Lesson 2 PART 2: Principle 2: Eat Foods as They Were Created

Principle 2: Eat foods as they were created.

Dr. Russell quotes the following proverb to emphasize his second principle.

Proverbs 14:12 There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

As the food technology industry developed, it changed the way we get our food. Much of the time, by the time we get the food home, it is far removed from its original form – a long way from how nature produced it. There is a big movement to eat local and eat seasonally. It is part of the sustainable movement. It means eating the foods that are grown locally and in season so that you getting food closest to the source of production.

Back to Gen 1:29 and where God gave every seed for food.

Seeds are in 3 forms: grains, beans (legumes) and nuts.

Seeds reproduce themselves at rates of 100 to 1,000 times a year. They supply everything we need nutritionally for food. Grains can be grown from the arctic to the Antarctic. Grains have good storage life. Kernels of wheat found buried with Egyptian pharaohs can still be sprouted 4,000 years later. The proteins in seeds are of the highest quality and usefulness for us and include enzymes that are important in allowing us to digest the rest of the kernel.

By the way, some translations use the word corn when talking about fields of grain. It doesn’t mean corn as we know it. More correctly translated it means grain.

Bread, made from grains and seeds of course, is commonly spoken of in the Bible – from eating stories – breaking bread to the loaves and fishes story to the symbolism Jesus used when he speaks of himself as the bread of life.

The bread they baked is vastly different than the loaf of bread we buy off the grocer’s shelf. There is a rise in popularity of a bread called Ezekial bread and it gets its name from

Ezek 4:9: Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself.

I started eating Ezekiel break last year after several years of avoiding bread in general. There are several varieties of Ezekiel bread but this is Ezek 4:9. It is low on the glycemic index meaning that the rate at which the body converts it to sugar is very slow. It will not cause a rise in blood sugar. It is also very high in protein. It is made from sprouted grain. Sprouted grains are the grain seeds that have begun to grow the plant. As the plant sprouts from the grain, it uses the stored sugar in the grain as food for the growing plant. Thus using the sprouted grain means the plant has already used its sugar store so the resulting bread has less sugar.