Let’s take the physics approach to nutrition. Physicists like to take a cow and go “let’s model this as a perfectly round sphere of a given mass”. Let’s do something like this, but for people: imagine your body is straw. You have food coming in one end and something else coming out the other. The straw has all sorts of mechanical processes in it that turn food into more straw. A healthy straw stands tall and firm. A sick straw slouches, metaphorically speaking.
Approaching nutrition from first principles
Approaching nutrition from first principles
Approaching nutrition from first principles
Let’s take the physics approach to nutrition. Physicists like to take a cow and go “let’s model this as a perfectly round sphere of a given mass”. Let’s do something like this, but for people: imagine your body is straw. You have food coming in one end and something else coming out the other. The straw has all sorts of mechanical processes in it that turn food into more straw. A healthy straw stands tall and firm. A sick straw slouches, metaphorically speaking.