DID YOU EAT ALL YOUR ELECTRONS TODAY? YOU CAN'T HAVE ANY PROTONS T...

What did you eat today? Was it quick and easy or slow and healthy? Did you have a salad or some poutine? Did you eat enough calories? Did it energize you sufficiently? Or did you require a nap after eating? Some foods, like celery, for example, require more calories to digest than they provide? Good for dieters. Lions and most cats sleep the majority of the day away because meat requires a lot of energy and time to digest. Regardless of what you eat, your food serves a couple of purposes. The first is that it provides energy and second, it provides nutrition and nutrition is huge and somewhat more important than energy. Just about any food can provide energy via the calories they supply, but only specific foods can provide you with nutrition. In North America, most people are calorically overfed and nutritionally starved.

When we think about foods that energize us, most will imagine fruits, carbohydrates, root vegetables; foods that convert easily to sugar that is then dumped into our bloodstream where it is taken up by cells throughout the body. When you think about it, it is a rather complex and messy process especially when it comes to the waste products that we all produce. Honestly, sometimes I envy the plant that can absorb energy directly from the sun. Such a clean and simple process, no muss, no fuss and no preparation or dirty dishes and no waste product.

Could anything be easier?

Well, apparently it is for some bacteria that were recently discovered who feed directly off of electrons. You know those fuzzy indeterminate things that form a cloud around a proton according to the latest variation of the Bohr model of an atom. Or wiggle back and forth at 50-60 times per second (depending on your location) in your local AC circuit. Yes, those electrons.

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Electric bacteria connect to form wires.