Obviously children suffer from poor nutrition too, they become obese, they can be malnourished and what not.
And yet to be it looks like often they are more “resistant” to bed food. They eat too much in one sitting? No stomach ache. They eat horribly for months? Blood test would still give decent results. They don’t eat vegetables and fruits? Still no problems pooing.
What makes them so flexible and robust in their diet?
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Metabolic disease takes time, although we’re now seeing kids with diabetes and non alcoholic fatty liver so that shows where our diet is.
Factor in genetics and lack of exercise, and you’ll see it’ll only get worse.
The main issues come from poor nutrition (real food) and overloading the body with sugar / alcohol.
No fibre for example means a poor gut microbiome health which is 70% of our immune, metabolism and mood. Your guard is down and you’re susceptible to disease but you’re also young and strong.
No healthy fats means less vitamins absorbed – deficiency.
I mention fibre and fats because that’s what’s mostly lacking from modern diets.
But disease takes time. It might only become a serious problem in the 30s / 40s.
This is the problem of judging health based on our appearance (e.g. overweight). We have no idea what’s happening inside.
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