Nutrition – Choice or Circumstance?
When I think of nutrition I think of health. The two words seem to go hand in hand. I was just wondering though – why do we have to pay more for health? Health food shops are so darn expensive… gym memberships cost the earth, bio-fuel is way more expensive than normal – and junk food is only getting cheaper. Is anyone else as confused as me?
Well I’ve been thinking a lot lately. Life is really all about nutrition isn’t it? Its what we eat that determines how our day goes. No really, it is! If we have a rushed breakfast, then our whole day is going to feel rushed and inadequate. If we have a slower more filling breakfast, then the pace of the day will be a whole lot more relaxed. We live to eat basically. We eat out with friends, we have people around for a meal – meet at a park or beach for a BBQ… life revolves around food!
Good nutrition is a loaded phrase. What is it? Is it the same for everyone? Is it available for everyone? Does it depend on where you live, what you do? Has good nutrition changed over the years? Will it be the same in 100 years? Well these are questions I’m wrestling with and don’t necessarily have answers too.
But my gut feeling tells me that good nutrition is and can be available to most – at least in the Western world. I’m speaking like this because that is what I know. I haven’t experienced anything other than the Western world for a significant amount of time so I can’t speak with authority about other sectors of society! I have a feeling that good nutrition is a choice. To some degree it is dependent on circumstance but then our circumstance is largely dependent on choice. Argh this is beginning to sound awfully socio-economically-political! If that is a term!
Anyway what I think I’m driving at is that you, me, we all have the choice of whether or not we have good nutrition. We all can choose a water over Coke or vice versa. We all can choose a donut over an apple or vice versa. We are blessed in this day an age to be able to go down to the shop and buy what we want or need whenever we want. So don’t take this for granted. Realise that your body is the only one you’re ever going to have and that you need to treat it wisely, with respect and care. Input = output. If you eat crap, you’ll feel like crap. If you eat well, you will feel well. It is so simple – yet something I struggle with a lot. And I have a feeling everyone else does too. Good nutrition is about defining what is good and right for you, and making the choice to stick to that for a single purpose: a healthier, happier, longer life.
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Comment by weelittleme
27 June 2008
I totally agree. The problem is making that right choice all the time when food really acts as part nutrition, part drug and all those high sugar quick fix food pack an intoxicating addicting punch that works so well for the quick “high” even though the crash is really horrible. I’m still working on getting to the bottom of dealing with that part.