My Take on Food

It seems that everything I'm hearing and learning recently about health and nutrition all seem to match up.  No extreme diets, but eating healthy real, whole foods.  The biggest lesson I've begun incorporating into my life is to eat less processed foods.  Yes, it's amazing that scientists have discovered all different ways to make food stronger, bigger, cheaper, but is it the healthiest thing to be putting all of these chemicals and genetically-modified food into my body?  I don't think so.  It's hard to avoid some of it, because it's so prevalent in current day.  Recently, there was much discussion about the "frankenfish" - the genetically modified salmon.  If I recall correctly, scientists figured out a way to turn off the hormone that tells a fish when it's grown to full-size, so that it continues to grow bigger and bigger.  Not only are they modifying the genetics of plants, but now animals.  One of the worst parts of the whole thing is that if this is approved, there may be no labeling difference, so we won't know if our fish has been genetically modified or not.

I'm thankful that God has blessed me with an intelligent brain to begin reasoning out what I'm putting into my body.  Before I started this blog, there were many reasons why I ate what I ate:  "This tastes good," "I'm hungry," "It's cheap," "This is quick or easy to make," "I'm happy," "I'm sad," "I'm frustrated," "I'm celebrating," "I'm lonely," "I'm with friends," "I'm bored," etc.  The list can go on and on. Now I've begun viewing food as nourishment.  I'm realizing that what I'm putting into my body has a purpose other than satisfying some craving.  If my focus is HEALTH, then why would I want to continue sabotaging my body with unhealthy food?  If a car is created to operate with gasoline and oil, why would you attempt to fuel it with Coca-Cola?  If God created my body to be fueled with the food He created for me, like grass-fed meats, fish, fruits, veggies, and water, then why should I attempt to fuel it with pizza, ice cream, hamburgers, french fries and soda?