Lesson 2 Part 3: A Look at Fats and Sugars

A couple of other notes about foods which have been changed from natural form – fats and sugars.

Fats found in foods as they naturally occur are generally healthful including the natural marbled flesh of clean animals fed grasses and not fed antibiotics or injected with hormones. To turn grains and seeds into cooking oils requires a high level of processing and refining and uses chemicals. At the end, there is then a clear, odorless oil that we use in cooking.

Sugars – Our tongues were created with taste buds specifically to taste sweet. The sweetener mentioned in the Bible is honey. It is mentioned 56 times! Honey contains various enzymes, minerals, amino acids, and vitamins that aid in digestion. Most biblical references indicate that honey is good for you:

Proverbs 2:4 – My son, eat thou honey because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste.

Honey also has a substance in it that causes nausea if too much is eaten.

Read Prov 26:16 If you find honey, eat just enough— too much of it, and you will vomit.

White sugar and artificial sugars have been through a lot of processing and are altered from the original creation. Other sweeteners mentioned in the Bible are freshly squeezed juices, dates and sugar cane.