Beware! excessive chips eating might accelerate aging and cancer risks!

 

Chips commonly known as French fries based on their shapes are prepared from potatoes that are wholly fried. 

Their consumption had been dramatically increased globally in the 19^th century from developed to developing societies. Quite often they may be eaten with meals or as fast foods.

Aside from incredible taste and fascinating texture, their 100g consumption can provide about 312 calories!

However, excess servings of chips on a regular basis may contribute to different health problems by which premature aging and death are first on the list. 

A huge number of people tend to consume French fries on daily basis at their homes, restaurants, or other food services.

Nevertheless, most of them are unaware of how too many chips should be a culprit in making them look older than their actual age.

Normally, Aging is an inevitable process for every living organism, however, it should be delayed and occur healthily.

Certainly, everybody is unique and can age earlier or later at whatever nutrition status She/he is on.   

Moreover, aging includes not only wrinkles, but also memory loss, decreased brain function, and an increased risk for chronic diseases such as heart disease, osteoporosis, and cancer.

The following are the facts of how harmful it could be just by eating too many plates of chips daily.

Generally, longtime consumption of food that are deeply fried from high-temperature is oil might release free radicals that lead to cellular damage to the skin.

But how? Well, free radicals tend to accelerate aging through the action of cross-linking.

According to Dr. Johan Björksten “, this Cross-linking affects DNA covalent bonds and weakens skin’s elasticity that results to wrinkling easily and faster”.

In addition, some amount of salts put in the chips plate to enhance their flavor may be excessive.

As long as an individual keeps consuming too many chips he/she is also consuming excess salts. As a result, excess salt will draw water into the skin and lead to dehydration.

Recent literatures warn that regular dehydration might weaken skin defense, and accelerate premature aging. 

Lost water is associated with the certain destruction of the skin outer layer Stratum Corneum that maintains its moisture. 

It seems quite critical to hydrate your body for the sake of healthy skin. excessive constant consumption of French may lead to the following health risks.  

Potential cancer risks

Eating chips cooked in reused oil might be gruesome to our health as they increase cancer risks.

Cooking oil that is repeatedly heated, tend to be harmful because of different transformation such as oxidation, polymerization, or hydrolysis that may lead to different health concerns.

Reheating cooking oil also increases more free radicals such as lipid peroxides, PAH, aldehydes, ketones, alcohols, and acids that are responsible for different cancers in our body.

Unfortunately, acrolein the toxic compound responsible for breast cancer may get into our body food constant consumption of these foods. 

Shockingly, potato chips are also thought to possess acrylamide that may lead to ovarian, endometrial and renal cancers for long time exposure.

Furthermore, reheated oil inhalation of cooking fumes can pose a serious health hazard to your lung. High incidence of genotoxic, mutagenic, tumorigenic and various cancers are warned. 

Associated to increased risks short life span

New studies keep warning that eating chips excessively is linked to increased risks of a short lifespan.

For instance, the New American journal of clinical nutrition study suggests that eating the side dish of chips more than just twice a week may increase risks of premature aging and death as well.

In recent research, 4400 older people (aged 45-79) were given food frequency questionnaires to record their food intake.  

After 8 years of a cohort study, the results were 216 deaths, by which participants who consumed fried potatoes <3 times per week were at higher risks of mortality.

However, those who usually consumed unfried potatoes were not associated with increased mortality risk.

High trans-fats, saturated fat, and high glycemic index from potato chips play a great role in cardiovascular diseases risks diabetes, obesity, and hypertension that eventually kill an individual. 

Elders who consumed chips with other high-fat or high-salts food or sweetened beverages or red meat or in fast foods their mortality risks doubled.

During this time interval, the research concluded regular consumers of this food don’t live as long as those who eat them less often.  

Bottom line

Older adults or 65+ years of age are warned to be vigilant on deep-fried food and fast food consumption. 

Trying those foods on their menu at least once a week and maximizing fruits and vegetables should be helpful to their healthy life.

French fries are wonderful food with incomparable texture, flavor, and high calories. However, once they are ingested excessively, wide range of health problems such as premature aging may arise accordingly.  

It is not a matter of quitting French fries on an actual meal because their nutritional value is also needed by our body once they are consumed appropriately. 

however, It is the fact of lowering how many plates of chips are consumed per day based on your age, even though everybody’s life is unique.

Anybody should prefer to be forever young. Nevertheless, it’s impossible to stop aging but we can delay it or accelerate it based on our daily life habits.

 

 

sources

 

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