Have you heard the phrase “you are what you eat”? Well besides being catchy, it is true. Your body uses the food you take in as the building blocks to maintain and repair your body. The body only has three options with everything that comes into your body:
- Use it
- Get rid of it
- Store it
That’s it. If the body cannot do number one or two, it is stuck with number three, which can have a huge impact on health when we accumulate toxins that the body cannot get rid of very well. So if you eat “junk” you will only have “junk” for your body to work with.
I recently watched the documentary “Food Matters.” Apparently, it normally will cost you money to get a DVD or some other access to it, but is showing free for a short time. If you like, you can check it out yourself here if you act quickly because it is only available for free until midnight December 10, 2013. It was thought provoking and I would recommend it.
While I did not completely agree with everything that was presented, it did give me many things to consider. I will definitely be researching more about the ideas presented. I agree with the overall ideas presented that you are in charge of your health and what you eat makes an enormous difference when it comes to health.
The documentary centers on using nutrition to not only maintain health but to ‘treat’ any number of diseases including cancer. Whether or not that is valid is something I will have to look into, but nutrition is known to affect many types of cancer. One of the ideas put forth that I completely agree with is that the body is endowed with an innate ability to heal and that disease happens when this healing ability is hindered by something. In this case, the focus was on poor nutrition as the cause of the breakdown of the healing mechanism. I agree that nutrition can be a cause and proper nutrition is essential to the body being able to heal. But as a chiropractor, I also know that subluxation interferes with the healing mechanism.
A subluxation is basically when the bones of the spine are not aligned or moving properly, which interferes with the function of nerves. The nerves control every process in the body, including healing. Poor nutrition is one cause of subluxation as well as physical and mental/emotional stresses. As a chiropractor I can help in correcting subluxations, but if you are not eating well you will not be able to achieve your full health potential.
How important is nutrition? Nutrition is vitally important to your health. And I will echo suggestions from the documentary: don’t take anyone else’s word for it, find out for yourself! Research for yourself and ask questions. And if you have any questions I would be glad to be a starting place. I minored in nutrition during my undergraduate work and studied it while in chiropractic school.
