I hope to explore the importance of nutrition in our lives. How does the chemistry of food and drink affect the chemistry make up of our bodies?
Food and drink have been with us since the beginning. Since Adam, Eve, the serpent and the apple humans have had free will to eat and drink what we will. That crafty serpent set about man’s battle with nutrition.
The Game Changers
If this doesn’t motivate you I don’t know what will!
Genesis 3
“3 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”
4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”
10 He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”
11 And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
12 The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
14 So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,
“Cursed are you above all livestock
and all wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly
and you will eat dust
all the days of your life.
15 And I will put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring[a] and hers;
he will crush[b] your head,
and you will strike his heel.”
16 To the woman he said,
“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;
with painful labor you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you.”
17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’
“Cursed is the ground because of you;
through painful toil you will eat food from it
all the days of your life.
18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.
19 By the sweat of your brow
you will eat your food
until you return to the ground,
since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
and to dust you will return.”
But it doesn’t stop there! Adam and Eve had two sons, Cain and Abel.
Genesis 4
“Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil. 3 In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord. 4 And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering, 5 but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.
6 Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? 7 If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”
Cain murdered Abel over Cain’s offering of “fruits of the soil.” The first murder with God as the first homicide investigator.
8 Now Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.”[d] While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.
9 Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?”
“I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
Since the beginning as in “In the beginning” nothing has changed. Two things you must take away are, “Thou shall not kill” and from that time forward it has been our responsibility to produce, from the “sweat from your brow,” the food and drink required to sustain us.
Food
Everything you ever wanted to know about food but were afraid to ask straight from the government the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and their Nutrition.Gov website
How Not To Die by Michael Greger M.D.
New York Times Bestseller
“This book may help those who are susceptible to illnesses that can be prevented.”—His Holiness the Dalai Lama
“Absolutely the best book I’ve read on nutrition and diet” –Dan Buettner, author of The Blue Zones Solution
From the physician behind the wildly popular NutritionFacts website, How Not to Die reveals the groundbreaking scientific evidence behind the only diet that can prevent and reverse many of the causes of disease-related death.
The vast majority of premature deaths can be prevented through simple changes in diet and lifestyle. In How Not to Die, Dr. Michael Greger, the internationally-renowned nutrition expert, physician, and founder of NutritionFacts.org, examines the fifteen top causes of premature death in America-heart disease, various cancers, diabetes, Parkinson’s, high blood pressure, and more-and explains how nutritional and lifestyle interventions can sometimes trump prescription pills and other pharmaceutical and surgical approaches, freeing us to live healthier lives.
Beat Cancer Kitchen by Chris & Micah Wark
125+ recipes for prevention and healing
Supply your body with an abundance of life-giving nutrients to repair, regenerate, detoxify, and heal, all while providing the comfort that all good food should. Following the success of Chris Beat Cancer, Chris Wark and his wife, Micah, share whole-food, plant-based recipes that appeal to the whole family, whether you are healing from cancer, actively eating a diet to prevent it, or simply seeking a healthy lifestyle for you and your loved ones.
Fruits, vegetables, mushrooms, nuts, seeds, legumes, whole grains, herbs, and spices are the foundational ingredients of Chris’s anticancer diet. Complete with tips for diet optimization, this cookbook will get you in the Beat Cancer Mindset and guide you onto the road to wellness.
https://www.chrisbeatcancer.com/category/epic-health/recipes-2/
Food & Music – can it get any better than that?
Somewhere man learned to produce music through singing and instruments and food and drink became occasional subjects to sing and play about.
Sugar
Can we do without sugar in our diet? Medical News Today answers the question, “Does the body need sugar? Role in the body and how much to consume” and Livestrong.com reports on the “Importance of Sugan in the Human Body.” Diabetes.co.UK tells us “What Role Does Sugar Play in Our Diet?”
MD Anderson weighs in on the sugar conversation with “Should cancer patients avoid sugar? 5 things to know.”
More articles about Sugar and Cancer:
WebMD – “Cancer and Sugar: Is There a Link”
National Library of Medicine – “Understanding the Link between Sugar and Cancer: An Examination of the Preclinical and Clinical Evidence”
Cancer Research UK – “Sugar and cancer – what you need to know”
American Institute for Cancer Research – “The Sugar and Cancer Connection”
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center – “The Lowdown on Sugar and Cancer: MSK Experts Look at the Evidence”
There have been songs about every kind of food and drink by many artists. Some food is good for us and some not so good but that doesn’t mean that the music is bad.
We’re learning just how bad sugar is for us, but how about pie?
Vegetables
The Beach Boys knew what was best for us when they wrote and recorded “Vegetables.”
Natural Food Series tells us the “11 Amazing Benefits of Vegetables,” and Medical News Today reveals the “15 healthiest vegetables: Nutrition and health benefits.” Healthline reports on “The 14 Most Nutrient-Dense Vegetables” while Allfitwell exhaustingly provides “50 Vegetables and Their Nutritional Benefits – Allfit Well.” And the University of Central Florida (UCF) gives us the “11 Reasons to Eat Vegetables Every Day.”
Good Housekeeping wrote “13 Top Health Benefits of Watermelon, According to Nutritionists”. No doubt Herbie Hancock knew about the benefits of watermelon when he recorded “Watermelon Man.”
Not to be out done by watermelons, Stylecraze reports that there are “31 Benefits Of Onions, Nutritional Value, And Side Effects”. Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell no doubt knew the benefits of onions and wanted to share the news with the world.
And the purpose for proper nutrition? To feel good!
Follow along in our expedition into nutrition.
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