Fullmetal Alchemist Nutrition: File.8 - Pride of 'Pride'

The price of overconfidence that 'I am fine': The 'shadow' of biased health methods and nutrition

Despite being the first Homunculus, Pride was reduced to a small infant by Ed in the end.

His arrogance is exactly what modern people often fall into: overconfidence in extreme nutrition.

The massive energy required to maintain shadows: The 'arrogance' of carbohydrate restriction

I consider humans, I consider you all, to be inferior beings.

Pride, who manipulates shadows with countless eyes.

Maintaining shadows requires energy that far exceeds that of the original body.

In modern terms, this is the biased thinking of carbohydrates are evil, where one tries to cover everything with only fats and proteins.

The brain and red blood cells require the light known as carbohydrates.

Extreme exclusion (arrogance) creates a shadow that will eventually collapse the body's energy system, just as Pride's shadow vanished.

Reduction to an 'infant': Cellular initialization and protein

Through Ed's alchemy, Pride was returned to an infant with no sins or memories.

This is the ultimate form of autophagy, which our cells perform daily—the recycling process of breaking down old proteins and rebuilding them.

Discarding the arrogance that you are perfect and having the flexibility to constantly replace (equivalent exchange) your cells is the truth for maintaining true health.

Summary: A prescription for the reader: To you who are 'obsessed' with one health method

If I just eat this, I won't die; this supplement alone is perfect..

Why not let go of that pride (arrogance) for once?

The body is an incomplete and precious existence where a wide variety of nutrients are intricately intertwined.

With an honest heart like an infant, without bias, and in balance.

That is the only way to keep yourself from being swallowed by the shadows.