Fulfilled Destiny

Like a car that requires fuel to drive, our body’s require energy to function. Energy for a car is the oil & gas or fuel we are currently pumping at astronomical prices, and for the body, it is food.

From food we garner all the energy, vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, proteins, fats, and other essential components that allow us to get up every day and BE.
For some, getting up every day is a slow moving, heavy process, and for others, more akin to Speedy Gonzalos, in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
This has a lot to do with the FUEL or ENERGY, otherwise referred to as FOOD, we are putting into our bodies.
Granted, how we wake each day is dependent upon many factors, however, the food we consume, our nutritional level of BEingness, is one of the MAJOR contributing factors to our overall level of homeostasis or fitness.

Some foods, like grades of gas, {bronze, silver, gold} are better for us, more nutritiously packed with “wholesome goodness” than others, and just like the grade of gas one chooses to pump into their car, our body’s homeostasis, or ability to function is very much affected by the choice of foods we consume.

It is important to know what the body actually needs, as opposed to what one’s eyes may find appeasing, before making any nutritional choices.

A perfect example, and major misnomer, the body DOES need fat, however, what kind and in what form that fat is delivered to the body makes all the difference in the world.
There are good fats and bad fats, good proteins and bad proteins, good carbohydrates, minerals, vitamins, fruits and vegetables and bad ones.
Knowing which are better and more over, which are particularly better for YOU are VITAL to YOUr well BEing and longevity.

There are certain key elements in nutrition, that are applicable to all, and others that can be altered slightly in accordance to each individual’s specific dietary requirements, and challenges.
For example, protein is NECESSARY for the healthy growth and sustenance of strong muscles, which assist us in accomplishing ALL of our physical tasks.
Protein can be found in huge quantities in peanut butter, however for someone, peanut butter may cause a deathly reaction, as would another high protein food, such as salmon, in another.
Regardless of the form, protein is essential!!

Then again, eating tons of milk chocolate, which also contains protein, in that its a derivative of dairy, is not your best bet on fulfilling your body’s protein requirements.
Thus, the form is as important as the kind.

Which brings us to our next EXTREMELY important aspect of good wholesome nutrition, quantity.
Unlike a car, whose tank will automatically stop any pump from overfilling it, we humans must, using our mind’s, gauge our own fullness and ensure we do not overfill. This can be a huge problem, especially in today’s extraordinarily psychotically fast paced world, where standing by the kitchen counter and scoffing down whatever one can get their hands on is beyond common place.
Which brings us to our next extremely important aspect of good wholesome nutrition, though we shall come back to this one a little later on

Our stomachs are ELASTIC! Yup, ya heard right, they can expand, contract, get bigger and smaller, and all this, depending upon our choices!!! What kind of mileage are ya putting into that stomach of yours? What kind of food are you putting in there, how much of it, & how often?
If someone chooses to continuously eat large meals through out the day, they will invariably expand their stomachs.
Once your stomach is expanded, there is more room inside, which means there’s more required to fill it up, and thus more hunger pangs you shall feel to so do. The more you keep filling it up beyond comfort, beyond SATIATION, the bigger it gets and the more room and hunger pangs there shall invariably be, to fill it with unnecessary energy.
Unnecessary energy is not used, it is stored away for a rainy day, for a time when your body always proactive, thinks there may be no food. Only thing is, if you keep filling your stomach beyond satiation, that rainy day will be a long time in coming.

Thus it is important to not stretch the elasticity of one’s stomach too often, too much and with the wrong foods. In this way you are ensuring that when you do consume energy you are doing so to satiate your hunger, in other words, when you began eating you were feeling slight hunger pangs, and when you finished eating, your pangs had subsided, your stomach was not distended beyond your belt buckle, and you were left feeling satisfied to carry on with your daily activities without the pangs of hunger.

So we’ve got what we eat, how much we eat, and now the when, why, and where we eat what we eat to consider, when choosing to live a healthy, “nutritiously wholesome” lifestyle.

As I mentioned earlier, many of us today, with the enormity of our multi-tasked lives, leave little time for appropriate food consumption.
What is appropriate?
Believe it or not, “back in the good ‘ol days” when families would sit around the dining table together, and consume their meals with polite conversation and appreciation for the food they were blessed, was and IS the best way for one to consume all the great fanatabulous nutrients we are filling our vessels with.

When one is sitting down and giving their attention to the activity at hand, in this case, eating, they are more likely to be aware of their stomach’s satiation, and thus not over stuff themselves, or overextend their stomach’s elasticity. As such, you are paying more attention to the actual food being eaten, and therefore truly taking the opportunity to enjoy a good healthy meal, instead of gulping down way too much of the wrong foods, for the wrong reasons.

Bringing us to our “WHY?” and “When?” is it best for one to consume their required energy, which we shall speak to in our next Nutrition communiqué!
Looking forward to seeing and reading ya there!!!
In the interim, remember to sit down and enjoy your meals, select the foods comprising your meals carefully, and eat only to satiation.

WHOLEsome Nutritious Goodness to ALL

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