Eating healthy is my passion and I love
to collect and try new recipes. I have
over 4000 recipes on my digital “cookbook" (which is for sale if interested). Eating healthy doesn’t mean the food has to
taste bad. The recipe for this month is
Alfredo. It is simple, easy and very tasty.
Creamy Alfredo
Sauce
½ c. raw cashews
1 ¼ c. water
1 T. unbleached white flour
¼ t. onion powder
½ t. real salt
1 t. basil, dried NOT FRESH
Blend cashews, flour,
seasoning, onion powder, salt and water until creamy. Pour blended mixture into saucepan and bring
to a slow boil. Add basil and remove
from heat. Ladle over cooked fettuccine
noodles and serve with steamed broccoli pieces and a fresh salad.
God wants us to
be healthy. In 3 John 2 it says,
“Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as
your soul prospers."
Isn’t that
wonderful? God wants us to be in good
health. He does not want us to be sick and that is why He gave us such
wonderful counsel on how to eat, when to eat and what to eat.
What we eat
really does affect our health and moral strength and our usefulness in this
world.
Actually we are
told just that in our inspired writings of Ellen White. She says the following in Child Guidance on page 398. “True temperance teaches us to dispense
entirely with everything hurtful, and to use judiciously that which is
healthful. There are few who realize as
they should how much their habits of diet have to do with their health, their character,
their usefulness in this world, and their eternal Destiny. The appetite should
ever be in subjection to the moral and intellectual powers. The body should be servant to the mind, and
not the mind to the body.”
“…Disease is an effort
of nature to free the system from conditions that result from a violation of
the laws of health. In case
of sickness, the cause should be ascertained. Unhealthful conditions should be
changed, wrong habits corrected.
Then nature is to be assisted in her effort to expel impurities and to
re-establish right conditions in the system. Pure air, sunlight, abstemiousness, rest, exercise, PROPER
DIET, the use of water, trust in divine power--these are the true
remedies. Every person should have a knowledge of nature's
remedial agencies and how to apply them. It is essential
both to understand the principles involved in the treatment of the sick and to
have a practical training that will
enable one rightly to use this knowledge.” {MH 127.1-.2}
“…EDUCATION SHOULD BE GIVEN ON PROPER DIET…” (CD 406.4)
“We should educate
ourselves, not only to live in harmony with the laws of health, but to teach others the better way…”
(CG 361.2)
“…become more intelligent in regard to the laws of life. .
. {11MR 187.3}
EDUCATE IN REGARD TO THE LAWS OF LIFE:
“…Educate people in regard to the laws of life…” {GCDB,
January 30, 1893 par. 2}
Interesting Fact: Because of crowded, dirty conditions, more
than 80% of the pigs bred in the U.S.
Researchers found that people who eat the most processed meats
(bacon, ham, bologna etc.) have a 68% higher risk of pancreatic cancer than
those who eat the least of those meats.
Meat is
just not safe to eat anymore. Have you ever read what the Bible and inspiration
says about it? There is so much, I don’t
know what to leave out, but here are some very good quotes that spoke to my
heart.
If you read Genesis 5:5, 5:8, 5:11, 5:14 and 9:29 you will see that the
life of the race BEFORE the flood was that man lived much longer.
The life
span was drastically shortened after the flood when man was permitted to eat
meat. Genesis 11:10-32, 25:7, 35:28, 47:28, and 50:26
One more significant change was recorded after the flood in Gen 11:28
and that was a child died before a parent.
Did you
know there was a stipulation given to man when eating meat? Lev 3:17, 7: 26, 27
& 17:10-14…it says NO FAT or BLOOD!
Do you know that God ONLY gave permission to eat animal food to shorten
their sinful lives?
CD 373.
“Flesh meat
creates disease and insubordination.” CD
375
“Vegetables, fruits and grains should compose our diet. Not an ounce of flesh meat should enter our
stomachs. The eating of flesh is unnatural.”
CD 380
“Our habits
of eating and drinking show whether we are of the world or among the number
whom the Lord by His mighty cleaver of truth has separated from the world. These are His peculiar people, zealous of
good works.” CD 379
“God gave rebellious Israel flesh, but His curse was with it. Thousands of them died while the meat they
desired was between their teeth. We have
the warning for us NOT to do as they did.” CD 379
“How can
those who are seeking to become pure, refined, and holy, that they may have the
companionship of heavenly angels, continue to use as food anything that has so
harmful and effect on soul and body?” CD 380
“Among those who are waiting for the coming of the Lord, meat eating
will eventually be done away; flesh will cease to form a part of their diet.” CD 380-381
Some of the
most popular meats have been tested and rejected by failing to meet minimum
health standards. Consumer Reports magazine made an extensive research on hamburgers
and gave the results in August, 1971. “A
shocking large percentage of the hamburger we purchased was well on the way to
putrefaction.”
Ralph Nader, whose organization did a prolonged investigation of packing
houses, summed up their findings on hamburgers and hot dogs in the Florida
magazine November 7, 1971:
“All these
processed meats constitute an imaginative food innovation; they are often used
as a handy and profitable dump that allows the packers to get rid of their
scraps, substandard or diseased meat, and their less desirable cuts. All they do is douse all these inferior
leftovers with coloring and seasoning agents, and market them to an
unsuspecting public.
Court evidence has shown that contaminated meat, horse meat, and meat
from diseased animals that was originally slated for dog or cat food has often
wound up as hamburger or sausage; while lungs, eyeballs, pig blood and chopped
hides are mixed into hot dogs and luncheon meats.
“To reduce the stench and foul taste, such meat is frequently
impregnated with sulfite, an illegal additive that gives old decaying meat a
healthy pink blush. Since the meat used
is often filthy, detergents are frequently used to wash off the dirt, and to
stretch profits, so-called binders are added to hold the shreds of meat
together---generally cereals, but occasionally sawdust.”
If that was
1971 it must be worse now….and I sure don’t want to be eating sulfite,
detergents and sawdust! Do you?
“A diet of flesh meat tends to develop animalism …animalism lessens
spirituality, rendering the mind incapable of understanding truth.” CD 381
“Those who
use flesh meat disregard all the warnings that God has given concerning this
question. They have not the slightest excuse for eating the flesh of dead
animals. Many times when meat is eaten, it decays in the stomach, and creates
disease. Cancers, tumors, and pulmonary diseases are largely caused by meat
eating.” CD 383
“When will those who know the truth take their
stand on the side of right principles for time and for eternity? When will they
be true to the principles of health reform? When will they learn that it is
dangerous to use flesh meat? I am instructed to say that if ever meat eating
were safe, it is not safe now.” CD 384
“Cancers,
tumors, and all inflammatory diseases are largely caused by meat eating.” CD 388
“The meat diet is the serious question. Shall human
beings live on the flesh of dead animals? The answer, from the light that God
has given is, No, decidedly No.” CD 388
“It is
impossible for those who make free use of flesh meats to have an unclouded
brain and an active intellect.’ CD 389
The intellectual, the moral, and the physical
powers are depreciated by the habitual use of flesh meats. Meat eating deranges the system, beclouds the
intellect, and blunts the moral sensibilities. We say to you, dear brother and
sister, your safest course is to let meat alone.” CD 391
“Meat is
not essential for health or strength…All the elements of nutrition are
contained in the fruits, vegetables, and grains.” CD 395
“The liability to take disease is increased tenfold
by meat eating.” CD 386
“There are
those among Seventh-day Adventists who will not heed the light given them in regard
to this matter. They make flesh meat a part of their diet. Disease comes upon
them. Sick and suffering as a result of their own wrong course, they ask for
the prayers of the servants of God. But how can the Lord work in their behalf
when they are not willing to do His will, when they refuse to heed His
instruction in regard to health reform?” CD 400
“Flesh foods are injurious to the physical
well-being, and we should learn to do without them. Those who are in a position
where it is possible to secure a vegetarian diet, but who choose to follow
their own preferences in this matter, eating and drinking as they please, will
gradually grow careless of the instruction the Lord has given regarding other
phases of the present truth, and will lose their perception of what is truth;
they will surely reap as they have sown.” CD 402
...dead
carcasses should always be looked upon as not fit to compose the diet of
Christians.” CD 414
There is so much in the SOP for us to read and
learn its amazing….God really does want us to change our diets and go back to
the original one He gave us in the beginning.
In the light
of so much counsel on the subject, how can we explain why almost half of our
people still feed on the dead bodies of animals?
Do you know what the definition of food is? It is things that give the body nutrition by
the same time NOT causing harm. Let’s
eat real food then and not cause harm to our body that God gave us.
Let’s be
the peculiar people we were called to be and live the truth we have been given
by God. May God bless you as you improve
your diet and health so you can hear the Holy Spirit speaking to you!
Thank you God for healthy foods and a
country that freely supplies them!
