Humans, and all other living things need nourishment for them to live, sustain themselves, and grow. Each and every living thing, including humans, of course, has a different
need. We are supposed to eat according to our physical and physiological design. Our bodies are designed to process our food from the time it enters our mouths to the time it exits. Nutrition is the entire process of eating, digesting, absorbing, and utilizing the food that we had taken. That is why carnivores have a set of teeth designed to cut and tear animal meat. Herbivores have teeth that are designed to cut, mash, and grind a wide variety of plant sourced food.
The carnivore teeth is inefficient in grinding rootcrops, fruits, and leaves. The herbivore teeth is inefficient in tearing and cutting meat. And then we have some creatures in between- the omnivores. Those that can eat both animal, and plant sourced foods. In order for each of them to them to grow and develop to their full potential, have proper and optimum growth, they need to have proper nutrition. This can be achieved by eating kinds of foods that are best suited to their individual design. Human beings have a set of teeth very much similar to vegetarian creatures. In fact, the apes, and the gorillas, which are reputed to be the nearest biological kin of human beings, are vegetarians.
They may eat meat at times, though, but it is not their real staple food. Proper nutrition then is not only about eating what we think is what food nice or delicious, but also eating what is needed, best absorbed, and best utilized by our bodies. Ideally , this what proper
should be. Nowadays, with the with the advent of fastfoods, people eat more according to what they want. Power lunches, energy bars, etc., became a worldwide fad. What is ready and easily available became what we need. Getting sated and energized quickly, even at the expense of proper nutrition, has become widespread and encompassing.
Many people, especially those who are in fast-paced jobs skip regular meals in their hurry. This not only affect them, but children as well. Especially mothers who are in hurry, have fastfood not only for themselves, but for their kids as well. There is no one to blame, of course, except our lifestyle. Proper nutrition is not that impossible. Healthy living is, after all, a choice. In a high-tech, fast-paced, world, many modern and new sources of energies feed our new and modern machines. Modern man have been a relatively slower evolve, though. We can not yet have ethanol, or fuel cells for breakfast.
So, why don't we stick to our real foods, foods that provide us with real and proper nutrition. Health and nutrition experts agree; that proper nutrition brought about by healthy and nutritious foods, combined with healthy living, exercise, enough sleep, and proper dietary supplements; is the very essential of a long, healthy, and productive life. In spite of all those “power foods” around There is not yet a real substitute for power and energy given by real foods. Take your meat, grain, fruits and vegetables. The food designed for you. Only a good balance of these foods and your supplements can give proper
, and bring out the “lean and mean working machine” in you.
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