The Pros And Cons Of Nutrition

For many nutrition is just eating your fruits and vegetables, but that isn’t how it breaks down. Nutrition is receiving the proper nutrients that are needed to survive and live a healthy life. Sadly, most people today can be categorized into either being obese or malnourished sometimes both. This creates a problem since so many individuals are unable to control their health. Consequently, the standard of health has diminished drastically with easier access to cheap and non-nutritious food along with the illusion that exercises is exclusive to bodybuilders and pro-athletes. The idea of nutrition has become distorted by the concept that just eating will provide someone with all the nutrients they need, thus research and countermeasures have been …show more content…
Hence, it may not be how a person eats or how much they eat but how effective these organisms are (if they’re present at all). Although, the research behind the theory is in a trivial state this could revolutionize how to deal with obesity. Isolating such organisms and conducting an experiment on “germ-free mice, reared in sterile isolators in Gordon’s lab, had 60 percent less fat than ordinary mice. Although they ate voraciously, usually about 30 percent more food than the others, they stayed lean. Without gut microbes, they were unable to extract calories from some of the types of food they ate, which passed through their bodies without being either used or converted to fat.” Theoretically, if scientists are able to narrow, specifically, the organisms that cause the body to store fat they could be removed from humans to help control their weight. As a result, people who suffer from obesity could start to lose weight and be less at risk for diseases linked to obesity. However, the process itself seems far-fetched and potentially risky if not properly tested, thus not an immediate solution to the way people deal with their health