Back to the Basics - Vegetables and Fruit versus Prescriptions

 

My first birthday included a cake.

By the age of 4 I was helping the family business.

I am not against prescriptions, but nutrition studies - and my experience - have convinced me that people are being hornswaggled by the gubmint, the pharmaceutical giants, and the physicians. Those three entities inflate the cost and the use of prescriptions.

The fats-sugars-salt diet leads to diabetes and heart disease (which includes blood pressure, poor circulation, and stroke). 

People can eliminate or diminish a lot of symptoms by removing the expensive foods with little value, replacing them with greens, beans, fruits, and vegetables. Assuming that my highest weight was 225 pounds, the gradual weight loss has gone down 46 pounds. 

All the blood test results have improved with the loss of junk food (aka fastfoods, desserts, candy, and frozen dinners). The previous two doctors were shocked at the results - neither one had heard the name of Joel Fuhrman M.D. I will give How Not To Die by Michael Greger M.D. at my next appointment. Greger has also written How Not To Diet.

If I were a real doctor, I would have everyone gradually lessen the favorite foods that have almost no nutrition but lots of remedies from our Creator. 

The trademark diet plans are a joke. But worse - The self-denying promise to stop given addictive foods all at once is bound to build up a tremendous craving for that faux-sacrifice, which ends in a gain. Do not ask me how I know.

Here is one effective medicine that is inexpensive, fresh, juicy, delicious, sweet, and loaded with nutrition - the apple. Not apple pie (with ice cream or whipped cream) or apple juice (pure sugar) or apple turnovers, or apple tarts. Add fresh pineapples to that load of quality apples. It is better than dessert - and I am an expert - just in the way those and other fruits satisfy everyone's appetite.

Instead of supper, I eat two big apples with a handful of walnuts. I may have two more apples (4, yes! 4) for the day, but also other fruits.

Furhman and my parents said the same thing - eat good foods and get used to them. We went for donuts, cookies, apple pie with whipped cream, and candy on the side. 

I gave a dear relative a monthly supply of various fruits. I tried that for six months and gave them 12 months. The idea was to have delicious, exotic fruits start a new hobby - and it worked for both households. 

My daily lunch meal is shared with Charlie Sue. It includes a lot of blueberries, walnuts, spinach and kale, tomato paste, peas, broccoli, onions and peppers, and chick-peas. We share a smoked sausage. Breakfast and supper are for various fruits.

My vegetable consultant encouraged me to get a collection of large containers of spices, and I add samples to the Creation Super Stew described above. I especially like cumin, allspice, curry, cardamom, turmeric (a ginger), and mustard. I keep trying out stew variations (including sausage).

Ironically, I have been watching streaming videos about the great giants in food in America. Enormous fortunes have been made with soft ice cream, pizza, popsicles, hamburgers, hotdogs, fried chicken, and corn flakes. Most of the brand names come from the originator.

Health Benefits of Apples.

Health Benefits of Fresh Pineapples.

Reformation Seminary - John 3:22ff

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John 3:22 After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized. 23 And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized. 24 For John was not yet cast into prison. 25 Then there arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying.

26 And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him. 27 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven. 28 Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him. 29 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled. 30 He must increase, but I must decrease. 31 He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.

32 And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony. 33 He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. 34 For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him. 35 The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand. 36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

Protestia - Methodists Catching Up with The Big Faithless Five - LCMS-ELS-ELCA-WELS-CLC (sic)

 

"Oliveto’s successor, Kristin Stoneking, also a married lesbian, seems entirely in lockstep with her predecessor’s radical progressivism. At PSR, which styles itself as a “progressive Christian seminary,” Stoneking wrote an op-ed hailing the 2024 General Conference as an example for other denominations to follow. Stoneking also welcomed the UMC’s retreat from traditional Christian ministry and transformation into a “large, non-governmental institution.” In an interview with her conference, Stoneking followed Oliveto in describing the Traditional Plan as a moment of “deep despair.”

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Daily Lutheran Sermon Quote - Trinity 15 - "As I said at the beginning Christ delivered this sermon to his Christians, especially to those in the office of the ministry or to those who otherwise either had nothing or never could acquire and gather for themselves riches and mammon, as the rest of the world does; in order that they might know, from what source they could nourish and support themselves and their families."

 

Complete Sermon ->FIFTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.

5. God cannot allow us to have another Lord besides himself. He is a jealous God, as he says, and cannot suffer us to serve him and his enemy.

We find very few, who do not sin against the Gospel. The Lord passes a severe judgment and it is terrible to hear, that he should say this of us; and yet no one will confess, yea, no one will suffer it to be said that we hate and despise God, and that we are his enemies. There is no one, when asked if he loves God and cleaves to him, who would not reply: Dost thou take me to be such a desperate character as to be an enemy of God? But see how the text here closes, that we all hate and despise God, and love and cleave to mammon. For it is impossible that he, who loves gold and riches and cleaves to them, should not hate God. Christ here holds the two opposed to one another and as enemies, and says: If you love one of these two and cleave to the same, then you must hate and despise the other.

However well a man may live here upon the earth, if he clings to riches it cannot be otherwise than that he must hate God. And whoever does not trust in gold and worldly riches, loves God. This is certain.

37. As I said at the beginning Christ delivered this sermon to his Christians, especially to those in the office of the ministry or to those who otherwise either had nothing or never could acquire and gather for themselves riches and mammon, as the rest of the world does; in order that they might know, from what source they could nourish and support themselves and their families. Yea, they are compelled to live in the danger of being robbed of the little earthly goods God gave them and thus they are without the least doubt compelled to live entirely upon the help that God sends them and they expect from him, since the world gives them nothing.

38. This is indeed painful to flesh and blood, and is very burdensome to them, yea, no one can bear or do it, unless he is a believing Christian. For the world is so disposed that it will not take the least risk in temporal matters for the future; but it must be sure of them, order beforehand and have in store and ready for use whatever it needs, as food, peace, protection and insurance, so that it can live and depend upon neither God nor the people; but as it is evident that the world enriches no one because of his faith and piety, they think they must act and live as others do, in order that they may nevertheless have also something.