How Food Choices Affect Performance: Part 1

by Erin Owen | Jan 24, 2012 | General

“You mean my food choices affect my energy level

and performance?“

Yah, a lot.

Let’s say you want to feel more energized so you

can get more done.

Ask yourself: “Am I eating food with lots of life

force energy?“

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Life force energy is the qi (or “chi”) that gives

life to (and animates the life within) every plant

and animal in our world, including you!

Whole foods, straight from nature, have the

greatest amount of life force energy.

Foods that come from a box or bag, that have been

processed, have much less life force energy – and

in some cases have none worth speaking of.

Think of it like a really, really long game of

telephone.  Remember that game from childhood,

when kids whispered words into each other’s ears,

beginning at one end of a line and waiting to see

what silly words came out at the end of the chain?

The original full nutritional potential or

meaning of the food gets a bit more diluted for

every step it takes along the

growing-picking-distribution-processing chain —

or in the case of whole foods like carrots or kale

— for every single minute, hour, and day the food

is away from its roots or its roots are out of the

soil.

Using the analogy of the telephone game again, if

the food started out as carrots in the ground with

green tops sprouting above ground – by the time it

ends up as canned carrots, it might have some of

the original color and flavor of the carrots, but

not much life force energy and greatly reduced

nutritional value.

Your ability to perform on the job or at home or

in the community is directly affected by the

amount of life force energy in the food you eat.

Your food choices affect your performance. You

need that life force energy to fuel your own life.

Ask yourself: “do I want to perform like a carrot

with its greens on top or a partially cooked

carrot saturated with liquid in a can?” I know,

it’s silly to think of it that way. But, just

imagine how different your energy level and

performance might be if you made different food

choices!

You might normally choose so-called fast foods or

convenience foods and drinks because you really

want to quell your hunger and fuel your brain as

quickly as possible, thinking that these foods

will give you the energy to do what you need to

do. But, unintentionally, your food choices end up

working against you.

The next time you’re looking to boost your energy

so you can perform better, will you reach for

another coffee or caffeinated soda or energy drink

or candy bar? Or, instead…. how about next time

you reach for beautiful, fresh, whole foods that

are actually bursting with life! Life that you can

use to be your best and perform at your optimum

level!

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