What are we made of?
Yesterday in a Riccione Family Hotels’ mini club a child asked us: “What are we made of?”.
Before we could answer, a discussion between our mascots exploded…
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on”, Asso said, quoting Shakespeare.
“Of the same substance of the universe!” Pepe, aspiring Newton, replied.
In the confusion that followed we have not answered to our little guest… we do it now!
Our body is not unlike from the rest of the matter in the universe. Indeed, the predominant elements in our body are hydrogen, oxygen, carbon and nitrogen.
In our organism all these elements combine to form water, essential for life, and the basic organic compounds: fats, proteins and sugars.
Among sugars the most important is the glucose, which gives us the energy necessary to daily perform physical and mental activities.
Fats are the stock of our energy, while the proteins form the molecules of tissues and muscles.
What provides all the essential compounds and energy to accomplish metabolic processes in the body is food.
Asso e Pepe don’t discuss on this… on the contrary, it is in front of a nice snack that they have come to this conclusion: we are made of the same substance of that dream is the universe!
We are waiting for you in Riccione Family Hotels for a dream holiday!
