Our minds and bodies have a powerful effect on each other. A clean mind or a clean body helps you achieve cleanliness throughout your life. Whereas a unhealthy body or unhealthy mind leads to poor decisions negatively affecting the rest of you.

Most of what I posted so far talks about a clean mind and how we can reach towards that. But the connection between healthy food and living and happiness deserves some discussion.

Similarly to how we get stuck in cycles of negativity, we eat the same bad foods over and over again. Eventually we think our body needs that kind of food. That only results from the habituation of your body to that food.

Worldwide plenty of the population survives of farm fresh, local, and unprocessed food. Immigrants come to America with those eating habits. After switching to the American diet they experience a dramatic increase in obesity rates within one generation.

Our bodies were not made to process the kind of foods we eat. But our bodies were made to adapt, so they do, and we adapt mentally as well. If we rely on caffeine or carb heavy meals, when our diets become low in those our body wants more of the bad food because it has adapted.

These types of food become addictive. Our body thinks we need them to survive. It does not remember the taste and need for healthy food. So how can we change our eating habits? Well, just like we change our thinking habits.

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