Assess Your Diet:
How do you eat to feed your body?

The food you eat or dish up for your family, does not necessarily feed your bodies on a cellular level

And the nutrients your bodies need for them to be fed, do not necessarily occur in the food you eat.

Let me explain how to eat to feed your body.

To eat to feed your body you need to get the right nutrients that will enter the cell to nourish it, repair and renew it, and protect it. For instance you need essential fatty acids to feed the cell membrane so that it allows vitamins and minerals to pass into the cell (vitamins and minerals you will only have if you’ve eaten enough fruit and vegetables).

But much of the food we eat in fact blocks nutrients from entering the cell or in some way hampers the body’s ability to absorb it like sugar and heated fats.

Think of food like this:

When you go shopping for your groceries you pack them in your cupboards. And if you are like me, you feel wealthy and deeply grateful looking at your beautifully packed cupboards. It makes me feel much like after a good meal: satisfied and content.

You still have to prepare the food to eat it. But what if you never do? Something prevents you. Then the food will sit in the cupboard and decompose. Some you will throw away and some will only be discovered by your family after you are yourself burried and decomposing. Some may even leek into the pressed wood and cause it to buckle or at worst rot and also decompose.

What could be that something that prevents you from preparing your food? Or what prevents the food you eat from feeding your cells?

The short answer is:

the ‘something’ that keeps your cells from being fed by the food you eat, is the daily choices you make. Life happens, as they say, and the food remain in storage unabsorbed and gets washed out. Alternatively it stays in your blood and starts to cause havock as in the case of diabetes when glucose is not transported from the blood into the cells where it can be turned into energy, so it starts to cause damage on many levels, arteries start to leak, nerves go numb and, yes death and decomposition is not far away...

Assess your diet

For me a person’s diet sits on two continuums. On the first you will find yourself somewhere between a downright unhealthy diet full of take-away food, two minute noodles, fizzy drinks and chocolate bars, and a fanatically healthy diet of celery sticks, sprouted grain breads carrot juice and tofur.

On the second continuum you find yourself between taking no supplements or at most taking energy drinks, and eating supplements from a cereal bowl.

If you put the first continuum horizontally and the second vertically you get four quadrants like this:

Look for yourself in one of the four quadrants

In the bottom left corner you get people who eat unhealthily and do not take any supplements. This is somebody who possibly lives of diet drinks and sugar coated cereals.
Above them in the top left are people who eat what they like and bulk up their diet with numerous supplements.
On the bottom right hand corner are people who eat healthily but who do not supplement. They might stay on a farm where they grow their own organic vegetables and get fresh milk from the cow and free range eggs from the chicken, or buy everything from the health shop.
Above them on the top right hand are those who eat fresh fruit and vegetables, organic eggs and meat where they can, whole grains and fatty fish, but supplement where they think their diet still has a deficiency or a gap. This is the quadrant you want to move towards if you are an ordinary person like me.

Of course I have used extremes to explain the quadrants. Here are some shades within each quadrant, because no one is so easily boxed as that. You may be in the first quadrant closer to the line, so maybe you have your diet drinks and sugar coated cereals but is mindful of the fact that the cereal is fortified with twelve minerals and vitamins and if you feel slightly chilly you would take a vitamin C tablet.

Perhaps you have just crossed the line to the upper quadrant because you are dairy intolerant so you take extra calcium and stay away from three cheese pizza’s, but you typically comfort yourself with a huge plate of fries. (I know what I am talking about because I have been there myself). Or, instead of having crossed to the upper quadrant, you have moved into the lower right hand one where you know that fast food and boxed meals are not good for you, so you cook your own meals with food from the fresh produce sections of the supermarket, but you may not realize that much of these foods contain copious amounts of chemicals, hormones and other monstrosities that impair the absorption of their nutrients.

You may well be in the top right hand quadrant, but not happy with the supplements you are taking, because you do not really feel the difference that they make to your energy levels and overall health. Or you are not sure if you are taking the correct ones to plug the gaps of your diet. Where ever you are, you will be able to help yourself moving towards the right and ascending into a place of restful assurance that you are okay, by following the plan I provide.

I have focussed mostly on your own diet here, but as kitcheneer, you may also be responsible for feeding others. You may have to help your whole family adjust and this could be difficult for all of you. Begin slowly, step by step and do what is necessary to improve all of your lives.

Petro Janse van Vuuren

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Assess Your Diet:
How do you eat to feed your body?

The food you eat or dish up for your family, does not necessarily feed your bodies on a cellular level

Let me explain how to eat to feed your body.

Think of food like this:

The short answer is:

Assess your diet

Look for yourself in one of the four quadrants

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Assess Your Diet:How do you eat to feed your body?

The food you eat or dish up for your family, does not necessarily feed your bodies on a cellular level

Let me explain how to eat to feed your body.

Think of food like this:

The short answer is:

Assess your diet

Look for yourself in one of the four quadrants

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Assess Your Diet:
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