Paradigmatic Addictions to Avoid
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Cigarette smoke is highly damaging to the lungs, heart, and arteries (at the organ level), and poisonous to the mitochondria (at the sub-cellular level). Alcoholism can damage the liver, a major organ of energy metabolism. Overeating can lead to metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, and obesity. Exercise addiction can lead to over-training, over-use injuries, and often decreased performance.
The paradigmatic examples of unhealthiness as enlisted above are (LeMond 2015, 5):
- Cigarette smoking (likely smoking in general)
- Alcohol consumption
- Overeating
- Over-exertion
Unhealthiness of the unfit kind involves adverse interference on a metabolic pathway
It is noticeable that each of these interfere on a particular pathway related to biofuel processing or bioenergy production. That is, on a metabolic pathway.
For example, the reason cigarette smoking is unhealthy is the damage it does to the lungs, heart and arteries, presumably causing them more difficulty at their function. Common knowledge is that, presumably, the heart aids the transport and distribution of nutrients and oxygen, arteries facilitate or allow for that transport or distribution at all, and the lungs provide the oxygen to be transported and distributed along with nutrients. The nutrients allow for cell repair, thereby extend cell integrity and thereby maintain cell function, among other things, and the oxygen is a necessary condition for chemical reactions that provide energy to cells.
biochemistry cytology oxygen_saturation nutrition tophology necessary_condition necessity artery biofuel bio-energy metabolism metabolic_pathway lung hearts biology health circulatory_system respiratory_system
bibliography
- “Becoming a BEAST.” In The Science of Fitness: Power, Performance, and Endurance, 1–8. Waltham, MA: Academic Press, 2015.