Your Food and Your Depression
Posted by Administrator in Mental Health.Life is a series of choices, from when we are babies and all the way through to old age. We have available to us hundreds of choices for our health and life. When our bodies are in balance physically, mentally and spiritually, choices come easily and positively. When we get out of balance, it becomes hard to make the right choice. Small continual good choices will lead us back to health and balance.
Although food would seem to be something our body requires on a physical level to build new cells, to give us energy, to ease hunger, our foods are most important to feed our brain and our heart so we can maintain life. The choices we make of which foods we put in our bodies sets the basis for physical, mental and spiritual health. Every single moment of every single day from the moment of our birth, our bodies strive for life – long, energetic, healthy, happy life. We are beautifully designed to live and to live fully! (Thank you God!) We are for sure the most sophisticated “vehicle” on this planet. Every single moment we are building bone cells, muscle cells, liver cells, pancreas cells, brain cells, skin cells and so on. In a one year time frame we rebuild and replace every single cell in our bodies. The catch here is, what quality of raw materials are we putting in while we are building all these cells?
Imagine this, for breakfast you had – nothing! – at school a friend shared some Halloween candy with you, and then for lunch you had – a microwaved fast food and a pop – and then after school for a snack you had – a bag of potato chips and a pop, and even worse a diet pop – and then for dinner you had a packaged mac and cheese, wieners, ketchup and a glass of chocolate milk.
This same day when you woke up, your body was all charged up to make brand new heart cells, and the raw materials you gave your body to do this were – nothing! – so without you even knowing it, your body had to go ahead anyway and make these cells with what it had to work with so they were made smaller, weaker and damaged. Then as the day goes on, your body had to make bone cells, and again these were made with what you fed yourself. So the quality of your cells is directly related to the quality of your food. When this goes on and on for days, and months, and years you can understand how we can slowly, very slowly, lose ground in our life. Read more