Health "Wise?"

Our federal government has just released a new set of dietary guidelines as it does every 5 years. Doesn't the fact that the government schedules the guidelines to be changed EVERY 5 years tell us something about how much faith we can place in their guidelines or in modern science? At some point in the not so distant past, I took one of my children to the Pediatrician. While we were waiting in an examination room, I looked at the "food pyramid" poster hanging on the wall. At the base of the pyramid, our most wise government has placed "breads, cereals, rice, and pasta - all foods from grains" signifying that we need more servings of these foods than any other (you know more than fish, fruit, vegetables, etc.). So what do you imagine was pictured at the base of the food pyramid poster? Cookies, white pasta, crackers and other apparently "healthy" items which could be classified in the "all foods from grains" category! It should come to no surprise that the government and food industry giants are not really concerned with the health of the people; their main interest is money and power. I don't remember anything about dietary guidelines in the U.S. Constitution. Even more importantly, I don't see God specifying this as a function of government anywhere in His Word.

To give you even "more" reason to trust our scientists and dietitians, I just heard about two health studies. The first study was conducted to discover the effect eating red meat had on cancer. The results indicated that men should once again stop eating meat and return to eating fiber (which we were told not too long ago to stop eating and eat red meat). The second was a study on the effects eating healthy amounts of fruits and vegetables had on preventing breast cancer. According to the study the effect was, well, they are embarrassed to say, NONE. So did the health officials react the same way as they did to the first study? Of course not, they gave some lame excuse, passed the study off as inconclusive and encouraged women to keep eating fruits and vegetables (which I applaud). So what are we to do? We are to emphatically trust the results of the first study and not trust the second study. Why? Because the the conclusions were already predetermined and if, as in the second study, the actual results to not match, we simply ignore them and go on. So much for the objectivity of science.

Placing your faith in modern science is a fools course!

Exodus 15:26
And He said, "If you will give earnest heed to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, the LORD, am your healer."

Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Applying your faith to every area of life includes diet. When the Israelites followed God's food laws they were the healthiest people on the planet able to take dominion as He directed. Don't you think they will do the same for His people today? God created you and his Word provides us with a wealth of knowledge.

Recommended Reading on Diet:

• The Holy Bible by God
• None of These Diseases by S. I. McMillen M.D.
• The Maker's Diet by Jordan S. Rubin
• Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon (not all info in this book is biblical - take the Bible as your guide)

Recommended Reading on Modern Science:

• The Mythology of Science by R. J. Rushdoony