Direct Link With Mental Health

When your body is being fueled with fast food it isn’t functioning at optimal capacity physically or mentally. As healthfully.com mentions, fast food contains an unhealthy mixture of fats, preservatives, coloring and refined carbohydrates causing an imbalance in your brain. In other words, the lack of nutrients in fast food causing an imbalance in your brain which then affects the mental health of consumers. Trans-fatty acids in these foods not only clog your arteries although they are a main culprit of depression. This is due to an imbalance of fatty acids that your body obtains after eating fast food. Ideally, people should consume a ratio no greater than nine parts omega 6 fatty acids to one part omega 3 fatty acids. Although one order of fries is equal to a 16:10 fatty acid ratio. As you can see from this comparison, fries (which are less calories than burgers and wraps) already surpass the ideal fatty acid ratio which proves the imbalance scientifically proven. Artificial colouring and preservatives like sodium benzoate are crucial ingredients in fast food that cause hyperactivity within consumers. Hyperactivity is when one finds it difficult to focus; some relate it to a sugar rush being jittery, hyper and irritable. Next time you go to get fast food before a sports game or a big test, think twice because your brain wont be in the right mindset to perform at the best of your abilities. As most fast food places sell burgers, wraps, chicken nuggets, fries and many desserts, the main products they sell are filled with refined carbohydrates. Now, you learned from my blog “The Basics of Healthy Eating’ that there are ‘good’ and ‘bad’ carbs and this is where the ‘bad’ carbs come into action. Refined carbs are manually processed by humans meaning they are not natural and unhealthy to our bodies. Alongside refined carbohydrates are refines sugars, an increase of these manipulated nutrients cause blood sugar fluctuations which can affect how much you worry; anxiety. Blood sugar fluctuations are technically the cause of this mental illness although if you follow the research, these fluctuations turn into hypoglycemia levels in ones body which starts the worrying process. As teens start noticing mental changes, they keep buying fast food for the dopamine kick which doesn’t last too long and worsens the mental illness until it is difficult to control.