Furthermore, recent research suggests that not only do these organisms aid with digestion, but also that having (or lacking) the proper mix of these little critters can determine whether you're fat or thin.ĮRproductions Ltd/Blend Images/Getty Images They're basically tiny stockbrokers, investing in your lunch for a small percentage and giving you noxious farts in lieu of a receipt. These organisms live in harmony with you, helping you break down your food in exchange for a small share of it. ![]() It may sound like something straight out of a germaphobe's nightmares, but your insides play host to billions upon billions of tiny organisms. However, it turns out that eating shitty food doesn't affect just you, but also the future generations of your family. Unfortunately, those terrible foods are also terribly cheap, so low-income families are often forced to rely on purchasing what is essentially flavorful garbage if they want to keep everyone fed. It probably doesn't come as a surprise that a salty, sugary, fat-filled diet of highly processed groceries and fast food is really bad for your health. Joe Raedle/Getty Images News/Getty Images 4 Shitty Food Makes You (And Your Unborn Children) More Susceptible To Disease Researchers believe that this may be because most of those subjects were new to the country, and therefore had not yet had their spirits broken into a bloody pulp by Detroit. The difference between poor and non-poor blacks was less pronounced, while poor residents of Mexican descent actually had longer telomeres than their non-poor counterparts. For instance, the difference between poor and non-poor whites was so startling that we're not sure how poor whites managed to let the researchers prod them with needles without keeling over from heart failure. Oddly, the study found that telomere length varies greatly for people of different races and ethnicities. The same face you make getting an ATM overdraft fee. Being poor is apparently a lot like drinking from the false grail. When researchers plopped a bunch of poor and lower-middle-class Detroiters under a microscope, they found them to be universally telomere-challenged, providing direct evidence that the "stress of living in extreme poverty causes early onset of age-related diseases" such as heart disease. Telomere shrinkage has also been linked to chronic stress - such as, say, the kind that comes from constantly worrying about how you're going to pay your rent and feed your kid this month. They're like tiny Homer Simpsons, sleeping through meltdown after meltdown until all of Springfield burns.īut time isn't the only thing that can weaken your telomeres. Every time your cells divide, these telomeres lose a bit of their length, until eventually your DNA is a frayed maniac and you die of old age. They keep all the strands of your DNA together and prevent the whole shebang from unraveling like. ![]() See, your chromosomes are capped by telomeres, which have been compared to the aglets (plastic tips) on shoelaces. To get to how this is even possible, we first need to start with a little biology lesson. ![]() The only difference: Nobody from Detroit would ever say "I LIKE THIS WORLD!" Either that, or Detroit exists in some kind of temporal vortex (which, admittedly, would be a more fun explanation for why it looks like an unused set from Jean-Claude Van Damme's Cyborg). Poverty physically ages your body at the cellular level. Though "I'm too old for this shit" is a phrase uttered by approximately every hourly minimum wage employee in history, a recent study of Detroit residents revealed that this phenomenon is less figurative than anyone could have imagined.
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