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Is it true that you are what you eat? The phrase you often hear you are what you eat
has been core believe in many cultures throughout history. The ancient Aztecs would eat the
brain of their rivals because they believed it would give them the wisdom and knowledge of
their enemies. In India, some cultures do not eat onion and garlic because they believed foods
with strong odor lead to aggressive and offensive behaviors. The Nordic Vikings believe that
drinking the blood of the bear or a wolf before the battle gave them the ferocity of the animal
they drank In China, there is a high demand for tiger penis because men there believe that
eating it will boost libido and cure erectile dysfunction Around the world and throughout
history we see fascinating and bizarre examples of traditions that center around the idea that
you embody what you eat.
Today, health chronicle help explain that to us considering the thousands of pages of
high academic and philosophical discourse written on a topic the meaning of the phrase is
pretty simple. If you eat crappy food you're going to feel crappy, If you eat healthy food then
you will feel and look healthy you are what you put into your body. Now, let’s take the crux of
this You Are What You EAT message and by looking at it more closely, through a scientific lens
what you eat determines even the composition of your cellular membranes. All the way down to
the tiniest building block of your entire body those little blocks that build your bones, your
organs, your muscles and your brain you are what you eat then consider this: the average
adult loses around 300 billion cells to old age every single day. How does their body replace
those cells? With the food we eat... literally. That food becomes the fuel for our body's own
manufacturing plan to replace cells that die. When we eat toxic chemically-laden nutrition less
food, our bodies have a hard time manufacturing new healthy cells. It would be like giving a
man a blunt hammer in the middle of the desert and asking him to build a massive castle or
filling a racecar gas tank with sand and expecting it to win our bodies carry out billions of
functions every second with those cells, thus another popular phrase is that our bodies are a
temple only instead of putting clean fuel in the machine we put in excrement and expect this
machine to make a masterpiece. Though our body is infinitely intelligent and even figures out
how to replace our cells to some extent despite our poor food choices. It can only improvise on
making of a masterpiece for so long before it runs out of ideas. Eventually, eating processed
junk food will lead to your cells becoming processed junk.

Genetically modified food equals to genetically modify you so, drink clean water eat
more fresh vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds. Allow your digestive system to work as it should
by reducing chronic inflammation with a better diet and consistent moderate exercise and
you'll even be able to extract more of the good stuff out of your food Your body will also be able
to dump the bad stuff with more ease. In brief, You ARE What You EAT. More than 300
hundred billion cells depend on the fuel you give your body. Make sure you give them the good
stuff.