What functions does food serve?
• Fuel for energy production – if anyone has had the misfortune of filling up a petrol-engine car with diesel fuel (as I have!), you will be familiar with the consequences of putting the wrong fuel into an engine i.e. the engine will run poorly and will eventually stop. The human engine is no different – if you fill it up with refined, processed, nutrient-depleted foods, it will run poorly and will eventually stop. • Structure – over a one year period over 98% of your entire body (including DNA, teeth, organs, bones, muscles etc.) will be replaced by what you have eaten over that time – hence the saying ‘you are what you eat’. Consume high quality nutrients and you will end up with a high quality body; eat crap and you will end up looking (and feeling) like crap! • Catalyzing chemical reactions – a catalyst is something that facilitates a chemical reaction. Every 1/1000th of a second an estimated 500 chemical reactions take place in each of your 100 trillion body cells. For these chemi
