COMFORT FOOD CAN KILL YOU

Why has the profitable food industry become so lax! So often devitalized and addictive, processed ingredients, and chemicals go into food. Called “fast food” it is not healing for your body, as food should be with large servings sometimes leaving you wanting more.

Major hindrances to your health: processed sugar, corn syrup, degermed and bleached wheat, chemical sweeteners, seed oils and chemicals.

We struggle to know how to be healthy. The first thing? Go to God, pray for wisdom, and look at your available wisdom. "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him." James 1:5. That is a promise to all of us who follow Jesus. Talking to His followers Jesus said, "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth..." John 16:13. One example of real comfort food: "And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land." Isaiah 7:22.

The first place to look for food that is healing and natural is the Bible. In it is literal and figurative wisdom illustrated by food all through it. This is where I have gone. Food examples are to us and for us and would not be there if not an illustration of potent nutrition. Checking one dietitian and the next is going to lead you to change with a new “discovery.”  An example is the worldwide love for coffee. Growing up my father understood it to be harmful. Nutrition experts warned that it is harmful for your health. This year, reading an expert (recommended by one of our State Senators}, the dietitian said that three or four cups of coffee every day will prolong your life. 

We use extra virgin olive oil, organic honey, pure butter, salt, and whole grain cereal. Homemade whole grain bread. Vegetables, fruit, beef, chicken, salmon. In Scripture, food allowances changed four times and give responsibility to us. "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?" I Co.6:19.

God’s provision for us:  "And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food..." Genesis 2:9.  See the Medical News Today below:

Medical News Today

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com › articles › ultra-processed-food-consumption-linked-to-premature-preventable-death

Dietary patterns can have an immense impact on health outcomes. 

• Ultra-processed foods that go through large amounts of processing can lose nutritional value and contain unhealthy elements.

• A new study adds to a growing body of research showing that ultra-processed food consumption may cause premature, preventable death. 

 

START SOMEWHERE

For the first years of our marriage and before I could afford to buy what I liked in the grocery store, our three sons, Joshua, Josiah, and Zachariah were one to five. Eric was earning minimum wage as an Electrician’s Helper. My budget for food was $18.00 a week. The cost of much of “the healthy” food was often above my ability to pay; fruit and vegetables on sale saved us. I remember praying as I shopped and looked at the fresh fruit and vegetable departments, “Lord, I cannot buy those big red apples. They are there and out of reach. Help me to be able to buy them.” It was up to God to provide, I knew. We ate healthy low-cost food. The grapes and pears were expensive, so I looked for fresh fruit on sale. Vegetables, cut and bagged were beautiful and convenient, but I got good at chopping.

For many months I bought whole wheat flour from a friend who ground it fresh and delivered it to us. Baking bread came naturally. My mother had baked whole wheat bread often for our family of ten. Also, I could bake granola cereal with whole oats, raisins, honey, butter, and olive oil, simple ingredients. As I ground whole grains and made things from them it was from the example of my father, who strongly believed in "food wisdom" from the Bible. 

I made whole wheat chocolate cake, oatmeal cake, and carrot cake. The frosting, cooked on a double broiler with raw sugar and egg whites, then cream cheese added. Meat was for flavor: mostly beef, and chicken. 

As the years went by, my belief that simple whole food (often mentioned in the Bible) was one of the biggest benefits and offerings given to my husband and children.  

REPOSTED FEBRUARY 5, 2025

FOOD AND FAITH GO TOGETHER

REPOSTED: BLOG NOVEMBER 8, 2022

You can have a noticeable change in your health in ten days. It took Daniel, and his three friends that long to prove that “things grown” are effective quickly (in Daniel 1:12).

If food by faith is a new thought for you, think of this: the journey of your life is a one-time opportunity to do the best you can, to search for the most wisdom you can find. You can become physically, spiritually, mentally all God created you to be! It’s by faith. 

The variety provided by our Creator is vast, from cows and sheep to grains and watermelon, nuts, broccoli, and squash…how about a focus on our health!

If we believe in an all-wise Creator, eating the right food makes sense. He made everything to be for the wellbeing of all humanity: our welfare, health, and our eternal salvation. He poured love into our world through the life, crucifixion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, “The Way, the Truth and the Life….”. His love also shows in the creation of the natural things grown for you to eat…

"And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." (I Thessalonians 5:23). Sanctified means set apart. Faith…or believing and acting on what God says is an adventure. 

Medical News Today

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com › articles › ultra-processed-food-consumption-linked-to-premature-preventable-death

Dietary patterns can have an immense impact on health outcomes. 

• Ultra-processed foods that go through large amounts of processing can lose nutritional value and contain unhealthy elements.

• A new study adds to a growing body of research showing that ultra-processed food consumption may cause premature, preventable death.