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304 sats \ 16 comments \ @Coinsreporter 10h HealthAndFitness

It's today in the morning when my father who otherwise loves sweets suddenly started preaching against them at breakfast. While taking a bite of homemade "Gazak", he said it's too sweet, it harms.

My mother who is a very positive and religious lady jeered at him saying "What happened today? From when you started disliking sweets?

To this my father replied in a low voice, "Dr Sharma suggested me yesterday not to eat too much sweets for it impacts our overall health.

"I see. Everyone in his family has diabetes and he thinks the whole world would be diabetic if eats sweets. What you're eating is made of pure jaggery and diabetes isn't a disease." My mother replied.

They went on with the discussion and I kept on listening but at last I had to intervene and say it's not diet that alone impacts your helath but there are many other things. We don't have any hereditary exposure to Diabetes so, there is little chance we have it. Also, we do enough exercises and eat enough to burn the carbohydrates, so nothing to worry about.

Upon listening this my father didn't wait to demand one more piece of delicious Gajak.

But that made me think about what's something that impacts our overall health the most? I've read a lot on the topic, but there's no conclusion.

Maybe you can tell me.

Diet46.2%

Exercise 7.7%

Sleep23.1%

Stress7.7%

Income0.0%

Education0.0%

Tobacco/Alcohol 0.0%

Religion or Culture0.0%

Environment 0.0%

Genetics 15.4%

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57 sats \ 3 replies \ @Aardvark 10h

I'm going to say diet, simply because the ability to negatively impact your health is far greater with a bad diet than not exercising. CVD is the number one preventable death in America.

Having said that, in order to truly be healthy, you need a well balanced diet, cardio, strength training, and proper sleep.

You can still enjoy yourself, but use proper moderation if possible.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 8h

One of the health mantras I remember learning is "You can't train your way out of a bad diet."

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark 8h

It's very true. I can eat way more calories than I can burn extremely easily.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 8h

Yes diet is very important. My simple reasoning is our gut microbes decide hugely how healthy we should be.

20 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined 8h

I'm sure this depends on where you are in the world, but Americans are predominantly in poor health because of the horrendous Standard American Diet.

21 sats \ 4 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 8h

The standard American diet is the stadard diet of cities everywhere. So, it's not Americans are in poor health, the McDs and Dominos are found everywhere.

20 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 8h

I know those options exist everywhere, but people don't routinely eat as poorly anywhere else (to my knowledge). In fact, a lot of stuff in normal American food is illegal most everywhere else.

34 sats \ 2 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 7h

Illegal.

Really? I didn't know that food that's cooked at home at some place can be illegal at other place. I don't know about eating habits of Americans but people in India are so much addicted to "tea" that they drink it all the time.

What I believe that it's not good but it's the poor quality of food that impacts our health. Also, not everything is good for health that goes by the name of food.

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 7h

There are a bunch of chemical additives in American prepared foods that are illegal elsewhere.

29 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 7h

I see. This is like Ajinomoto (MSG) is banned in India.

I've seen a lot of use of tinned food in USA and Europe, I don't think any traditional Indian would like to eat some meat out of box which has months of expiry on it.

Here in our kitchens, you won't find any items , which are boxed or tinned or readymade that has chemical preservatives.

If anything you find preserved is pickle, but that too is preserved by natural vinegar.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @TNStacker 9h

Lack of exercise is probably primary. Movement and strength counteract much of what we do to ourselves through poor diet.

But the diet/exercise combo is the real best answer.

41 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 10h

All of the above. Probably Genetics, diet and stress the most.

40 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 10h

Yeah! I also agree, probably all of the above, but let's see what we get as the biggest factor impacting our life.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @IamSINGLE 10m

They look like all are very important but diet is something that's unavoidable.

Noone voted for tobacco/Alcohol. Stackers' favourite, my guess.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @398ja 3h

Sleep is paramount. Without proper sleep you can't eat well, exercise, and your stress levels are are through the roof...

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @emm14 6h

definitely diet, we are what we eat