Receiving an accurate healthy diet is not only about nourishing ourselves with the right blend of fruit and vegetables, proteins, fibre, minerals, counting calories and so on. It can also refer to something more delicate than that. In fact I mean that what we nourish ourselves in terms of our thoughts, beliefs, reactions and feelings is also significant to our health and well-being.
When you get right down to it, thoughts, beliefs and emotions are really nothing more than body chemical or energy reactions to whatever meanings we are feeding into the system. In other words, within the body the hypothalamus is stimulated and automatically gives out an emotional response (chemically or energetically expressed) every time you put in various kinds of significance! This goes some way to answering the question of how does stress affect health.
