Proper Nutrition as One of the Factors in Alleviating Asthma Symptoms

Does anyone know how many people die every year from cardiovascular disease? The answer is 17 million people. That is an average of four jumbo jets crashing every hour, every day for every year. You can learn more facts and statistics about the unhealthy habits of humans in the movie What the Health. This documentary is informative because it follows the stories of people with health problems associated with the unhealthy foods being consumed. It informs the audience about the health status of Americans, and the correlation between food and health; and it keeps the attention of the audience by giving a lot of facts about the corporations, as well as their part of feeding consumers false information about what’s inside the foods that makes it so unhealthy.

In the documentary “What the Health”, the story follows numerous individuals with medical issues brought about from unhealthy eating habits, and it gives representation on how it has affected their lives for the worse. The documentary follows the story of Amy Resnick who went to her doctor for her asthma. While there, Amy had to get blood work done to test the proteins in her body. The test showed that she was to have a heart attack within the next 30 days. The doctor prescribed multiple medications to relieve asthma, stress, and pain. But after a few weeks of eating healthy foods, Amy claimed that she could not only get off her medicines, but she could breathe normally, and was now lowering her risk for a heart attack. In another case followed in this document, Jane Chapman was also given a lot of medications for various medical conditions like pain. Jane was diagnosed with weak bones, she could hardly walk and was basically immobile. But after she too committed to the belief of changing her diet and getting off of her prescriptions, she claimed that she was no longer sick.   

Also in this documentary Kip Anderson researches the correlation between foods and health. In his search to the truth, he discovers that chicken is the leading cause in high cholesterol. He points out that the reason some foods are so unhealthy, such as: processed meats, dairy products, and fish, is because it leaves fats behind in blood vessels, resulting in clogged arteries over time. Anderson also tried to research and gather statistics of diabetes in the American population, considering that America lead the world in diabetes. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention predicted that “In the Next 25 years, one out of three Americans will have diabetes”(CDC) and that the number of Americans with diabetes is calculated to either double or triple by the year 2050. “Studies have shown that bacon and sausage rank up with cigarettes and asbestos in carcinogen items to humans.” Aubrey, Allison'Bad day for bacon: Processed Meats Cause Cancer WHO Says'. npr: the salt. Oct. 2015'Carcinogenicity of consumption of red and processed meat'. The Lancet Oncology. Vol. 16. 2015 'IARC Monographs evaluate consumption of red meat and processed meat'. World Health Organization International Agency for Research on Cancer. PRESS RELEASE N.240. Oct. 2015. In the document it said that if a child is diagnosed with diabetes, that child will have nineteen years taken off their lifespan. If a human eats one serving of processed meat a day their chances of getting diabetes increase by 51%. Another statistic showed that one egg a day equaled five cigarettes.

On the other hand, the big corporations such as the American Cancer Society, American Diabetes Association, and the American Heart Association have a lot of control about what foods are put on the markets. As all three of these organizations fund companies in the meat and dairy industry. All three of these organizations refused to discuss the real problem of the correlation of diet and diseases. American Diabetes Association diabetes diet and meal plan recommends foods associated with causing diabetes. 'Recipes for Healthy Living: All of Our Recipes'. American Diabetes Association.“ “USDA admitted that eggs cannot legally be labeled: nutritious, low fat, part of a balanced diet, low calorie, healthful, healthy, good for you, or safe.” Greger, M.D., Michael 'Eggs & Cholesterol: Patently False and Misleading Claims'. Volume 13. July 3rd, 2013.” “American Cancer Society, American Diabetes Association and American Heart Association are accepting millions of dollars from pharmaceutical companies” 'Honoring People Who Are Making A Difference: Corporations'. American Cancer Society'Our Corporate Supporters: Banting Cirlce Supporters'. American Diabetes Association'Sponsor Thank You'. American Heart Association” This means that the pharmaceutical companies are paying these health corporations to not exploit the unhealthiness of their products to the public.  

So, the real question is who can you trust? The health organizations fund the food industry, most of the foods are being labeled as cancer or diabetes causing agents, and pharmaceutical companies are avoiding the problems of curing diseases instead they only work on curing the symptoms. In my opinion from watching the movie everything you eat is going to have something that is unhealthy to the body. What needs to be done to prevent these heart diseases, cancer, and diabetes is to eat good portions of food with an equal amount of exercises, especially cardio workouts.

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