Raw Material Inputs Create Your Health Outcomes
A Bite-Size Read for Your Health and Waistline
What do you think when you hear the phrase, “raw materials?” Admittedly, I think of an assembly line in a factory. Others might say raw materials are the basic building blocks of something more complex. What if we applied this to our health? Afterall, few things are as complex as the human body.
What are the raw materials of our wellness? Let’s use another living organism as an example. Think about a plant or a tree. The nutrients in the soil help it grow, along with proper water and sunlight, to create the end product — leaves, flowers, fruit. When the soil lacks nutrients, the fruit, flowers, or leaves are depleted as well; they may have spots, don’t grow as large or as strong, die quickly, etc.
In terms of the human body, raw materials are nutrition, just like the plant or tree. Everything you consume is the raw material you provide your body. As a health coach with almost 17 years of experience, I’ve come to understand and see with my own eyes, we are a country of people who are overfed and undernourished. I often use the analogy of putting paint in your gas tank and wondering why the car won’t run. When we eat processed foods, refined grains, sugar-laden food-like substances, it’s like the paint in your gas tanks. Then we wonder why…
