What is the difference between nourishment and nutrition

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Things that are necessary for a healthy life. Nourishment is more something that fills you up or satiates hunger. All that we consider today as nutrition is really just a secondary source of energy.

What is crucial to understand is that the belief that food and all it encompasses is a means to an end and is the gateway to good health is simply true. Food can fill you, but it cannot fulfil you.

As much as we embrace the science of nutrition and use it as a tool to help heal the body. Healing is often far more than the sum of nutrients we prescribe or consume.

Finally, nourishment is the sum of aspects of our life that fulfils us. Consuming healthy wholefoods that are in season, locally sourced and organic where possible is certainly essential for good health.

Good nutrition is one aspect but as humans we need to feed all aspects of our lives. Good health is encompassing mind, body, and spirit.