I have recently begun studying the Bible. I honestly was not engaged in Bible reading until I began suffering from various health problems. I picked up this book called the Maker's Diet that claims to be a general health and wellness program based on Biblical precepts.
Has anybody heard of it ? It's seems very interesting but I am looking for some validity as to this book's claims.
"kathy Z Perry" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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Hello group,
I have recently begun studying the Bible. I honestly was not engaged in Bible reading until I began suffering from various health problems. I picked up this book called the Maker's Diet that claims to be a general health and wellness program based on Biblical precepts.
Has anybody heard of it ? It's seems very interesting but I am looking for some validity as to this book's claims.
"M.a.r.k P.r.o.b.e.r.t-April 30, 2004" <M.a.r.k P.r.o.b.e.r.t [email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...
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"kathy Z Perry" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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Hello group,
I have recently begun studying the Bible. I honestly was not engaged in Bible reading until I began suffering from various health problems. I picked up this book called the Maker's Diet that claims to be a general health and wellness program based on Biblical precepts.
Has anybody heard of it ? It's seems very interesting but I am looking for some validity as to this book's claims.
Just eat Kosher foods and follow the 613 Commandments.
Many dietary guidelines based on religious teachings did (& sometimes still do) have sensible non-religious reasons for being taught. I attended a class a few years ago that discussed this subject & afterwards I had to wonder if the original dietary mandates were developed by leaders who presented them as a religious matter in order to increase the likelihood that the faithful would adhere to them -- or were they spiritual ideas that just happened to be in line with what is considered to be healthy (or at least safe) by today's standards?
The prohibition of eating animals not slaughtered for that purpose is an easy example. IIRC it was in the book of Leviticus that people were essentially instructed not to chow down on carcasses they found lying by the side of the road or livestock that simply had dropped dead in their fields. Good idea for more than one reason, in that eating animals that weren't freshly killed & prepared was a risky practice in an age without refrigeration -- as well as the fact that an animal which may well have died because of disease wasn't a safe meal.
The teacher of the class cited other examples of dietary restrictions that may have been mandated to protect the faithful from diseases that may have effected specific animals & made them risky for humans to eat. Even if these mandates no longer apply (& some still do, at least under some circumstances), it was interesting to see why they may have been important rules to follow.
I follow a modified version of the diet proscribed by the bible supplemented by a Centrum multi-vitamin pill everyday. After a year my skin has cleared up and I am not experiencing any sort of weight gain.
Regarding the prohibition of not eating animals specifically slaughtered for that purpose. Approx. 4,000 years after God told people not to do that American and Canadian farmers are just now finally stopping the practice of feeding dead animals to other animals. Such a procedure has led in the past to mad cow disease.
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"M.a.r.k P.r.o.b.e.r.t-April 30, 2004" <M.a.r.k P.r.o.b.e.r.t [email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...
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"kathy Z Perry" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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Hello group,
I have recently begun studying the Bible. I honestly was not engaged in Bible reading until I began suffering from various health problems. I picked up this book called the Maker's Diet that claims to be a general health and wellness program based on Biblical precepts.
Has anybody heard of it ? It's seems very interesting but I am looking for some validity as to this book's claims.
Just eat Kosher foods and follow the 613 Commandments.
Many dietary guidelines based on religious teachings did (& sometimes still do) have sensible non-religious reasons for being taught. I attended a class a few years ago that discussed this subject & afterwards I had to wonder if the original dietary mandates were developed by leaders who presented them as a religious matter in order to increase the likelihood that the faithful would adhere to them -- or were they spiritual ideas that just happened to be in line with what is considered to be healthy (or at least safe) by today's standards?
The prohibition of eating animals not slaughtered for that purpose is an easy example. IIRC it was in the book of Leviticus that people were essentially instructed not to chow down on carcasses they found lying by the side of the road or livestock that simply had dropped dead in their fields. Good idea for more than one reason, in that eating animals that weren't freshly killed & prepared was a risky practice in an age without refrigeration -- as well as the fact that an animal which may well have died because of disease wasn't a safe meal.
The teacher of the class cited other examples of dietary restrictions that may have been mandated to protect the faithful from diseases that may have effected specific animals & made them risky for humans to eat. Even if these mandates no longer apply (& some still do, at least under some circumstances), it was interesting to see why they may have been important rules to follow.
