When you receive the Seal you will begin to eat healthier foods. Yet even if you do eat foods high in fat, new scientific studies show how eating some healthy foods along with them can reduce their bad effects on your body.
Researchers are working on prescribing additives to meals. These additives would reduce the harmful effects of a bad meal on the body. Foods high in fat have an immediate harmful effect on the body.
When you eat a fatty meal, like a fast-food meal, your body afterward experiences a period of oxidative stress. When oxidative stress happens your body can be damaged on a cellular level.
Oxidative stress happens when reactive oxygen is produced in the body (after a fatty meal for instance.) If your body is capable of fighting the reactive oxygen then your cells will not be damaged.
But a fatty meal alone will cause oxidative stress within the body, and without anything else added to the diet, free radicals will damage cells in the body. This is where antioxidants come to the rescue.
Antioxidants fight the free radicals and stop them from damaging your cells. One key kind of antioxidant is polyphenols, which were used in this study. The polyphenols helped stop the toxic reaction in the body after a fatty meal.
In the study, men and women were fed turkey with water (in the control group.) The other meals were turkey with polyphenols added before and after cooking.
The polyphenols in the study were in wine that was added before and after cooking the turkey, and at both those meals the subjects drank one glass of wine after the meal.
Researchers measured the levels of malondialdehyde (MDA) in the subjects at different times before and after eating those different meals. MDA is the "biomarker" for oxidative stress.
Free radicals degrade lipids (fats) in cell membranes, thus damaging the cells. The end-result of this degradation and damage is the production of MDA. So when MDA is present, it shows there has been cell damage (oxidative stress) in the body.
Researchers found that there was nearly five times as much MDA in the body after the meal of just the turkey meat. But the meals with wine added showed no MDA, indicating that there had been no cell damage occurring.
So you can eat fatty meals without immediate cell damage to your body if you include antioxidants, especially polyphenols. Polyphenols are found in fruit, tea, wine (and beer), chocolate, and some nuts and vegetables.
When you are sealed you will begin to take better care of your health. You can do most of the work by changing your diet. You need to eat healthier food and eat less food at the same time.
It is not surprising that wine is shown to be so protective when you eat something else along with it that tries to damage your body. Jesus called the wine of the Last Supper His Blood.
The Blood of Jesus saves you from your sins. And it saves your body from cell damage when you compromise and eat a less-than-perfectly-healthy meal. You will want to save your body when you receive the Seal.
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