Food Designed for Better Living

In high school Biology class, I love to look at the sparkle in my students' eyes, when they inquisitively dissect animals and plants toexamine the internal features of these specimens. It was interesting to help students become more observant with instructions to draw these speciments by cutting longitudinal and transverse sections. One year, the graduating students wondered in worried expressions when I placed huge raw prawns for their practical exams. Thankfully, though unprepared with the type of specimen, most recognise that the surprise was to test their observational skills- by studying the features of biological specimens, recording their observations and making deductions about the functions . Yet, it was the skillful line drawing of the provided specimens, indicating magnification and labelling structures that seem so difficult for some if they don not appreciate how these structures serve a function. This is precisely how miraculous life is- whether you believe in existence of a Creator- the fact is, how our cells, collective serve a larger purpose of a tissue, organ and system, ensuring the survival of the organism. At the same time, when one organ in the body breaks down, the rest of the system are also affected.


I thought this principle could be a great inspiration for most basic skill in Design Thinking- LOOK LOOK LOOK. By looking, we discover. Discovery in itself is a non-linear process. Some organisations do much to plan innovation. Yet, few realised that discovery is simply about exploring new paths. For example, how often do we stop and think about the food we eat. Yet, if we look more intently and discover the "whys, whats, hows" perhaps the discovery may lead to designing better processes through re-perception. The article below on food and their nutritional value is interesting to exemplify tactical re-perceptions. As a process capability, tactical reperception allows one to look at problems and issues from different perspectives. By re-perceiving what each of the food has been re-represented in new context, new meaning is created from each that draws parallel to the other goodness of life.






A sliced carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye... And YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.

A tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart has four chambers and is red. All of the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food.

Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.




A walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.



Kidney beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.


Celery, bok choy, rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strengbth. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don't have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.
Avocadoes, eggplant and pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female - they look just like these organs. Today's research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? It takes exactly nine (9) months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (Modern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).

Figs are full of eeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility.




Sweet potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics.

Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries





Oranges, grapefruits, and other citrus fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.


Onions look like the body's cells. Research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes. Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body.



If the food we eat can show us so much that was not apparent in the first instance, we can find new inspiration to repercieve from many other rich sources surrounding us to consider the world outside-in through deep immersion in contexts beyond our direct environment.