The quality of the food you eat powerfully impacts the health of your body. Every meal and snack is an opportunity to choose nutritious and delicious foods, which research shows affect all dimensions of well-being.
The food you eat and what you drink can be the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison. What most people don’t realize is that food and drinks are not just calories and chemicals; they’re information. They actually contain messages that connect to every cell in the body.
Mindful eating and drinking involves paying attention to what you eat and drink, savoring each bite, and acknowledging how the food and drink make you feel. It encourages you to make healthier food and drink choices and pay attention to your body’s hunger and fullness cues.
Don’t believe every food and drink out there is good for you. Our body mechanism, assimilation, and digestive system are not the same, and they function differently. This means that our body system is sensitive to what we eat and drink. Eating or drinking what your body system doesn’t want is the cause of major health complications.
The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system because every time you eat or drink, you are either feeding disease or fighting it.
Those who think they have no time for healthy eating will sooner or later have to find time for illness. You are what you eat and drink. What you would like to be is what you eat. One can not think well, love well, sex well, or sleep well if one has not dined well.
The first wealth is health. It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.
