The Cracked Acorn: Diet

Diet and exercise have caught the attention of the country. Low-carb has entered our vocabulary, and lite, no-sugar, and low-sodium items are available in most food stores. We want to get the threescore and ten and even more and enjoy good health along the way. We have been educated that harmful substances could be in the food we eat and in the water we drink.

I grew up in an age when salted pork was a staple and we knew nothing about fatty foods and high blood pressure and cholesterol. We just had our three big farm meals a day and worked hard. At that time, we did not know about pizza, ethnic foods, and fast food, way before the invention of the microwave oven.  My diet was expanded when I left home for a career.

More and more, you meet individuals who drastically change or modify their lives to be physically fit. My new dental hygienist jogs every morning with her dog. Daily does all the yoga positions, takes 90 minutes, and says it is really good for the body and the mind. She only shops at the natural food stores and said that you would never see her in a fast food franchise. Her favorite health food is amaranth, quinoa, and kosha grains mixed with cloves of garlic. She said it had to be done just right, or it would really stay with you. I hope her friends feel the same way.

The Scripture points to the needs of the body and the spirit.

• Psalm 78:24, 25 – and He rained down upon them manna to eat and gave them the grain of heaven. Man ate of the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance.
• I Timothy 6:7, 8  – for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world, but if we have food and clothing, with these, we shall be content.
• Matthew 4:4 – Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
• John 6:35  – Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; he who comes to me shall not hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst.”
• John 6:5o, 51 – This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat of it and never die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live for ever, and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh.

From the stage play OLIVER

Food, Glorious Food! Hot sausage and mustard! Please! Custard Food, Glorious Food! Don’t care what it looks like, burned, underdone, Don’t care what the cook looks like! Just think of growing fat and that full-up feeling! Food Glorious Food! What wouldn’t we give for that extra bite? That’s all we live for! Wonderful, Glorious, Marvelous Food! Just picture a great big steak, fried, roasted, or stewed; oh, Food, Glorious Food! There’s nothing to stop us from closing our eyes and imagine; Food, Food, Glorious Food! (Oliver the orphan and his fellow mates had nothing but daily gruel and dreamed of tables loaded with Food, Glorious Food!)

But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well – Matthew 6:33