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Food Court

04/30/2015

“Calling deep-fried Oreos to the stand!”

In food court, your body is the judge. It makes judgments according to a set of guidelines called natural dietary laws. Even if your taste buds are trained to prefer mozzarella sticks to carrot sticks, donuts to plums, and pizza to pot roast, Judge Body sees things clearly. Like many other parts of life, what you want to eat and what your body knows it needs are sometimes two very different things.

The puzzle of nutrients humans need to thrive is so complex only God could have created it. People can stand up straight and chew tough food because of calcium, which comes from dairy products and green vegetables. Foods like avocados and olive oil deliver good fats to the body, which help with everything from energy storage to nervous system health. Without enough vitamin A—found in sweet potatoes, carrots, and kale—people can go blind. Vitamin B12, present in red meat, eggs, and cheese, makes something humans absolutely need: red blood cells. The list of nutrients and their benefits goes on and on. And God didn’t just make the intricate human body. He made a luscious variety of foods that satisfy our bodies’ needs.

People often wonder, “Why does all the unhealthy food taste amazing and all the healthy food taste gross?” What makes you like the foods you like, anyway? Why does Bob hate avocados when Jim loves them? No one knows for sure. Some think taste in food is largely inherited from parents. Likes and dislikes could also arise from emotional experiences with food, as well as what kinds of food your family ate during your childhood. Some believe that people can retrain their taste buds to love things they have always hated.

As you’ve probably guessed, a deep-fried Oreo doesn’t do your body many favors. It gives you hundreds of empty calories, which take up a lot of space without adding much nourishment to your organs and bones. Like it or not, the human body has specific needs—needs that will more likely be satisfied with a balanced diet than a perpetual train of hamburgers and cake traveling between your fork and your lips. But does that mean you can never eat those foods? No way! We can occasionally enjoy even empty calories in moderate amounts. Case closed!