what causes colon cancer to start.

Eating more of fast foods or ready-to-eat foods

Examples of ready-to-eat foods are canned or processed. Fast foods are laden with saturated fats while those which are canned or processed are filled with nitrites and sodium.

When you eat more of these frequently then you are assured of an unhealthy body. These are foods that are leading causes of colon cancer.

Choosing unhealthy foods over healthy ones is always a result of unhealthy eating. It may lead to being overweight or obesity.

There are many diseases associated with obesity such as heart diseases and even cancer. Do you want to know more about how obesity causes the disease? Read about it in cancer and obesity.

Unhealthy foods such as french fries are usually cancer causing foods.

The link between diet and cancer may not be as clear-cut as the link between tobacco and cancer but no less than the World Cancer Research Fund International believes that "prevention and control of cancer are possible by means of healthy food and nutrition, physical activity and weight management".

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