Food-4-Health
This section of the blog is all about food!
Good food, bad food, strange foods and the in between.
We will discuss why some foods are thought to be good and healthful to eat, and hopefully provide some great recipes for you to try to spice up your life and healthy with nutrition.
We will discuss the role of different nutrients like sugars, fiber, oils, spices and other foods that you cannot avoid and remain robustly healthy.
We will also discuss the food like substances that are inundating our food supply and the ways they are though to contribute to ill health.
Do join us for this gustatory treat!
What is Food?
The definition of what a food is appears to be ambiguous, still, and agenda driven.
The clearest and simplest definition I have found is as follows:
“Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for an organism. It is usually of plant or animal origin, and contains essential nutrients such as vitamins, fats, proteins, minerals, and carbohydrates. It is the substance ingested by an organism and assimilated by the organism's cells to provide energy, maintain life, or stimulate growth.” ~~ Editors of Encyclopedia Brittanica, 2017.
On some level, this definition would have been meaningful to ...
Water is Life
This colorless, odorless, tasteless substance nourishes, soothes and sustains us. Who among us does not enjoy the sound of flowing water, the lapping of waves, a babbling brook? What about the utter peaceful silence that a thick blanket of snow brings? How about a cool refreshing glass on a hot day? We start our existence in ...