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Good fuel
You are what you eat and drink. If you know that your diet is
not what you want it to be, you won’t change it until you start
to recognise the link between what goes into your body and the
person you are.
Your choice of what you consume will have a huge and rapid
effect on your mood and your response to stress. Why do
nicotine, caffeine, excess sugar and fats, and various drugs
have such a massive impact on our bodies? It’s because they
contain powerful active chemicals. In most cases, it is this
high biological activity that renders them toxic when used to
excess.
Food
Dietary choices are ...