It makes sense: the body has only so much capacity to deal with ongoing "housekeeping" activities. Ongoing and normal processing of metabolic waste byproduct presents a baseline load. The ingression of exogenous toxins, some of which is unavoidable to varying degree (like car exhaust), adds substantially to that load. How much capacity is left? If it is insufficient we will lose our health sooner or later as the body becomes overwhelmed with toxic waste.
This is why the foods we eat are so critical...adding "difficult" and toxic foods to the pre-existing load pushes us over the capacity limit, and we begin developing the so-called metabolic syndrome diseases.
The right amount of physical activity is important too, it increases "housekeeping" efficiency substantially.
None of this is hard to understand, so how did we get here? Answer: over-reliance on technological solutions to common sense problems ... the search for the magic bullet that enables us to stay firmly ensconced in "The Pleasure Trap".
Have you read it yet?
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