You Are What You Eat

         Since the dawn of humanity wehave always needed to eat, to ingest food in order to fuel our body withenergy. Without this energy, we would grow weak and incapacitated. During theprimitive ages, food was acquired through hunting of animals and the growingand picking of fruits and vegetables. Everything was 100% natural. These dayshowever, food is found just around the corner at your local grocery store. Youcan find all your hunger related needs there, from dinner ingredients to aquick snack. Unfortunately a lot of this processed food contains a fair amountof unhealthy ingredients such as preservatives, coloring, additives, and sometimeseven addictive substances.

        

           These substances aren’t a threat in theshort term, but over time if one continuously ingests these types of foods heor she will surely face problems with their bodies. They might find themselveslacking energy, or gaining weight, or acquire some serious illness in drasticcases.

      

         The human body continuously grows throughout the first quarter of itslife. How do you think it does that? Does it magically increase in size? No, itconstantly sheds and rebuilds bits and bits of itself by using the buildingblock it acquires from the food we digest. Every seven years starting frombirth you have a completely new body. Throughout those seven years your bodyhas replaced itself with what you have eaten over that period of time. So bythe age of 16 you have had around two whole bodies. A part of your pancreas mightbe made of that T-bone steak you had for dinner a month ago. Or your heart mightbe made from last week’s chicken sandwich. Imagine you always ate potato chips.Those potato chips contain so many bad substances that it would be a pain tolist them all. Just think about it. Maybe a part of your heart was remade outof those potato chips. Imagine having potato chips pumping your blood around.Your body is like your car. If you give it the wrong fuel, you’ll ruin theengine.

   

    Next time you go to buy some groceries be sure to check the ingredients.Eating healthy will help you lead a better life.