Various threats to health are found in everyday foods ranging from sugar, salt, bad fats. Each requires a different time to cause damage ranging from a matter of seconds to minutes.
Damage to certain parts of the body can occur within hours, even minutes. Materials are usually consumed each day through food and drinks will cause damage, of course, if consumed in excess.
How quickly the damage occurs, the following comparison of Dailymail quoted as saying on Tuesday (03/15/2011).
Cigarette: 3 seconds.
To reach the lungs, cigarette smoke only takes about 3 seconds and immediately stimulates the heart to work harder in pumping blood. Increased pressure due to overworked heart can trigger heart attacks and strokes for those who are at risk.
Sugar: 2 minutes.
Even before you swallow, the sugar has caused damage to the tooth enamel due within 2 minutes can trigger the growth of bad bacteria in the oral cavity. Once ingested, 20 teaspoons of sugar can reduce the ability of white blood cells to eradicate the bad bacteria that cause disease only within 2-5 hours after that.
Alcohol: 6 minutes.
Within 6 minutes, 1 liter glass of beer or 3 wine alcohol can cause brain damage reversible, although not a permanent alias. If you continue to get drunk and done too often, the damage will be permanent.
Salt: 30 minutes.
Salty foods can cause hardening of the arteries, blood vessels alias in just 30 minutes after being swallowed. Another impact of the excess salt is absorbed into the blood vessel so that fluid pressure rises and increases the risk of stroke and heart attack.
Caffeine: 30 minutes.
Half an hour after drinking coffee, pressure and blood flow to the muscles become stamina will increase so much since the release of adrenal hormones. In contrast, blood flow to organs other than muscle would be reduced, thereby reducing its performance.
Bad fats: 45 minutes.
Saturated fat content in cheese, biscuits and other foods can increase the risk of blood clots in less than 1 hour. The impact of course is a blockage of blood vessels that can trigger heart attacks. The good news, unsaturated fats and omega-3 fatty acids in nuts and fish oil can neutralize the effects of saturated fat.
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