You are what you eat is a truer phrase than most people realize. This is another one of those common sense things people forget to think about logically. Nutrition is a wonderfully complex and interesting study, but there are a few things that are just so simple. And again, there is a lot of bad information out there. Understandably, many people won’t know what Kombucha is (or how delightful it is), or how to make cauliflower taste like mashed potatoes (it can!), but to think you can eat doughnuts every day for breakfast and not have some physical consequences is ridiculous.
I know a lot of people don’t, or don’t every time, but think about how many people feel sick after eating fast food. My dad (who does love them) calls Krystal hamburgers, “gutbombers”. I don’t think he’s the only one who calls them that, either. You eat food because you need the energy to fuel your body to live and move around. Why would you put bad fuel in? Indigestion is a clear-cut sign that your body didn’t like what you just gave it.
Back to the you-are-what-you-eat part. So many friends in high school would eat a greasy fast food meal and say, “ugh, I’m gonna break out so bad because of this.” Without processing it, teenagers realize that greasy food makes for a greasy face based on their experiences with it. So why continue to eat it, when you know it makes your insides greasy too? Rather eat fresh food as close to its natural form as possible. Cheez-Its do not grow on any tree, or in the ground, nor do most of the ingredients that make them. Natural vitamins and minerals are more readily absorbed and used by the body. Just eat what is natural, pure and nutrient-rich. You will have what you need for your body to effectively provide energy for itself, and not anything extra weighing you down. You feel better and are less tired when you eat the right things because your body doesn’t have to spend all its resources on digestion. It will spend hours and hours trying to pull usable energy from those bad foods and store what it can’t do anything with. You’re body is weighed down by stored uselessness and tired from digging around for the good stuff.
By: Ashley Dance
