WHAT TO EAT...WISDOM COMES FROM
SCRIPTURE!
Dad was a Christian
Evangelist. His mission was to encourage others to love and read the Bible. He
and my mother traveled the forty-eight lower United States, Canada, and Mexico
with us, their eight children. His quest was to put into practice the Bible he
proclaimed as the truth; it included the food so often mentioned in the Bible.
He had been an athlete in Wheaton College and trained there in nutrition and
exercise. Every sport the college offered he took part in until he graduated.
He married my mother in Boston, where she was a Wheelock College graduate. When
eight children were born, he encouraged us as we grew up to eat carefully and
exercise.
As we traveled the
Country singing and quoting Bible stories, a family of ten, there were brave families
who took us into their homes and fed us. Their gracious meals included one of
Dad’s excluded foods: dessert. It would be a beautiful white flour, white
sugar, tempting dessert, which I, of course accepted. But my father would
quietly wrap his dessert in a napkin and put it in his back pocket. I knew, and
to this day smile.
Through these growing
years, I believed that God, through Holy men wrote the Bible. Genesis, chapters
one to eleven recount how God created the world and everything in it including
the food He provided. Therefore, the Bible is an exact book, the final Word of
Truth. Written for the enlightenment of every person. It is the “beginning of
wisdom.”
Within the Bible is a surprising emphasis on food, both figurative and literal. This food I was increasingly interested in as I became a wife at twenty-nine and a mother at thirty.
Whole Grains for your health
Whole wheat bread and cakes are from the
entire wheat kernel: bran, endosperm, and germ. Breads, pastas, bagels,
crackers, muffins, and foods listed as whole wheat are solely the whole wheat
grain. Unrefined wheat features a host of important nutrients.
However, the standard for most wheat products
available in the United States are processed into 60 percent extraction –
meaning that 40 percent of the original wheat grain was removed. The 40 percent
that is removed during this process is typically the most nutrient-rich part of
wheat, the bran and germ of the whole grain kernel according to Snap Fitness
USA. The
Difference Between Whole Wheat and Whole Grain – Snap Fitness USA