Nutrition is an Active Event
Forward: Hardly anyone thinks of nutrition as an event in concrete terms. However, people unconsciously speak of metabolism as an event that has a concrete outcome such as weight gain, weight loss, or recovery from training or illness. Such ‘metabolic outcomes’ occur because nutrition is an active event occurring within a cell. The image with candles and yellow-food-colored-water below depicts a sprinter’s muscle cell.
The way to ‘see’ or visualize nutrition as an active event is to view images that freeze time and capture a moment of the micro and macro world. For example, the two physical phenomena shown above occur simultaneously; one occurs unseen at the microscopic level – and the other macroscopically as seen by the naked eye. More specifically, movement of your whole body (sprinting) and an unseen metabolic event in your muscle cells fermentation of glucose in the cytosol occur simultaneously.