What Would Jesus Eat? More Dieters Turn To Bible

[Kadie]

What Would Jesus Eat? More Dieters Turn To Bible
'Bible Diet' Emphasizes Natural, Unprocessed Foods

UPDATED: 8:19 am PST March 14, 2005

BOSTON -- People turn to the Bible for spiritual guidance and strength. But now some are turning to it to lose weight.

When Brenda Nutter hit 160 pounds, she prayed she would lose weight and turned to an array of diet books and fads, reported WCVB-TV in Boston.

"I would go on these diets, and I would lose weight, and then I would binge eat a bag of potato chips or some chocolate," Nutter said.

She said she found the real diet answer in the pages of a book that held her utmost trust: the Bible.

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The Bible Diet kit costs $139.99 and contains a video, Bible bars, even prayer cards. The diet preached the benefits of all natural and unprocessed foods, like vegetables and whole grains.

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[FreedomAngel82]

1. What?

It's called sensable eating. Duh. :eyes:

[AutumnMist]

5. I Had A friend Of Mine Buy "Manna"

on line. I had to laugh. Not because I was laughing at the biblical text, or the message, but that he had bought pure flour........I don't think flour will make ya levitate. Or make you live in the desert for years. It wasn't biblical...It was Betty Crocker. And the people selling it? For shame.

[AntiCoup2K4]

29. How do you "buy" an unknown substance which only God has the recipie for?

The Jews didn't stop at 7-11 and buy that stuff when they were wandering across the desert, it fell out of the sky! And God guards His recipies a lot better than the Soup Nazi did.

[paineinthearse]

2. Now why didn't I think of that!!!!

"If I were a rich man......" In my best Fiddler on the Roof Voice

[TomClash]

3. What?

Bread, wine and a sponge of water?

[KurtNYC]

4. Jesus' grocery list

Milk and honey
Loaves and fishes
bread
water (which will later be turned to wine)

[KansDem]

9. Soggy bread, actually...

You know: "Cast your bread upon the waters..."

MmMmmm, sounds delicious!

you're bound to lose weight!

[MsTryska]

6. Bible Bars?

did jesus eat bible bars? did john the baptist?

this is blasphemy.

[Old Deuteronomy]

8. Don't think it is blasphemy....

butr for sure it is sickening BULLSHAVINGS.... and no wonder we fundie types are thought of as KOOKS. I apologize for all of fundieland.

[MsTryska]

10. welll if you want to take blasphemy to it's very stretches

i think it would count.


i do agree it's bullshavings too.


Mind you - The old testament does give some good dietary guidelines, and we could definitely do with eating healthy and wholesome food, but lets take it to it's next logical step and demand that there be no anitbiotics and hormones and pesticides in our food and that they should be 100% God made.

and for Pete's sake - those "bible bars" have got to go, that defeats the whole purpose, and if anyone sinks $140 for that is definitely a sucka.

[Old Deuteronomy]

13. And together they all said....

AMEN!

[Warren DeMontague]

18. Blasphemy is a victimless crime. nt

[AntiCoup2K4]

28. John the Baptist ate locusts and honey

Not much of a market for that.

[freeplessinseattle]

7. gee, maybe the hippies with their "health-food stores" had the right

idea after all.

[booksenkatz]

11. They don't seem to care much about what Jesus DID or SAID

...only about what he ATE. Sheesh. They're looking past the most important aspect of Jesus' life, aren't they? I would think that the health of the spirit would be of at least equal import as that of the body, as far as Jesus would be concerned. How sad that this great teacher is reduced to mere caloric intake. But then, I'm neither a Christian nor a neo-Christian, so who am I to criticize, right?
:shrug:

[Old Deuteronomy]

14. Riiiiiight. n/t

[LizW]

12. Cool! You can buy bottled water...

and just turn it into wine when you get home!

(We need a "smilie" for a blasphemer geting struck by lightening!) ;)

[applegrove]

15. The Mediterranean diet has been around ever since someone noticed

that French people were skinny. Of course, if you are a Freeper you cannot admit to anything European so it has to be "re-branded" as "bible diet". Man these people are coddled! As long as you think everything is sourced from USA Imperialism or the Bible it is okay. Anything else about the world.. any idea or meme from outside is dirty. This is a cult for sure.

[Cleita]

16. So what about the locusts and honey?

Is that in the kit?

[China_cat]

17. Very good diet.

They take all your money and you can't afford food.

[Emboldened Chimp]

19. Veggies and whole grains?

Those bare-footed hippie vegan commies!

[Logansquare]

20. Bread, fish, wine--I'm on board

I'm already eating like Jesus, and without buying a kit!

[Kadie]

23. It is just common sense.

I can't get over the price they are charging for this "kit".

[XemaSab]

21. Morons

Dude, they didn't HAVE unnatural or processed foods 2000 years ago.

Chocolate and potatoes weren't discovered until Columbus, 1500 years after Jesus.

Morons.

[ultraist]

22. Jesus probably ate a Mediterranean Jewish diet, likley kosher

No pig, horse, donkey, chicken or other worm ridden filthy creatures. Limited seafood. He may have been vegetarian but ate fish, as well as bread, fruits, grain, goat cheese, olives and some fish.

I'm not that familiar with a Kosher diet, but I bet this fundie diet ignores the Jewish component.

[yellowdogintexas]

26. just wondering if it is Kosher! so it would be OK to eat

lamb, goat, beef, chicken, fish but not shellfish
no dairy and meat mixed

no pork,

vegetables ok

I know chicken isn't mentioned in the Bible per se, but it is a kosher food, (provided it is properly killed in a Kosher meatshop)

[Telly Savalas]

24. Somewhat offtopic, but anyone ever had Ezekiel 4:9 bread?

Is it yummy?

[LeftyMom]

27. The ingredients sound similar to the sprouted bread I buy

I usually get Alverado Street Bakery or Trader Joe's bread (same stuff, as far as I can tell) which is yummy. I know people who like the Ezekiel bread, but using religion to market one's breadstuffs gives me the willies so I haven't tried it.

[maveric]

25. "Breads of the Bible". A line of baked goods here in SoCal that

has some lines of scripture relating to the particular type of bread.
Of course its about 30% more than regular whole grain breads.
What a bunch of bullshit!

[RevolutionaryActs]

30. "Nutter" is right.

Yikes. :wtf: