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ur lives are important, basically fruits and vegetables; drogen. This process helps to in-
so that means our health they usually grow on a vine or crease shelf life and save costs;
is important. God creat- shrub. In Leviticus, it states that however, these items are not good
O us in His image, and we are allowed to eat “clean for our temple. Grains that are
ed
then He sent His Holy Spirit to mean” which is defined as the over refined often have nutritional
live inside of us, so now we be- meat of animals with hoof cloven values stripped from them and
come a temple for His Spirit. That in two and chews cud. This defi- they end up doing more harm
is why we need to work better on nition includes cattle, sheep, goat, then good.
taking care of ourselves and be buffalo, deer, gazelle and others
mindful of what we are putting in that are similar. The opposite of It is recommended that when we
our temples. clean would be categorized as un- grocery shop that we shop the pe-
clean and include such meats that rimeter of the store and avoid
In this article we are going to dis- comes from the pig, camel, etc. many of the items in the aisles.
cuss various foods and the pro- This is a good concept because
cesses used to bring these foods to Foods have natural healing ele- usually on the perimeter is where
us. In the Bible there are many ments in them, but statistics show the fruits, vegetables, meats, and
references made to the healing that as many as 80% of Americans dairy are usually located; now
properties in different foods and don’t eat the recommended let’s look at come concerns that
herbs. The Bible tells us the foods amount of fruits and vegetables. we have to address regarding the
that are acceptable for us to eat. By not eating the recommended foods in these areas.
We will also speak about how pes- amounts of fruits and vegetables,
ticides are being used in our fruits many chronic diseases such as It is estimated that farmers use
and vegetables and how hormones heart disease, high blood pressure, 700 million pounds of pesticides
are being used on our meats. We diabetes, cancer and obesity. So, each year in crop production.
will also touch on how the phar- if we aren’t eating fruits and vege- These pesticides are used for pest
maceutical companies are benefit- tables, what are we eating? More and weed control during the
ing due to the various methods of than likely processed foods that growing process; others are used
food preparation. are often high in unhealthy fats to lengthen the shelf life of a
contain refined grains and hydro- product by preventing the growth
In order to properly care for our genated oils. Hydrogenation is the of mold. Often times when we
temples, we are instructed to eat process of turning liquid unsaturat- think of pesticides, we imagine a
from trees that bear seeds, which is ed fat into solid fat by adding hy- crop duster spraying a large field
