Friday, August 7, 2009

The FUN in Fundementals of Nutrition...

Mary-Ann Shearer said it best when she came to do a seminar wit us...

"People ask me "Are you Vegan?", "Are you Raw?", "Are you Vegetarian". And I simply say "I listen to my body. I put God made food into my God made body"."

That has got to be the simplest, most distilled statement about health, nutrition, and diet. I'm going to go a step further, and say it this way:

"If I want God Made Health, I will but God Made Food into my God Made Body!"

and conversely

"If I want Man Made Health, I will put Man Made Food into my God Made Body!"

I have my own convictions about Who/What God is, and that's fine if you disagree, but the concept makes a lot of sense. Bear with me if you have a different take on God/Creator etc... and translate for yourself.

1. The Creator made All Life, and made the Food for them.

The relationship between Animals and Food is astonishing. The interactions between something simple like and Orange and a Human being are so tightly coupled it is a miracle.

An Orange has everything in itself to be digested, processed, and incorporated into a human being. It has many micro and macro nutrients, along with its own mechanism for processing itself. It has enzymes, sugars, vitamins, and even the substances required to digest those vitamin, fiber etc...

Yet, if you extract those substances from the Orange, they will not work as well when taken separately. Lets say fructose, a sugar. If you eat it within an Orange, different compounds, as well as fiber slow down the process of conversion to Glucose in your system, and your body is able to take it correctly without releasing massive amounts of insulin and stressing your pancreas, as well as the other systems affected.

If you eat the fructose alone, you are going to create a MASSIVE blood sugar episode. Your body will struggle to balance your blood sugar, and you will end up in the long run with damage as ell as possible disorders.

There are other similar concepts, such as Vitamin A and Carrots. Taking straight Vitamin A (or better yet, Beta Carotene, a precursor to Vitamin A) without a fat, let alone taking a synthetic form, will not integrate itself in your body, and possibly even damage itself. Curiously, Creator put just the right kind, and the right amount of fat in a carrot to extract Vitamin A, a hugely beneficial antioxidant and nutrient.

2. This was a perfect situation, that can never be improved upon.

This one is obvious. It is very difficult to improve upon the Designer of something so complex as living beings. Let alone the fact it is super developed, lets all admit we don't have a comprehensive enough understanding of Life, to even put ourselves it hat position. There are constant revelations and discoveries daily about Life and Living Beings to make the case we simply cannot yet improve on it. I'm betting we never will.

3. The more we stay within the Created Order, the better we will be.

This is a clear principle, and just general common sense. If the origin was superior, and design specifically, any deviation from it is detrimental.

4. The more we stray from the Created Order, the worse we will be.


With me so far?

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