Food and Diseases (Part 1)

Food and drink which can lead to health problems..


Assalamualaikum.
I want to share certain diseases which is caused by, or associated with food.Diseases occur when there is imbalance in the food intake;certain food is taken excessively or less than requirement, and also when the ingredients are harmful to the health.


Some of them are:

1)Sweet food, rich in Sugar/Carbohydrate: Diabetes mellitus and Obesity


2)Salty food: Hypertension


3)Salted or smoked food, pickled vegetables: Stomach cancer, Esophageal cancer


4)Cholesterol, oily, high fat-diet: Obesity, atherosclerosis and hypertension, heart diseases, prostate cancer

5)Lacking dietary fibre,more refined sugar: Colon cancer


6)Food rich in animal fat (red meat): Colon, breast, prostate cancer


7)Goitrogenic food(rich in iodine) or poor iodine intake: Goitre (hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism)


8)Diet lacking calcium, vitamin D: Ricket, osteoporosis, osteomalacia


9)Meat and seafood: Gouty arthritis


10)Sodium nitrite (and nitrates), as in processed food-: Cancer risk


11)Hydrogenated oils: Cancer risk


12)Alcohol drink: Alcoholic liver diseases, Chronic Pancretitis, Pancreatic cancer, Cancer( Mouth, Pharynx, Larynx, Esophagus, Liver, Colon, Rectum, Breast)


So,bear in mind when consuming these types of foods.  Whenever you want to eat them as part of your daily diet, just remember what they can do for your health.  -D


to be continued..


Thank you.