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I’m just curious on this issue, has anyone ever tried to follow any sort of a diet based on Biblical principals. Is there such a diet and have you tried it. How well did it work for you? What are your thoughts on this diet? Would you recommend it to someone?
Kimberly
I’m just curious on this issue, has anyone ever tried to follow any sort of a diet based on Biblical principals. Is there such a diet and have you tried it. How well did it work for you? What are your thoughts on this diet? Would you recommend it to someone?
Kimberly
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That’s… weird… what, like manna, fish, wine? I dont know what that means, and I dont think I want to. …. yeah I do. What’s that mean? What do you eat? I dont eat any of that (except raw fish)
Actually, a lot of the people around the world eat this way….recommend it? Sure why not. It worked well for our ancestors.
I think it would be good to follow. I think a gentleman named Jordan Ruban has some good books about the subject. You might check it out.
40 days and 40 nights
The only diet that I have actually encountered while I was reading the Bible was the one located in the book of Daniel, it is described in the beginning chapter of the book, it is the diet that Daniel and his friends, Sadrach, Messach and Abed-Nego took. You should read up on that, it is the only one I have found.
a no pork diet is actually very good… and there’s this new testament story about a mother and child who ran out of OLIVE OIL to make bread. now that’s something. no wonder only kings and court people were obese.
I keep Kosher myself and I haven’t been sick in years. Now, obviously the rules of Kosher have some level of health benefit, even for those who are not Jewish by birth. See Hope Egan’s book “Holy Cow”:
There are several Biblically based diet plans that I have seen over the years. The one that is currently popular is The Maker’s Diet by Jordan Rubin:
Dr Gordon Tessler also advocates a Biblicly based diet system in his books “The Genesis Diet” and “Eating God’s Way”:
While the above would probably be the ones which I would recomment the most, here are some other books that I have come across which might be of some interest to you as well…
The Bible Diet – by Rosemary Sue Ellis
The Hallelujah Diet – by George Malkmus, Peter Shockey, and Stowe Shockey
God’s Way To Ultimate Health – by George H. Malkmus
The Bible’s Seven Secrets To Healthy Eating – by Joyce Rogers
What The Bible Says About Healthy Living – by Rex, M.D. Russell
The Lord’s Table – by Mike Cleveland
Eating By The Book – by David L. Meinz
The Divine Diet – Carole Lewis
Does The Bible Teach Nutrition – By Elizabeth Baker
The Bible Diet – by Richard H. Mays
Aunt Susie’s Diet Bible Recipes – by Susie Siegfried
Creationist Diet – by Gary F. Zeolla
What Would Jesus Eat? – by Don Colbert
The Jerusalem Diet – by Ted Haggard (He has to make a living somewhere….)
This is also interesting to read:
Avoid it as biblical people were ignorant as far as nutrition is concerned. For instance the kosher practice came about when in biblical times, if you wanted to eat, you had to have your own bowl. Usually made of wood and tied around your waste. Should a person have dairy in the morning meal the bowl was Wiped Clean (no soap & hot water back then) however, the wooden bowl absorbed some milk culture which could go bad in the days heat. If at the next meal you had meat. the mixture of bad milk culture and meat made people very sick, many died from hepatitis. Those people eventually learned that having a separate bowl for dairy and one for meat saved their lives. Biblical people were very ignorant (they thought that the earth was flat). Religious movies always give a cleansed version of Biblical times. They never show that 90% of the people had head lice. Do you want to know what a biblical diet was? It consisted of whatever you grew, usually grains, vegetables and fish and meat if you had animals or could catch one. There was no refrigeration so if your food ran out before the next growing season or there was a flood, insect or vermin damage or no more animals etc, people had to forage for food. that is, pick up anything that could be chewed and swallowed was eaten. Any leaf, plant or root that could be consumed was food. And when that ran out people would actually pick up a handful of dirt and swallow it in order to take away hunger. Biblical people didn’t know that certain plants or roots can contain hallucinogens (peyote cactus, mugwort to name a few). When Biblical people witnessed a staff turn into a snake , it’s never asked, “What did they eat earlier?” If you could study the Hostory of Civilization at a University (not from a religion) you would learn a little different from what’s in the bible. Don’t eat a biblical diet, you’ll be happier and healthier. PS— when biblical people cooked their food the main source of fuel was cow dung.
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