Ensure Your Meat is Truly Organic
By Dr. David Jockers
The Real Reason Processed Meats are so Dangerous to Your Health
By Mike Adams
Natural and Organic Food Labels
By Tiffany Larson
Organic or Not, That is the Question
By Nicole Bennett
I know it’s the fourth Friday, but this week I wanted to say more about eating meat. Look next week for Friday Feature: Roundup Seven, this month’s installment of a compilation of links from around the Web that speak to the same subjects I have discussed in my Friday Feature posts.
Cutting meat out of your diet is not for everyone. I told you that God told me to cut the meat. But even if you continue to have meat in your diet beware of risks associated with doing so, like having slower digestion and additional effects (hormonal and otherwise) on your body from artificially fattened livestock. God did not forbid the eating of meat for believers, but I can confidently say that the meat in Jesus’ day did not have the contaminants we have to contend with in our meat supply today. So, all you carnivores, protect yourself by doing the following:
Limit your consumption. Try to only eat meat a few times a week, like on weekdays. You can also limit your portions each time you consume it. Another idea would be to choose a weekly ounce quota, like only 9 ounces of beef per week. Once you reach your limit, no more meat for you.
Select safe choices—Choose Kosher, Amish or organic meats. Kosher animals have to be killed according to Jewish dietary laws, which include the animal being healthy before being killed. For the most part, Amish chickens (if raised the traditional Amish way) have not been injected with any chemicals, like preservatives, and have been given low-fat feed to give you more meat and less fat. Organic means animals were given organic feed and not given antibiotics or hormones.
Prepare safe meat.
• Remove skin and fat. Eating skin and fat increases your chances of high cholesterol and puts extra fat in your body.
• Clean meats with food grade hydrogen peroxide. As I have written before, this decontaminates your meat.
• Cook meats well. You have seen the warnings at the bottom of restaurant menus. Many food-borne diseases are eliminated with high temperatures, but eating undercooked meats puts you at risk for catching these diseases.
As always, my goal is to educate you concerning natural ways I have learned to care for my body. Please pray for the Lord to direct you concerning your health. We only have one life to live and we must redeem the time that we have to be fit to do God’s work on the earth. Make a healthy choice today.
When God tells you something you better listen or there will be dire consequences. This I know and I know you know. Though God is gracious, longsuffering and a divine power of peace He commands and expects us to obey Him:
“If you love me, keep my commandments” (John 14:15)
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For years I suffered in my body and was telling God I didn’t love Him when I ignored His nudges to get me to eat a more plant-based diet. Every time I ate this way, I had great physical, mental, emotional and spiritual results, but I always resorted to what was my norm: a helping of meat, and vegetables, legumes and grains as side dishes. God was telling me that my body needed a helping of plant-based foods and a side of meat. But I got stuck in my comfort zone and in poor health with skin and digestive problems, mental fogginess, internal emotional struggles and great lulls in my spiritual consistency. So on June 2, 2011 when I heard in my prayer time “Cut the meat,” I knew 18 years of God’s gracious nudges had ceased and He was shouting His calling for me, at least in this season. I am now a semi-vegetarian, more specifically a pescetarian, eating mostly plant-based foods and occasionally eating fish or other seafood. Almost immediately my spiritual antenna grew, my body felt lighter, my skin got clearer and my internal anxiety disappeared. People ask me is it hard not eating meat or poultry, but I had already scaled down my meat consumption, often only eating vegetarian meals. Already being used to eating less meat made my transition easy. I’m also loving a better body and rich spiritual life and don’t want to miss another two decades of such an abundant life. I want to redeem the time and we don’t know how much of it we have here on earth. Without a doubt, obedience to God is our key. With obedience we can open many doors that only God could imagine and He wants us to walk through. Don’t miss YOUR new body, mind and spiritual walk. Do whatever He has told YOU to do.
Nikki thought she was allergic to fruit because every time she ate them her mouth and other body parts would tingle and itch. She decided to try eating organic produce and her problem ceased. Though she doesn’t know for sure, she suspects that she may be allergic to one of the pesticides used to grow conventional produce. Her story reminds us that eating fruits and vegetables can be risky business with the number of genetically modified organisms, pesticides and other contaminants used to produce them.
Even with these threats, we need to make sure to eat our daily complement of produce. To help you, the Environmental Working Group, a healthy environment advocacy group, annually produces The Dirty Dozen, a list of the most contaminated produce, so you make a more healthy choice, like buying organic.
The Dirty Dozen
1. Apples
2. Celery
3. Strawberries
4. Peaches
5. Spinach
6. Nectarines (Imported)
7. Grapes (Imported)
8. Sweet Bell Peppers
9. Potatoes
10. Blueberries (Domestic)
11. Lettuce
12. Kale/Collard Greens
Also check out the 15 Clean List (http://www.ewg.org/foodnews/summary/) to see which fruits and vegetables have the least pesticide residue. to see which fruits and vegetables have the least pesticide residue.
I have been doing a Fourth Friday Round Up but featured a wonderful story last week to round out the month. Because of that I offer you today the First Friday Round Up, stories from around the web that I believe are a good complement to the natural healing stories I have featured on Friday over the past month: