There are but few as yet who are aroused sufficiently to understand how much their habits of diet have to do with their health, their characters, their usefulness in this world, and their eternal destiny (Councils on Diet and Foods, 51).
It is a well known health principle that breakfast should most nearly constitute the heartiest meal of the day. Lunch should follow at least five hours later, so as to give the stomach a proper period of work and rest.
What’s for lunch? If you were following the SAD (Standard American Diet), you might have a cheeseburger, fries, milkshake and an apple fritter. This food fare is loaded with fat, a villain at work, linking to many life-threatening diseases. Some of these major diseases include heart disease, strokes, cancers of the colon, breast, and prostrate, and type 2 adult-onset diabetes.
A good alternative lunch might be a hearty vegetarian soup, whole-wheat pitas stuffed with avocado, lettuce, sprouts, cucumbers, tomatoes, or fresh fruit such as papaya, pear or mango.
This lunch would be devoid of cholesterol and animal fats, not to mention excess salt and sugar. No empty calories! In addition, it would be high in fiber, as well as phytochemicals and antioxidants which lower the risk of cancer.
A little common sense tells us that we need to reduce and even eliminate the unhealthy fats in our diets. Excess fat in foods is probably the most damaging component of the SAD diet. Cholesterol is found only in animal products. A plant-based diet contains absolutely no cholesterol! It is interesting to note that, while God did allow humankind to eat "clean" flesh foods for a short time after the flood, He strictly forbade the use of eating the animal fat and the blood in these foods. God said, “It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood” (Leviticus 3:17). “Moreover, ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings” (Leviticus 7:26).
God is trying to lead us back, step by step, to His original diet of subsisting on the natural products of the earth. Fruits, grains, nuts, and vegetables should compose our eating fare. All the elements of nutrition are contained in these foods. How much better to get all of them firsthand, rather than secondhand and loaded with fat and cholesterol.
The purpose of teaching, learning, and living health principles is to secure the highest development of body, mind, and soul. The laws of nature, being the laws of God, are designed for our good and obedience to them promotes happiness in this life and helps in the preparation for the life to come.
What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s (1 Corinthians 6:19-20).
Creation and Evolution: Is Compromise Possible?
How Can We See Stars That Are Billions Of Light Years Away?
The Rise of Evolutionary Thinking
Geocentricity: It's Time to Face the Facts
Earth's History: Conflicting Paradigms
Lamarck Proposes Natural Selection
Age Of The Earth Is Carbon-Dating Accurate?
Flood Chronology
Read several authors' thoughts on papal Rome's history.
This article highlights quotes from historical and Catholic sources proving the Papacy's aggressive nature.
Persecution in the First Centuries
An Era of Spiritual Darkness The Waldenses
John Wycliffe Huss and Jerome
Luther's Separation From Rome
Luther Before the Diet The Swiss Reformer
Progress of Reform in Germany
Protest of the Princes The French Reformation
The Netherlands and Scandinavia
Later English Reformers
The Bible and the French Revolution
The Pilgrim Fathers Heralds of the Morning
An American Reformer Light Through Darkness
A Great Religious Awakening A Warning Rejected
Prophecies Fulfilled What is the Sanctuary?
In the Holy of Holies God's Law Immutable
A Work of Reform Modern Revivals
Facing Life's Record The Origin of Evil
Enmity Between Man and Satan
Agency of Evil Spirits Snares of Satan
The First Great Deception
Can Our Dead Speak to Us?
Liberty of Conscience Threatened
The Impending Conflict
The Scriptures a Safeguard The Final Warning
The Time of Trouble God's People Delivered
Desolation of the Earth The Controversy Ended
Is Revelation a Sealed Book?
Revelation 1: Jesus, The Heart of Revelation
Revelation 1 Commentary
Revelation 2-3: Letters to Seven Churches
Revelation 2 Commentary
Revelation 3 Commentary
The Lamb and the Sealed Book
Revelation 4 Commentary
Revelation 5 Commentary
Revelation 6 Commentary
Revelation 7 Commentary
Revelation 8 Commentary
Revelation 9 Commentary
Revelation 10 Commentary
Revelation 11 Commentary
Revelation 12 Commentary
Revelation 13 Commentary
Revelation 14 Commentary
Revelation 15 Commentary
Revelation 16 Commentary
Revelation 17 Commentary
Revelation 18 Commentary
Revelation 19 Commentary
Revelation 20 Commentary
Revelation 21 Commentary
Revelation 22 Commentary
Base