From the beginning, God knew what kinds of food He wanted us to eat.

                                                                                         

Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food." (Gen. 1:29)

We Christians are full aware of the importance of limiting the external messages that we are bombarded by on a daily basis by the media. We are fully aware of their damaging effects. We shield our children from inappropriate materials. It is important to do so, it our job as parents. After all "We are in the world but not of the world".

Yet, we stuff our faces with artery-clogging, pesticide ridden, fatty junk food full of ingredients that we cannot even pronounce. Why do we neglect the importance of what we eat? God is concerned about what we eat. Shouldn't we be?

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? (1 Corinthians 6:19, NIV).

15 At the end of the ten days, Daniel and his three friends looked healthier and better nourished than the young men who had been eating the food assigned by the king. 16 So after that, the attendant fed them only vegetables instead of the food and wine provided for the others. (Daniel 1: 1-16, NIV)

Daniel knew the importance of healthy eating. Eating foods as close to their natural state as possible is a simple code to live by.

Therefore, I believe God would have us buy organic foods whenever possible. They are as close to the natural state as we can get. Often times the cost is equal or slightly different from its treated counterpart.

Also, the evils of treated foods are well chronicled. The many pesticides and chemicals used to treat food are now linked to cancer and other diseases. The EPA considers that 60 percent of all herbicides, 90 percent of all fungicides and 30 percent of all insecticides are carcinogenic. A 1987 National Academy of Sciences report estimated that pesticides might cause an extra 1.4 million cancer cases among Americans over their lifetimes. The bottom line is that pesticides are poisons designed to kill living organisms, and can also be harmful to humans. In addition to cancer, pesticides are implicated in birth defects, nerve damage and genetic mutation.

Your food and physical activity choices each day affect your health - how you feel today, tomorrow, and in the future.

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