What we eat ?

Why do we eat? ... And really, why? Different people are suited to this issue is not the same? There is obvious glutton. They learned how to get great pleasure from eating, often replacing other human joy 

Excitement is brought to the fore, the physical health and spirituality they do not go. “And if there are similar thoughts, aromas from the table are usually forced to leave any attempt to resist. 

The opposite type - ascetic. This is a giant with an iron will curb their feelings in different ways. Ascetic eaten only by necessity. Another category is perhaps the largest - is «normal» people who live in mother's milk to absorb the type of installations «of meat - the power», «eat breakfast myself ...», etc. They are programmed from childhood, and even thought about changing his food (read - of his life), and the more radical change, they did not arise. There is, finally, and those whose motto is: «There are, to live, not live to eat». These people are wise to follow the voice of Nature, is pleased to eat her gifts, if necessary, hungry, without making a nutrition problem. 

But one way or another, have accounted for all or almost all. Returning to the title of this chapter, let us see what is it that makes the food and how it affects people. 

Building material 

Yes, part of nutrients we use as building material. After all, our bodies, such seemingly intact, continuously updated. Some cells die, they replaced the new. The speed of recovery depends on the type of cells and the overall intensity of metabolic processes. You play the role and heredity, and lifestyle and the environment, and even the nature of human thought. 

On average, our body is almost completely updated for 4-5 years. And muscles, and skin and bones - all, except for the nerve cells. Some tissue faster (blood, for example, 3-4 months), others more slowly. I remember a woman who could not believe that every five years, there is no next to nothing of what had been before. But this is not fiction, this is the reality. These facts are now studying in schools on the lessons of biology. 

All cells live, divide and die. Dead cells recycling. This provides some energy and some materials (especially proteins) for new cells. A limited number of proteins synthesized from the intestinal micro flora compounds. In special circumstances (for starvation, for example, or during a special breathing exercises), proteins can be formed, and in normal cells from carbon dioxide, water and nitrogen. But all the same in basic construction material comes from food. 

Of course, apart from plastic materials, are supplied and "support" the connection to ensure that the course of many reactions that affect the immune system and other functions. A more detailed discussion of this is yet to come. 


Energy 

For the vast majority of food served and the main source of energy. Organic matter products, oxides, release its hidden power - chemical energy. Through it, we support the body temperature, moving, synthesizing the necessary substance, in a word, alive. But the energy in the compounds appeared not to digest itself. Plants received it from the sun - remember the famous response of photosynthesis, when the inorganic substances produced proteins, fats and carbohydrates. Animals "ramp-up meat eating plants or other animals. Thus, all our food is sunny, and we, the people, the sun in nature. At the beginning of this section states that for most people, the food - the main source of energy. 

There are, however, people almost without food or without food. For example, some yoga. There are Christian saints who lived without a food (St. Catherine Siena, Blessed Elizabeth, ST. Flue sky Nicholas (Brooder Klaus), etc.) The most famous, perhaps, Theresa Newman, do not take food and water for 39 years. Teresa Newman, scientists have studied, the fact of its unusual ability to reliably established, although the mechanism of the phenomenon has not yet been disclosed. After all, there are many kinds of energies, has not yet been studied in science. And as a denial of the fact that the Earth revolves around the Sun, could not prevent the movement of this space, as well as ignorance of subtle energy does not cancel their actions. And yoga claim that our physically manifested only a small portion of the existing forces in the world.