by Dell Screen

Created on: September 09, 2009

Why greens were singled out here is slightly immature in a sense. Maybe it is to do with the whole thing about parents or guardians telling there kid that eating their vegetables is very beneficial for them. And the kids not wanting to go there because of taste or some possibly aesthetically inclined reason. The popular known saying by the parent or guardian is Eat all your vegetables else you wont grow big and strong. Not too sure what the word grow stands for in this saying but I could give them the benefit of the doubt and understand it as not being contrary to my side of this debate. I mean for one good point is that they were talking to kids.

Saying this I suspect that I possibly may have taken the word grow in the title the wrong way and it actually means what I presumed the grow in the saying above meant in that case I would be in the Yes column. I apologize if I am no expert at English but I have taken the word grow as it sounds in the title and I am in the No column.

Does eating your greens really make you grow? Does it? I mean what happens when you eat? That is, what happens when you take in food into the body? As whatever it is you are eating (greens) can be classed as a food.

It is an awesome journey.

However this is no science lecture, well it could be, I don't know. When food is taken in it tastes nice but it also needs to be broken down in order for the body to be able to make use of the nutrients, fibers, vitamins and benefits they contain.

One way of looking at this is that the food has to be small enough to be absorbed into the body. On another level there is four ways where the food can go once it is in the stomach. The pathways to these ways depend on what happens in the stomach.

Food has to be broken down. For instance you take in sugar say when you have a bowl of cereal. Only the individual small sugar molecules called monosaccharide's can be absorbed directly. Your body must digest the table sugar (sucrose) which is made up of two small sugars to its monosaccharide's. Any food not broken down does not get absorbed. The food substances that are not used exit the body as waste.

The nutrients in the body are now absorbed into the blood stream and are taken to various parts of the body as required. That is, any nutrients good for the hair will be taken in that direction etc. So far there is no evidence of grow. Only information that nutrients are taken in. But what do they do.

Your body needs food. It uses the food it takes in

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