I have read a ton of nutrition books and one of them is the most effective for me - a simple matter of craving (a life-long hobby). Dr. Joel Fuhrman is my guru for that simple matter.
As he wrote with simplicity - we often do not enjoy foods which are new to us, so we cater to those items which make us desire them.
The irony for this error is our craving for chocolate, sugar, salt, desserts, fast foods, pizza, desserts of all kinds, crackers, popcorn, barbeque steaks and many more. Now you are hungry, maybe even starving (as we call craving).
I had Fuhrman on my bookshelves but did not read it. However, once I did (after being shocked by a diabetic reading), I devoured every page of the book. In steps for three years I removed most of the processed, sugared, oily, salt, fat foods, I lost 60 pounds (slow over 3 years). I also lost my craving for most of the fattening foods, craving for what really helped.
Scriptures Also Cause Craving
When Used Wisely
When I was baptized, soon after birth, I listened carefully to the words spoken, the Gospel and the Promises. My mother was especially kind and eager to help my gradual steps forward. She taught Sunday School, helped me on the piano, and taught me the 23rd Psalm. Many decades later I read her those same words as she died.
I was baptized with the King James Version and came back to that Bible many years later. New translations were like candy, often given away, but they achieved many levels of ruin the Book.
The turning point came from a Lutheran layman who said, "Greg, I like your Christian News articles, but why are you not using the KJV?"
I did not have a KJV disc for the computer, so he gave me one. Making the KJV 100% - except for easy quotes - I used the best and most accurate Bible from that time on.
I found using the KJV a delight, because those older words, which are few, are much more precise and melodic than than the junk food of fly-by-night Bibles.
Bethany members and friends know. BibleJohn and his sainted wife loved to see boxes and boxes of KJVs in all forms (but never) diluted. He made changes to an area where people craved getting a new KJV, a small KJV, a prison KJV, and a super-giant KJV. BibleJohn's funeral was an ornament to his energy and love for the Scriptures.
