by James Dubreze

Created on: February 18, 2009   Last Updated: April 14, 2009

You are what you eat, as stated by Anthelme Brillat-Savarin in his work Physiologie du Gout "Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es." "You are what you eat" is simply my translation of the preceding quote. As they say, you are as young as you look. Age can not be used to determine how one should be aging; it can only tell how long one has been on this earth. To determine how one has aged, we must look at the many processes that have caused a person to age. Aging has more to do with life style than it has to do with food, it is the accumulation of changes in someone heath over time that will dictates how one aged. However, good nutritious food does play a big role in aging.

Whereas food is eating for survival, good nutritious food is eating to maintain health. Therefore, maintaining youth is partly related with what one eats. If you eat garbage you'll become garbage, is simply an expression but the truth remains, what you put in your body does effect your genetic make up. On May 11, 2004, Monsanto, the chemical giant responsible for more than 91 percent of all GE crops in the world, announced that it would suspend further development of their genetically engineered wheat. This was a victory that resulted from protest all over the world against genetically modified food.

To answer the question "can food be the answer to finding the fountain of youth" - one must understand that the fountain of youth can not be found if as a society we do nothing to discontinue the incentive to produce GMO foods. In another word, what significant is it to you if I tell you what you should eat when you have no access to them. It would seem that the first solution would be, to work together as a society to get rid of genetically engineer food. But to get rid of GMO food we must have alternatives to replaced them with organically grown produce.

We can use some of the stimulus money to invest in cultivating organic produce. As it is right now in this country, there is a great demand for organic produce. Many Americans have realized organically grown foods are more beneficial in nutrients than process food. If you are what you eat than what you not, is what you don't eat. Hence, we can now say since most of us are not eating organic food than I guest what we not is "healthy". Now it pays to say that if we were to cultivate organic food in great quantity, as a country we can benefit from this growing demand by becoming a supplier instead of a consumer.

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