Question

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How does a healthy diet reduce the risk of chronic disease? (Heart disease, high blood pressure, cancer.) Please be very specific in your answer and provide at least 3 specific examples.

Answer 1

Diet forms a major part for survival.A healthy diet will prolong life ,as the ancient people who lived before centuries whose food was very relevant to the nature and was a preventive measure for disease. The modern life has made everything faster and for financial beneficience foods have been added with preservatives, additives,food colour,packaging materials. Prolonged use of this will definitely lead to health problems which are chronic like Diabetes,Cardiovascular disease.

Example :

• A poor diet habits high in calories, fast food,high oily and fried foods will increase to the deposition of fats in the blood vessels of heart causing atherosclerosis and resulting in heart disease.
• A diet very high in salt will increase the sodium and chloride content and alter the electrolyte metabolism of the body causing high blood pressure
• The food additives causes a major health issue by changing the gene structure innthe body overtime causing the life threatening disease cancer