Eating a healthy diet can cause significant improvements in health and a huge volume of research supports this contention. However, the time period in which improvements can be seen are often slow and in some cases may take months or years to manifest. In a similar way, poor diet can also cause changes to health, but in this case the changes are detrimental. Another factor to consider is that poor diet is less likely to affect health in the young as the adaptability of the young to environmental conditions that are not optimal will always be greater than in the aged individual. This is the reason that weight gain tends to manifest itself as the age of the individual advances. Mineral and vitamin deficiencies can manifest in ill health for a short time period but suboptimal intakes cause hard to diagnose illnesses that take many decades of deterioration to become observable. Therefore whilst it is difficult to see the connection between diet and poor health, it is not possible to cheat the hangman, and inevitable consequences are ever present.
Eat Well, Stay Healthy, Protect Yourself
RdB
