Healthy lifestyle is what everybody in this generation aims for. They say that so long as we do everything in moderation, everything is ok. In cases like drinking alcohol, working too much or sitting in front of the television are just some examples that must be done in moderation. However, according to Medical Daily, there is a new study published in Plos One said the eating lifestyle of people now might not be correct.
A team of researchers from two universities, University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston (UTHealth) and the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University discovered that combining the food can lead to worse metabolic health and lower-quality diet.
Dr. Marcia C. de Oliveira Otto, assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences at UT Health School of Public Health said that people always say" eat everything in moderation" is a popular phrase but hasn't been proven yet. She said that people wanted to have new measures of diet diversity and their connection with metabolic health. Metabolic health simply means the proper functioning of organs that help our metabolism more efficiently. If people have a healthy metabolism, they are assured that they can maintain their weight, keep their blood pressure and blood sugar at a low level. People with poor metabolism, often suffer from high cholesterol, excess fat and worse, type two diabetes and heart disease.
The team used date from Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, which investigated the different diets of 6,814 Americans who are either white, black, Hispanic-American, or Chinese-American. They counted the number of different food participants ate each week. They checked the nutritional and calorie content of the food and how it is relevant to metabolic health. Upon investigating further using the number of different food participants ate per week, they found out that even if they combine their food and have a diverse diet, they can still be at risk of gaining weight, growing their waistline and of course developing diabetes.
Americans with the healthiest diets were those who were eating a "relatively small range of healthy foods. These results suggest that in modern diets, eating 'everything in moderation' is actually worse than eating a smaller number of healthy foods according to Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, senior author and dean of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University in Boston.
