Health Living - learning From Our Past

Learn how to live in a more healthy lifestyle by following the guidelines of our loving Abba.

Feeling sluggish, bloated, or just plain tired all the time? Then it's a good time to look at your diet! Time to get rid of those white fluffy so mouth watering donuts, it's time to cut down on all that red meat ... and time to get HEALTHY!

So how do we do that you ask? Let's take a look at some good examples. And let's draw our examples from the pages of a good book....we call that book ... of course, the BIBLE.

Here are some guidelines, from a wonderful author, Rex Russell, MD in his book, "What the Bible Says about Healthy Living: Three Biblical Principles That Will Change Your Diet and Improve Your Health"

� Eat only the foods that God created for human food � No scavengers like pork, shellfish, fish with skin not scales, birds without a gizzard, etc. These are nature�s trash collectors, full of toxins. Eat all the fruits, veggies, whole grains, seeds, and nuts you want.

� Don�t alter God�s design � Eat whole, unprocessed foods as much as possible. Drink water. Avoid meats that have been pumped full of antibiotics and hormones (which, because of price constraints and the minimal amount of meat your body really needs, means greatly reducing the amount of meat you eat). The food and drink that have been chemically altered, stripped, enriched, colored, preserved, hydrogenated, and fortified lose their nutritional qualities and fill you up with chemicals that have bad or unknown effects on your health.

� Don�t let any food or drink become your god � Practice fasting to give your body its needed rest and to break any food addictions, like sugar and, ahem, caffeine.

If you'd like to know more about healthy living, there's a great book out - check it out here:

What the Bible Says about Healthy Living

Here's an exert from the above link:
Join Holy Cow! author Hope Egan and life-long healthy eater Amy Cataldo as they unveil the long-awaited follow-up to Dr. Rex Russell's What the Bible Says about Healthy Living. Helping you incorporate God�s ingredients into your life�simply and without sacrificing taste�this companion cookbook shows you how to prepare meals, snacks and desserts based on the principles outlined in What the Bible Says about Healthy Living.

For years biblical health experts have been telling you how to think about biblical eating. Now there is a complete cookbook that helps you take action:

• More than 150 recipes that are tasty and easy to prepare, such as Sweet Potato Fries,
• Pesto-Crusted Salmon and Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls.
• Insights into the "Three Principles" from What the Bible Says about Healthy Living that will change your diet and improve your health.
• Nutritional facts that highlight the amazing design behind God�s ingredients.
• Variations and �mix and match� ideas that inspire you to experiment.
• Suggestions for stocking and setting up your kitchen for cooking with God�s ingredients.
• Economical and innovative tips for using unintentional�or intentional�leftovers.
• The �food journey� of each author, illustrating both the uniqueness of each person�s path and the consistency of God�s wisdom.