“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” (Hosea 4:6).

“Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in good health, just as your soul prospers” (III John 2).

“Do you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is you…Glorify God in your body” (I Corinthians 6:19-20).

“Whether…you eat or drink…do all to the glory of God” (I Corinthians 10:31).

Even though God was talking to Israel, this Scripture applies to you as well: “I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: Therefore choose life” (Deut. 30:19).

Before we look at God’s food laws, examine these facts: (1) The food laws were given to the Nation of Israel; (2) Christians today aren’t under the Law of Moses. But you should ask these questions: Is there something wrong with these forbidden foods? Since God created all animals, shouldn’t He know which animals He created are for eating?

                   “You are what you eat! You can’t expect
                     To be health unless you eat those things
                     God has ordained for you to eat”

A website article which I highly recommend is on the Genesis 1:29 Diet. This article shares with you somethings you can do to live a healthier life. This recommendation doesn't mean I endorse everything that's stated, but use Godly wisdom as you read this article and others you will come across. Please email me and let me know how this article, "Health: Preventive Care" has help you.
    An excellent nutrition website on organic food and its benefits is rodaleinstitute.org;  the click on "nutrition".

                                                Four Bible Food Groups
                                 [Source: planetpace.com]
1. Trees whose edible yield is bearing seeds. 2. Plants whose edible yield is bearing seeds.
3. Field plants herbs, roots, and leafy vegetables. 4. Clean Meat

                            Seven Food Rainbow Colors
                                [Source: planetpace.com]
Red Foods: (Nutrient - Lycopene)
Trees: cherries, apples, cranberries, papaya, pomegranate
Plants: tomatoes, strawberries, watermelon, raspberries
Herbs: beets, rhubarb, radishes

Orange Foods: (Nutrient-beta-carotene)
Trees: oranges, grapefruit, peaches
Plants: pumpkin, squash
Herbs: carrots, sweet potatoes, yams

Yellow Foods: (Nutrient - vitamin C)
Trees: lemons, pears, apricots, grapefruit
Plants: corn, Squash, wheat, cantaloupe
Herbs: rutabagas

Green Foods: (Nutrient - lutein)
Trees: avocados, olives, pears, lime
Plants: cucumbers, peas, green beans, zucchini
Herbs: broccoli, asparagus, greens, spinach, brussels sprouts, kale, celery, green onions

Blue Foods: (Nutrient - Anthoocyanins)
Plants: blueberries, blackberries, mulberries

White Foods: (Nutrient - Allicin)
Trees: coconut, dates, pears, nuts
Plants: white beans, oats
Herbs: onions, cauliflower, garlic, horseradish, potatoes, turnips, mushrooms, parsnips, shallots, ginger

Purple Foods:
Trees: plumbs, prunes, figs
Plants: grapes, blackberries, elderberries
Herbs: beets, eggplants, cabbage

                                 Seven Health Needs [Source: Planetpace.com]
1) Exercise (2) Simple diet (3) Sunshine  (4) Rest (5) Pure Water
(6) Clean air (7) Daily Communion with our Heavenly Father


God’s food laws are easily accessible online. An excellent website is www.planetpace.com. Click on this, then “Bible Meat Diet”. They have also information on Bible Diet, Life Diet, Daniel’s Diet, Peter’s Vision, Daily Nutrient, Fruit Nutrient, Food Nutrient Chart, Tree of Life Meaning, Abraham’s Seed, Food Pyramid and Natural Health Sites.

                      A List of Clean Biblical Meats and Animals (Lev.11 & Deut.14)                                                     [Source: planetpace.com]

            Clean Land Animals - Birds of the Air & Fowl  - Lake - River & Sea Life

Buffalo, Cattle, Deer,Reindeer, Antelope, Gazelles, Goats, Rams,Sheep, Elks, Moose, Caribou, Giraffes,

Chickens,Turkeys, Partridges, Sparrows, Doves, Ducks, Geese, Pheasants, Quail

Trout, Tuna fish, Salmon, Halibut, Bluegills, Sunfish, Cod fish, Flounder, Perch, Herring, Sardines, Bass, Smelt,
Mackerels

Unclean Land Animals

Swine
Boar, Peccary, Pig (hog, bacon, ham, lard, pork)

Canines –Equines -Felines: Coyote, Ass, Cat Dog, Donkey, Cheetah, Fox, Mule, Leopard, Hyena, Horse, Lion, Jackal, Onager, Panther, Wolf, Zebra (quagga), Tiger  

Other Unclassified Unclean Animals: Armadillo, Kangaroo, Rat, Badger, Llama
(alpaca, vicuña), Rhinoceros, Bear Mole, Skunk, Beaver, Monkey, Slug, Camel, Mouse, Snail
(escargot), Elephant, Muskrat, Squirrel, Gorilla, Opossum, Wallaby, Groundhog, Porcupine, Weasel, Hare, Rabbit, Wolverine, Hippopotamus, Raccoon, Worm 

                                                                  Unclean Birds
Albatross, Eagle, Magpie, Roadrunner, Bat, Flamingo, Osprey, Sandpiper, Bittern, Grebe, Ostrich, Seagull, Buzzard, Grosbeak Owl, Stork, Condor, Gull, Parrot, Swallow, Coot, Hawk, Pelican, Swift, Cormorant, Heron, Penguin, Vulture, Crane, Kite, Plover, Water Hen, Crow, Lapwing, Rail, Woodpecker, Cuckoo, Loon, Raven          

                                         Unclean Reptiles
                                         and Amphibians
Reptiles - Amphibians: Alligator, Blind-worm, Caiman, Frog, Crocodile, Newt, Lizard Salamander, Snake, Turtle, Toad

                                          Unclean Fish
                                    and Marine Animals
Fish - Shellfish - Soft BodySea Mammals: Bullhead, Abalone, Cuttlefish, Dolphin, Catfish, Clam, Jellyfish, Otter, Eel, Crab, Limpet, Porpoise, European turbot, Crayfish, Octopus, Seal, Marlin, Lobster, Squid (calamari), Walrus, Paddle fish, Mussel, Whale, Shark, Prawn,    Stickleback, Oyster, Squid, Scallop, Sturgeon (includes most caviar), Shrimp, Swordfish    

What does food experts say about some of God’s forbidden meats we eat?

                              Evil Effects of Pork-Eating [source: 7times.org]
“At the head of the list we place scrofula. How almost universally it abounds. How few are entirely untainted by it. How do chronic sore eyes, glandular enlargements, obstinate ulcers, disfigured countenances, unsightly eruptions, including the long list of skin diseases, all proclaim the defilement of the blood with this vile humor. So, too, does the vast army of dwarfed, strumose, precocious children tell the same story?
    Erysipelas, too, a dreadful scourge, owes more to pork than to any other predisposing cause.
    Leprosy, that terrible disease, so common in Eastern countries, and now beginning to show itself upon our own shores, is thought by many to be largely attributable to pork-eating.
Biliousness, a name which covers nearly every bad condition, for which no appropriate name can be found, is notoriously the result of pork-eating. This is the main reason why so many people complain of biliousness in the spring, after gorging themselves with fat pork all winter. The liver is overworked in attempting to remove from the system such a mass of impurity as is received in the eating of pork. It consequently becomes clogged, congested, and torpid. Then follow all the ills consequent upon the irritating effects of the accumulation of biliary matters in the blood. The skin becomes tawny and jaundiced. The kidneys are overworked. Perhaps fever results. A partial clearing out then occurs, which enables the individual to pass along for a time again until some epidemic or contagious disease claims him as its lawful victim.
     Consumption is another disease which is not easily separable from pork-eating. In fact, scrofula is its great predisposing cause. The narrow chests, projecting shoulders, thin features, and lank limbs of so many young boys and girls are evidence of a consumptive tendency, of which a scrofulous diathesis is the predisposing cause.
    Dyspepsia, that malady of many forms, frequently results from the use of pork, especially when fat and salted or smoked pork, one of the most indigestible of foods, is used. Pork requires between five and six hours for its digestion, while wholesome food will digest in half that time. This is the reason for the notion that salt pork is an excellent thing to "stick by the rib."
    Tapeworm, we have already mentioned as the result of eating measly pork. It is a very difficult disease to cure, and often baffles the best medical skill for many years. Few ever detect the cysts in the flesh of the hog unless their attention has been directed to the matter.
     Trichinae produce in man an incurable disease. No remedy can stay the ravages of the parasite. All pork-eaters are in constant danger; for the worm is too small to be seen without the aid of the microscope. However, this disease is not nearly as formidable as the others named; for it is not so common, neither does it entail any weight of suffering upon posterity.

                                                 Apologies for Pork-Eating Examined
    Pork is Necessary as a Heat-forming Food in Winter: Are there not plenty of more healthful animals than hogs to supply all the animal fat necessary? Certainly there are; and, better still, we have the various grains and farinaceous vegetables, which are abundantly sufficient to furnish all the heat required by man in any latitude.
    Our Fathers and Grandfathers Ate Pork, and yet Lived to very Old Age: Ah! Yes, my good friend, and you are suffering the penalty of their transgressions. You may not be aware of it yet; but more than likely your old age will not be as free from ills as was theirs. And quite as probably you may even now see in your children the results of your own, as well as your fathers, disregard of the dictates of sound sense in feasting upon the hog. Their frequent sore eyes, sore mouths, tatter, erysipelas, and other eruptions, are all evidences of the scrofula which they have inherited. Neither can you urge the plea, "Pork does not hurt me." No man ever became a drunkard who did not make the same excuse for liquor. You may not feel it now; but the future will expose your delusion.
     Sufficient Heat Will Kill the Trichinae and Incipient Tapeworms: Surely, dead worms cannot kill any one; but it must be delightful for the pork-eater to contemplate his ham or sausage with the reflection that he is partaking of a diet of worms. The Frenchman sometimes eats earthworms; the African relishes lizards; and one philosopher so far overcame his natural prejudices as to eat spiders. "How disgusting!" you say, and you shut your eyes and swallow a million monsters at a meal, because they are cooked and so cannot bite. The louse-eating Patagonian cannot equal that. But it should be remembered that in order that the parasite should be killed, every part of the meat must be subjected to a heat of at least 212 degrees which is quite difficult to do, and is seldom accomplished. A whole family was poisoned by eating pork-chops, which were well cooked upon the outside.”

                                                        Cases of Trichina Poisoning
The reported cases of death from this terrible cause have become so frequent that we are no longer startled by them. Ten years ago the description of the death of a person literally infested with worms, and tortured to death by their inroads upon the system, would have excited feelings of the deepest horror; but these accounts have now become so common that little interest is shown in them, and death from this cause is one of the regular causes of additions to the mortuary list. Nevertheless, the disease is divested of none of its real horrors by its common occurrence. No one is safe; anyone who uses swine’s flesh as food in any form is liable to the disease. Salting, smoking, and the other ordinary means of curing pork do not destroy the parasite.
    A few years ago, Dr. Germer, health officer of Erie, Pa., was sent for in haste to see a patient who was supposed to be suffering from the cholera. He hastened to the bedside, and found a whole family sick with the symptoms much resembling those of cholera, though the season was then midwinter. Suspecting the possible cause, he secured a specimen from the pork barrel, and hastened to his office. Upon making a careful microscopic examination, he found myriads of the loathsome parasites in every part of the flesh examined. The writer prepared numerous microscopic specimens of the worm in various aspects from a portion of the infected meat kindly furnished by the doctor. These have been shown to hundreds of persons who were skeptical respecting the existence of such a pest.
    In this case the hog had been fattened on the premises, having been purchased when quite young by the owner, a German, from a drove of hogs which passed through the city. It was known that, previous to the purchase of the hog, two of the drove had died on the road, and had been devoured by their scavenger companions. No doubt the deaths were the result of trichinosis; and by devouring the victims the whole herd became infected. It would be difficult to estimate what an amount of suffering and death was entailed by the consumption of this great herd of trichinosis hogs. Several members of the German family died, together with several of the neighbors. Those who survived the acute stages of the disease escaped only to linger out a painful existence in the chronic and incurable state of the malady.
    Some three years later the writer received a specimen of pork from a gentleman in Wisconsin who requested an examination of the same, stating that he procured it from the pork barrel of a neighbor whose family was suffering from a disease which the doctors called cholera infantum. Several of the children had died, and other members of the family were still dangerously ill. The pork had been suspected and examined, but no trichinae were found by the observers, though several physicians had inspected it. Upon making a careful microscopically inspection of the specimen, it was found to be alive with young trichinae.”

 [Source: PORK OR THE DANGERS OF PORK-EATING EXPOSED By J. H. KELLOGG M.D. GOOD HEALTH PUBLISHING COMPANY
BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN1897 Retype set from the original 1897 edition.]

                                                                                   Summary

Our Father God, our Creator, never intended for us to get sick, having to take tons of medication [figurely] to improve and maintain our health. His plan for His people is to be healthy; it was given at creation, but most Christians have chosen to eat those forbidden animals. Why have Christians made this choice? Did Peter’s vision have anything to do with this choice? Peter’s vision hasn’t anything with eating meat, but deals with the offering of salvation to the Gentiles. Because we aren’t under the Law of Moses God gave to Israel doesn’t make the unclean animals now clean, fit to eat.

You can avoid many of the world’s diseases if you obey God. He doesn’t force His will on anyone, but His will is that we be in good health.  

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God bless,
James