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The benefits and harms of chips for the human body
Chips – this is one of the most harmful and at the same time one of the most popular products, especially among young people. They go well with beer, for watching movies and are good at eliminating hunger.
It’s pretty funny to talk about the benefits and harms of chips, or rather, about the benefits of this product. You might think: why is this? After all, this is just fried potatoes, which many people use when cooking at home. But in reality, everything is not as simple as it seems.
The benefits of chips
There is no need to talk about any useful properties of chips, even those made from natural whole potatoes, since during the frying process all vitamins and useful components of this vegetable are destroyed, therefore it loses any nutritional value for the health of our body, if we talk about it in the form of chips. The only beauty of crisps is their excellent taste, which is achieved through a successful combination of flavors, starch and many other chemicals.
The harm of chips
Chemical additives? – you ask. – Yes, in what products they are just not present now! – you will be indignant. But let’s also remember that chips are a fried product, namely, frying starch, from which most manufacturers are now making chips, in low-grade oils leads to the formation of substances that are very dangerous for the human body:
- Acrylamide… It is a toxic substance that is formed in the case of chemical reactions between sugars during frying. It negatively affects the nervous system, kidneys, liver and ocular mucosa.
- Glycyamide… Differs in increased carcinogenic properties leading to the formation of malignant tumors. But its harm has not yet been fully understood. This substance is formed during the incomplete decomposition of acrylamide.
- Acrolein… Its formation is accompanied by the decomposition of fats during heat treatment. This is a highly toxic substance that can strongly irritate internal organs. That is why acrolein is included in the list of the most dangerous substances that exist.
Even the highest quality chips made from whole potatoes, which have not been supplemented with flavorings, starch, or other harmful chemicals, are still very harmful to the body, as they release many carcinogens that appear when potatoes are fried in low quality oil.
And in this case, potatoes are used, most likely, modified with the help of various chemicals, since they are much larger, smoother and without any damage. As a result, the use of such chips leads to intestinal diseases, gastritis, heartburn, metabolic disorders due to an excess of salt, cardiovascular diseases and impaired bone growth.
The main carcinogen released during the frying of potatoes is the previously mentioned acrylamide, which, if consumed regularly, will eventually lead to cancer. In addition, acrylamide has a detrimental effect on the reproductive organs in women, causing the development of malignant tumors.
But you can hardly find potato chips anywhere on store shelves, since now they are prepared from ordinary flour in combination with starch, and not ordinary, but modified, made from soybeans. Once in our body, such starch turns into glucose, which accumulates in our liver, which is fraught with obesity. Among other things, chips contain a third of the fat, but it is their excellent taste that makes us not think about the consequences of their use.
The main negative consequences for our body from the regular use of chips can be distinguished:
- Development of diabetes;
- Decreased testosterone levels and impaired reproduction of the body;
- Metabolic disorders leading to obesity;
- An increase in blood cholesterol levels, which increases the risks of the formation of cholesterol plaques in blood vessels, disrupts blood circulation, impairs heart function and dulls brain activity;
- Provoking the development of cancerous tumors;
- The appearance of gastritis, ulcers and many other problems in the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract.
Any sane person would be naive to believe that the concept of the benefits of chips generally exists in nature. Harm, and only irreparable harm, chips cause our body, and their regular use, as you already understood from what you have read, threatens cancer at all. Think how stupid it is to make money from such a fatal disease. So the choice is yours – to feast on delicious and unhealthy food, not thinking about your health, or still save yourself and, possibly, even your life.