1 Corinthians 10:31 “Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.”
Here are three books written about how to use biblical principles to guide the foods we eat: “God-given Foods Eating Plan” by F. Zeolla Gary and “The Maker's Diet” by Rubin, Jordan.
“Eight Weeks to Optimum Health” Revised Edition: by Andrew Weil M.D. is not written from a scriptural viewpoint, but it explains many of the same principles.
The following is some of what I have learned about it.
Eat Only FRESH vegetables and fruits, no canned, or processed in any way. Any time something is done to change a way God made a food, some of the benefits of that food is also destroyed. Some vegetables are improved with light cooking. There are lots of instructions about using fermentation to preserve foods, it is a way to preserve them and even improve the nutritional value with probiotics. It is the way food was preserved before the ways we have now were discovered. Sauerkraut is one example, but if it is canned with high heat the probiotics are killed and it is the probiotics of these foods that are so helpful to us.
Eat only whole grains, never processed. It is best that the grinding process by done with stones instead of with steel that produces high heat that destroys some of the nutrients in grains. The stone needs to be high quality; soft stones can leave solids behind.
Meat, poultry and fish needs to be naturally grown. It isn’t natural to pen chickens up in a tiny space and not let them eat any grasses or bugs. Fish that comes breaded isn’t natural. Neither is fish grown in man controlled ponds, fed food man decides on, not God. You can buy beef that isn’t fattened the last months of their life with special fattening food. When this is done it changes the food enough that our body is not fed correctly. The lard from these animals causes unhealthy amounts of cholesterol in us. The eggs from chickens raised man’s way and not God’s way raises our cholesterol.
Eat seeds, nuts and berries left in their natural state, not heated and salted.
Eat UN-processed cheese, yogurt, kefir, cottage cheese and butter. Many people buy those cute little tubs of yogurt all doctored and sugared that taste wonderful and are not really yogurt any more. If you go into a cheese shop in Europe or Asia, it is quite an experience, where cheese is usually not made with pasteurized and homogenized milk. When we pasteurize, homogenize, and change milk, it also changes how our body uses it.
Use pressed oils, not refined. Here is how oils are refined, including the cod liver oil we take for health.
1. Wash using water, salts, and acid.
2. Put through a separator.
3. Vacuum steam distillation comes next.
4. Cool and remove crystalized fats.
5. Heat to 130F and use clay to bleach and filter.
6. Pump pressurized hydrogen into tank filled with oil.
After all this refining and changing the oil, there is little nutrition left. Salad dressings you buy usually have unhealthy ingredients; it is simple to put together your own where you monitor what is included.
Man can even destroy the benefits of honey. When the honey is heated to help extract it from the cone, the natural hormones that are beneficial to us are destroyed. Men do lots of things to honey to "make it better". It is difficult to get just plain honey.
Lots of foods need to be carefully watched, like peanut butter. When it is natural, it separates, so men doctor it many ways to keep it from doing that, like selling the good peanut oil and putting in a cheaper oil that stays mixed, or homogenize it to keep it stable. Our body likes it unadjusted and plain.
Many of our meats are sold, now, without the bones or the skin. It not only ruins the flavor, but now we need to add gelatin to our diets.
God designed our body and our food, they work together. When men decided they could do better, the result is many health problems. Men have wonderfully discovered more ways to keep us alive longer, but they also discovered ways to ruin our food so we have health problems for doctors to deal with, like Crohn's Disease, allergies, strokes, high cholesterol, many problems that good nutrition helps prevent.
Here are three books written about how to use biblical principles to guide the foods we eat: “God-given Foods Eating Plan” by F. Zeolla Gary and “The Maker's Diet” by Rubin, Jordan.
“Eight Weeks to Optimum Health” Revised Edition: by Andrew Weil M.D. is not written from a scriptural viewpoint, but it explains many of the same principles.
The following is some of what I have learned about it.
Eat Only FRESH vegetables and fruits, no canned, or processed in any way. Any time something is done to change a way God made a food, some of the benefits of that food is also destroyed. Some vegetables are improved with light cooking. There are lots of instructions about using fermentation to preserve foods, it is a way to preserve them and even improve the nutritional value with probiotics. It is the way food was preserved before the ways we have now were discovered. Sauerkraut is one example, but if it is canned with high heat the probiotics are killed and it is the probiotics of these foods that are so helpful to us.
Eat only whole grains, never processed. It is best that the grinding process by done with stones instead of with steel that produces high heat that destroys some of the nutrients in grains. The stone needs to be high quality; soft stones can leave solids behind.
Meat, poultry and fish needs to be naturally grown. It isn’t natural to pen chickens up in a tiny space and not let them eat any grasses or bugs. Fish that comes breaded isn’t natural. Neither is fish grown in man controlled ponds, fed food man decides on, not God. You can buy beef that isn’t fattened the last months of their life with special fattening food. When this is done it changes the food enough that our body is not fed correctly. The lard from these animals causes unhealthy amounts of cholesterol in us. The eggs from chickens raised man’s way and not God’s way raises our cholesterol.
Eat seeds, nuts and berries left in their natural state, not heated and salted.
Eat UN-processed cheese, yogurt, kefir, cottage cheese and butter. Many people buy those cute little tubs of yogurt all doctored and sugared that taste wonderful and are not really yogurt any more. If you go into a cheese shop in Europe or Asia, it is quite an experience, where cheese is usually not made with pasteurized and homogenized milk. When we pasteurize, homogenize, and change milk, it also changes how our body uses it.
Use pressed oils, not refined. Here is how oils are refined, including the cod liver oil we take for health.
1. Wash using water, salts, and acid.
2. Put through a separator.
3. Vacuum steam distillation comes next.
4. Cool and remove crystalized fats.
5. Heat to 130F and use clay to bleach and filter.
6. Pump pressurized hydrogen into tank filled with oil.
After all this refining and changing the oil, there is little nutrition left. Salad dressings you buy usually have unhealthy ingredients; it is simple to put together your own where you monitor what is included.
Man can even destroy the benefits of honey. When the honey is heated to help extract it from the cone, the natural hormones that are beneficial to us are destroyed. Men do lots of things to honey to "make it better". It is difficult to get just plain honey.
Lots of foods need to be carefully watched, like peanut butter. When it is natural, it separates, so men doctor it many ways to keep it from doing that, like selling the good peanut oil and putting in a cheaper oil that stays mixed, or homogenize it to keep it stable. Our body likes it unadjusted and plain.
Many of our meats are sold, now, without the bones or the skin. It not only ruins the flavor, but now we need to add gelatin to our diets.
God designed our body and our food, they work together. When men decided they could do better, the result is many health problems. Men have wonderfully discovered more ways to keep us alive longer, but they also discovered ways to ruin our food so we have health problems for doctors to deal with, like Crohn's Disease, allergies, strokes, high cholesterol, many problems that good nutrition helps prevent.
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