You are what you eat It is indeed true that the quality of the food you consume will play an important role in determining the quality of life of every cell in your body. Food has a huge effect on your health, and a diet rich in just one aspect would be an unhealthy diet, just as a diet low in a certain nutrient would also affect your health. A balanced diet consists of carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals and water. Carbohydrates provide us with energy. Fats (lipids) with healthy cell membranes and energy reserve. Protein is essential for the growth and repair of body tissues. Vitamins are necessary for our cells to function properly, and minerals build molecules in your cells, such as calcium (Hudson, 1998). Although water is the most essential part of our diet, we can survive weeks without food, but only a few days without water. In a sense, you could say that humans are what we drink and make up seventy percent of our bodies, and that most organisms are made of water. Water is essential to every chemical reaction that occurs in the body. It makes up the blood and is used to dilute toxins and be excreted as urine. The reason humans eat the foods we eat and can't share food groups with other animals, like cows, is because we don't have the enzymes to digest these things. Cows are capable of eating grass, which is very difficult to digest because they have four stomachs and can allow the grass to ferment and break down before it is then digested. Humans eat the foods their digestive systems can handle. We are given guidelines as to how much of each component of our diet we should consume. Fo...... middle of paper ...... automatically over the last hundred years; we have entered a new era of “processed” and “ready-made” foods. This leaves foods stripped of their nutritional quality, and this is sacrificed in favor of quick and easy meals. Not surprisingly, also during these years, the number of overweight and obese people exploded. I think it's fair to say that what you eat affects your basic appearance, well-being, and future health.Bibliographyhttp://pigtrail.uark.edu/pubs/Research_Frontiers/fall_2000/05_Feature1.htmlwww.4girls .gov/eat/ Gastronomic review. Published by the Food Commission. “Too much salt? » Number 57.P.3Indge.B. Rowland. Mr. Baker. M. Published 2000. A new introduction to biology.Hudson.T. 1998. Science lesson book. LettsEducation. Samuels & Henett. 1973. The Fit Body Book. Wildwood House