“From head to toe, the human body is nothing short of a supreme and absolute form of engineering. Millions and millions of truly spectacular resources come together to create this magnum opus. Every organ, tooth, cell, and secretion is a valuable tool.”
These are the first two sentences from the introduction of my book titled Few More Seconds. I like to remind myself of how truly amazing our body is designed to serve. Intrigued by all the systems of the body. But when it comes to obesity, well, the alimentary canal needs to be studied further. I don’t mean lab work but just look, see, observe the sequence and ponder with a question: why?
If we were to lay the alimentary canal in a straight line, it would measure in an average adult human, 30 ft (9 meters). This is from the mouth all the way to the end. Imagine we were designed to have a straight alimentary canal! Another reason why the human body is nothing short of a supreme and absolute form of engineering.
How much of the 30 feet of the alimentary canal is under our conscious control? A mere 5-8 cm, or a third of a foot. And where is that section that is under our control? The mouth, of course. It is safe to say that we are entrusted with a fraction of the alimentary canal; the rest is autopilot.
So, by design, we can safely conclude that we need to focus on the conscious part that we have control over. This, my friends, is the problem with obesity, we are not treating the morsel of food in the mouth properly. Imagine we had full responsibility from start to finish, signalling this nerve to secrete this digestive juice now etc. we might as well dig our grave. But, all we must do is enjoy our food and process each morsel properly for the remainder of the journey to be smooth.
I leave you with an analogy. A golfer strikes a golf ball with the golf club at the correct angle and force. Contact lasts a fraction of a second; all the golfer can do is look at the golf ball and travel the distance. The same is true for consuming food: processed properly at the beginning, the rest is smooth.
If we spent more time interpreting the design of the alimentary canal, we would be more inclined to obey and respect it.
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FG
