The human body has evolved alongside food sources and extracts from those sources all the essential nutrients required for its continued survival.
Water-based fruits and vegetables are key ingredients to the mix as well as fresh flowing natural water.
Today’s heavily processed foods have been stripped of their natural water content. In addition to this, they also have additives such as salt and sugar and artificial flavorings.
This is a poor combination that only confuses the body and leads to dehydration.
So how does this occur?
Typically when we eat human-made carbohydrates, drink alcohol, or eat salt and sugar-laden processed foods, the body cells become starved of water. At this point, the brain becomes confused as it is visually seeing and tasting the food but receiving incorrect nutritional information.
Mother nature, however, ensured that water and nutrition were always available to us in our foods in the form of fresh fruit and vegetables. She placed the water here together with the nutrients that we need to survive.
So when we ate, we effectively also drank, and this is where the brain received its initial nutritional blueprint.
But wait, it gets more confusing!!!
Now when we eat processed foods, it’s easy for the body’s cells to become dehydrated and call for water.
As the message is to eat more, the brain then reads this thirst as hunger. It does this as it’s looking for those natural foods full of H20.
It is not looking for the salt or sugar in the food you are eating; however, to satisfy the thirst, you eat more, and so the cycle continues. This is one of the reasons that why we seem to find processed foods addictive.
Think of it this way, vegans tend not to eat processed foods, and I personally don’t know many overweight vegans constantly on the munch.
Do you?