Is it true that you are what you eat?
The phrase you often hear you are what you eat
has been core believe in many cultures throughout history
the ancient aztecs would eat the brain of their rivals
Because they believed it would give them the wisdom and knowledge of their enemies.
In India,
Some cultures do not eat onion and garlic
because they believed foods with strong odour lead to aggressive and offensive behaviors
The nordic Vikings believe that drinking the blood of the bear or a wolf
before the battle gave them the ferocity of the animal they drank
In China, there is a high demand
for tiger penis because men there believe
that eating it will boost libido and cure erectile dysfunction
Around the world and throughout history we see fascinating
and bizarre examples of
traditions that center around the idea
that you embody what you eat
Today, most of these mythical beliefs have faded away
but there is still much of validity to
the phrase you are what you eat, so
what exactly does this phrase mean?
Today, health chronicle help explain that to us considering
the thousand of pages of high highfalutin academic and philosophical discourse written on a topic
the meaning of the phrase is pretty simple
If you eat crappy food you're going to
feel crappy If you eat healthy food
then you will feel and look healthy
you are what you put into your body
Now, lets take the crux of this You Are What You EAT message
and look at it more closely, through a
scientific lens
what you eat determines even the composition of your cellular
membranes. That's right all
the way down to the tiniest building block of your entire body
those little blocks that build your bones, your organs,
your muscles and your brain you
are what you eat
Then consider this: the average
adult loses around 300 billion cells to
old age every single day
How does their body replace those cells?
With the food we eat... literally
That food becomes the fuel for our body's own manufacturing
plan to replace cells that die.
When we eat toxic chemically-laden
nutritionless food,
our bodies have a hard time
manufacturing new healthy cells.
It would be like giving a man a blunt hammer in the middle of
the desert and asking him to build a massive castle
or filling a racecar gas tank with sand and
expecting it to win
our bodies carry out billions
of functions every second with those cells,
thus another popular phrase is that
our bodies are a temple
only instead of putting clean fuel in the machine
we put in excrement and expect this machine
to make a masterpiece.
Though our body is infinitely intelligent
and even figures out
how to replace our cells
to some extent
despite our poor food choices
It can only improvise on making of a masterpiece
for so long
before it runs out of ideas
Eventually, eating processed
junk food will lead to your cells
becoming processed junk
Genetically modified food
equals to genetically modified you
So,
drink clean water
eat more fresh vegetables,
fruits, nuts and seeds.
Allow your digestive system
to work as it should
by reducing chronic inflamation
with a better diet and consistent
moderate excercise
and you'll even be able to extract more
of the good stuff out of your food
Your body will also be able to dump
the bad stuff with more ease
In brief, You ARE What You EAT
More than 300 hundred billion cells
depend on the fuel you give your body
Make sure you give them the good stuff