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Steve
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Date Posted: 12:01:21 04/12/06 Wed
Bro Darwin --
Is gluttony as much a sin as drunkenness? Well, yes, as is causeless anger, hatred, etc., which is what the Catholic Church has always taught, though several Protestant denominations and those of counterfeit authority have usually tried to skirt the issue of deadly sins versus venial sins, those sins "not unto death" (I John 5:16-17).
This is one of those places where I just have to disagree with your approach, though. Your judgmentalism against fat people is just plain horrible and wrong on so many levels.
For starters, "if a person drinks beer every day he is a sinner" is a false statement and a false starting point for a comparison. A person is a sinner because we are all born that way. We are not sinners because we sin, we sin because we are all sinners. It's the sin nature in us having its way, not the particular expression of it. Considering your dedication to God and His Word, I find it troubling that you would get that backwards. We will talk about that another time, after I've had time to pray about it.
The rest you are basing on your being a certified personal trainer -- that is, your own experience & indoctrination.
I'm speaking from MY own experience on this next point: The ruler of this world is poisoning us.
When I was much younger, before I came to Christ, I used to do extreme fasting as part of my [non-Christian] religious training. It trained my body to go into "starvation mode" if I don't have food; as long as I smoked tobacco and kept active, this did not pose a problem.
But after many years of being saved, Jesus delivered me of the tobacco 12 years ago. My metabolism immediately slowed down, going into the "starvation mode"; I gained a great deal of weight. Over the space of three years I went from 190 lbs to 310 lbs. Even keeping active, and maintaining a diet of about 1200-1400 cals. per day had NO EFFECT on this.
My physician told me I needed to build muscle mass because I had become "glucose intolerant" -- a precursor to diabetes type II -- due to the imbalance between muscle and fat tissue. I started an exercise program., but it had little net effect besides loosening my arthritic joints some.
But I have finally started to lose weight, at least 25 lbs., since this past December. NOT through exercise, and NOT through further restricting caloric intake. It was a result of keying in on a major cause of modern day obesity and cutting it out.
What has happened in the last 70 years is an increasing use of chemicals in our diets, substituting increasingly detrimental additives and substitutes for natural foods. One of these, that has been substituted for natural sugars, is a substance called "High-Fructose corn syrup". This is a particularly pernicious substance that cannot be properly metabolized by 80%-90% of humans, being best left to vegetarian animals. Its effect is to draw insulin away from muscle cells to fat cells, even more so than in a natural state, so that muscle cells cannot utilize the glucose in the bloodstream for energy. The glucose then bonds to the fat cells, and is converted to fat instead. This triggers the body to overproduce insulin,to make up for the shortfall to the muscle cells, until the pancreas is exhausted, and stops functioning. Voila. An obese person with Type II diabetes.
What is particularly telling about this, is that high-fructose corn syrup started being substituted for other sugars on a large scale in the mid-to-late 80's. Since that time, it has been introduced into more than 90% of the foodstuffs on the market. (Even so-called "healthy" granola bars & rice cakes!!!!) During that same time, the average age for the onset of Type II Diabetes has dropped from 60 to 48. This is an epidemic, which few have understood.
In my own case, we started last December to check the ingredients lists on all packaged food we buy, and if it has high-fructose corn syrup, we just don't buy it. It has helped me, my wife, and one overweight son to lose some weight, and we started just by changing the brands of bread we eat. Out of the hundreds of brands on the market, we found only one potato bread and one italian-style white bread that fit the bill, and we have these occasionally. But the staple we use now is made by a California company, I think the company is "Bread of Life", which makes a line of breads using no flour, but just sprouted grains. Of the so-called "healthy" breads that are marketed like this line, this is the only line that I've found which DOES NOT use the high-fructose corn syrup; they rely on natural flavors for the different types: regular, low-sodium, multi-grain, and cinnamon raisin.
And instead of using the modern poisons of man, they rely on the Word of God for the ingredients: the brand name of this bread is **EZEKIEL 4:9**, because that is where they got the recipe, Ezekiel 4:9 in the Bible. The bread is shipped frozen, so when we get it (here in Florida), it tends to be a little on the dry (and brittle) side, but it has a delicious nutty taste when toasted, and is a COMPLETE PROTEIN -- add a few veggies & you've got a complete meal.
It is also denser than regular bread, so a 1-1/2 lb. loaf is only the size of 14 oz. loaf of other popular brands; the slices are thinner so I can make just as many sandwiches as the large loaves of the other brands.
(As a side note regarding the sweating like a stuck pig phenomenon, yes I used to have that problem too, but found the solution: stop using deoderants/antiperspirants and other related poisons. For a while I looked ridiculous, as I substituted a head-to-toe dusting of ordinary corn starch for the antiperspirants, and the corn starch would leak out of my clothes until I learned how much to use. But after a while, my perspiration levels dropped, and the odors ceased, so I didn't need to use as much. Now I only use it once in a while, like when I have to dress up fancy.)
If you've gotten this far, Darwin, thank you for reading it, I hope you understand why I have to disagree with you. Lord, love us both.
yiC
steve
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Please help me with this. Being Obese and being a drunk why are they not the same?
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