“YOUR FATE IS ON YOUR PLATE”

Nutrition―Part I

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“YOUR FATE IS ON YOUR PLATE”

Nutrition―Part I

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[Only the airplane on click 1—Progressive

disclosure]

In May of 1970, Flight 701 took off from an airport near Atlanta with 29 passengers and
a captain with over 25,000 hours of pilot-in-command flying time. Climbing through
light rain, the plane headed for sunny Fort Myers, Florida. During the ascent number two
engine lost power. While the crew worked feverishly to correct this defect, number one
engine also lost power. Five minutes into the flight, the crew declared an emergency and
requested clearance to land at Atlanta International Airport. When still some seven miles
away, the almost powerless plane began to descend through the fog.

The only possible landing site was an interstate highway median strip. Fighting at the
controls, the pilot brought the plane down, proceeding in a straight line for 1,200 feet,
after which the plane gradually veered to the left crossing oncoming traffic lanes.

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One car was demolished, the passenger plane slid up an embankment, struck the
approach to a bridge, and came to rest on an avenue crossing the freeway.

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[Progressive disclosure]
[Click 2] CRASHED killing 7 and injuring 30

[Click 3] CAUSE Inexperienced ground crew had

filled aircraft with the WRONG FUEL

The crash killed 7 and injured 30. Investigators found the aircraft had been airworthy
both mechanically and structurally and the pilots were competent. But when they
analyzed the fuel and checked records, they discovered this propeller-driven Martin
aircraft – which required 100- to 130-octane gasoline – had been filled with 200 gallons
of Jet A fuel, a fuel similar to kerosene.

Inexperienced ground crew filled the aircraft with the fuel incompatible with the engines.
The workers drove up in a truck clearly marked jet fuel. An unobservant worker climbed
on the wings, removed the caps, each marked “Fuel—100-octane minimum,” and
proceeded to fill each tank. The First Officer overseeing the operation did not notice the
truck was marked jet fuel. After the tanks were full, the captain signed the invoice for 200
gallons of jet fuel. The airliner raced down the runway and climbed into the air, but the
pistons and spark plugs of the engines were doomed and the plane was doomed because
its tanks had been filled with the wrong fuel. Seven died and 30 were injured because
careless personnel failed to follow the operating manual for the aircraft.

The Right Fuel

The wrong fuel—fuel containing contaminants—can cause serious, even fatal results.
The human body is like a wonderful engine. To function properly it requires the right fuel
—the right food and the right fluids. When sufficient contaminants or toxins get caught in
the blood vessels, a chain of events may begin and greatly increase the risk of premature
death. Our fuel needs to be of the right mixture with the right combination of additives—
vitamins and minerals—which can provide proper nutrients to the cells.

Return to the Essentials

A sentinel had been posted on the grounds of the czar’s palace to guard one of the
czarina’s favorite rose bushes. Soldiers continued to guard the site long after the czarina
died and her rosebush disappeared although they didn’t know why they were there and

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the order had lost its purpose. What is the purpose of our eating? It is that our bodies
may be strengthened and glorify God. The Good Books says: “Blessed are you, O land
….when your princes feast at the proper time—for strength and not for drunkenness!”1
“Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.”2

WIN! Wellness Is Based on Two Key Ideas:

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WIN! Wellness is based on 2 Key Ideas:
1. Increase the positive forces at work -
Nutrition, Exercise.... and the body will tend
to heal itself.

1. Provide the right nutrients, exercise, sunlight, pure water, fresh air, rest, hope, trust,
love, joy of service, positive thoughts, forgiveness, appreciation and commitment and
the body will tend to heal itself.

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2. Remove the negative forces at work —
addictions, toxins, negative emotions, self-
defeating behaviors…
The result will be genetic transformation
- Disease promoting genes turned off
- Healthy genes turned on.

2. Remove all hindrances such as addictions, toxins, hostility, negative emotions, self-
centeredness and self-defeating behaviors. Why shift into reverse when your car is
speeding in the right direction? When we unleash positive body forces and cut off
negative forces, the result will be genetic transformation where disease promoting
genes will be turned off and healing genes will be turned on.

Do you want to stick around in this life until you have accomplished the mission God has
given you and long enough to raise your children and to enjoy your grandchildren and
your spouse until you’re 80, 90 or 100+? Or do you want to check out early with cancer,
diabetes, heart disease, or a stroke? Choose well! To a great degree, “Your fate is on
your plate.”

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Baffled by Nutritional Information and

Misinformation?

Are you baffled about what to believe from the media? Conflicting data and
misinformation confuse us as massive advertising, motivated by corporate profits, meets
us at every turn. Businesses pay billions of dollars for advertising to influence us to
purchase and consume their products. As a result millions of those who eat fast foods in
western countries are malnourished; the correct scientific term is “hypercaloric
malnutrition.”

The starving individual in a sub-Saharan African hut and the overweight individual in a
Baltimore office building snacking on coffee, donuts, pop, and pizza are suffering from
the same disease—malnutrition. The first has too little food, while the second has too
much, yet both are getting far too few nutrients to preserve their health, much less to
initiate healing of disease. Most of us would greatly increase our longevity by cutting 30-
40% of our caloric intake. But the key is to eat nutrient rich foods and thus decrease our
craving for more empty calories.

Eating Ourselves to Death

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Two thirds of the deaths in the U.S. are

related to diet according to the U.S.
Surgeon General’s Report on Nutrition &
Health.

Two thirds of the deaths in the U.S. are related to diet according to the U.S. Surgeon
General’s Report on Nutrition & Health.3 This is also true of many other affluent
countries.

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The Life Plan Food Pyramid

--Dr. Joel Fuhrman

The Life Plan Food Pyramid4 uses vegetables to form the foundation. Fruits and
beans/legumes comprise the second layer. Grains, nuts, and seeds form the third layer
with animal foods, fats and sweets on the rare list topping the pyramid. If we consumed a
diet of this type, we would experience fewer problems with overweight and related
diseases.

Obesity

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Obesity among Adults

 Almost 2/3 of adults in U.S. are
overweight.
 Obesity speeds a person’s aging
process by nearly 9 years.

Almost 2/3 of adults in the US are overweight.5 Obesity speeds a person’s aging process
by nearly 9 years.6

Serving large portions (super-sizing) of high-fat, high-protein, largely refined foods have
made obesity an epidemic. Many of us are over-nourished with too much fat, protein,
and carbohydrates and under-nourished with not enough vitamins, minerals,
phytochemicals, and antioxidants.

Although David had played college football and run marathons, his 6-foot-3-inch frame
carried 336 pounds. Usually he weighed 220-250 lbs, but his sedentary desk job as
manager of a 1000-room luxury hotel and close proximity to rich food packed on the
pounds. Plagued with pain he worried that stress and snapping at employees would cause
him to lose his job. His five-year-old daughter said, “Daddy, I wish you could get well.”
Touched by her concern he sought help. After medication for high blood pressure, his
physician referred him to the Guam Wellness Center where he began WIN! Wellness

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lifestyle strategies. His initial tests indicated his blood sugar was approaching diabetes,
and David was requesting treatment for depression and anxiety. After a week of
treatment, he confided, “I feel great. Forget the tranquilizer.” His doctor discontinued his
blood pressure medication by the second week. When he weighed 202 lbs. a year later,
his boss referred to him as a “changed man.”

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 At least ¼ of our children are either

obese or overweight
 Kids are watching 40,000 commercials
a year luring them to eat junk food

At least one fourth of our children are either obese or overweight.7 Consuming lots of
soft drinks, milk, margarine, mayonnaise, white bread, sugar, and pasteurized cheese is
taking its toll, especially in combination with lack of exercise. Compare your childhood
with that of your children. Did you spend as much time behind a computer and in front of
the TV? Kids today are watching 40,000 commercials a year luring them to eat junk food.
Not only are children missing active play time while mesmerized, their diet is a growing
problem. Since hamburgers with cheese and French fries, pizza, and pop become the
preferred food for their taste buds, vegetables and fruits seem distasteful. Girls enter
puberty early with the high meat diet in part due to the growth hormones fed to animals.

Health officials are alarmed so many overweight children and adolescents develop type 2
diabetes, considered an adult-onset disease. While these children may face complications
as early as their 30s, previous generations saw these problems occurring at age 65 to 70.

Sugar

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How Much Sugar Do We Eat?
 n one large Western country people eat 39
teaspoons/day, 154 pounds of sugar/year!
 These people drink 1/3 of their sugar in soda pop.
 Mexico now consumes more Coke per capita than
the U.S.

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Does “just a spoonful of sugar” suffice for today’s sweet tooth? Hardly. The average
American consumes, on average, 39 teaspoons/day or 154 pounds a year.8 Corn syrup is
found in many canned and processed foods. For some, soda is a basic contributor to
obesity. Many drink several cans or bottles a day instead of water, adding hundreds of
calories and sugar. Mexico now consumes more Coke per capita than the U.S.

Seven pounds of sugar cane make one pound of pure, empty-calorie, fiber-less sugar. We
consume one third of our sugar in soda. Back in the fifties, Cola bottles held just six and a
half ounces, but they’ve gotten bigger and bigger, and so have we! A typical twenty-
ounce bottle of soda contains over sixteen teaspoons of sugar.

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SUGAR Weakens White Blood Cells’ Ability to

Destroy Bacteria
(Each WBC can destroy 14 bacteria. But with added
blood sugar the WBC’s potency is progressively
reduced until it is able to destroy only 1 bacterium)

Sugar weakens the white blood cells’ (WBC) ability to destroy bacteria. Although one
WBC can destroy 14 bacteria, the WBC’s potency is progressively reduced with sugar.
After 24 teaspoons, the WBC is able to destroy only one bacterium9.

Are we saying, “no sugar”? No. But limit rich desserts to special occasions and use
sugar with moderation. Avoid free use of sugared cereals and soda pop. Read labels and
go easy if sugar or corn syrup are among the first ingredients mentioned. Sugar
consumption is also linked to various types of cancer, including colon, rectal, breast,
ovarian, uterine, prostate, kidney, and cancers of the nervous system.

Refined Foods

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Refined food
 Standard medical procedure South Seas
 90% of calories from refined foods
 98% of flour eaten in U.S. is white
 Enriched?

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In some South Pacific Islands when people develop diabetes, the standard medical
procedure is to eliminate imported refined foods and prescribe a 20-minute walk twice
daily. The majority of those who follow this medical advice get well!

Over ninety-percent of our calories come from refined foods. Beef is grain refined by the
cow. Ninety-eight percent of the flour eaten in the U.S. and other countries is white
refined flour, snubbed even by weevils, which seem to recognize it as a depleted meal.
We’re told our flour is “enriched.”10 If you were robbed of twenty-five dollars and the
sympathetic thief tossed back five of them, would you consider yourself enriched?

Refining rice and wheat precipitated illness and mass deaths years ago. Today most
governments mandate that white rice and white flour have added vitamins. However,
recent tests on store products found the replenishing process does not replace removed
nutrients. The world’s current nutritional problems are not scurvy, beriberi, or pellagra
anymore—but instead they are the chronic degenerative diseases of cancer,
cardiovascular illness, and diabetes according to Dr. Joel Fuhrman.

What Should We Eat?

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The Creator’s Operating Manual

“And God said, See, I have given you
every herb that yields seed . . . and every
tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall
be for food” Genesis l:29.

Here we have the original diet. The operating manual tells us what foods are best for us.
When we read the Bible, our Creator’s operating manual, we find the original diet He
provided for Eden’s first family at the beginning of human history recorded in Genesis
1:29. “Herb” refers to vegetables and grains. God gave Adam and Eve a diet of fruits,
nuts, grains, and vegetables.

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U.S. Food Consumption By Calories

 51% Refined and processed foods
 42% Dairy and animal foods
 7% Fruits and vegetables

Some of us may have been raised on meat and potatoes and in times of economic
hardship we may rightfully be thankful to have food at all. You may not be able to
implement right now some of the optimal suggestions that the WIN! Wellness program
shares. To arrive at a plant-based diet really shouldn’t happen in one giant leap. One can
phase in and move toward the goal. As the family learns how to prepare new appetizing
recipes, it will reach out for something better.

For optimal health, 80% of our calories should come from fruits, nuts, vegetables,
legumes, and whole grains. Studies document the value of nuts. However, the Standard
American Diet11 (SAD) has only 7% from fruits, nuts, vegetables, legumes, and whole
grains. Recommendations are that less than 5% of our calories should come from animal
products, but SAD studies indicate 42% comes from meats, dairy, and eggs. Some South
American areas have higher percentages.

A whopping 51% of SAD calories come from refined starches. As we move toward 10%
or less refined starches in our diet, we will feel better and keep trim. We will be on a
program to help us avoid diabetes and other degenerative diseases.

Endnotes
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Ecclesiastes 10:17.
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1 Corinthians 10:31.
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C. Everett Koop, MD, SCD, The Surgeon General’s Report on Nutrition and Health, DHHS (PHS)
Publication no. 8840210 (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 1988).
4
Joel Fuhrman, MD, Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 2003.
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Retrieved June 4, 2003, from http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/hestats/obese/obse99.htm
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Richard Barnett, Lancet 365, no. 9474 (2005): 1843.
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Committee on Nutrition, American Academy of Pediatrics: Pediatrics (August, 2003).
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D. Peterson, “The Sugar Generation and Dental Health.” (January 4, 2006). Retrieved May 5, 2006, from
the Family Gentle Dental Care Website: http://www.detalgentlecare.com/Sugar%20and%20Dental
%20Health.htm.
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Albert Sanchez, J.L. Reeser and others. “Role of Sugars in Human Neutrophilic Phagocytosis,” American
Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol. 26 (2003): 1180-1184.
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John Robbins. The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World. York
Beach, Maine: Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC, 2001, p. 82.

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Scientific sources state that a high intake of both raw and cooked vegetables can reduce
cancer risk by 50 percent!12 Eat a wide variety to include these protective substances. If
you eat a cruciferous vegetable (cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, and
greens) at least 3 times a week and enjoy a raw salad containing at least three vegetables
every day, you will be doing your body a great favor—and with good flavor. A daily raw
salad can reduce heart disease risk by almost 25 percent. Use a variety of raw vegetables
in daily salads. Try not to overcook your vegetables. Lightly steam them.

Starchy vegetables like potatoes and corn can be added in lesser amounts along with
starchy grains, rice, breads, pastas and legumes. Legumes, including beans, peas and
lentils, are the king of starches providing three times more protein and fiber than other
starches. Beans provide body building nutrients and fiber to lower cholesterol and blood
sugar. Those of us who would benefit from weight loss or have health concerns like
diabetes, high blood pressure or cholesterol would benefit from getting more non-starchy
vegetables compared to the total number of starchy food servings. Six to 8 servings of
non-starchy vegetables means we can serve ourselves raw salads or cooked vegetables
that cover half our plate twice a day. These salads should favor cruciferous vegetables,
greens, and colorful vegetables. A serving consists of a cup of raw or ½ cup of cooked
vegetables.

If eating this amount seems difficult, start with the U.S. government recommended
minimums of 2 cups of fruit and 2 ½ cups of vegetables a day,13 and gradually increase.
Adding to your non-starchy vegetable intake, dramatically boosts your intake of vitamins
and minerals and the extra fiber will improve your digestion and elimination. When
eating plant foods, you feel full before you eat too many calories, a great way to lose
weight. In addition to losing weight, you will lower your risk of various cancers and heart
disease. Consuming cruciferous vegetables reduces your risk of cancer. Nuts, seeds,
avocados, and olives have protective nutrients as well.

Is it possible to reeducate the taste buds? Dr. Elden Chalmers, a psychologist at Andrews
University of yesteryear, recommended a ¼ teaspoon of “no-thank-you” serving when
offered foods which are not on the favorite list. He maintained the brain would recognize
the flavor as a familiar food with repeated small exposures and later the individual will
enjoy that food. This idea is important in guiding children to make wise choices. What
we have learned to eat, we can unlearn; we can learn to enjoy new tastes. Be courageous!
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Fuhrman, pp. 49ff, 187.
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Karl-Heinrich Adzersen, Patricia Jess, and others. Raw and Cooked Vegetables, Fruits, Selected
Micronutrients, and Breast Cancer Risk: A Case-Control Study in Germany, Nutrition & Cancer (2003)
vol. 46, no. 2: 131-137.
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New 2005 Food Pyramid Information (n.d.) Retrieved May 5, 2006, from
http://www.usaring,com/health/food/food.htm.

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Try other fruits and vegetables. Make a list of healthy foods before going grocery
shopping.

The First Clinical Trial

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The first clinical trial of nutrition on record occurred in the University of Babylon. By
orders of King Nebuchadnezzar, the Hebrew captive, Daniel, and his three friends were
expected to eat the daily dainties of his royal table. History records14 Daniel purposed in
his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s meat, nor with the
wine he drank. So he requested an alternative of Melzar, the man responsible for the
captives’ care. He proposed a ten-day trial of a plant-based diet and water, after which
Melzar could compare them with the others eating the king’s fare.

Because these young men made a healthier appearance, permission was granted for the
chosen diet. God honored their allegiance and blessed them with knowledge and skill in
all their Chaldean classes. When they were brought before the king for testing three years
later, they scored ten times better than all other wise men in the realm. Since the king was
impressed, he appointed Daniel to a key position during his reign and he continued in
high government office for two kings who succeeded him.

Like Daniel and his three friends, we have a choice to eat the world’s way or God’s way.
Will it be the Creator’s diet or will we just eat what everybody else eats?

Four Principles of Nutrition

Good nutrition is more about what you do eat, rather than being about what you don’t eat.
Remember these four principles and you won’t go far wrong.

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Four Principles of Nutrition

1. Make sure your diet consists primarily of
vegetables, fruits, legumes, whole grains, and nuts.

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2. If you eat 6-8 serving of non-starchy vegetables

a day and 2-4 servings of fruits and use appropriate
amounts of unrefined whole grains, you will
gradually begin to feel better and acquire a taste for
these healthy foods.

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3. Look for the “rainbow colors”—foods

rich in color.

3. Look for the “rainbow colors” – foods rich in natural color. These have more
vitamins, minerals, and essential nutrients. The deeper the color, the more nutrients.

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4. Complement your diet with 30 minutes

of intense exercise five days a week,
drinking 6-8 glasses of water
 Add years to your life
 Add quality life to your years

This should fix you up for 80 or 90 years—maybe more. If you choose to live forever, we
recommend two more spiritual nutrients.

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Daniel 1:5-16.
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John 6:35.

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Diet for Eternity

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“And Jesus said to them, ‘I am the bread of

life. He who comes to Me shall never
hunger, and he who believes in Me shall
never thirst.’ ”

When we accept Jesus, we have the first staple of the eternal diet. He is the Bread of
Life.15 He satisfies our deepest hunger of the soul as well as giving us the best nutrition
for our body. And heaven we will also be able to eat of the fruit of the Tree of Life.16
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Revelation 22:1-2 Message. “Then the

Angel showed me Water-of-Life River,
crystal bright. It flowed from the throne of
God and the Lamb, right down the middle
of the street.

Revelation 22:1-2 (The Message Bible). “Then the Angel showed me Water-of-Life
River, crystal bright. It flowed from the throne of God and the Lamb, right down the
middle of the street. The Tree of Life was planted on each side of the River, producing
twelve kinds of fruit, a ripe fruit each month. The leaves of the Tree are for healing the
nations.” As we enjoy God’s bounties here, we have the promise that some day we can
eat of the fruit of the Tree of Life in heaven.

How many of you want one day to live in heaven, enjoy the luscious fruit of the Tree of
Life and be with our loved ones throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity? Let us pray
together a prayer that God will grant us that joy.

Prayer
Father in Heaven, Our lives and our health depend on You. Yet You give us the power of
choice. We choose to exercise it today as the Apostle Paul said: “Whether you eat or
drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.” Help us to eat foods which will
give us strong bodies and clear minds to serve others. When this earthly sojourn is over
and as Jesus said, “Many will come from east and west, and sit down with Abraham,

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Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven,” may all present here today, be present at that
banquet table with You, Amen.

BREAKOUT TIME

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Group Discussion
1. Identify popular foods which are harmful to health
if eaten frequently. Which of these contribute to high
cholesterol, high blood pressure, high triglycerides,
diabetes, or cardiovascular problems? Share how a
change in eating habits helped you or someone you
know.

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2. Unfinished Story: Betty’s habit was to eat fried

chicken or pizza with her favorite chocolate ice cream
while watching romantic soap operas. At her annual
physical she gasped, “Could the scale be right?” Betty
weighed 325 pounds!

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When the lab tests were back, the doctor announced

serious cardiovascular problems and early diabetes.
Devastated, Betty turned to you, one of her closest
friends, and told her story. You listened carefully, and
then lovingly you said . . .
______________________________________.

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Revelation 22:1, 2.

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3. If you were to pursue a wholesome diet, what

would be your first steps in the process of change?
4. When we eat healthfully, how might others be
affected?

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5. If you have a balanced healthy diet, share with the
group what it is and what benefits you have noticed.

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Personal Intentionality
1. What does my diet consist of at the moment?
______________________________________.
2. Am I satisfied with my diet? Which foods should I
eat more and which less? My intentional choice is
to add _________________________________
and avoid ______________________________.

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3. I am intentional about improving my diet, water,
and exercise. Here is how I will implement my
goals. Record daily amounts. A serving is I c of
raw veggies; ½ c cooked veggies; 1/8 c nuts; ½ c
fruits, 1/1 c legumes.

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“YOUR FATE IS ON YOUR PLATE”
The End

HANDOUTS

My Nutrition Health Chart

Record your daily diet and choice and life-giving water intake and exercise time and
activities.

Vegetables Fruits Legumes Whole Nuts Water Exercise

Grains 6-8 glasses 30-60 min

Sun

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