Remember when you were in first grade and you stood in line in the cafeteria punching your best friend and saying “gotcha last” and waiting for his punch back? OK, OK…so you didn’t do stuff like that? You must be a girl or something.

Remember looking up at the bulletin board in the cafeteria and seeing the words, “You Are What You Eat!”

Your friend said, “”Duuuuuuhhhhhh! What…Ever!”

You punch him back.

Now here’s the weird part. That little message on the board turned out to be true.

Oops!

So if “you are what you eat”, does that means I turned into a Cheeto when I really wanted to be a fast Cheetah! Darn, so many missed opportunities.

Psychiatrist Dr. Drew Ramsey co-authored The Happiness Diet featured on MSNBC:

We know that the typical American diet — filled with processed food and added sugar — is making us fat. But it’s also making us depressed, according “The Happiness Diet,” a new book that links food to feelings.

It’s amazing to think that every cell in our body turns over. What I mean is this: every cell is replaced by a newer cell. Some are replaced fast, fast – like the skin and the lining of the gut. Some are replaced slow, slow – like the nervous system.

Think of it this way: you will replace every cell in your body (even the ones responsible for regulating mood) many times over during your lifetime. What building materials do you want to use for your new cell structure – Cheez Wiz (what IS that?) or fresh, pesticide-free plants. I’m not advocating eating Cheetahs because that’s just weird. Maybe Laughing Hyena though!

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