The Surprising Truth About How Nutrition Affects You
- Aug 30, 2025
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What you eat has a huge impact on the person that you are, physically and mentally. Ever heard the old saying âyou are what you eatâ It sounds kinda cheesy but what if it was literally true. Your entire body started as a single cell and then multiplied into the hundred trillion cells you have today. Cells that make your brain your skin your heart and everything in between. So how did a tiny speck turn into this glorious human you are today What makes your muscles and bones grow and your heart keep beating
The answer to all those questions is a single word nutrition. The food you eat literally determines how your cells grow and function. When you were a bun in your momâs oven your development was a result of the food she ate. And now as a grown human made up of trillions of cells, your health depends on the nutrition you put into your body every single day.
For centuries people had no idea what a cell was until a guy named Antoni van Leeuwenhoek looked through a microscope and discovered that living things were made of tiny rooms which he called cells. We now know they are complex living structures made of fats and proteins the same stuff your food is made of. But what do they actually do with all that food you give them




