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Hi, I'm Kat Owens!

Contact me at katowensntp@gmail.com

I'm a Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and have been diving deep into all things nutrition since 2014.

My interest in nutrition began with my faith: I knew God Created us and food very well- so there had to be a better solution to many chronic illnesses than just managing symptoms with modern medicine for life!

Now I am thrilled to be teaching Christian families how to cut through confusion, get healthier, and enjoy God's provision through a Biblical perspective of nutrition!

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Eat by Faith: Nourishing Yourself and Your Family in Light of Creation Dominion and the Gospel coming soon from Founders Press, the publishing arm of @foundersministries

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I hope it’s abundantly clear that none of these issues are morally neutral.
Godless forces want women to reject gender roles, the commands in Titus 2, and children to try to do all the same things men do instead. Premade foods are an essential part of this, or else someone would have to stay home and cook. Improving food quality necessarily means rejecting pre-made foods for scratch cooking, to some degree. And so people do whatever they can to discredit it.

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Big announcement about my book coming soon!

I met a young farmer at the recent @godsgoodtable conference who made this analogy.

I’ve never been waiting for solutions to come from the government, but I’m excited about what is happening.

This is how we’re living as healthy as possible while living in our camper!

It’s only 19 feet, so very small for a camper, especially for living in, but we needed one I was comfortable driving with because we moved into here when my husband deployed for six months to Qatar last year. Then we’ve been in here as he’s transitioned out of the Air Force and started a job flying for UPS!

So far we’ve driven from New Jersey to Montana (via Florida… not the short route), around the southwest and Montana, back to New Jersey, back to Montana, to Virginia for the @godsgoodtable conference, Ohio for the @seekingwholehealthconf and now Louisville Kentucky, where my husband is in his initial training with UPS right now. Tomorrow we’ll be heading to Michigan for @mittenhomesteaders ! Then back to Montana, and later this summer, to Alaska, where we will be living next and plan to move into a house again!

Idolatry is a real sin. Understand what idolatry really is and isn’t. Make sure you are not making your pursuit of health an idol. Then go and pursue excellence with confidence and don’t listen to the naysayers. They are often content to let their beliefs and health be dictated by the rest of the world.

SCROLL TO THE END FOR THE BOOK COVER REVEAL! ➜

This is idealistic, but it’s an ideal that a righteous government could aim for.

Of course it would be impossible to fully assign the costs of industrial agriculture to their source (we can’t know what all the costs are or where they come from, especially when they crop up so far down the road and so far from the source), but it would be a righteous endeavor to figure it out as much as possible.

Could a government so influenced by industry and financial interests be trusted to do this effectively? Probably not, at least not well, but if it operated fundamentally with this goal for executing justice, it would only help.

I pose this mainly as an alternative to show that Christians do not to think that more government subsidies or regulations (or just shifted subsidies and regulations) is the only hope for achieving better creation stewardship and human health. Realistically, these shifts will happen from grassroots movements as consumers demand it more. And getting government out of the way of food regulation is essential no matter what.

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These posts are based on an excerpt from by book 𝘌𝘢𝘵 𝘣𝘺 𝘍𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘩: 𝘕𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘍𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘓𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘋𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘭 available in May! DM your email address if you would like to be notified of its release and other updates!

Come see me, Joel Salatin, and many other wonderful speakers at the Seeking Whole Health conference this May for FREE! I am giving away a 2-day pass and Friday and Saturday lunch tickets. Regular price is $229. This will be such an encouraging time of learning and fellowship. I had the privilege of going two years ago and was greatly impacted by my time there. I made friends I still keep in touch with. It’s worth travelling for!

Here’s how to enter to win:
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One winner will be selected and DM’ed on Friday, March 28.

@seekingwholehealthconf

Health and wellness is not spiritually neutral.

A Christ-less pursuit of health and wellness will end up misleading people not only physically but spiritually.

Many Christians follow this guy. And he says you can be a Christian and follow his new religion!

Was Bryan Johnson’s Mormon upbringing any piece of what got him here?

A Christian pursuit of health and wellness not only points us to enjoying God’s gifts by respecting and exercising good dominos over creation, but it reminds us that our earthly bodies are not eternal and we can hope in eternity with God in heaven.

#dontdie #maha #makechristianshealthyagain #biblicalhealth #biblicalnutrition

In 1958, the FDA created provisions for food additives that were “Generally Recognized as Safe” to be used in food without FDA review and approval.

Foods could be considered GRAS based on history of use or the nature of the substance or its use. The intention was not the waste the FDA’s time studying “additives” like vinegar and baking soda.

But the provisions created a scenario where companies decide for themselves if a food additive meets the standard of GRAS. The FDA created a voluntary program where companies can submit their safety assessments for FDA review, but they can withdraw their information at any time and have no legal obligation to heed the FDA’s opinion.

The FDA can step in and require a review if the additive clearly doesn’t meet the GRAS standards or enough outside pressure warrants it, but of the 10,000 food additives currently used in food, over a 1,000 have made their way through the GRAS loophole.

There are serious long-term and short-term concerns about the effect of food additives on behavior, digestive health, cancer rates, and much more.

Food additives may be the main reason that there is no replacement for home cooking. You quite simply do not use the preservatives, colors, texture enhancers, and packaging that food companies and even restaurants do.

PMID: 29261673

Culture presents a false dichotomy between “healthy” or “enjoyable”.

Especially in the alternative health space, many foods gets labeled as inherently “bad”: gluten and therefore bread, vegetables, grains, dairy, pork….

“Choose the healthy option or treat yourself”.

“Never eat ____ food”.

But these are all foods we CAN enjoy in a healthy diet.

In the context of God-given foods, procured and prepared with respect for creation and by exercising glorifying dominion over it, our appetites are meant to point us to foods that are good for us, among all kinds of foods.

#makechristianshealthyagain #maha #biblicalhealth #biblocalnutrition

Let’s not forget the most direct instruction in the Bible about what will keep us healthy and give us long life- honoring older generations!

“Do not move an ancient boundary stone set up by your ancestors” Proverbs 22:28

It was out of pride that we thought new food technology was better than what we could learn from our ancestors and ignored it. Now we are reaping the consequences.

A healthy diet requires going back to the fats, meats, and preparation methods used by generations before us.

#ancestralhealth #maha #makechristianshealthyagain

The government can never save us, but God has been more gracious to us than we deserve to appoint someone who may help us protect ourselves and our families.

Our health will always be first and foremost our own responsibility. No one, especially the government, loves our families the way we can. We cannot and should not expect the government to look out for our health. The government does not have a good track with it and RFK Jr is not going to be able to reverse all the deep rooted problems with industry ties and ulterior motives.

But let’s pray that he is able to make the changes he wants to because it would be an incredible blessing to see changes in some of the things we cannot control: less exposure to agriculture chemicals, less toxins in water, less EMF radiation, less having to navigate avoiding foods with food dyes and harmful additives, more transparency on medical treatment risks, and more.

Thank you God and keep praying for this man!

Repost from @drjoshaxe

#maha #makeamericahealthyagain #rfkjr #robertfkennedyjr #robertfkennedy

“But it’s a treat!” “Live a little!” The reason we ignore the health aspect of gifts of other treats is that our culture has bought into a false dichotomy of ‘healthy’ or ‘enjoyable’. As Christians, we need to aggressively reject this.

God did not make a mistake when He made food and our appetites, to lead us into disease or temptation with our palates. When we read His book of nature and apply glorifying dominion over it, we can take great pleasure in food without compromising our health.

A “healthy” treat is not a fat-free, sugar-free cake made of tofu. What I’m talking about is homemade cookies made with real butter, no store-bought cookies additives and food dyes, and other high-quality ingredients. An accurate understanding of nutrition is crucial here.

Mark 12:31: “The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”

John 13:34-35 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

#makechristianshealthyagain #maha #makeamericahealthyagain #biblicalhealth #biblicalnutrition

Carbs and sugar is a controversial topic. There’s a lot of reasons people experience benefits when they cut them out, but it’s not that carbs are inherently harmful.

Why do you think God gave us such a strong appetite for carbs?

Of course there are types of carbs that are more beneficial and types that are more harmful, and times that they are more beneficial to eat, and times they are not.

Right now I am working on the chapter of my book all about sugar and carbs. It reflects the most soul searching, working through questions, and openness to questioning my beliefs of any topic I’ve tackled so far in this book. I look forward to sharing it with you.

#makechristianshealthyagain #maha #makeamericahealthyagain #biblicalhealth #biblicalnutrition

Make decisions based on facts, not what the media and advertising tells you. Palm oil is the perfect example of a nutrition dogma that is based on media and advertising. I want people to think for themselves, forming their beliefs about food based on facts and their Biblical worldview.

Rainforest environmentalism that became a trend in the 80’s paved the way for a big media outrage about palm oil production killing orangutangs. Then people thought it was unhealthy because of its high saturated fat content. Now food labels often advertise “no palm oil” and people are led to think this is a good thing.

Unfortunately, when palm oil is removed from pre-made foods, it’s almost always replaced with seed oils, which are high in oxidized, damaged polyunsaturated fats contributing to inflammation and every known chronic disease and are likely WORSE for the environment.

Palm oil is not a seed oil, it’s a fruit oil, and only about 10% polyunsaturated fat. Palm kernel oil is a seed oil as it comes from the seed of the palm fruit, but as it’s a tropical plant, it’s also very low in polyunsaturated fats- only about 2-3%!

Seed oil production likely does more environmental damage and kills more animals than palm oil production, it’s just never gotten big media coverage.

Because of the backlash, a lot of palm oil is ethically harvested now, which you can see advertised on a lot of labels for foods that contain it.

Is palm oil the best fat you could eat? No, animal fats like butter and tallow are lower in polyunsaturated fats and less processed. For a plant oil, coconut oil is better. But of all the fat sources out there, palm oil is high on the list of healthiest options.

Your identity should be a child of God, a God who is good.

#biblicalnutrition #biblicalhealth

One of the things I’m always trying to get across is that my approach to nutrition is not just tweaked versions of some other dietary philosophies.

It is fundamentally different in one of the foundational, modern assumptions of health and nutrition: that we must deny ourselves and practice constant self-control to be healthy.

There is of course, an element of truth to this, and a whole discussion of how we got to this point and how we parse out the good from the bad is much longer than I can get across in one social media post, but we must start by understanding that God did not make a mistake when He created us and food. He did not fundamentally create our appetites to mislead us, test us, or make us suffer.

#biblicalnutrition #biblicalhealth

Anyone else think it’s sad when a mom goes to great effort researching, procuring healthy food, and cooking to keep her family healthy, and they all think that all her work is just a fun hobby?

My previous church recently did a sermon series that touched on health and diet. The pastor is pretty health conscious and active, which is great to see. But the pastor only talked about his green juices and organized a sugar cleanse members could take part in. Some people also did a Daniel fast. (If you’ve seen many of my posts… you know how I feel about Daniel fasts…)

When churches try to stick to just “conventional” approaches to health like this, they’re missing out on a lot of potential, and may be even promoting an approach that is counterproductive.

Christians need to approach the topic of health and nutrition head on and apply their biblical worldview to questioning conventional narratives. When we do, we will find there is so much more to it than just restricting some foods temporarily.

Egg nog should be a a superfood: raw milk, egg yolk, maple syrup, nutmeg.

Instead, store bought egg nog replaces eggs with artificial additives to enhance texture and food dye to make the yellow egg color, low-fat pasteurized homogenized milk, and other junk.

“It’s Christmas! Indulge a little!” … is a completely unnecessary attitude.

When you realize that God made all of our appetites for a reason, to draw us to nourishing, enjoyable food and not to mislead us, you see that all the foods we crave and enjoy can be very healthy when made with high-quality ingredients and properly prepared.

(I like making raw egg nog with just the yolk and leaving out the egg white because raw egg whites can bind up your biotin. I don’t have a recipe for this, just estimate and mix. About one egg yolk per glass of milk.)

#biblicalhealth #healthychristmas #biblicalnutrition #raweggnog #rawmilk #rawmilkeggnog

Could this explain why humans could thrive on a vegan diet in the Garden of Eden but can’t today? And why animals were given for food after the flood?

These are only theories and may not fully explain how a plant-based diet would have been adequate nutrition for a human before the fall or how much of plant biology has changed since, but it could at least be one example of how creation changed in deep, fundamental ways as a result of sin.

What do you think? Have you heard any others theories on this topic?

(Today, surviving on a vegan diet long-term requires supplementing missing nutrients and there’s too many examples of people going vegetarian or vegan and their health suffering immensly. Many people experience benefits short term, but they’re usually eating an overall much cleaner diet when they adopt vegetarianism/veganism. Don’t confuse short term benefits of cutting out low-quality, modern foods with “health benefits” of cutting out meat or animal products.)

Genesis 1:24 “And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so.”

The world was a fundamentally different place before the fall, including animals and humans, but ruminants have always been part of the design.

#ruminants #rotationalgrazing #regenerativeagriculture #biblicalhealth

Join me, Joel Salatin, the wonderful ladies of @seekingwholehealthconf and so many other great speakers this May for the Christian Natural Health conference in Wooster, Ohio!

There’s no substitute for the encouragement, connections, and education that comes from in-person events like these. I had the privilege of going to this event two year ago and made friends I’m still in touch with and learned so much. There’s already people signed up to attend who are traveling from all across the country. I’d love to see you there. Comment “conference” for the link to more information or see the bio at @seekingwholehealthconf .

There’s a lot of reasons Christians ignore health or don’t want to apply the Bible to it… it’s not eternal, there are more important things, it’s easy to just follow culture… let’s create a new narrative. Things that aren’t the most important things still matter.

#biblicalhealth #biblicalnutrition

Since there are unknowns here, I respect any Christian’s decision to take a different stance on this. But I don’t think we can underestimate the impact of what RFK wants to do with food additives, raw milk, chemicals, vaccines, pharmaceuticals, and more. We have never before seen such improvements to these issues stand a chance on the political stage. I don’t want to see that sacrificed if it is not for the opportunity to make a practical difference in the abortion issue, and I don’t see that being an option right now. In the meantime, I will celebrate RFK’s appointment for the good he wants to do.

#maha #makeamericahealthyagain #rfk

It might be about to get a lot easier to keep your family healthy and access high-quality, creation-glorifying food.

#makeamericahealthyagain #maha #rfk #robertfkennedyjr #biblicalnutrition #biblicalhealth #joelsalatin #thomasmassie

The wins just keep coming. This is huge. We deserve none of this. Praise God for His undeserved graciousness to us.

Make America Healthy Again.

Repost from @theregenaissance

#joelsalatin #regenerativeagriculture #regenerativefarming #homesteading #foodfreedom #rfk #robertfkennedyjr #makeamericahealthyagain #maha

What all the science and Biblical basis of my recommendations come back to is... make your own food from scratch. If you do this, you will be 95% of the way to an ideal diet, without even having to know anything about micronutrients, macronutrients, antinutrients, fatty acids, aldehydes, epithelial damage....

Can a family with two working parents still make all their food from scratch? Yes, of course. But it is much more difficult. The feminist movement that got women working outside the home is good friends with pre-made foods. And home cooking is far from the only value a homemaker brings to her family.

#biblicalnutrition #biblicalhealth #cookfromscratch

Some thoughts pulled from my book. I haven’t been posting as much because I’ve been putting all my free time towards writing right now. 90,000 words so far but a lot more work to go to make sure it is the most accurate, practical, helpful, and engaging information I can offer. I am really excited to get this to you all.

You don’t need to throw out discard and wash a new jar every time you feed your sourdough starter if you don’t want to…

My unconventional method may not be the best method for a lot of people, but if you want to keep a starter as easily as possible, it might be, so let me explain...

Since I bake with my starter at least every week or so, feeding it only before baking is frequent enough feeding that my starter is kept alive and happy. But I have been able to keep it in the fridge for weeks without being fed before and it’s come back just fine.

This method allows me to not have to transfer the starter into a new jar every time I feed it, although I still do periodically to get a new, clean jar.

There’s a lot of science and experimentation that can go into getting the most bubbly starter, the preffered sour flavor, and the airiest loaf of bread. If this is a fun thing for you to try to achieve- GO FOR IT!

But my main goal with my starter, and what I want to make accessible for other people, is just the ability to ferment all wheat-containing recipes for better nutritional value, so I am interested in the easiest method possible, which I believe this is.

CONTINUED IN COMMENTS ⬇️

#sourdough #sourdoughdiscard #zerodidcard

A better use for Kool-Aid IMO.

This is just a fun thing my mother-in-law does with her goats with kids who visit sometimes. It’s harmless for the goat and washes off pretty quickly.

The neighbors and Pacific Crest trail hikers who go by their place get quite a kick out of it.

Many of the food dyes we use are banned in other counties- for good reason. Eating them is linked with cancer, hypersensitivity reactions, genotoxicity.

#fooddyes #fooddye

Whether you believe in a young or old Earth creation, there is a fundamantal difference between people evolved by accident from animals and people created from the beginning with the intention of being made in God’s image, set apart from animals, and exercising dominion over creation.

Of course people experience benefits from a paleo diet- I did! There are a thousand reasons someone could improve their health by cutting out grains, eating more meat, and eating less pre-made foods.

But a diet that has no recognition for man’s role exercising dominion over creation unnecessarily removes enjoyable, God-given foods from the diet when they *can* be perfectly healthy.

The paleo diet has also led people to add a lot of poorly prepared nuts and seeds to their diets, which have consequences for nutrient absorption and digestive health.

Comment “tag” if you’d like me to tag you in a post all about the Seventh Day Adventist influcence on modern nutrition guidelines.

#biblicalnutrition #biblicalhealth #dominion

The work of dentist Weston A. Price is the foundation of much of the ancestral approach to nutrition which has combatted the novel, poor-quality foods of modernity with the natural and well-prepared foods that have contributed to human health and thriving throughout history.

Is it any surprise that he was a professed Christian and his discovered gave him a greater appreciation for God’s work?

This is not an exhaustive exploration of or full-scale endorsement of Weston A. Price’s religious beliefs, but one snapshot of how his beliefs and discoveries led him away from Darwin-influenced eugenics and to marvelling at God’s creation.

The work of missionaries Christianizing the world has been a very good thing, but it is unfortunate that it has often come hand-in-hand with poor-quality foods (ones I would argue are at odds with a Chrisian approach to food!) that have replaced traditional cultures’ ancestral diets.

#westonaprice #traditionaldiets #ancestralfoods #ancestralnutrition #biblicalnutrition #biblicalhealth

According to the Hallelujah diet website “When you get back to the garden, you can live life fully the way that God intended.” How is the diet “God intended” one that doesn’t incude all the necessary nutrients??

Their website also says, “Our resources introduce nutrient-rich foods into your diet that can transform your life.” Ironic that at it’s core, it’s about cutting out the most nutrient dense foods available in God’s good earth- meat, organs, dairy, and other animal-based foods.

The world today is fundamentally different than it was before the fall and it is unrealistic to try to imitate it by eating the same way Adam and Eve did in the garden.

Comment “tag” if you’d like me to tag you in a another post all about why we should NOT be trying to replicate the diet of the Garden of Eden today!

#gardenofeden #biblicalnutrition #biblicalhealth

Paul’s distinction between “lawful” and “helpful” in 1 Corinthians is a helpful way to think about food.

Despite the focus on calories and moderation that is pushed in conventional nutrition, certain foods will help you steward your body with good health, while certain foods will conribute to disease.

Certain foods will hijack hunger signals and make it easy to overeat, while we can trust our appetites and hunger queues with natural, well-prepared foods.

Engaging with real foods and good preparation methods has potential to teach us about God through creation, serve others, and offer richer hospitality.

#biblicalnutrition #biblicalhealth #seedoils

Junk food is not required to teach kids the Bible.

“But it’s a treat! Church should be fun!”

If you think seed oils and food dyes are required for kids to enjoy a snack at church, even to make a treat, you need to understand what really makes foods healthy and unhealthy.

The price of a healthy diet is not cutting out everything enjoyable. God gave you appetites for fat, salt, and sugar for a reason. The price is making these foods ourselves with real, good ingredients.

Snacks aren’t required for church, but for a treat or a fun Bible lesson, homemade crackers, popcorn, even desserts can be a far better option. No toxic ingredients required! Even cut just fruit can serve this purpose.

If homemade foods are a liability, maybe the church has gotten big enough to be impersonal.

#sundayschoolsnacks #churchsnacks #biblicalnutrition #seedoils #fooddye

An important part of glorying God through eating is to enjoy what God has given us.

I hate to see so many people thinking that just means taking a break from salads for a while to treat themselves to Dunkin’ Donuts.

There is SO MUCH MORE to food and health than that.

What if NONE of the cravings God gave you were by mistake, meant to lead you into disease or temptation, or even out of sync with our modern food abundance?

When appetites lead us to man-made replacements for food God has given us, we get into trouble. When we honor our appetites with God-given foods, stewarded with good God-given dominion, we can heal AND deeply enjoy the satisfaction of preparing, knowing, and eating our food.

@seedoilscout
#biblicalhealth #biblicalnutrition

I like the can of soup with a list of ingredients a mile long that says “no preservatives or artificial colors”. It’s something, but there’s a long ways to go.

There are so many documented health risks of food additives. I don’t think there is any way to accurately know what all the long-term risks are or which ones are most harmful.

God made us attracted to bright colors because in creation, they mean ripe fruit. Certain flavors are meant to lead us to minerals and nutrients we need. When we hijack this intelligently designed system, of course there are going to be consequences.

#biblicalnutrition #biblicalhealth #dominion

Robert Murray M’Cheyne was born at Edinburgh in 1813. At age four he knew the characters of the Greek alphabet and was able to sing and recite fluently. At age 18 he graduated from the University of Edinburgh and was licensed as a preacher at age 22.

His congregation numbered eleven hundred, and M’Cheyne addressed himself to the work of the ministry with so much ardour that his health gave way, and at age 26 he was compelled to desist from all public duty.

A mission among the Jews throughout Europe and Israel and a religious revival at his church in Dundee, made him feel that he was being called to evangelistic rather than to pastoral work, but before he could carry out his plans he died of Typhus in 1843.

“No one can have a spiritual ministry without a physical body.” -Dr. Lewis Sperry Chafer, founder of Dallas Seminary

“Rather train yourself for godliness; for while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come” (1 Timothy 4:7–8). It is easy to overlook Paul’s instruction that bodily training is of some value, as it necessary for us to serve in our present life.

#biblicalhealth #biblicalnutrition

We replaced:
Animal fats with fake vegetable oils
The colors of ripe fruit with artificial colors
Traditional prepration and preservation methods with chemical additives
Milk with concentrated nut and seed products
Meat with plant-based alternatives
Fruit and natural sweeteners with corn syrup
And now we’re dealing with the consequences.

For thousands of years people followed their appetites and relied on knowledge passed down between generations to guide what they ate, and while there are certainly periods of history marked by starvation and malnutrition, we don’t see the epidemics of cancer, obesity, diabetes, autoimmune conditions, allergies and more that we have now (and it wasn’t because lifespan was shorter...)

What changed? It was more than one idea or a ‘scientific’ breakthrough. It was worldviews. When the West rejected God, based on the entirely evolutionary worldview of human origin and the self-focused ideas of humanism, it allowed these new foods and new beliefs about foods to takeover the world.

Even many schools of thought in the alternative nutrition space are based on evolutionary beliefs about human origin, and they are misleading people as a result.

#christianworldview #biblicalhealth #biblicalnutrition #Godscreation

It’s great that Christians are willing to condemn smoking, but at the same time we serve all kinds of junk food to kids in Sunday school and are uncomfortable with talking about diet from a Biblical perspective.

It’s possible our unbalanced approach to smoking and food is based more on culture than science or our Biblical worldview. It’s culturally accepted to condemn smoking so no one calls a Christian legalistic for saying smoking is addictive and harmful to God’s temple, your body.

Christians have freedom with all foods (Col 2:16, 1 Timothy 4:1-3, Matt 15:11), but in the same way that the Bible does not explicitely call smoking or other substances wrong, we can apply other principles about addiction, Creation, and our resposibility as stewards of God’s temple to see that not all foods may be beneficial for us (1 Cor 10:23).

Aldehydes are toxic byproducts of lipid oxidation. High polyunsaturated fat seed (vegetable) oils are by far the biggest contributors, and when they’re in a deep fat fryer they’re being repeatedly damaged and are even worse.
Aldehydes are the same mechanism by which smoking causes damage. The serving of chips studied that was on par with 25 cigarettes was a little over 5 ounces. A normal sized bag is about 9 ounces.

Studies:
PMID 30221162
PMID 24081493
PMID 22334255
PMID 27903595

#biblicalhealth #biblicalnutrition #vegetableoils #seedoils

Ok I know getting to sit around not having to work is the point of eating out but I’m the kind of person who doesn’t like sitting still and I’d much rather have something for everyone to do while socializing with friends and family! I want to bring back families sitting on a porch snapping peas and shelling pecans. Ladies meeting up together with their knitting. Work parties.

Here’s a fact about me, I can’t stand movie theaters. If I’m going to sit through a whole movie I need something to do with my hands and I want to be able to make my own snacks. Yes I’ve brought my own real butter popcorn into a movie theater but I’ve tried bringing my knitting too and it’s too dark...

But back to the subject of restaraunts... if I am going to go out I use the @seedoilscout app (no affiliation) or localfats.com to search for restaurants using good ingredients- a place that is cooking from scratch without seed oils IS someting I can get excited about!

Never trust that a restaurant marketing itself as ‘natural’ or ‘fresh’ is actually providing healthy food. Most people would not cook at home with the kinds of ingredients restaurants use, not to mention food heated up in plastic, often in microwaves, tap water, produce that’s not being washed to remove pesticides...

Home cooking from scratch is the single, simplest thing anyone can do to eat healtheir, and it can be so enjoyable as well!

#biblicalhealth #biblicalnutrition #homecooking #cookfromscratch #seedoils #vegetableoils

“Source?? Show me the studies!”

I believe most often, people say this just to try to discredit people they don’t agree with.

The average person, even if they believe they would only ever “follow the science” actually has a lot of their beliefs about food developed from marketing and group-think...

Even when it comes to scientific studies, there’s much more that goes into a scientific understanding of a topic than one study, especially if it is observational (epideomiological).

God made humans to be able to understand the world around them by informal observations, anecodates, and stories.

Truth is real and it is knowable- did you know that it was a Christian worldview that first enabled the scientific revolution for introducing that concept??

And it doesn’t only have to be from peer-reviewed studies for certain truths to be reliable.

#biblicalnutrition #biblicalhealth

Biodiesels can get made from any fat, even animal fat technically, but if you don’t think biodisels are natural, you shouldn’t think vegetable oils are either. Here’s why:

‘Vegetable’ oils, like soybean, canola, sunflower, safflower, ricebran, and corn oil, don’t come from vegetables at all- they come from seeds, and extracting the oil from them and making it ‘edible’ (or at least not acutely toxic) is a complicated process:

First the seeds are ground and steam cooked. The high heat begins damaging the fats. Then they’re pressed and mixed with a toxic chemical solvent like hexane to extract the oil. It’s heated again to evaporate the solvent. Then it gets mixed with water and acid and spun in a centrifuge to remove gums. Next, it’s centrifuged again with caustic soda to remove free fatty acids. Then it’s washed and dried to remove soap and other impurities and bleached to remove the unappetizing grey color it appears at this point. Last, it’s filtered to remove the bleach and steam washed to remove unappetizing flavors and odors.

Vegetable oils essentially didn’t exist before the industrial revolution because the techonology to make them hadn’t been created.

Fats go through additional, but similar looking, processing to get turned into biodisels. The oils are reacted with a short-chain alcohol in the presence of a catalyst which speeds up the reaction and produces biodiesel and glycerin as a byproduct.

The fact that we are going to such lengths to create foods and energy sources from crops is all a symptom of our bigger, industrial food production system.

Most people are on board with “natural is better”, but did you know that vegetable oils are the most unnatural part of our diets??

Yet we’ve been told natural, God-given saturated fats are bad and they are the ‘healthy’ alternative!

👉Follow along if you want to sort through the nutrition noise with a holistic, Biblical perspective to food and health!

When we don’t have a clear picture of what is sin and what is not, this is the mess we get into.

The Bible is clear that food does not commend us to God (1 Cor 8:8). What goes into your mouth does not defile you (Matt 15:11). With that foundation, we have freedom to pursue healthy eating because it is 𝘣𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 for us.

And, when we have a version of healthy eating that meets our God-given appetites with enjoyable, satiating, and nourishing foods, rather than ‘healthy eating’ that is all about ascetic restriction, we don’t have to be worried that clean eating causes mental distress or eating disorders!

There is so much confusing, conflicting, and contradictory information out there about nutrition.

It all claims to be scientific.

How do we make sense of it??

By making sure our beliefs align with our Biblical worldview, good science, AND human history!

I’m not here to tell you all the same conventional or even alternative nutrition beliefs you already hear.

I’ve been seriously studying nutrition for over ten years. Throughout this time my beliefs about food have changed, but when I started reconciling my Christian worldview with what I was learning I started discovering an approach that is so non-restrictive, yet I feel the best I ever have and have resolved health issues I’ve dealt with for years!

Did you know that most schools of thought in the nutrition world are rooted in athiestic or anti-Christian worldviews?

Did you know that a lot of things people do to try to eat healthier are actually counter-productive?

👉Follow along if you want to sort through the noise with a holistic, Biblical perspective to food and health!

This was me for a long time.

I believed that grains were inherently unhealthy. I believed that sugar, even natural sugar, was inherently unhealthy.

And it was hard to reconcile that with what I read about foods in the Bible.

We can do some pretty crazy mental gymnastics to try to reconcile our beliefs about food with the Bible. I’ve had one person try to tell me that the ‘bread’ Jesus fed the 5,000 𝘩𝘢𝘥 to be sweetbreads- that is, the thymus and pancreas organ meats- because he just couldn’t fathom Jesus feeding people a food he was convinced was toxic- bread!

My approach to Biblical nutrition does NOT mean:
- Blindly considering every food mentioned in the Bible ‘healthy’ with no context
- Only eating foods mentioned in the Bible
- Trying to put a Biblical spin on my pre-conceived beliefs about nutrition

What it DOES mean is finding answers that align with a Biblical worldview, good science, AND human history

And looking at nutrition through any of these three lenses keeps bringing me back to the same thing: all kinds of natural, God-given foods can be healthy when raised and prepared properly. God gave us appetites for certain foods for a reason, not to mislead us.

My dividing lines have a lot more to do with food quality than macronutrients or whole food groups.

And I don’t list any of these specific examples of foods to say they *can* be good only in strict moderation. My main concern with overeating any of these foods would be eating them at the exclusion of other good foods you need… like other foods in this list… or if you have a pre-existing condition that keeps you from tolerating them, but even then those conditions are hardly ever caused by these foods themselves- it’s poor quality/poorly prepared versions of these foods or other harmful foods.

Is this the cause of the obesity epidemic??

Weight gain is a lot more than calories.

What’s far more important is whether your body is USING or STORING the energy that it gets.

And large quantities of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) are a signal to the body to STORE it.

All fats have some saturated fatty acids, some monounsaturated fatty acids, and some polyunsaturated fatty acids, but the ratios vary a lot.

Those fats we all “saturated fats” (like butter and beef fat) are primarily SFAs. Thos we call polyunsaturated fats, like vegetable (seed) oils, are primarily PUFAs.

High PUFA vegetable oils like corn, soy, canola, rice bran, cottonseed, and sunflower oil eseentialy didn’t exist before the industrial revolution. They pose a lot of health risks aside from how they affect energy metabolism.

Although they are more unstable, PUFAs serve an important purpose in Creation- they don’t solidify like saturated fats (think a cold stick of butter in your fridge) so cold-blooded animals have more of them in their tissues to stay mobile in cold climates, and seeds that exist in cold climates have them as accessible, non-solidified fat stores for seed germination.

And their signals for slowing metabolism help animals that hibernate, or enter a state of partial hibernation called torpor like most squirrels, gain weight in preparation for winter.

“Vegetable” oils are really made from seeds- corn, rapeseed (canola), soybeans, cottonseeds, sunflower seeds... all seeds, and not ones from tropical clilmates where seeds have more SFAs (like palm kernel oil).

So my #1 recommendation for weight loss and maintaining a healthy weight is to make your fat intake as saturated as possible and to avoid vegetable oils at all costs!

#bioenergetic #weightloss #biblicalnutrition #raypeat #vegetableoils #pufas #hibernation

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