Friday, December 2, 2011

Fast Foods Side Effect



Fast food can have some serious long term effects on a person’s body. Some health issues are type 2 diabetes, asthma, liver disease, stroke, cardiovascular disease, and lastly cancer. Type 2 diabetes is caused by obesity and is now increasing found in children which use to be exceedingly rare. Over the past couple of years obesity is now sweeping the nation and spreading throughout the world and has become a worldwide epidemic. Diabetes can lead to other various and also severe health complications like hypertension, kidney failure, etc. Obesity is now becoming the most common cause of liver disease, surpassing both hepatitis and alcohol abuse. Liver disease is the cause of fat being built up in the liver, causing severe damage to the liver. Now that leaves the two most deadliest of health issue pertaining to fast food, cardiovascular disease and cancer. There is research that suggests that almost one-third of cancers are diet-related and it all goes back to obesity. Obesity does nothing but increase the chances of someone getting cancer all throughout the body. Just throwing a little fact out but obese women are more than three times more likely to develop uterine cancer. Cardiovascular disease is just as deadly as cancer. This disease is the cause of plaque and fat build up in the arteries that can lead to heart failure. An unhealthy diet is the leading cause of this disease, making the number cause of death, globally. This is just some insight on how things could get if you feel like you or a family member is starting to eat more and more fast food each day.


http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org/health-effects-fast-food

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