by James Dubreze

Created on: October 19, 2009   Last Updated: October 20, 2009

Eating healthy is a way of life.

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 cannot 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 has 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. And because of that, maintaining youth is partly related with what ones eat. Therefore, If you eat garbage you'll become garbage, is simply an expression, but the truth remains, what you put in your body does affect your genetic makeup.

On July 17 2002 Sean Poulter, a consumer Affairs Correspondent in UK wrote " EATING GMO food can change the genetic make-up of your digestive system and could put you at risk of infections that are resistant to antibiotics." And to support Sean Poulter findings, the documentary, food matters by James Colquhoun indicated that the soil where our food is cultivated is missing some important minerals and nutrients. And it is because of those missing nutrients which have caused the soil to be deficient that has attracted this tremendous cost in health care. Apparently, this deficiency has in turn weakened our immune system, leaving us vulnerable to even a simple cold.....why? - Because we are what we eat. And to strengthen our immune system, we must counter play those deficiencies by detox and eat foods that are nutritiously healthy.

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. As you can see, it is only when we choose not to participate that the reverse of progress is possible. Thanks to the Internet, we are far more informed than our predecessors, however, it is our determination to act on the information obtained that can redirect the reverse of progress.

Now, to answer the

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