How are - calories, cholesterol, sugar, fat - Diabetes, BP, overweight connected. Kindly explain in a layman's language.
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Everything are connected with the metabolism and hormones. If want you to give example. When we filling 100 litres tank, once its capacity is over and filling more and more. What will happen. Like this when any calories exceed it will store in body. Eventually all other process should go for extra work, than damages start naturally.
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If the level of sugar, cholesterol and fat increases in the body the risk of developing these diseases automatically elevate.
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Hello, Thanks for the query. Your question has too many sub questions. The answer is not easy. I will try. Our main food is carbohydrate like (rice, roti, chapati, potato, banana, sweet potato, corn, rag, other millets like bajra) all contain mainly starch. This is converted to glucose in the intestine after digestion. Secondly proteins (in pulses, soya beans and eggs, non vegetarian foods) plus fats (oils, ghee, butter etc) are called as energy giving foods. Because 1 gram of carbohydrate when chemically burnt in the body gives 4 kilo calories, 1 g of protein gives 4.1 k calories and fat gives 9 k cals. So when we take food we get calories based on the quantity that we take. Plus our body needs energy for every activity that goes on likre respiration, heart function, digestion, kidney functions, liver functioning etc. Plus if we exercise then we need more energy. If we eat moderate quantity, then our intake meets our energy needs properly. But if we eat more, particularly more of fat and carbs, we are likely to increase weight as the calories are extra and get stored as fat. Diabetes occus due to either deficiency of insulin a hormone from pancreas (Beta cells of Langerhans) or there is resistance to its action due to excess fat in the body (being over weight) and some times both (resistance and lack of insulin). Apart from over weight inactivity is another major cause for developing diabetes. Blood pressuer tends to increase in a person who is over weight and is inactive plus takes more salt in the diet. Cholesterol is linked with excess fat intake. It can be bad for heart. Thanks.
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