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Any Topic Essay Food
     Tara Watnaas

     Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for the body. It is
a very diverse thing. It can come in so many different ways. It can be hot, cold, soft,
hard, sour, sweet, bitter, zesty, etc. There is endless variety.

     For most people food is a wonderful thing. It’s a necessity for living that the Lord
has blessed us with. There are different tastes, aromas, colors, textures, etc. No two
foods are exactly alike. Food is an amazing thing because it is so wonderful and
different. Every culture has a different style of food they like to eat. We get to
experience all different kinds of food.
     But unfortunately for some it is so wonderful it becomes an addiction. People
often commit the sin, gluttony, which is one of the seven deadly sins. People can
become overweight. They would even be obese, having too much body fat, which can
eventually lead to death.
     On the other hand, society has become so obsessed with looks and
being “perfect”, that some people refuse to eat, or purge, fearing that they will become
fat. In this case, food becomes almost an enemy or fear. That is not what God intended
it for.
     Food is to be consumed in moderation. The key word is consumed. You are
supposed to eat it and get nutrition from it. God created it to give the body energy, but
our sinful world has morphed it into something bad. But you are also supposed to eat it
in moderation. That means not eating too much or too little.
     Some foods enhance the mind. Foods with Omega 3 fatty acid, like salmon
walnuts and kiwi, improve learning and memory. However, junk food and fast food affect
the brain negatively. The brain responds to salty, sweet, and fatty processed food the
same way it responds to heroin. As time goes on, the body craves more and more junk
food, just like the body craves heroin. Food can be just as addicting as any drug.
     Food can be very beneficial or very consequential. It just depends on how you
use it. If we use it in the way God wants us to, we should have a healthy diet and
exercise because after all our bodies are temples.  We need to take care of them and
treat them with respect, but this applies in so many other areas, not just food and
eating.
     Food is one of my favorite things in the world, but I can’t wait to get to Heaven
when food will be so unnecessary and insignificant.