Food that looks like us
Knowing for a fact is great, but even just observing and translating symbols can be extremely helpful.
Here’s how to choose your meal by just looking at food as if it were a reflection of your body.
Carrots / Eyes
Slice a Carrot and it’ll look like in the following picture. Now, forgive my Photoshop skills, but what does it look like if we add some colour?
That’s right. Seems like the crunchy orange vegetable looks like a blue eye. A well-known fact is that eating carrots helps your eyesight; this is the kind of tale that mum used on me in order to “trick” me into eating carrots, but it’s not a tale. “Carrots are filled with vitamins and antioxidants, like beta-carotene, that decrease the chance of macular degeneration, the leading cause of vision loss in older people,” says Sasson Moulavi, MD, medical director of Smart for Life Weight Management Centers in Boca Raton, Florida. Beta- carotene is an important precursor for vitamin A. Also, an extreme lack of vitamin A seems to be the main cause of blindness and macular degeneration Carrots are rich in beta-carotene, a carotenoid pigment found in many orange fruits and vegetables, so if you’re not a carrot fan don’t worry, you can get these vitamins from somewhere else too.
Lentils / Red Blood Cells
Erythrocytes, also known as red blood cells have the essential function of carrying oxygen from our lungs through our entire body and the other way around, from our body back to our lungs for us to exhale, helping removing the carbon dioxide. A type of B-vitamin, called folate, is essential in supporting red blood cell formation. The recommended daily amount of folate intake is 400 micrograms. One cup of cooked lentils contains 358 micrograms of folate, which is almost the entire day’s recommended portion.
Tomato / Heart
They are red and they have these “chambers”; looks like tomatoes and hearts have some similar aesthetics. Tomatoes are well known for their antioxidant properties and their rich concentration of lycopene, which gives the veggie its red colour. Reduced risk of heart disease is an area of health benefits in which tomatoes truly excel. A team from Cambridge University has made a study to see if a “tomato pill” can have a positive effect on the heart. The pill made by CamNutra company seemed to have had a good effect on people suffering from cardiovascular diseases, improving the forearm blood flow notably.
Walnut / Brain
Nothing new regarding the similar looks of walnuts and brains, but it’s worth reminding you why you should consume walnuts if you want your brain to run like a well-oiled machine. The single seeded fruit contains vitamin E, folate, melatonin, omega-3 and omega-6 fats. These fats are the same fats that our brain and nervous system comprise, which make walnuts the perfect choice when you’re after some brain-boosting food.
Whenever you’re in doubt regarding what to eat, listen to your body; which part of it feels hungriest? Choose what feels good and nurtures you.
