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It Is Written

John Bradshaw

Healing Foods of the Bible

Coming up next, please stay tuned for It is Written, presented by Pastor John Bradshaw.

You get sick, you need some help, you go to the doctor, and the doctor writes you a prescription.

You take it to the pharmacy or to the drug store, you get your little bottle of magic, you take 1 3 times a day, and given 3 or 4 or 5 days you're back to good health.

That's pretty typical for those of us living in the Western world.

In Bible times, however, things were rather different.

When we consider the Bible we think of God as the great physician And in the absence of cardiologists and rheumatologists and all the otherologists, people then had to deal with rudimentary methods of healing, or they dealt with God, the great physician.

Today we're going to talk about healing foods of the Bible.

The thought is that perhaps the great physician has given us medication that we can get at other places than the drugstore, perhaps at the supermarket or right out of our garden.

I'm being joined today by my special guest, Dr.

John Westerdahl, a nutritionist from the Bragg Health Institute in Santa Barbara, Southern California.

Westerdahl, thank you for joining me today.

Now, this idea of health and the Christian anyway, why does it matter that Christians look after their health, that believers in God should look after their health?

Well, you know, in the Bible it tells us that our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit.

In other words, we need to take care of it, not defile that temple, but take good care of it and put good things into it.

Yeah, but, but, but, I don't mind getting right into it, but it's my body.

Well, actually we were bought with a price.

God gave us this magnificent creation that we need to take care of.

As a matter of fact, it says right in that very verse you were referencing, for you are not your own.

So that idea that I can do whatever I want with my body because after all it's mine, it isn't yours really, is it?

Let me share a Bible verse here that I think is very relevant to what we're talking about.

And John, who wrote Revelation and wrote the Gospels, he wrote the little Johns as well, 3 of them.

3 John 2, Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

And it's connected, because if we are healthy, we can communicate better with God, our minds are clearer, we're enjoying life.

It's kind of hard to be rejoicing all the time if you're sick, and by having good health, we're clear-minded, we can really enjoy a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

John made it very clear that there's a direct relationship between our physical health and our mental and spiritual health.

It's really a holistic approach that the Bible is all about.

And the things we're going to talk about today, the foods that we eat, have a direct relationship and helping to improve that health.

I'm not sure whether to talk to you or just eat the set.

There's a lot of food here to eat today, and all healthy.

Well, it's interesting, isn't it, that the Bible talks so much about health.

This book, I believe, is 1 of the greatest books ever written on total wellness, preventive medicine, lifestyle medicine.

Within the pages of the Bible, we see a lot of health principles given to us.

And he wants us to take advantage of this so that we can live life more abundantly.

Now you mentioned something just a moment ago, you said lifestyle medicine.

Lifestyle medicine, it's a new emerging type of medicine that's coming into our country today.

There's actually what we call the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, where there are physicians who are specializing in treatment with lifestyle, diet, exercise, stress management, spiritual wellness, as opposed to using just medications.

Not that they won't use medications for emergencies or as needed with patients, but we are finding out more and more that the foods that we eat are healing to our bodies.

If we eat the right type of diet, we can prevent, treat, and even reverse many of the diseases that are killing us today.

Now, I have heard of people with diabetes getting off their diabetes medication and seeing their adult onset diabetes going away.

I've heard of people reversing heart disease.

I must be responsible enough to say, perhaps this isn't possible for everybody.

But certainly for many people, there are some well-known physicians who have said that they can reverse heart disease without using medication in many instances.

And it's very well documented in the medical literature.

Lifestyle medicine, using lifestyle to treat diseases, to prevent diseases, and in many cases even reverse the diseases.

Now it was Hippocrates that said let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food.

But if some of us were honest with ourselves and we went into the pantry or the food cupboard at home, we'd say, well, you know, those chocolate cookies aren't going to be much in the way of medicine.

So when Hippocrates said that, what foods was he referring to?

He was talking about natural, whole, unprocessed foods.

That's what he promoted with his own patients.

You know, there are a lot of diets available today, and some of the well-known ones, South Beach, Atkins, paleo, seafood, that is, seafood and eat it.

It's hyped or promoted as being very good.

Well, the traditional Mediterranean diet is very good, And it is healing, because it's a diet that's based on whole, unprocessed foods, mostly from plant foods.

The types of fats that you find in the Mediterranean diet are the healthier types of fats in general, as compared to the high saturated fats, high cholesterol foods that we eat in the Western countries.

Well, there's a lot of food in front of us here, and I'm guessing that much of this is representative of the Mediterranean diet.

I see figs, and I see dates, and I see grapes, and raisins, and grains, and good stuff.

We'll find out what they are specifically and how they can be a blessing to you with Dr.

The Bible tells us that our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit.

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