Diet or just plain common sense?

Jim and I just finished watching a movie called " First do no harm". It's an older movie that we got from Netflex. It is a very good movie based on a true story.
If your interested in seeing it I don't want to give it all away but basically it's about the medical system that we all live with. How doctors prescribe pills for everything as though they were jelly beans that we should enjoy.
The cost of the tests, hospital stays and the medications is overwhelming. One would think that the logical thing to do would to find the least aggressive, least expensive solution to health problems. That would not only help the person but cut the costs.
Yet it is all based on the scientific approach. If it can't be put into a test tube and poked and examined by microscopes and written into equations on papers then it must not work right?

I hope you watch this movie. It is a good movie. It has a happy ending. We should all have a happy ending. Why then do we make things so difficult?


I once read a book about what Jesus ate. I can't remember exactly the title of the book but that was the subject of the book. I remember reading it and thinking of the many diet pills that are on the shelves. How many advertisements we see every day for diet plans.
Have you ever noticed? Every advertisement, every label on every diet pill container all say the same thing in the small print..........." along with the proper diet and exercise". If we were following the proper diet and exercise then why would we need the pills and diet plans?


I'm watching this movie and well, to give the ending away this child has epilepsy and the doctors are pumping him full of so much medications this child is getting worse becoming one big side effect with grand mall seizures. He's not getting better. In the end it is diet that saves this child. The parents take him to the John Hopkins Clinic to a doctor they find out of doing their own research and after a few weeks of the prescribed food this child is taken off of all medications and has no seizures. This is a true story!


So I start thinking of all the things that we COULD control with the proper diet and exercise. All the illnesses we have. Not just our weight, but the most important thing-- our health.
The thing is ----------it's not so easy. It takes time. It takes thought. The world is filled with things to tempt us and things bad for us that taste good. I think Satan planned it this way.

Jesus ate only fresh foods. There were no packages or cans full of preservatives or extra salt and sugars. He didn't even use yeast! That's another book I've read in the past about how yeast effects the body and I had 8 out of 10 symptoms of too much yeast!

Why should it be so hard to eat good fresh foods? Why should we not like to eat lean meats, fresh vegetables, fruits and good carbs. Why should we not want to eat small portions 5-6 times a day instead of stuffing ourselves into a coma in one meal? Why does our brain go into craving sweets or salty mode as soon as we tell ourselves that we are going to eat healthy food? I don't know about you but my body reacts to all that yummy ice cream, whip cream, pudding, greasy chips etc. with a band load of tunes and noises that I don't care for the world to hear ( if you know what I mean), not to mention the uncomfortable bloating that prevents me of fitting into even the most comfy sweats I have.


Common sense should be to follow the plan that Jesus gave us. To eat the fish of the sea that swim and have fins, to eat the lean meats that come from animals that don't eat garbage, to enjoy the many , many fresh vegetables and fruits that grow on the earth and to eat the healthy grains that are not put through the processing of taking away all the hulls. I must find that book again.

I'm just not sure where the Starbucks Triple Mocha fits into all of this?