God's Creation Food Is the Best Medicine - Statins Interfere with the Body And Often Have Terrible Side Effects

 

The serious side of medicine (bottom row) - "Try this. Maybe it will work. Kickbacks from Big Pharma? You reading Ichabod or something?"

What they are thinking (top row) - "Nyuk, yuk, yuk! We are going to Vegas on the profits!"

Hello Pastor Jackson

On your blog, you've written about how eating walnuts may reduce one's cholesterol numbers. I would like to relate my experience with this.

I have a routine physical exam each year. Over the years, my cholesterol numbers have increased. In 2022, my total cholesterol number was 221. "High" cholesterol begins at 200. My doctor said that if my cholesterol number remained at this level or increased, I would need to start taking statin drugs to reduce it. 

In January as part of my New Year's Resolutions I added walnuts to my diet. Each week I bought a 14 oz can of shelled walnuts. I ate some walnuts with each meal and I ate walnuts in between meals as a snack.

I had lab blood work done at the end of March. It showed a total cholesterol number of 157. This represents a reduction of 28% from 2022 and it puts my cholesterol number into the "optimal" range. I didn't change my lifestyle or take any cholesterol lowering drugs, so the reduction in total cholesterol can be attributed only to adding walnuts to my diet.       

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GJ - A member sent me two pounds of walnuts because his doctor said, "Eat walnuts for your heart." I began eating them... on ice cream. My cholesterol dropped to normal because the good side of walnuts (heavy oil) drags the bad kind out (the light,sticky jamming the veins cholesterol). The ice cream was not helping, so I moved to beans, greens, vegetables, nuts, and seeds. My blood sugar became normal, I lost 35 pounds, and my blood pressure decreased.

Very few medicines cure. At best they usually can only have some effect on the symptoms.

Ranking the Rank Discussion Boreds

 

I was trying to figure out which is the worst Lutheran discussion site. I realized how bad they were in their own unique, boring, cowardly ways.

ALPBODB

 ELCA Pastor Steve Tibbets had 10,000 posts published on ALPBODB before his arrest.

The American Lutheran Publicity Bureau Online Discussion Board has to be the worst in its own special way, starting with its name, long enough to be a government agency. If they do not want to discuss something significant, they bury it in a sudden burst of posts about nothing in particular. Avoidance is their true nature. When a member of the group, with 10,000 posts, was arrested and jailed, no one thought to mention it. However, I have seen them reach 30 pages about nothing in particular. No matter what the topic, they drift off in many directions at once. Rolf Preus loves to argue with people and keeps the boredom at peak levels.

LutherQuest

Do not look now, but Dr. Robert Preus quoted this in Justification and Rome, and his sons failed to comprehend this repudiation of Objective (Faithless) Justification.

LutherQuest, still looking for Luther and not finding him, also hosts Rolf Preus. He protects the family name and self-publishing business. The Preus inter-synodical team members are the only clan with their own private publishing company, perhaps merely to keep all their cousins' names straight. One or two LQ members actually post interesting, factual, referenced material. However, several anonymous sources yak endlessly. If they keep practicing their self-involvement, they could move up to ALPB Online Discussion Board debates, perfect for inducing deep sleep and mild nightmares.

Christian News, aka Calvinist News, has a unique place in yellow journalism. Herman and Grace Otten played both sides of many debates, eager to keep everyone buying the tabloid. Some realize the utter hypocrisy of LCMS politics, starting with Jack Preus (Rolf's uncle). CN was perfect for running for synod president but became hemlock each time the CN lover was elected to that office - 

• Jack Preus, 
• Ralph Bohlmann, 
• Al Barry, 
• Gerald Kieschnick, 
• Matt the Fatt Harrison. 

I was threatened by WELS for writing hundreds of CN articles, but WELS liked to send their own articles and get them published in CN. The CLC had the same policy, Menton screaming at me for publishing in CN, but sending bunches there - written by himself. CLC pastors did the same without the shouting. The former CLC president is now a regular writer for Hale's CN, a great example of highly polished hypocrisy. The CLC is one big, miserable, inbred family. Their college game is (seriously, folks) - "How am I related to you?" Not "Am I" but "How am I?"

Pastor Hair-Gel has a blog, but no one reads it. His Facebook rants were so bad, he erased them seconds later (but I copied them even faster).

BedFast Steadfast Lutherans

This horrible waste of repeat-after-me dogmatics includes Rolf Preus and some of his relatives too. I scanned the list of authors and found an endless number of Objective (Faithless) Justification fans listed. When one of the baby Preus kids published a series of blurbs about faithless Justification, the mob indulged in the normal combination of personal attacks and resistance to Justification and Rome, written by Robert Preus and edited - but no longer quoted - by Rolf and Dan Preus. Blacklisting one's father must be a lowpoint in the Preus family inter-synodical accomplishments.

The only requirements for publishing in CN are 1) Promoting Fuller Seminary nonsense and Objective (Faithless) Justification.

PS - Intrepid Lutherans

This was a typical WELS operation, where people were gathered to discuss the issues and scattered by Chief Two-Face. The last post was in 2016, and the blog is still online.

The WELS Church Growth sorority has been quietly retiring for years. Their goals of total apostasy and servile blasphemy have been met - Management by Objectives - guided by their Father Below.

Jay Webber passed along the ELS nickname for Mordor - The Sausage Factory - where identical pork sausage is ground out annually.

 Imagine the future!