"The longer something is in man's hands, the more failure we see."
This is a quote from an older, highly respected brother in Christ. It is a multi-faceted truth. The statement was made in regard to our attempt to handle problems on our own. However, since it is multi-faceted, I beg your indulgence to apply it to food as well.
The digestive tract is the first component of your body to develop while you are in your mother's womb. Since this is where your body and brain get the water and nutrients that are necessary for life and normal function, the health and care of the digestive tract are of utmost importance. We, as you might expect, abuse this part of our bodies the most.
We chose long ago to purchase "dainty" foods such as breads made with refined white flour; cook with recipes that include peeled potatos, white rice, refined pastas, refined kiln-dried table salt and sweetened with white refined sugar. Some of these are "enriched" because the refining process took out the original vitamins and elements that were there when God's provided food was untouched and whole.
Each one of the above foods fails at doing anything good for your digestive tract as well as being ANY sort of benefit to any of the systems in your body. Before man got his hands on it and "made it better", it was a whole food that God made for our benefit. God made it right; we failed by "improving" it. Our food lingers too long "in man's hands".
As a result of our upside-down thinking on food, we have created a market where the more refined foods cost less. In Nebachudnezzar's time, the lower class probably ate better while the rich ate "delicate" or "dainty" food. Now, you hear the common rugged man complain about eating chewy whole-grain rice, grainy whole grain bread or tough potato peel. We're conditioned to love the delicate and dainty and are lost to the concept of whole foods and drinking the pure fuel for the body and brain: Water. Well, we "improved" that too.
We need a lot of Daniel's purpose of heart to stay away from the delicate foods that have been "in man's hands".
This is a quote from an older, highly respected brother in Christ. It is a multi-faceted truth. The statement was made in regard to our attempt to handle problems on our own. However, since it is multi-faceted, I beg your indulgence to apply it to food as well.
The digestive tract is the first component of your body to develop while you are in your mother's womb. Since this is where your body and brain get the water and nutrients that are necessary for life and normal function, the health and care of the digestive tract are of utmost importance. We, as you might expect, abuse this part of our bodies the most.
We chose long ago to purchase "dainty" foods such as breads made with refined white flour; cook with recipes that include peeled potatos, white rice, refined pastas, refined kiln-dried table salt and sweetened with white refined sugar. Some of these are "enriched" because the refining process took out the original vitamins and elements that were there when God's provided food was untouched and whole.
Each one of the above foods fails at doing anything good for your digestive tract as well as being ANY sort of benefit to any of the systems in your body. Before man got his hands on it and "made it better", it was a whole food that God made for our benefit. God made it right; we failed by "improving" it. Our food lingers too long "in man's hands".
As a result of our upside-down thinking on food, we have created a market where the more refined foods cost less. In Nebachudnezzar's time, the lower class probably ate better while the rich ate "delicate" or "dainty" food. Now, you hear the common rugged man complain about eating chewy whole-grain rice, grainy whole grain bread or tough potato peel. We're conditioned to love the delicate and dainty and are lost to the concept of whole foods and drinking the pure fuel for the body and brain: Water. Well, we "improved" that too.
We need a lot of Daniel's purpose of heart to stay away from the delicate foods that have been "in man's hands".
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