The Nutrition Tayloring Club

The Nutrition Tayloring Club

Sowing old fashion qualities into modern life

Old But True: You Are What You Eat


In today’s world of diets it’s hard to figure out what to eat. People looking for a “quick buck” will push almost anything. Food suppliers are looking for cheaper ways of producing food as well. So, what is actually in the food most of us Americans are eating? Well, the simple answer is sugar. That’s why we’re all so sweet.


Our food has drifted from the nutritional elements that used to be part of our diet. You see, we need 157+ nutrients daily as minerals, vitamins, amino acids, fatty acids, probiotics, prebiotics, enzymes, and antioxidants. The American diet has substituted this nutrition for speed, convenience, and price. The amusing thing here is it increases our apatite as we slowly starve for essential nutrition. Some of us can’t help but just start eating trying to feed our hunger for the nutrition we’re not able to get.


What would happen if we kept adding gasoline to a failing engine? Soon it might start wasting gas in some form. Then it might slow down, burning less fuel. Then it might seize causing a need for a bigger storage tank. Now let’s say we have trillions of these engines in our employ. A few have seized many are failing, the ones working are calling for more fuel over filling the tanks of the seized and slow running engines. And we wonder why we’re gaining weight.


So we are what we eat. When we don’t eat the raw materials to repair our bodies, while engorging on sugar (aka carbs and nutrient poor foods), we become what we ate instead of burning it… fat.