Bible-Based Diets Becoming Popular

There are plenty of examples of religions dictating what people should eat - Jewish dietary laws are well-known. Recently, though, a number of authors in America have been promoting “biblical” diets which they say offer a godly way to lose weight and stay healthy.

ABC News reports:

"The Lord gave us everything we need in the Garden of Eden: fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds," the preacher-turned-diet adviser [Rev. George Malkmus] said in an interview at Hallelujah Acres, his North Carolina headquarters. "That's why we call the way we eat the 'Hallelujah Diet.' We celebrate its true creator." ... Malkmus's diet which draws, he says, from Genesis 1:29 bans all animal products except for honey and promotes an 80 percent raw diet. ... Malkmus, who said he is not currently affiliated with a specific church, has no formal scientific training. But he does employ a researcher who determined that the Hallelujah diet was deficient in vitamin B-12. "This shocked me, that God's perfect eating plan could have a flaw," Malkmus said. "But we realized that fruits and vegetables back then were more nutritious because of the topsoil."

Malkmus isn’t the only one cited in the story - a biblical diet doesn’t appear to need to have any connection to science, nutritional research, or even common sense. All that is needed is a copy of the Bible and a self-righteous conviction that you know exactly how to read that text and discern what God’s will for our food intake must be.

Sounds like a lot of alleged religious solutions to various modern problems, doesn’t it?

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