Hello everyone! It’s hard to believe its
February already. Next month we can look forward to spring! Here is a good,
healthy treat to make using no refined sugar.
Almond Joy’s
1½ c. boiling water
2¼ c. dates
1 t. real salt
¼ t. almond extract (no alcohol)
1 c. barley flour
⅔ c. almond or peanut butter
3 c. coconut (unsweetened)
Pour boiling water over dates in a
blender. When softened add salt and almond extract. Partially liquefy
leaving some lumps. In a large mixing bowl place flour and nut
butter. Cut together until nut butter is evenly distributed. Add
coconut and date mixture. Blend well. Prepare cookie sheets with
parchment paper. Drop onto cookie sheet (any size) and press an almond (or
two) into each one. Bake 350ยบ for about 15 minutes or until slightly
brown. Yield: 50-55 cookies
When cooled, melt
homemade carob chips (ask me for recipe) with some almond or peanut butter and
dip or drizzle it over the cookies on wax paper. To store the cookies, put
them in the refrigerator or freezer.
What God created is what He intended for us to eat.
His original diet was to nourish, strengthen and build our bodies.
It’s important to
recognize that what we feed our children will directly affect their nature,
their character, their attitude, their physical being.
“Parents should make it their first business to
understand the laws of life and health, that nothing shall be done by them in
the preparation of food, or through any other habits, which will develop wrong
tendencies in their children. How carefully should mothers study to prepare
their tables with the most simple, healthful food, that the digestive organs
may not be weakened, the nervous forces unbalanced, and the instruction which
they should give their children counteracted by the food placed before them.
This food either weakens or strengthens the organs of the stomach and has much
to do in controlling the physical and moral health of the children, who are
God's blood-bought property. What a sacred trust is committed to parents to
guard the physical and moral constitutions of their children so that the
nervous system may be well balanced and the soul not be endangered!” Te 184.2
This tells me what I fix
my children may develop wrong tendencies…Wow you mean if I give my child candy
that it will make a difference in them following instructions we give them…..it
will destroy their nervous systems is what it is saying. I think it applies to
adults as well; we have the same bodies!
Appetite controls and passions are out of control
because of our diet. It’s a serious problem in our country today.
When asked how much sugar does the average person
consume every year? Here is what 2 Doctors said:
Mehmet Oz, MD, Cardiology answered – “The average
person consumes 150 pounds of sugar per year–compared to just 7 ½ pounds consumed
on average in the year 1700.That's 20 times as much!” -- WOW!!! What a difference!
Joan Salge Blake, MS, RD,
Nutrition & Dietetics answered - "Americans, on average, are consuming 22
teaspoons of added sugar daily, the equivalent of 350 calories. That's over
8,000 teaspoons annually! This amount is double the amount recommended daily by
the American Heart Association."
Gerry Curatola, DDS,
Dentist, answered - "Since 1983 (the year before my oldest daughter was born),
sugar consumption has been steadily increasing every year by an average of 28%,
fueling an epidemic of obesity, dental disease, diabetes and other health
problems."
Those of us who don’t consume that much sugar,
someone else is eating our share. I wonder who is eating my share?
Sugar is in everything,
all processed foods and even canned vegetables…and more. We are over
stimulating and ruining the health of our kids thru the use of sugar alone, to
say nothing of the additives, preservatives and colorings and all the other
chemicals they are pouring into food that are killing our health and making
our spiritual nature benumbed.
Vitamin B is a very important vitamin in the body
and it is necessary for vital body functions. It is to control the
nervous system, regulate and calm the nerves and to make them function
well. Vitamin B is needed to metabolize sugar. What
happens then when we consume too much sugar? The body robs the Vitamin B from
the nervous system and sends it over to the metabolizing and digesting of the
sugar to maintain all the sugar overload that’s coming into the body and then
the nervous system is short circuiting. The nerves become frayed, frazzled, and
spasmodic. The child becomes very HYPERACTIVE because they don’t have Vitamin B
to meet needs of the nervous system and it becomes out of control and children
become hyperactive and their attention span decreases.
“Through the channel of
appetite, the passions are inflamed, and the moral powers are paralyzed, so
that parental instruction in the principles of morality and true goodness falls
upon the ear without affecting the heart. The most fearful warnings and
threatenings of the word of God are not powerful enough to arouse the benumbed
intellect and awaken the violated conscience.” Te 183.1
Our passions are inflamed and our moral powers
become paralyzed…that means that our ability to stand for what’s right when we
know it’s right becomes paralyzed so that parental instruction and the
principles of morality and true goodness falls upon the ear without affecting
the heart.
When thru the channel of
appetite, our passions become inflamed, our moral powers and the moral powers
of our children become paralyzed and our instruction to our children fall on
deaf ears without affecting the heart, that means no change in character. Don’t
we want to change the heart so the character changes?
It’s saying that by what we feed our children we
can actually short circuit the Spirit of God the Holy Spirit working in the
heart of our children, because of the appetites raging and the passions
becoming out of control.
God help us as parents to wake up to see that what
we feed our children (and ourselves) is not just hurting their physical body
for the moment but it is affecting their moral and spiritual character for
eternity.
Look at our nation today. The morality of this
nation and our country, the passions and temper, the whole atmosphere, it’s
intense, immoral and evil.
God wants us to recognize
that what we do as parents in how we feed our children (and ourselves) is
having a dramatic affect.
I pray God will help you to make the necessary
changes in your diet and in your children’s diet so that you and they can
develop good moral and spiritual characters for eternity!
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