What Should I Eat? Perhaps the most noticeable changes in the body occur in health. We move through an endless parade of aches, pains, coughs, colds, tensions and sensitivities, along with periods of relative health and high energy. With all these changes in the body, does it not make sense that our nutritional needs change? A single diet could not possibly keep pace with those changes. A changing body means a changing diet. You have not had just one body in this life – you have had many – and each of these bodies has called for a different way to eat. Consider the dramatic shift that occurs in the life of a newborn as it makes the transition from umbilical-cord nourishment to breast or bottle. No longer is its nutritive process a passive one through the belly. It must actively reach for milk and for the first time carry out the function of digestion completely on its own. The introduction of solid food marks yet another important transition for the child. Its body grows at a rapid rate, and its digestive system must meet a completely new set of challenges in breaking down and assimilating complex molecular foodstuffs. Few of us would complain to an infant that it is getting too much fat in its diet – mother’s milk is 52 percent fat – or that it needs a wider variety of foods. For its particular physiology and activity level, it is eating the perfect diet. And yet that perfect diet will change. The infant may grow to be an active toddler, a high-school athlete, a health-food-eating college student, an office worker, a parent, a partygoer, or an invalid, with each of these different “bodies” calling for its own special nutrition. So if you’ve been looking for the perfect diet, it’s time to let go. Relax, observe the body you live in, the life you lead, the season, your climate, your likes and dislikes, your level of health, the exercise you do, the yearnings and cravings you experience – and mix them all together in the spirit of experimenting to discover what’s best for you to eat. You’ll likely discover that the “perfect diet” is a mystery to be lived each day.
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 17:30:00 +0000
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