What Would Jesus Eat?

Product Description
The Christian market is flooded with diet and exercise programs, each claiming to be God's way to healthy living. While some of them are based on biblical principles, and some have even proven effective for weight loss, there is not one program leading the pack daring to answer the questionWhat Would Jesus Do?Or better yet,What Would Jesus Eat?
This comprehensive eating plan examines Scripture and reveals what weknowJesus ate and what we can confidently infer He ate. Using current medical research,What Would Jesus Eat?demonstrates why the diet Jesus followed is ideal for twenty-first century living as well. Readers will:
Understand why foods forbidden in the Old Testament dietary laws are unhealthy for us.
Learn how to follow Jesus' eating model with foods that are available today
Realize the health benefits of the food Jesus ate and the health risks of the food He avoided.
The second half of the book equips the reader with tools to effectively follow the plan -- recipes, nutritional information, and practical advice.
For those desiring to safely lose weight and for those seeking a healthier, Bible-based eating program, the only question to ask is, What Would Jesus Eat?
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What Would Jesus Eat? The Ultimate Program for Eating Well, Feeling Great, and Living Longer, Don Colbert, M.D. makes a compelling case for Christians to use the blueprint of this appetizing spin on traditional faith-based diet books to develop a healthier lifestyle using foods available today. "If you truly want to follow Jesus in every area of your life, you cannot ignore your eating habits," postulates Colbert. He examines America's alarming addiction to fast food, explores Old Testament Jewish dietary laws, and takes a comprehensive look at foods mentioned in the Bible, from herbs to bread to meat. To this information Colbert adds a healthy serving of Scripture references, mixes in a few anecdotes, and finishes the book with an easy-to-follow weekly eating guide. Colbert also tackles the subject of drinking red wine as part of a healthy lifestyle, something often ignored in Christian-based health books. Readers looking for spiritual reasons to make dietary changes will discover excellent justification here to take the plunge.
--Cindy Crosby
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INTRODUCTION:
What would Jesus do?
This question has been asked millions of times in recent years. We read the question or see the acronym for it—WWJD—on everything from bumper stickers to bracelets.
Most Christians I know truly want to understand what Jesus would do, and they truly want to follow His example in any given situation.
We certainly want to love and honor our heavenly Father as Jesus did.
We want to obey the Ten Commandments as He did.
We want to learn how to love other people as He did, and how to help them in both miraculous and mundane ways.
We want to follow Jesus' teachings when it comes to the use of our time, our talents, and our financial resources.
But do we want to eat as Jesus ate?
Why shouldn't we? We seek to follow Jesus in every other area of our lives. Why not in our eating habits?
Jesus cared about the health of people. Certainly His many healing miracles are testimony to that fact. He desired that people be made whole, and that included being whole in body as well as in mind and spirit.
But did Jesus actually teach anything about nutrition or how we should eat?
My contention is that He did—not necessarily by what He said, but by what He did. There are hundreds of examples throughout the Bible of practices related to healthy eating. Jesus embodied them fully in His lifestyle.
Even casual readers of the Bible know of many stories that refer to food as part of, or the main focus of, the story. Jesus taught key spiritual principles using a number of food analogies. He also participated in biblical feasts and celebratory meals. At the Last Supper, He instituted a ritual