10 common foods that can be deadly
It’s all about quantity. If you overeat, then any, even the most useful product, will turn into poison. Sometimes – deadly.
Not so long ago, a shocking event happened in India: a man for sports tried to eat 50 eggs. They argued for money, in terms of our currency, 1800 rubles were at stake. This was the price of a person’s life – after eating 41 eggs, the man died. As the investigation later established, the cause of death was overeating. We asked an expert what other foods can ruin if you eat too much of them.
Any gastroenterologist-nutritionist recommends a healthy person to drink about 2 liters of pure water per day. In this dosage, water greatly stimulates all metabolic processes of the body and helps to remove all toxins from it. But an excessive increase in water intake is causing a number of health problems. Water is mainly excreted through the kidneys, intestines, and skin pores in the form of sweat. All organs have extreme capabilities, and if the organs of excretion do not cope with their functions, then edema of the extremities will appear first, then edema of the organs, and then – edema of the brain. Therefore, for people suffering from cardiovascular diseases and chronic renal failure, doctors recommend limiting water intake to the doses recommended to them personally.
Coffee
Almost everyone starts the morning with a cup of coffee: it invigorates, helps to start all the mechanisms, but an excess of caffeine in the body can cause dizziness, headache, vomiting, muscle tremors and any kind of hallucinations. This drink should not be abused categorically. If you drink several liters of strong coffee in one day, then such a shock dose can lead to cardiac arrest. People suffering from cardiovascular diseases and arterial hypertension need to be especially careful with this drink. In addition, strong coffee can sometimes provoke constipation and exacerbation of irritable bowel syndrome.
Sugar
Although the consumption of sugar and foods with high glucose content is necessary for the brain to function, it is very dangerous to abuse them. Especially for people with diabetes. Recently, laboratory studies were carried out, as a result of which it turned out that if you eat one and a half kilograms of sugar in any form during the day, then the probability of death increases to 95%.
Salt
The controversy about the dangers and benefits of salt continues. For many types of diseases, doctors often limit the amount of daily salt intake, or even exclude it from the patient’s diet. This applies to people with diseases such as cardiovascular, arterial hypertension, hypertension, renal failure, pyelonephritis. Salt consumption in such patients often causes exacerbations. However, the dose of salt can be fatal. True, for this you need to eat it literally with tablespoons.
Citrus
In people suffering from gastrointestinal diseases, such as peptic ulcer and 12 duodenal ulcer, pancreatitis, irritable bowel syndrome, excessive consumption of this hyperacid product is likely to cause severe exacerbation. And in a healthy person, only an unrealistically huge amount of citrus fruits (about 11 thousand pieces), eaten in one sitting, can lead to cardiac arrest. Fortunately, there are no such people, and no one on the planet arranges citrus-eating marathons.
Chocolate
This product is most often “seized” by stress, as it contains a lot of substances that increase the body’s production of endorphin (the hormone of joy). What delicious all these cookies, sweets, cakes, curds in chocolate! But it is worth remembering that eating such foods in large quantities can lead to an exacerbation of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, cause constipation. And in patients with diabetes mellitus – internal bleeding, myocardial infarction, coma and even death.
bananas
Bananas contain a large amount of potassium and trace elements, which have a very beneficial effect on the body. But it is precisely because of the high content of potassium that this product should not be abused in any case. If you eat a huge amount of bananas, then an excess of potassium will lead to an exacerbation of almost all diseases of the cardiovascular system and the gastrointestinal tract, as well as to general poisoning of the body. The only good news is that such an amount of bananas – at least 400 – is simply impossible to eat.
Chilli
He is loved for his burning sharpness. But excessive consumption of chili can cause not only aggravation in people suffering from diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and cardiovascular system, but also the appearance of stomach burns in perfectly healthy people. And if you eat several tens of teaspoons of this spice per day, the outcome can be fatal. Fortunately, such experiments are also impossible.
Mango
This fruit contains urushiol, an organic oily toxin that is highly toxic to the skin. In people who suffer from skin diseases such as dermatitis, eating large quantities of mango always causes an exacerbation of the disease. Mango can cause allergies. And if you overeat this fruit, then even people who do not suffer from allergies, with excessive consumption of mangoes, can get many negative consequences, up to anaphylactic shock.
Alcohol
Well, how can you not say about him! Ethyl alcohol, which is part of any alcohol, is dangerous to the body in any dose. But alcohol abuse will lead not only to acute or chronic pancreatitis and liver cirrhosis, but also to death. Moreover, a single dose of alcohol can also cause death. Everything will depend on the vital abilities of the organism. As an example, I can cite a recent story: a man drank more than a liter of vodka and died on the spot. They didn’t even have time to call an ambulance for him – a heart block. Absolutely ridiculous death!