We are what we eat...literally!

We have all heard the old saying "you are what you eat". Normally it is told to us by our parents at an early age to encourage proper diet, but have you ever stopped to actually think about this? Every day cells die in our body and they need to be replaced with new cells. When we eat, the food is broken down into its most basic forms or "building blocks" and absorbed into our bloodstream. The body then re-assembles these "building blocks" into whatever type of cell the body needs at the time. If you need a blood cell or a muscle cell or a brain cell the body makes it. It isn't too far of a leap then to understand that what we put into our body as food, eventually becomes the actual cells of the body. So, eating a poor diet and making cells in your body out of those inferior "building blocks" is the equivalent of building a house with rotting wood or rusted steel, it will wear out much sooner. So the next time you reach for that junk food, ask yourself, do I really want this twinkie becomeing a part of my body?