In today's Japan, we are overflowing with a wide variety of products, not only food, but also health foods and supplements, and anything is available as long as you have the money.
Will the large number of products on display in stores ever sell out?
If a product says "good for beauty," "good for health," or "improves painful symptoms," we buy it even if we are not sure if it is really good or not.
Therefore, it is easy for people to keep buying certain products and end up overdosing on certain nutrients and ingredients on a daily basis.
Take protein, for example.
I often see people dissolving it in a container with water and gulping it down.
Is it safe to consume so much protein?
Some sports clubs even have a corner for drinking it.
For what? Well, it's for muscle building.
They say that since it builds muscle, it raises basal metabolism and is good for weight loss. Is this true?
Women drink it for beauty, of course.
However, too much protein has various side effects.
It puts too much strain on the liver and kidneys...causes diarrhea, abdominal pain, constipation...etc.
People don't seem to talk much about the side effects, perhaps because it would be an obstruction to business.
Not being a professional fighter, can an ordinary person guzzle something like muscle-enhancing protain every day?
No matter what you do, it will upset the balance of a person's metabolism.
History has yet to prove that it is really good for Homo sapiens, since it seems to have only just started in the long history of mankind.
At sports clubs, you sometimes see guys with amazingly muscular muscles.
Of course, they must be working out hard, but if their muscles are made of protein, it is disgusting just to look at them.
After all, the main motive may be to be popular with women, but having extra muscles does not necessarily make women fall in love with you.
If you take a short break from training, your muscles will quickly shrivel up.
If you take in more nutrients than your body can get from a normal diet, you must be very "moderate" and "cautious.
Too much is sure to damage your body.
I remember what my Meiji-born grandfather used to say.
Too much is too much.
Eight portions in one's stomach.
In fact, I take more than 10 kinds of supplements every day.
Sorry! This is no good! (>_<)