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How Foods May Affect Your Body Organs According to the Chinese, eating is an art and a science, because foods affect body organs in different ways, either positively or negatively. The Chinese eat foods for balance and harmony, based on the concept of "yin" and "yang" which originates from the "Five Elements" of Nature. Therefore, they also eat foods based on different colors, representing the "Five Elements." What Do You Eat? What do you eat? Healthy eating is knowing what you eat. Many people's food choice is based on convenience and availability, instead of the nutritive value of food. As a result, they end up eating processed food and developing food cravings. Food has to be simple and natural, and not giving you only empty calories. Healthy eating is healthy living: healthy eating focuses on the nutritive value of food to eliminate health problems. Avoid Processed Food Obesity To control body weight, avoid processed food obesity. Processed food is high-calorie and low-quality food that comes in a box, can, or carton. Because it is overloaded with sugar and carbohydrates, it increases your insulin production, which causes your body to store fat, as well as deprives your brain of glucose, resulting in food cravings - thus forming a vicious cycle of binge eating. Why are you addicted to chocolate? Eating chocolate is addictive because it is an addicting drug due to its various chemicals which have a marijuana-like effect on the brain. Chocolate may not be as healthy as the industry has suggested because it is packed with calories, fats, and sugar. It is important that you become aware of how it affects your mood so that chocolate seduction will not develop into an eating disorder down the road. A Healthy Food Relationship and Weight Loss Weigh loss can only begin with a healthy food relationship, which comprises a good physical and psychological relationship with food. To understand physical food relationship, you need to know the logistics of eating: what to eat, how to eat, and when to eat. Eating is a science, and therefore treat it as such. A healthy physical food relationship is conducive to permanent weight loss. Food Addiction and Your Longevity Food addiction is binge eating, compulsive eating, food fixation, and eating disorder. It is an unhealthy relationship with food, resulting in abnormal behavior that interferes with health, happiness, relationship, and longevity. Food addiction is a disease of the mind. Food addicts strive to control their eating to compensate for the lack of control they feel in other areas of their lives. Mental Depression and Nutritional Deficiency Mental depression may be due to nutritional deficiency, such as magnesium deficiency, caused by chemicals in foods and the environment. Eat whole foods and stay away from sugar and all processed foods, which are loaded with chemicals, additives, preservatives, and food colorings, among others. These toxic chemicals may cause abnormal functioning in your neurotransmitters, resulting in mental depression.