What is Food to you?

How we define anything powerfully shapes it and configures our relationship to it thereafter.

If we are not in the business of defining things for ourselves, then we become the business of others’ way of relating to the world. If those others do not share with you the same or similar disposition towards the world – if you do not share the same or similar world views, then your place in the world becomes inauthentic, it is virtual, rather than the real thing and your sense of agency in the world suffers as a result.

Not that long ago, media celebrities brought to popular attention the expression:

‘You are what you eat’

We were urged to mindful of our diets, to look at the quality and quantity of our intake as it went on to define our body functioning and sculpturing. Given that what we take into our mouths becomes part of our bodies and contributes to our health status, it becomes us and so determines our health and well being.

However, if we look at our bodies anew we will notice that our mouths are not the only orifice through which we take in substances from the outside. Of the various things that enter our bodies, all have in common that they affect our well being, the status of our health and our longevity.

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What we take in looks at the different ways in which we take in the different elements which I feel contitute ‘food’ as they collectively nourish and nurture us, if we are in a wholesome relationship with them