You Are What You Eat

          Since the dawn of humanity we have always needed to eat, to ingest food in order to fuel our body with energy. Without this energy, we would grow weak and incapacitated. During the primitive ages, food was acquired through hunting of animals and the growing and picking of fruits and vegetables. Everything was 100% natural. These days however, food is found just around the corner at your local grocery store. You can find all your hunger related needs there, from dinner ingredients to a quick snack. Unfortunately a lot of this processed food contains a fair amount of unhealthy ingredients such as preservatives, coloring, additives, and sometimes even addictive substances.

        

           These substances aren’t a threat in the short term, but over time if one continuously ingests these types of foods he or she will surely face problems with their bodies. They might find themselves lacking energy, or gaining weight, or acquire some serious illness in drastic cases.

       

         The human body continuously grows throughout the first quarter of its life. How do you think it does that? Does it magically increase in size? No, it constantly sheds and rebuilds bits and bits of itself by using the building block it acquires from the food we digest. Every seven years starting from birth you have a completely new body. Throughout those seven years your body has replaced itself with what you have eaten over that period of time. So by the age of 16 you have had around two whole bodies. A part of your pancreas might be made of that T-bone steak you had for dinner a month ago. Or your heart might be 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 to list them all. Just think about it. Maybe a part of your heart was remade out of 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 the engine.

    

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