YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT

"The diet and behaviour of elephants evidenced by the chemical makeup of their tail hairs shows how they compete with other species, researchers say.....That history is laid out chronologically in an "isotope record" along the hair. Isotopes are naturally occurring variations of atoms that are chemically identical but have a slightly different mass.
Different food or water sources that the elephants might access contain different ratios of isotopes of carbon, hydrogen or nitrogen"

Having been referred to much of my life as "pleasingly plump" I've worked with calories forever. I find they are not only in all foods ingested, but seem even to come out of the air I breath, especially fresh bread being baked and beef being grilled. Then I noticed that they fly off labels I read and quickly add a pound or two if I'm not careful about which labels I read.

Holistic nutritionist Gillian McKeith works with unhealthy eaters to break a lifetime of bad habits in just eight short weeks. The phrase implies: "The notion that to be fit and healthy you need to eat good food."

However, food is not only a giver of energy, health, longevity and endurance, it builds muscle, keeps a brain functioning well, and some foods, like garlic, emanate strong odors from every pore which proves quite distancing to some. Others, such as beans, promote flatulence. Refer to the Crepitation Contest Flatulence having grown to the heights of International competition and made its way into the movie Blazing Saddles, shocking some and driving others into gales of laughter.

Ethnic food habits around the world vary. Years ago the movie Mondo Cane revolted many stomachs within the theater audience as dogs were chosen for entrees, and all sorts of multi-legged, creepy creatures were used to feed hungry people, some enjoying many as delicacies...beauty is in the eyes of the beholder was never more to the truth than in this context.

Bunny Crumpacker, is the author of "The Sex Life of Food: When Body and Soul Meet to Eat." I assume that the food cells copulate and produce more calories after you have eaten them.