We are what we eat because each food we choose is a collection of molecules of information-messages to the body. First of all, the food takes a long journey – for up to 24 hours  – through the body, having impacts along the way. That took the ingenuity of American marketing. The idea that you could sell soda that way was an invention. 15 0 obj A lot of the rest is being dumped overseas, or wasted, or burned in our cars. I'm really talking about cheap corn — overproduced, subsidized, industrial corn — the biggest legal cash crop in America. Your body does its best to neutralize it, but those messages can lead to imbalances. 5 0 obj Before you go out and sue McDonald's over the size of your waistline, consider that overproduction of cheap corn is government policy. If you do that and don't get correspondingly more exercise, you're going to get a lot fatter. If taken literally, I could imagine when I eat a bagel, I would turn into a bagel; or, when I eat carrots I would turn into carrots. Eat real whole  food – know the message of that food, Balance your choices of protein, fats, and carbs, Pause before you eat, and take 2 full breaths, Chew your food – slow down and enjoy what you are becoming. Saving protein and fat for their specific “jobs”. When I was a kid, Coke came in these lovely little eight-ounce glass containers.

Many demographers are predicting that this is the first generation of Americans whose life span may be shorter than their parents'. The difference is that the engine doesn’t turn into the gas; we do become the food. Creates savings for later use if you miss a meal, or are running for the train. and 510interactive, Sign up to receive news of events, projects, and resources from the Center for Ecoliteracy. Overproduction sooner or later leads to overconsumption, because we’re very good at figuring out how to turn surpluses into inexpensive, portable new products. Except for seafood, all our calories come from the farm. There is a powerful industrial logic at work here, the logic of processing. What does that really mean? Support healthy cell-membranes, where communication happens in the body. What actually happens after you swallow? Site by Plumbline

Now, how do you get people to eat so much of this reengineered surplus corn? That is a great example of food becoming, in this case, our cell membrane. First, we all need to begin to pay attention to the Farm Bill, working to develop farm programs that allow farmers to stay in business without falling into the trap of overproduction. Take a typical fast food meal. Bonus tip: introduce yourself to a vegetable you have never met, or a spice that looks and smells amazing to you.

Eighty million acres — an area twice the size of New York State — is blanketed by a vast corn monoculture like a second great American lawn.

Compared with the mid-to-late 1970s, American farms are producing 500 more calories of food a day per American. Transportation vehicles to carry small molecules within cells and throughout the body. How many times have we heard that expression?

We Are What We Eat Interview by Ira Boudway Salon.com, April 8, 2006. %PDF-1.4 %�쏢 What we eat and how much we eat is critical, but how we process it is perhaps even more important. But farmers don't do that, because there are so many of them, and because they all operate as individuals, without any coordination. We're managing to pack away 200 of them, which is pretty heroic on our part. B�,�Pq@}�n�PT~=N��8��6��qS����u�w�˧�S����z�P���)�|��߮�`�����*%ԩ��ա�U I’ve never liked the word "consumer." How do we begin to change this system? Today, a 20-ounce container is the standard size for soda. Our cheap, value-added, portable corn commodity is corn sweetener, specifically high-fructose corn syrup. (That's really how we're trying to get rid of it now: in ethanol. stream Even though that’s not exactly how it works, we are on the right track! Of the 37 ingredients in chicken nuggets, something like 30 are made, directly or indirectly, from corn.

Supports elimination, all from plant fibers. Y�R�OYUԭY��ߚT�Ko�'�@)�(Ut ��zX�2=k����G�]�JM��U��`c���� �-�����0'��+f���p�v�$. For a country that is so obsessed with eating healthy, it is ironic that it should be one of the least healthy developed nations. The simple message is to eat real, whole food that has a message your body can understand so easily. We digest or breakdown the food into smaller units to help “run the operations” of the body. So when prices fall farmers actually expand production, in order to keep their cash flow from falling. Click Download or Read Now button to sign up and download/ The problem is that it takes almost as much, or even more, energy to make a gallon of ethanol than you get from that ethanol. If it were called the Food Bill, I think we would all pay a lot more attention to it, and get a saner result. An example of how this supports the body is muscle contraction. For example, a meal of chicken or beans, sweet potato, greens, and avocado gives the body great information. Through thousands of little sensors, the gut has the immense task of managing all the information contained in the food we intake. What about the junk or fake food, what happens with that? People think it's a very green fuel, but the process for making it is not green at all.). Brain power and muscle action move our body, and beat our heart. Your trusty liver, who already has about 400 jobs, has to try to neutralize those incomprehensible messages. During the last year I've been following a bushel of corn through the industrial food system.

This economically and environmentally disastrous phenomenon has resulted in an increase in the American corn harvest from four billion to ten billion bushels since the 1970s. Brain energy, focus, and how we eliminate toxins. Lastly – we want to pay attention about how we eat. Taking the time to connect to the food, maybe taking a few breaths or giving a blessing can keep us in line with digestion and send a great message to the body. I believe very strongly that our overproduction of cheap grain in general, and corn in particular, has a lot to do with the fact that three-fifths of Americans are now overweight. I was at a gathering in Italy last October where Carlos Petrini, the founder and president of Slow Food International, offered a wonderful redefinition of the word.

Food and `�;��_�za��m��f2L�]/��_U���^��endstream What he discovers affects pretty much everything you eat. It has a history, and you can find the individual responsible, an ingenious movie theater manager named David Wallerstein, who invented the idea of supersizing and sold it to Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald's. Enjoy the journey of connecting to the wonder of your body and the many ways you can choose how to be by what you eat! We discovered that corn is this big, fat packet of starch that can be broken down into almost any basic organic molecules and reassembled as sweeteners and many other food additives. Slim Jims are full of corn syrup, dextrose, cornstarch, and a great many additives. If you are what you eat, and especially if you eat industrial food, as 99 percent of Americans do, what you are is "corn.".

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We often use the analogy that food is fuel for our body, like gas is fuel for our car. It sounds like a character who’s using up the world, rather than creating anything. Keep us warm, and protects our organs and body parts, Power-up the brain, nerve system, and impulses, Carry certain vitamins through digestion; e.g., eating tomato with olive oil increases absorption of lycopene. endobj We never sell or share your private information.

The message of processed food – like hydrogenated fats, GMOs, artificial sugars and that long ingredient-list on processed food packages –  is one that the body has to manage because it can’t use for its normal jobs. This essay is excerpted from an article that originally appeared in The New York Times Magazine. Thriving gut bugs – healthy bacteria, and emptying our trash. !�(���GLtRj�brěF�`�j'C�".X2WW�:�� ����F�m�t��x��!�q�ͣ'�o��J�K*`����>�^��9EmP���ƛ8B�Q\o\� nYgL���F��.�1:؃����r�7Yɾ�idP��B�S�;� O���m.�|�E�%(���n^4b��f\�&���O*��r�D0��E-rd]/ $��Rf�FZ��Ű��C�G:��q^a�}��gS�M��L4���Np��E�v���]�y_�t��ȍ��-E����g�`�ln6�:pùV0�m~�15aXaGm�&m��?ʧ����C�+�P������o/�VGʃ��x��1�f�&���r��OJ�`l���!��ؼk�S96|L�$�4e0���$JH�=?��A�0!����ѹ���rg;����#�2��KH��%�0 ���pcY�bD��b�-߯�ru��._��镎���ę��Ds��E޹�)�|S�}`����� But before you blame subsidies for all these problems keep in mind that agricultural overproduction is an ancient problem that long predates subsidies. We discovered that corn is this big, fat packet of starch that can be broken down into almost any basic organic molecules and reassembled as sweeteners and many other food additives. Fake food is like a foreigner who doesn’t speak your body’s language, roaming the body without an itinerary with messages that don’t translate. �j]��Y��LT���}{��Ic�rk�;,��c�M4鍊�{�ٜ����

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I think it’s helpful to understand what really happens when we eat, and why it matters so much. When we break it down to the basics, here’s what we know about that journey: Protein – such as meat, fish, eggs, nuts/seeds and legumes – are made of single units called amino acids which become: Carbohydrates – like vegetables, fruit, grains and legumes – are made up of single units called glucose, which supports: FATS – such as olives and olive oil, nuts/seeds, coconut oil, and avocado – break down into fatty acids that: So, now if we look at that statement “we are what we eat,” we see that we need all of those messages to keep our bodies well and healthy. It's in the corn-fed beef Big Mac patty, and in the high-fructose syrup in the bun, and in the secret sauce. The other thing we can do is become responsible consumers.

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