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Dietician Sheela Sherawat

Eat healthy live healthy

This video is particularly for them, who are meat eaters or lovers. Do you know that overcooked meat and meat products pose startling dangers to our health?

Well! The truth is that overcooked meats and meat products are a slow way of shortening our lives. Yes, you read it right!!!
Very well done meat or overcooked meats dramatically increases the risks of several cancers like breast cancers and prostate cancer. When meats are cooked over certain temperatures or cooked more than needed, damaging chemical changes occur in the meats. Upon consuming these chemically altered meats, we get exposed to mutagens that can affect our DNA and increase the risks of cancer. These chemically altered foods also cause inflammation and glycation that destroys the body proteins, which can be a potent cause of premature aging.

To make sure that you do not overcook your meat, change your style of cooking. Switch from pan-frying, oven broiling, and deep frying to stewing, steaming, poaching, and boiling your meat dishes. Also besides cooking better, eat more cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, cabbage, and cauliflower. These foods contain Indole 3-carbinol that can keep you protected against all cancers that may be caused by overcooking meats.

Eat Healthy, Live Healthy !!!