Key 1: Eat to Live

 

By Jordan Rubin

The typical American diet strays far from God’s design with its glamorous array of techno-foods replete with empty calories, refined carbohydrates, and woefully inadequate nutrition. A diet based on eating whole and natural foods harvested directly from the Creator’s bounty, however, nourishes and satisfies us. That’s one more reminder why it’s important to (1) eat foods that God created and (2) in a form that is healthy for the body.

You may have read those two statements and wondered how they apply to your life. Perhaps you’re thinking, It can’t be this simple. Well, it is and it isn’t. While fresh fruits, farm-grown vegetables, and protein-rich meat are readily available in our land, the genius of man has figured out how to prepare, manufacture, cook, microwave, and market mass-produced foods in ways not always healthy for us.

Too many of the so-called foods sold in our nation’s supermarkets and too many of the meals prepared in restaurants are not really food because they were not created by God but were largely put together in man-made laboratories. As you can probably surmise by now, I’m a proponent of natural foods grown organically, foods that God created for us to eat in a form that’s healthy for the body.

• A Look at Diets

• The Creator’s Basic Food Groups

• The Skinny on Fat

• The Truth about Carbohydrates

• Top Healing Foods

• The Dirty Dozen

• Organic is the Way to Go

• Lifestyle Changes, and much more

 

A New You: Spirit, Soul and Body!

 

By Jordan Rubin

Prayer is the foundation of a healthy life, linking your mind, body, and spirit to God.

Sometimes when I prayed, the Lord put things on my heart that I hadn’t even thought about before I started. Sometimes He didn’t answer my prayers in the way I expected Him to, but He transformed my heart to align with His.

In living a healthy, purpose-filled life, prayer is the most powerful tool that we possess. Prayer connects the entire person—mind, body, and spirit—to God. Through prayer, God takes away our guilt, shame, bitterness, and anger and gives us a brand-new start.

We can eat organic whole foods, supplement our diet with whole food supplements, practice good hygiene, reduce toxins, and exercise, but if the spirit is not where it needs to be with God, then we will never be completely healthy.

Talking to our Maker through prayer is the foundation for optimal health and makes us whole. After all, God’s love and grace are our greatest foods for mind, body, and spirit.

Prayer will confirm your purpose, and it will give you the perseverance to complete it. Seal all that you do with the power of prayer, and watch your life become more than you ever thought possible.

Featured Article: Unlock Your Health Potential

 

By Jordan Rubin

It is my dream that someday every one of the nation’s leading TV programs, radio broadcasts, magazines, and newspapers will report that scientific evidence shows that followers of Jesus are three or four or five times healthier than those who don’t believe in Jesus—that Christians have less cancer, less heart disease, less diabetes, and less obesity.

Wouldn’t it be awesome if God’s people were so full of good health, so vibrant, that others would notice us from ten or twenty feet away? If that were to happen, our churches wouldn’t be big enough to fit the numbers of people rushing to hear about the Great Physician’s prescription for their good health.

I believe that people from all walks of life would break down the doors to learn more about what God says about living a long and abundant life and ultimately come to know Jesus as their Lord and Savior. That’s my reason for writing The Great Physician’s Rx for Health and Wellness, and my core message on health can be derived from two Scriptures. The first goes like this: “I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship” (Rom. 12:1).