Consumption, Calories and Choice

Consumption
Food for one may be poison for another and vis a versa. Plants are clearly different from animals and the DNA structures that demand replication are limited by the DNA's own structure. Not so the sun which can absorb any matter and add to it's weight, by sheer gravity.

Once a choice is made the immediate consequence is a limitation of further choice, unless the original choice can be undone. DNA's impact upon choice are far reaching and the host body cannot presently (2017) change the DNA and undo any, let alone many or all, of the choices bound in it's programme; and where it is possible then the host body will change proportionately.

Each time a choice is made an infinite numbers of options are denied yet a seemingly alternative never-ending number of choices appear again.

With DNA based consumers the selection, although predetermined by ancestry, is more frighteningly controlled by the archaeologically defined habitat.

For carnivores there must be enough other animals to consume, for fruitarians - enough fruit. Clearly the omnivore has a better chance of survival, being able to obtain nutrition from all and sundry. Plants are not best described in such terms and so I will avoid their needs here.

On the human front, food supplies nutrition and noting the intellectual variables from other animals it is clear to see that each person has a choice on what to eat, given there is adequate consumables both in quantity and variance.

As with plants I will leave any views on the intellectual choices, at this juncture, and focus on nutrition; for although this is article is designed as food for though, and maybe be poison to some, it has no basis except for it's grounding in nutrition of the body and the DNA's design to survive.

I am consciously trying to develop a binary approach to this argument, that is - although at any point there are in finite options the ultimate choice is - to choose or not to. The sun does not choose, or at least that is the basis on which unfettered consumption relies.

Each of us makes a choice, to eat or not, and what to eat. There is a basic nutritional issue of obtaining enough calories to continue to the next meal. That there are other assets in the food of choice is not the issue here and again will be put aside with the sun, plants and intellect.

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