By Kymythy R. Schultze, CN So, what's the big deal about food?
Why does it have such a huge influence on a body's health? Well,
simply put, food is body-fuel. It nourishes each and every cell
in the body and creates the energy necessary for life to happen.
It's an overly simplified analogy, but food is to living beings
like gas is to cars. If you put the wrong type of gas in a car,
it won't run well. But if you put in the correct fuel for that
car, it runs better. Next to air, food is the substance our cats
take into their bodies most often. How long they live, their
quality of life, the health of their immune system, and their
behavior all depend greatly on the food they eat. Food is the
foundation for health. It's really no different than what we
hear today about human health. The experts keep telling us that
if we wish to live a long healthy life, we need to eat more
fresh real food and cut out the processed food products. It
seems that every day brings new research to support this advice.
As both humans a