"By relying solely on outside information about the body—from books, doctors, and other experts—we are alienated from our innate body intelligence. The richness, emotion, sensitivity, drama, and uncertainty that make the body “human” are forgotten. What is left is a shell that runs on nutrients. Thus, we view food merely as a collection of chemicals: milk for calcium, brussels sprouts for anticancer nutrients, bread for fiber, and oranges as a convenient package for vitamin C.
We no longer consider how our food was prepared, who prepared it, how it feels, where it was grown, or even if it was grown. Eating is not a festive and sensuous experience, nor is nourishment symbolic of love, connectedness, nurturance, and fulfillment. Rather, nourishment is reduced to “nutrition”—vitamins, minerals, proteins, carbohydrates, and facts—just the hard, cold facts.
Nourishment is not just “nutrition.” Nourishment is the nutrients in the food, the taste, the ...aroma, the ambiance of the room, the conversation at the table, the love and inspiration in the cooking, and the joy of the entire eating experience. Even at the cellular level, nourishment is not derived exclusively from nutrients in food. Nourishment comes from the process our body undergoes to digest and assimilate those nutrients. Many of us believe that only vitamins, minerals, proteins, carbohydrates, and fats—the end products of digestion—are what nourishes. But equally important is the work the body must do to extract the nutrients from food and utilize them properly. In other words, nutrition is how the body processes food. It is the physical and chemical challenge the body faces in the breakdown of food in the mouth, the churning and the enzymatic digestion in the stomach, the absorptive process in the intestinal villi—the whole range of digestive activities. The process of digestion is nutrition."Nourishing Wisdom: A Mind-Body Approach to Nutrition and Well-Being.
"By relying solely on outside information about the body—from books, doctors, and other experts—we are alienated from our innate body intelligence. The richness, emotion, sensitivity, drama, and uncertainty that make the body “human” are forgotten. What is left is a shell that runs on nutrients. Thus, we view food merely as a collection of chemicals: milk for calcium, brussels sprouts for anticancer nutrients, bread for fiber, and oranges as a convenient package for vitamin C.
We no longer consider how our food was prepared, who prepared it, how it feels, where it was grown, or even if it was grown. Eating is not a festive and sensuous experience, nor is nourishment symbolic of love, connectedness, nurturance, and fulfillment. Rather, nourishment is reduced to “nutrition”—vitamins, minerals, proteins, carbohydrates, and facts—just the hard, cold facts.
Nourishment is not just “nutrition.” Nourishment is the nutrients in the food, the taste, the ...aroma, the ambiance of the room, the conversation at the table, the love and inspiration in the cooking, and the joy of the entire eating experience. Even at the cellular level, nourishment is not derived exclusively from nutrients in food. Nourishment comes from the process our body undergoes to digest and assimilate those nutrients. Many of us believe that only vitamins, minerals, proteins, carbohydrates, and fats—the end products of digestion—are what nourishes. But equally important is the work the body must do to extract the nutrients from food and utilize them properly. In other words, nutrition is how the body processes food. It is the physical and chemical challenge the body faces in the breakdown of food in the mouth, the churning and the enzymatic digestion in the stomach, the absorptive process in the intestinal villi—the whole range of digestive activities. The process of digestion is nutrition."Nourishing Wisdom: A Mind-Body Approach to Nutrition and Well-Being.
Nourishment is not just “nutrition.” Nourishment is the nutrients in the food, the taste, the ...aroma, the ambiance of the room, the conversation at the table, the love and inspiration in the cooking, and the joy of the entire eating experience. Even at the cellular level, nourishment is not derived exclusively from nutrients in food. Nourishment comes from the process our body undergoes to digest and assimilate those nutrients. Many of us believe that only vitamins, minerals, proteins, carbohydrates, and fats—the end products of digestion—are what nourishes. But equally important is the work the body must do to extract the nutrients from food and utilize them properly. In other words, nutrition is how the body processes food. It is the physical and chemical challenge the body faces in the breakdown of food in the mouth, the churning and the enzymatic digestion in the stomach, the absorptive process in the intestinal villi—the whole range of digestive activities. The process of digestion is nutrition."Nourishing Wisdom: A Mind-Body Approach to Nutrition and Well-Being.
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