Cell food - As your cells go, so goes your body
| Many people use the term 'diet' and
'nutrition' interchangeably. This is incorrect or at least incomplete; diet is
only one component of nutrition. Diet is what you eat, including supplements
and beverages. Nutrition is that which you are actually able to utilize from
your diet. It is possible to eat all the right foods and avoid all the bad ones
and still be undernourished.
Nutrition can be broken down into four components:
- Diet What you eat
- Digestion What is broken down into is primary parts
- Absorption What passes through the intestinal wall into the
blood
- Utilization What the body actually uses at a cellular
level
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Nutrition, therefore, is diet,
minus that which is not digested, minus that which is not absorbed, minus that
which is not utilized. What remains is the actual food that is used by your
cells.
Either your food breaks down
or your body does!
After food is eaten, it must
be broken down by a combination of chemical (digestive enzymes) and physical
(mixing and moving) digestive processes. The body can use only the basic
nutrients: glucose, amino acids, essential oils, vitamins, and minerals. If
these are not broken down or extracted from the food eaten, the food will
complete the journey from mouth to anus without doing you a bit of good. If
you have ever seen whole food in your stool or recognizable pieces such as
grains, peas, corn or seeds, poor digestion may be contributing to nutritional
deficiencies and resulting health problems.
Risotriene is so easily
digested that it bypasses this problem, breaking down relatively easily into the
basic nutrients that the body can use.
