FOOD IN THE BIBLE...

 

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

Whole Grain Vs Refined Grain - Itsxtraliving