There are many reasons why so many people in todays society are sick with cancer, diabetes, heart disease and obesity just to name a few. The processed foods that so many of us consume are not good for our health and even though there is so much information about these via the media and other sources, people generally ignore these and often even discount it. While in Israel I noticed that the food was extremely healthy and during that time I lost several pounds even though I didn’t eat any more than I normally do. Our bodies are the Temple of the Holy Spirit and we are instructed by the Apostle Paul to take care of our bodies. He advises us not to “defile” this temple. We know that Jesus said that what comes out of your mouth defiles you but it is true that our bodies are affected positively or negatively by what goes INTO the mouth. I personally try to cook most meals from scratch avoiding any processed ingredients if at all possible. Kim is extremely disciplined when it comes to what he eats. He does not eat any red meat at all. He only eats fish and vegetables. He has no sugar or breads either and is very strict about avoiding anything that contains sugar. He’s always checking the labels and informing me of how much sugar a product contains. It’s very important to eat fresh foods and preferably organic foods. I like shopping at stores that offer healthy organic food. Now I also realize that this is not always affordable and we are not always able to shop at these stores, but you can still find economical ways of shopping for healthier produce. I have warned my children to avoid coke and similar soft drinks as they are detrimental to their health and concentration. I don’t buy these at all. Jakob will sneak a coke every now and then when my back is turned. Elizabeth does not like coke at all and since a young child she has refused to drink anything but water or orange gatorade.
I will be adding pages to this health section of articles and subjects I find interesting. If you have anything to add please feel free to send me the information and I will post it in this section.
Jane
love all this info jane, you will possibly know that pineapple has anti inflammatory properties within it called bromelin, heps calm down inflammed muscles, tendons seemingly. godbless, helen.
This is wonderful information for my health issues–thanks, Jane and may God bless you for all your efforts.
Jane would you elaborate a bit on why Kim doesnt eat bread or sugar? Does he eat whole grains or beans? Just interested. I am a diabetic and over weight. Please tell us more about how you cook. and what you cook.
Hi Jane, I am SO happy to read this info here! I totally agree with what you said about health/nutrition/food from the spiritual standpoint. I also agree that diet is a huge reason why so many people are ill these days.
I have been eating “paleo/primal” for quite a while (a good site is marksdailyapple.com–he talks on his daily blog about not just food but various other important lifestyle issues). I eliminated all grains and sugar 2.5 years ago and find that I have negative reactions even when I have fruit (because of the high sugar in it, I assume).
BTW when you had communion yesterday during the broadcast, because I get really sick when I eat grains, and Kim said if we weren’t prepared with bread and wine for communion, to just use something else…I got a handful of sliced almonds and had a sip of my homemade smoothie. It’s our hearts and intent that matter, not the physical substance that we use for communion. I also don’t have any dairy or soy, and like Kim, I read every single label.
I find that I save label-reading time by just buying nonpackaged foods in their natural state. I am blessed to live in an area where there’s good access to local produce and meats. I do eat some high-quality dark chocolate every day, and it’s a healthy food–antioxidants, etc.
I’m on a really tight budget, as a lot of people are, but I make healthy eating a major priority. This is because I know that my health is my greatest asset in life, and that only by having good health can I fulfill the purpose for which God placed me on this earth.
There are many things that we can cut out of our budget in order to have the money to buy organic, nonprocessed, nonGMO, whole foods–cable TV, non-necessities, etc. etc.
I’m a professional writer and editor and have written a lot of material re: health, and I would love to contribute some ideas/writings to your blog. So please feel free to contact me. I really think we need to get the word out about healthy nutrition and lifestyles (not just food but also exercise/movement, attitude/thoughts, sleep/rest, water/hydration, detoxification, etc.).
I have learned, after spending countless hours over the past several years doing my own research, that so much of what we have been taught by the conventional/mainstream health world is actually total opposite to the truth. For example, the food pyramid is a recipe for illness and misery. Some good sites for learning the truth are naturalnews.com and mercola.com (they both have free email newsletters that come out several times per week).
As Kim said, we will be seeing cures for all sorts of diseases, and I think these cures will come at least partly through improved diets and lifestyles. The GAPS diet is one that parents are using to healing autism and other diseases. In so many ways, we have gone against God’s natural laws in the way we treat our bodies and health. And that has been a path to illness. If we would follow the way our Creator made/designed things, we would be a lot more healthy.
I am hearing almost daily about all sorts of miracle cures/healings, including for serious diseases like cancer–Gerson therapy, other dietary interventions, etc. I am convinced that the info on cures for all illnesses is out there. And we find most or all of these cures in nature–in what God made. Isn’t that cool, that what He made, not what man made (such as synthetic things) is what heals us. What a loving God, to have made exactly what we need to be healthy and thriving during our time here on this planet. I don’t believe that it’s His will for us to be sick and suffering, but rather vibrantly healthy and alive.
Have you heard of earthing? You can check out the book called Earthing. Makes perfect sense–God designed us to be in direct contact with the earth that he placed us on.
I also think the massive amounts of chemicals and EMFs to which we are exposed are unnatural to the way God designed us and are contributing to ill health, and more studies are being done about the connection between cell phones and brain tumors, diabetes, etc.
Have you heard of The Healing Codes and The Healing Code book? These were “discovered” by a Christian, and Jordan Rubin of Garden of Life wrote the foreword to the book–Jordan has some testimonials about how the HC helped him. People have been healed of all types of cancer through the HC.
Thanks again for the great info!
P.S. Thanks to you, Kim, your family, and team for such a wonderful ministry. You are my church, I look forward with great anticipation to each online broadcast, and the programs have been a HUGE blessing!! You are such a gifted, talented group. Also looking forward to your trip to Israel!! I feel blessed to be in fellowship with such a wonderful community and am SO thankful that God allowed our paths to cross. Abundant blessings to you and yours.
Hello Jane,
I am so glad to see that you have a nutrition tab on your blog. It has been on my heart to write to you concerning nutrition. First of all I am not an expert, yet in my pursuit of obtaining my bachelors degree in psychology (last year 05/2010) I was put on the deans list for my grades in my nutrition classes. I have always been interested in nutrition, and originally followed “Adelle Davis” and her beliefs about nutrition, many of which are still valid. My recent exposure to an international nutritionist by the name of “Mary-Ann Shearer” and her first book (she has others) “Perfect Health the natural way” has lead to results that have positively affected areas of my health that I thought would never be affected by nutrition. Mary-Ann has lectured several times in our area and at my church (Vineyard Community Church in Laguna Niguel, Ca.) and has a wonderfully common sense approach, that has been clinically researched and for me has filled in all those little unanswered holes in nutrition that Adelle Davis did not. She is a Christian from South Africa and is truly surrendered to the Lord Jesus Christ in her walk, including her teachings on nutrition which are also Biblically based. Her web site is http://www.naturalwaynetwork.net. All that to say it has been a burden on my heart as I see that Kim (even though he reads all the labels and abstains from the things that you mention above) still has “post nasal drip”. And I mention that because that is the very thing that impacted me strongly approximately 3 months after I had been eating the way Mary-Ann advocates. My “post nasal drip” was gone!!! and I had had it since approximately puberty, age 12 or 13. Oh I had my share of medications for my allergies that “decreased” the post nasal drip, but never eliminated it, and this way of eating had made it “go away” “gone”. I urge you to check it out, the book will make a lot of sense to you. Also in the past month or two, Kim mentioned another ailment that he suffers from ( I don’t remember what it was) but I do remember thinking at the time of the broadcast that it is something mentioned in Mary-Ann’s book that could be improved/healed. I strongly urge you and Kim to check out her book. Thank you so much for your ministry, it has blessed me for as long as I have been watching it. Also any prayers you could send my way for a job, would be greatly appreciated. Blessings in Christ Jesus on you and our families.
Hi Jane, I wanted to share my testimony regarding my daily diet. Around 2 years ago I started eating fruit, veg, fish, seeds, spices, honey, tea, coconut and oil from the fruit or veg. This was simular to Kim’s fast but I added a couple of extra items and larger portions . Sense then I had lost over 30 pounds and diabetes is gone for good. What I wanted to share with your veiwers who does not like eating fish at all like me, but feel like God is requiring it from them. I tryed talapi because of the price per pound was reasonable and available at my market. I prayed for help to find a way to like fish and to cook it so it would taste like chicken or at least not like fish. I fried it, smoked it, baked it, soaked it in every kind of juice and George Forman grilled it. Finally, one day I left the fish on the George Forman grill just a little to long and it looked burned and was dried out like jerky and that did the trick. My recipe is lawry’s seasoning salt and mediterranean seasoning from Winco bulk section and grill for 10 minutes or so. I look forward to eating fish now, but I wanted to add a warning to those who add oil to their healthy diet like I did. I ended up in the hospital with gull stones from frying the fish and veg to often. I’m grilling and steaming more often and I’m better now. Jane please know that I’m very thankful for the fasting and the sacrifices going on with your family and for bringing people together via internet. Blessings to you
I looked at your recipes section. I was hoping for healthy recipes –NOT FATTENING recipes -LOL.
I want to know what special diet Kim is on and is it all the time or just during his fasts.
Another question now is— what are you feeding your girls? And how are they doing?