We are what we eat?: God loves the wounded

'Because we are capable of magnificent positive emotions, I particularly dislike the statement "We are what we eat." A continuous awareness that we are very much more than what we eat, I believe, is necessary to promote health. Within each of us is an immersurable capacity for love, understanding, compassion, creativity, joy, and all positive qualities. The tragedy of illness is that it prevents the full expression of outgoing healthy emotions and creative abilities. Instead it focuses abnormal attention inward upon one's self, causing one to retreat into a body that may become a prision with dungeons and torture chambers.

I feel that the acheivement of health is worth considerable effort and expense because it can add happiness to our lives and to others, can help us to know love and warmth, song, laughter, and music, to experience joy of creativity and the satisfaction of accomplishments well done, and to have a wide range of interests in this age when exciting advances are being made in every field of human endeavo[u]r. It seems to me that health also can bring the oneness of understanding, the silence of meditation, and the whisper of prayer, and that it can be ventilated when need be by outbursts of justififies anger and bathed now and again with tears. Such health, I believe, is in part a reward of good nutrition...'

Adelle Davis Let's Get Well: A practical guide to renewd health through nutrition 1965 George Allen & Unwin Ltd, London