How to Be Healthy

  Fuel consists of the nutrients/foods we use to give us the energy and vitality to go through our daily activities.  This is the food we eat every day, fats, oils, carbohydrates, water and proteins.  This same food also provides the needed nutrients for repair and maintenance of the body.  It’s also an essential part of most cultures of the world; an excellent meal is a pleasure to be enjoyed no matter what culture you’re from.  Given these facts, it is not surprising that most of us spend an inordinate amount of time and effort in the past either cooking or thinking about food or preparing to cook.  Food for humans is just as essential as fuel for any vehicle.  Meals Ready to Eat (MREs) made for the U.S. military state that, “Restriction of food and nutrients leads to rapid weight loss, which leads to; Loss of strength; Decreased endurance; Loss of motivation; Decreased mental alertness.” Obviously food is extremely important to human performance.

  If you think about the ultimate form of food we quickly realize that in reality we are eating light.  All plants need sunlight to grow and it is this energy that humans ultimately need to flourish.  The soil can be crammed with nutrients, but without sunlight to provide the energy plants need to harness these nutrients, the plant may as well be growing in a desert, devoid of all healthy soils.  The same goes for all animals we eat.  They eat plants and we in turn eat them. Notice that eating of carnivores is taboo in most societies worldwide from time immemorial.  Did you know that plant chlorophyll closely resembles hemoglobin found in human blood cells?  There is a closer relationship to the things we eat such as plants than we can imagine.  The saying “You are what you eat” is more true than you know.  Food not only provides us with fuel for powering up our bodies, it provides all we need to grow and repair our bodies, if the proper fuel is used in the right amount.  The right amount is vitally important, especially in today’s world.  As mentioned before, too much fuel is as detrimental as too little.  We need to take in enough fuel to give us energy to complete our daily tasks.  Most of us now eat too much fuel in the form of carbohydrates in comparison to the energy expended daily, with the result of weight gain.