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The Newest Diet Trend: What Would Jesus Eat?

Seeded on Sun Feb 7, 2010 12:09 PM EST
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health, diet, jesus
Seeded by Robert Bartholomew
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God cries when you eat Pop-Tarts. But He smiles when you drink carrot juice, and when you do a colon cleanse, He beams.

That's the spirit driving one of America's biggest current diet fads. Granted, you've probably never heard of it unless you hang with Bible-believing Christians, but it goes by many names: the Hallelujah Diet, the Maker's Diet, the Lord's Diet, the Genesis 1:29 Diet. Some versions are vegan, some largely raw; all include organic whole grains -- and some of their kingpins have piously channeled this fad into multimillion-dollar enterprises, hawking must-have supplements at hefty prices. An eight-ounce bottle of phosphatidylcholine (a membrane extracted from soybeans or egg yolks) for $124.99? Sure, when its brand name reads like a promise: Divine Health.

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Do you think Cool Ranch Doritos and Nutrageous candy bars would be on the approved list?

  • 5 votes
Reply#1 - Sun Feb 7, 2010 12:10 PM EST
Rank on Rank

You can be certain that Jesus Christ being an orthodox Jew would keep kosher.

  • 9 votes
#1.1 - Sun Feb 7, 2010 1:11 PM EST
JeniferD

I don't know fellas, methinks Jesus would be afraid to eat anything except food from his own garden. He'd probably brew his own booze, too. I'm not saying the man was paranoid, just smarter than most of us.

I can just see him now, sitting on his back porch in his underwear. A sling-shot and a bag of dried beans at his side to keep the neighbor's dog out of his yard. ;-)

  • 3 votes
#1.2 - Sun Feb 7, 2010 5:04 PM EST
js-445607

I have a niece I truly don't associate with due to her mindset and her penchant for "It's in the hands of the Lord". She went on the Jesus diet to lose "The Weight". Now, if you have some girth giving you chronic muffin top how does it become "The Weight"? Does this weight not belong to you? Did someone sneak in and plump you up when you weren't looking? All I could figure out is when you trust the Lord you don't have to take responsibility for anything you do and this is why you are a chunky monkey! People who rarely remove a serving and go for the whole unit from a box, bag or ice cream container are bond to end up with "The Weight".

  • 4 votes
#1.3 - Sun Feb 7, 2010 5:25 PM EST
kaviaq

All I could figure out is when you trust the Lord you don't have to take responsibility for anything you do

LOL, nicely put. I've always shuddered with disgust when i hear "It's in God's hands"....talk about a cop out!

  • 5 votes
#1.4 - Sun Feb 7, 2010 6:26 PM EST
js-445607

It is a cop out, kaviaq and most using this are afraid of their own shadows. My niece is one of those paranoid personalities who goes around acting holier than thou and acting sweet but she is toxic and there isn't all that much in redeeming qualities. Poor old God first He creates us and then we become co-dependent. I'll bet He's shaking his head...giggle snort.

  • 5 votes
#1.5 - Sun Feb 7, 2010 6:38 PM EST
sunnybunny1269

I guess it would include fasting right?

  • 1 vote
#1.6 - Mon Feb 8, 2010 6:05 PM EST
js-445607

Fasting with liquids only? How long does it take to melt a gallon of ice cream?

  • 1 vote
#1.7 - Mon Feb 8, 2010 7:05 PM EST
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beej mcl

you could eat tofu and scrambled eggs alot cheaper and get the same benefit. you're not sure that you will like the taste? a little ketchup or hot sauce will fix that nicely.

  • 2 votes
Reply#2 - Sun Feb 7, 2010 12:18 PM EST
redphish

I wonder if they stopped to consider whether Jesus would appreciate being used as a marketing gimmick.

  • 8 votes
Reply#3 - Sun Feb 7, 2010 12:27 PM EST
js-445607

Poor Jesus, he gets all the burden and none of the fun.

  • 4 votes
#3.1 - Sun Feb 7, 2010 5:25 PM EST
Kara Shalee

Oh, how well said, redphish. It's troubling that the bottom line here is money.

If it were just a diet, well then, whatever works. But in fact it seems to be a money-making enterprise. I'm not for the "selling of God" under various guises.

I don't think Jesus would be asking for any money to improve people's health...........and didn't he drive people like this out of the temple?

  • 3 votes
#3.2 - Mon Feb 8, 2010 12:27 AM EST
js-445607

Theresa N, That is the rub, isn't it? More money for the religious organization and all they have to do is get a bunch of very gullible people signed up, pay some fees, give a little lecture about how Jesus will get your back, pray a lot and Wa La you have a money making scheme designed to do nothing. Since I am familiar with this group I have found that after a year of letting the Lord get the weight off no progress was made. In my observation this type of people are going out where there are good deeds are being done are doing it for the points they can get and gossip about. I was at a Breast Cancer walk one time and listened to a group of women talk about recruiting for God, as there were so many possibilities in the crowd.

  • 1 vote
#3.3 - Mon Feb 8, 2010 12:58 PM EST
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Eamonn-1019078

: There's always time for a nice cup of tea. Sure, didn't the Lord himself pause for a nice cup of tea before giving himself up for the world.
Father Ted: No, he didn't, Mrs Doyle!
Mrs Doyle: Well, whatever the equivalent they had for tea in those days, cake or something. And speaking of cake, I have cake!
[holds up a cupcake]
Father Ted: No, thanks, Mrs Doyle.
Mrs Doyle: Are you sure, Father? There's cocaine in it!
Father Ted: WHAT?
Mrs Doyle: Oh, no, not cocaine. God, what am I on about. No, what d'you call them. Raisins.

I give you a quote from Father Ted a very funny British sit-com.

  • 6 votes
Reply#4 - Sun Feb 7, 2010 12:39 PM EST
funkeyer1

Wine @ a wedding, vinegar with an essential oil were biblicly written of & others given by wise men b4 the birth of Christ. Maybe Jesus had a liquid diet & absorbed spirit vapors instead of drinking to cure the blind with spit in mud poultice. When he fed people with fish, I don't know if he ate them & loaves, it was since rediscovered that fish oil has healing quality on damaged arteries caused by other animal fats.

Yes Theresa N, he turned the tables on the money changers. No redphish, possibly ask forgiveness on their part because they do not know what they do.

    Reply#5 - Mon Feb 8, 2010 6:03 AM EST
    Megidoloan

    According to my Bible Bar ("Nutrition God's Way!"), the big man approves of:

    Brown rice syrup, organic brown rice, figs, organic wheat flakes, organic barley flakes, organic raisins, organic honey, almond butter, extra virgin olive oil, raspberry fruit powder, pomegranate concentrate, and sea salt.

    Bible Bar contains the 7 foods of Deuteronomy 8:8! And yes, it is a real product! I found mine at a Mennonite supermarket. But you can also find them here - http://www.houseofdavid.net/

    Sorry, I haven't figured out how to do the link thing here. And I haven't eaten it because I'm kind of afraid of it judging by the ingredients. But it is a lot of fun for novelty value. Also, I am not affiliated with Bible Bar or the company making it. I just amused by it.

    • 1 vote
    Reply#6 - Mon Feb 8, 2010 11:18 AM EST
    Artemirr

    It disgusts me how iconic the west has made Jesus out to be, just for mere profit. Rather than for what he was and is and had represented to the masses. Diet is a serious thing and you should know yourself and your blood type and nutritional considerations from family and relatives of your past. Depending where you reside from you should determine what you need to eat as a requirement for a healthy internal body. Water and flax is a good start and you could always build upon it. Fiber and water are pretty important as well as minerals and such. Some minerals are removed from our water supply system in order to protect our pipes from corrosion or in process of eliminating harmful bacteria’s. In other words we most likely have to take a supplement for say magnesium, or perhaps obtain from veggies or fruits. Though a cast iron pan might be better than Teflon since Teflon can flake in time and I am pretty sure our bodies have not adapted a way to process it yet.

    • 2 votes
    Reply#7 - Mon Feb 8, 2010 5:35 PM EST
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