Should We Eat Foods Once Forbidden by the Bible?

In the Old Testament, God tells the Israelites what they can eat.
They are blessed with good health.

Later on, he tells man that they may eat what was previously unclean.
I'm not sure why, because man is not always blessed by eating things classified as "unclean."

Let's look at these foods, which are listed under certain categories in Leviticus and Deuteronomy.

CLEAN ANIMALS
Clean Land Animals: Animals w/Cloven (split) Hoof that Chew a Cud
Antelope, buffalo, cow, caribou, deer, elk, gazelle, giraffe, goat,
hart, ibex, moose, ox, reindeer, sheep, etc.


Clean Birds (These Don't Eat Flesh and Live Primarily on Insects, Grubs or Grains)
Chicken, dove, duck, goose, grouse, guinea fowl, partridge, peafowl, pheasant, pigeon, prairie chicken, ptarmigan, quail, sagehen, sparrow and other songbirds, swan, teal, turkey, etc.


Clean Insects
Certain types of locusts, including crickets and grasshoppers.


Clean Fish (These Have Scales & Fins)
Albacore, alewives, anchovy, barracuda, bass, black drum, black pomfret, bluebacks, bluebill sunfish, bluegill, blue runner, bluefish, bonitos, bowfin, buffalofish, butterfish, carp, chubs, cod, common sucker, crappie, drum, flounder, grouper, grunt, gulf pike, haddock, hake, halibut, hardhead, hardtail, herring, kingfish, long nose sucker, mackerel, mahimahi, menhaden, minnow, mullet, muskellunge, orange roughy, perch, pig fish, pike, pollack, pompano, porgy, redfish, red drum, red horse sucker, red snapper, robalo, rockfish, salmon, sardine, scup, sea bass, sergeant fish, shad, sheepshead, silver hake, silversides, smelt, snapper, snook, sole, Spanish mackerel, steelhead, striped bass, sucker, sunfish, tarpon, trout),
tuna, turbot (except European turbot), whitefish, whiting, yellow perch, etc.

UNCLEAN ANIMALS
(These Chew a Cud & Don't Have a Split Hoof
or Don't Chew a Cud & Do Have Split Hoof)
Armadillo, ass, badger, bear, beaver, camel, canines, cat, cheetah, coyote, dog, donkey, equines, elephant, felines, fox, gorilla, groundhog, hare, hippopotamus, horse, hyena, jackal, kangaroo, leopard, lion, llama, mole, monkey, mouse, mule, muskrat, onager, possum, panther, porcupine, rabbit, raccoon, rat, rhinoceros, skunk, slug, snail (escargot), squirrel, pig, tiger, wallaby, weasel, wolf, wolverine, zebra, worm, etc.

Unclean Insects
All insects except some in the locust family.

Unclean Birds or Flying Creatures (Many of These Eat Flesh)
Albatross, bat, bittern, buzzard, condor, coot, cormorant, crane, crow, cuckoo, eagle, grebe, grosbeak, gull, hawk, heron, kite, pelican, penguin, plover, flamingo, lapwing, loon, magpie, osprey, ostrich, owl, parrot, rail, raven, roadrunner, sandpiper, seagull, stork, swallow, swift,
vulture, water hen, woodpecker, etc.

Unclean Reptiles and Amphibians
Alligator, amphibians, blindworm, caiman, chameleon, crocodile, frog, lizard, newt, reptiles, salamander, snake, toad, turtle, etc.

Unclean Fish and Marine Animals
(These Do Not Have Fins and Scales; This Includes All Shellfish Varieties)
Abalone, bullhead, catfish, clam, crab, crayfish, cuttlefish, dolphin, eel, European turbot, jellyfish, limpet, lobster, marlin, mussel, octopus, otter, oyster, paddlefish, porpoise, prawn, scallop, sea mammals, seal, shark, shellfish, shrimp, squid (calamari), stickleback, sturgeon (which includes most caviar), swordfish, walrus, whale, etc.

MY TAKE ON THIS SUBJECT

Perishable

The meat of "unclean" animals is about 10 times more perishable than of "clean' ones.
Yes, I know we have refrigerators, but it still spoils more quickly.

Scavengers

A lot of these unclean animals were created as meat-eating scavengers of the field or the sea. They clean up the dead off the side of the road and eat the garbage and droppings on the bottom of the sea. The byproducts from digesting such scavenger meat are poisonous; these break down dead things, not to mention what they do to living human beings.

The Pig

One of the worst animals to eat is the pig. The pig will eat any kind of garbage, droppings, or dead animals. It has insufficient eliminatory organs for the amount of filth it consumes, so basically whatever goes in, stays in. Again, it is a scavenger. It is often infested with worms, and even if we cook the meat high enough to kill the worms in their cysts, I ask: do they just evaporate, or are they still there, in the meat? Hmm..... Note that swine were considered so unclean that the Israelites weren't to even touch the body, meat or carcass of the creatures.

High Cholesterol

A lot of the unclean critters have high levels of cholesterol, which tends to lead to heart disease....

The Cause and Spread of Serious Disease

Many of the unclean variety have diseases. Some have serious diseases. The AIDS virus and other diseases may have been spread by the consumption of unclean contaminated animals such as monkeys or other animals.

Even Rabbits (and Rodents)

I thought, well why not eat rabbits? Aren't they okay? Then I read an article on tularemia. It specified that rubber, plastic, or latex gloves should be worn while skinning or handling any rabbits, especially if you have open cuts or abrasions, and "wild rabbit and rodent meat" should be cooked thoroughly before eating. If you can't even touch rabbit or rodent meat without risking disease, then what does that tell you about EATING it? Somehow it just doesn't sound too healthy....


What Do YOU Think?
Unless someone can prove otherwise, the eliminatory system of the pig has not changed in the past two or three thousand years, nor has the nature and constitution of man. So pigs, and other unclean animals, didn't work a long time ago, and so tell me how they can work for today? (Don't we already have a lot of problems with the foods we eat these days? Do we need more?) For these and a few other reasons, I am abstaining more and more from eating these "unclean foods."

I went through a lot of recipes today and threw out a whole lot of ham, sausage, bacon, lard, clam, crab, shrimp and lobster recipes. Sigh! What is YOUR take on this?

Here is a post made by "Jonathan" on baconunwrapped.com (http://www.baconunwrapped.com/2006/12/kosher-bacon.html):

"It is true that most kosher foods are safer and/or healthier than their non-kosher counterparts. However this doesn't necessarily speak to the spiritual reasons why some foods were banned and others weren't. Quite to the contrary, non-kosher food may have been intentionally created to be dangerous as a way of preventing people from eating spiritually unhealthy foods.

"Originally nobody was allowed to eat meat... only after the flood were people finally allowed to eat meat. However this allowance came with warnings from god about not consuming spiritually impure food. Basically gods approach is: You are what you eat. Therefore we were forbidden from eating animals which were violent (birds of prey, animals with whole hooves) or unclean (pigs, pawed animals, and bottom-feeders). Furthermore, we were instructed on how to properly kill (respectfully and with minimal pain) and prepare the animals."

I find this idea of "spiritually unhealthy foods" very interesting. I'm going to have to give this some more thought.

Attracting Good or Ill into Our Life with Our Thoughts

A really interesting concept is the idea that whatever we think, will come to us. It is called the law of attraction. "That which is like unto itself is drawn."

When we focus on positive things, we attract positive things. When we focus on negative things, we attract negative things.

Some examples of bringing in negatives:

1. All you can think about is how somebody is "a pain in the neck" or "a pain in the butt." Pretty soon, you've GOT a pain in your neck or a pain in your butt!

2. You constantly focus on your doctor appointments and your sicknesses. Pretty soon, you really ARE sick.

3. You constantly talk about how poor you are. Pretty soon, you really ARE poor!

Some examples of bringing in positives:

1. Your goal is to learn how to play the piano. You say to yourself, "I can do this. I am going to practice diligently at least X number of minutes every day. Whatever I work at long enough, I can do. Every day I am going to succeed a little more. I am going to share my successes with uplifting people. I am going to be a piano player." Pretty soon, you find interesting music to play, and you're playing it for your friends.

2. You want to have a good day tomorrow. So tonight you make a long list of all the things you're grateful for today. This gears your mind to pick out the good things of the day and forget the not-so-great ones that happened. Tomorrow morning, you say, "This is going to be a great day! I can handle anything that comes my way. I feel great. I am so happy to be alive. I am grateful for everything." You visualize and affirm a happy outcome, and it happens.

Norman Vincent Peale wrote: "...it is a fact that if you expect the best, you are given a strange kind of power to create the conditions that product the result you want."

To get exactly what you want, do this:

1. Decide exactly what you want.

2. Strongly believe that you will get it.

3. Be a major player in making it happen.

4. Accept it wholeheartedly when it comes.

William James, a psychologist, said, "The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."

"Mind is the master power that molds and makes, and man is mind and ever more he takes, the tool of thought, and shaping what he wills; builds a thousand joys, a thousand ills. He thinks in secret and it comes to pass. Environment is but a looking glass." James Allen

Hurray - Tooth Fillings to Be a Thing of the Past!

Scientists are experimenting with ways to regenerate decayed teeth. Once they have perfected the technique of implanting crystals into cavities, fillings will be a thing of the past. Halleluyah!

Enamel and dentin (which are the materials that make teeth strong) will be regrown from these crystals. Dentists will still have to spot decay early in order to remineralize the tooth, but signs point to it actually happening, not too far in the future. Don't you think that's awesome?

This work is being done by Professor Sally Marshall, who is leading the research at the University of California at San Francisco.

In the meantime, remember that sugary foods produce acids that demineralise the enamel coating of our teeth. This allows bacteria to break through to the dentin inside our teeth. So I ask you, why eat or drink sugar? If you simply must drink soda, drink it all at once; don't sip it and let it stay on your teeth.

They say that our teeth are a lot like our bones; if we have poor teeth, we probably have poor bones, too.

Those metal fillings in our mouths have been poisoning us since they started using them in the 1840's. I had mine taken out and haven't regretted it. How much bettter to not get them at all.

I was talking with a guy I met at the airport who was big into essential oils. He said he has been successful in helping several people avoid root canals by having them apply essential oils around their afflicted teeth. He told people to use oregano, clove, and thyme oils diluted 50/50 with a carrier oil (they used Young Living's V-6 oil) and to use a Q-tip to apply to the affected area of the gum. I didn't think people could avoid root canals???

My daughter also told me about a woman who avoided a root canal by having her chiropractor adjust her teeth. I'd never heard of such a thing.

They say that it is actually better for people to have a tooth pulled than to have a root canal done. I guess when we chew something, the teeth send some kind of electrical impulses back and forth and tell the body where to send the nutrients that are being processed. (The genius of the intricacies of the human body never fail to astound me).

At any rate, I am glad they're working on this new technique, and can hardly wait to never be drilled upon again.

The Gnats Didn't Like Me Tonight

I was standing outdoors with a group of my friends tonight. They were quite annoyed at the gnats swarming around their faces. But I was astonished to note that, for the first time in my life, the gnats were leaving me completely alone! They would come by, and then keep moving.
My friends would put their faces close to mine to try to get away from them. We experimented by trading places a few times and the gnats always bothered them but left me alone.

I kind of liked this experiment!

There are only two reasons I can see for this happening, althought I'm not sure which one applies. One thing I've done differently is that I've used quite a lot of essential oils lately. (Putting a couple drops of oregano oil on my feet before going to bed at night, putting lemon oil in my mop water, etc.) The other thing I've done differently is that I've been eating a lot of garlic lately. Which do you think might have something to do with it? I have a feeling that one of these things is why the bugs left me alone tonight. COOL!

A Glass of Fresh Juice Keeps the Alzheimer's Away

In a 9-year study done at Vanderbilt University on nearly 2000 seniors, it was found that drinking at least 3 servings of fresh vegetable or fruit juice a week were 75% less likely to have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's than their peers. This study was published in the American Journal of Medicine.

I don't know about you, but this makes me want to start juicing.

Body "Frequency" Determines Health or Disease

We All Have a Frequency - We're Electrical Beings
Did you know that all human beings have a measurable electrical energy flow and a "frequency"? Human cells have an electrical voltage. ("Frequency" is the measurable rate of electrical energy flow that is constant between any two points). Practically everything has a frequency.

When Our Frequency Drops, Our Immune System is Compromised
A healthy human body has a frequency of 62 to 72 MHz. When frequency drops, the immune system is compromised.

(Now you'll have to excuse my incomplete knowledge of Hertz and Megahertz. I have a feeling sometimes people making lists use "Hz" and "Mhz" interchangeably. So please do your own research; if you have more in-depth knowledge on this point, please share it with me).

Specific Diseases Have Frequencies:
Under 62 MHz - human cells begin to mutate
58-60 MHz - disease begins, cold and flu symptoms appear
55 MHz - Viral infections and diseases like Candida take hold
52 MHz - Epstein Barr
48 MHz - Cancer, tissue breakdown from disease
20 MHz - Death begins

What We Eat and Where We Live Affects Our Frequency
Healthy frequency is lowered by many pollutants. And if we only eat canned, processed and frozen food, we're probably in trouble. We've got to get something with LIFE in it if we want to really BE ALIVE!

A List of Frequencies of Foods, Herbs & Essential Oils:
Processed food - 0
Canned food - 0
Frozen foods - 0
Fresh produce - up to 15 MHz
Dry herbs - 12-22 MHz
Fresh herbs - 12-27 MHz
Essential oils - 52-320 MHz

Frequencies Needed by Body Parts to Function Normally:
Normal brain frequency (head) 6:00 am to 6:00 pm - 70-78 MHz
Brain frequency at 80-82 MHz - indicates a genius
Healthy body (neck down) 6:00 am to 6:00 pm - 62-68 MHz
Thyroid and Parathyroid glands - 62-68 MHz
Thymus Gland - 65-68 MHz
Heart - 67-70 MHz
Lungs - 58-65 MHz
Liver - 55-60 MHz
Pancreas - 60-80 MHz
Stomach - 58-65 MHz
Ascending Colon - 58-60 MHz
Descending Colon - 58-63 MHz
Bone Frequency - 38 -43 MHz

Frequency Can Drop Quickly
I heard about this at a New Sun seminar. In a study, doctors took two healthy young men with a body frequency of 66. One held a cup of coffee, and his frequency dropped to 58 in 3 seconds. The other young man drank coffee and his frequency dropped to 52 in 3 seconds. It took three days for the frequency of the coffee-drinker to return to normal. The man who just held the coffee was given certain essential oils to breathe and his frequency went back up in 21 seconds. (See paragraph on essential oils, below) What this tells me is that the body responds when we eat or drink something that it instinctively knows is not good for us.

If We Have Low Frequency, Watch Out...:
If we have low frequency, we probably have a pH imbalance.
We're more likely to be invaded by pathogenic frequencies (including anthrax, plagues, etc.)
Positive beneficial bacterial frequencies are higher.

We Can Raise or Lower our Frequency with our Thoughts
According to clinical studies, negative thoughts lower frequency by 12 MHz.
Positive thoughts raise frequency by 10 MHz.
Prayer and meditation raise the body's frequency by 15 MHz.
How long does this change last? Maybe it depends on how long we keep doing it, or what our usual frame of mind is.

We Can Raise our Frequency with Essential Oils
Have you ever heard of essential oils? Pure essential oils are made from, basically, the essence of plants. Sometimes one whole plant is used to make one drop of essential oil. Essential oils have very high frequencies; actually, the highest frequencies known to man. When applied to or inhaled by the body, they elevate the body's frequency. A drop of essential oil put on the soles of the feet is absorbed within 21 seconds and stays in the body for up to 8 hours. Essential oils actually create an environment in which disease, viruses, funguses, bacteria and other things can't live. (See study on coffee above)

Dr. Rife and His Frequency Generator
In the 1920's, Royal Raymond Rife, M.D., developed a high-powered microscope that could magnify objects almost 1,500 times, which allowed him to see viruses, bacteria, parasites, toxins, and other things in the blood. He developed a “frequency generator” which generated different electrical frequencies which could be passed through diseased parts of the human body.

Certain Frequencies Actually Stopped Disease in its Tracks
Doctors have known for over a hundred years that electrical currents passed through a wound or broken bone will greatly accelerate the healing process. Rife discovered that certain frequencies could prevent disease from developing, and other frequencies would destroy disease. Substances with higher frequency could destroy diseases of a lower frequency.

Dr. Rife's Cancer Cure - in the 1920's, 1930's, and 1940's!
According to history, Dr. Rife cured 86.5% of the cases that came to him, adjusted his technology and cured the other 13.5%. That means he cured 100% of the cancer cases that came to him.
This means that Dr. Rife discovered a way to cure cancer way back when! Where is that technology now?

How We Can Apply This Knowledge of Frequencies
In practical terms this means that we can do a lot to prevent disease in our own life.
We need to concentrate on eating fresh, living food.
Now would be a great time to grow a garden!
We need to think good, positive thoughts.
Time to dig out those Norman Vincent Peale books that I loved as a kid.
Good, PURE, essential oils will do us a world of good.
New Sun and Young Living oils are very high quality.
Think about signing up as a distributor and take advantage of better prices.
I did - you can even sign up under me!
My husband died of cancer in 2002. I remarried; my husband's wife also died of cancer.
Sure wish I'd known then what I know now.
Maybe we can ask ourselves why Dr. Rife's technology has been vilified and labeled as quackery when it actually worked.

For More Information, Look Up:
The book The Body Electric by Dr. Robert O. Becker
Bruce Tainio of Tainio Technology - developed the world's first frequency monitor
Dr. Royal Rife's study of frequencies and his cancer cure
Bjorn Nordenstrom (Stockholm, Sweden radiologist) - the book Biologically Closed Circuits

Diseases Can Be Cured

I believe that many diseases can be cured. I was cured of arthritis about 20 years ago. My sixth child was 4 months old. I had been having a problem with a knee that kept swelling. A specialist told me to have surgery, so I did. I woke up two weeks later feeling like I'd slept on rocks.

Unfortunately, this feeling didn't go away. I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and told that there was no cause and no cure and that they would experiment with drugs to make me feel comfortable.

They told me that I would have to stop nursing my baby, of course. Well, I figured that I had my whole life to take drugs and that my baby was too young for that. Did the doctors who took my money even care? I never heard from them again, at any rate.

I crawled up the steps of an iridologist's house and was told that my blood was too acidic and needed to become more alkaline. I was given a list of foods I could eat and a list of foods I couldn't eat. I was so weak I couldn't even push a grocery cart. I thought maybe if I leaned on it I could make it roll, but that didn't work very well.

For three months, I was not to eat the following: anything processed, any dairy, or any meat. Was there anything left I actually COULD eat? Yes, I could eat any vegetable, especially celery and romaine lettuce, and any alkaline fruit, especially bananas and pineapple. Oh joy.

My kids took over at the grocery store and at my request piled our cart with green vegetables. We went home and just looked at each other. How were we supposed to eat this stuff? We had no idea what to do with it. Everything we learned, we learned the hard way.

I just did the best I could. I didn't give up everything, and it probably took longer than it would've, but following that list was one of the hardest things I've ever done.

After an extremely painful year and a half, I am glad to say that I walked away from arthritis with NO MORE PAIN! Now twenty years later, that baby grew up and just got married, and I never gave a thought to the fact that I had been arthritis-free for many years.

I was so glad to learn that arthritis is not an incurable disease. I think that perhaps God does not necessarily want us to spend our lives in pain. But He lets us decide what type of lifestyle we want to live.

If we choose to eat healthy food, to go to bed early and get up early, to speak loving words, and to participate in other healthy practices, we will lead healthier and happier lives than if we do otherwise.

If we don't know that we shouldn't eat devitalized, irradiated and unhealthy foods, keep a cell phone held to our head everyday, get stressed out, think negative thoughts, or any number of other sometimes unhealthy things, we will pay for it in the end and not even know how it happened.

I am so glad to be traveling toward a happier and healthier way of life. I invite everyone to join me and teach me what they know, too.

Poem with a Good Attitude

Blessed are they who are pleasant to live with—
Blessed are they who sing in the morning;
Whose faces have smiles for their early adorning;
Who come down to breakfast companioned by cheer;
Who don't dwell on troubles or entertain fear;
Whose eyes smile forth bravely; whose lips curve to say:
"Life, I salute you! Good morning, new day!"
Blessed are they who are pleasant to live with—
Blessed are they who treat one another,
Though merely a sister, a father or brother,
With the very same courtesy they would extend
To a casual acquaintance or dearly loved friend;
Who choose for the telling encouraging things;
Who choke back the bitter, the sharp word that stings;
Who bestow love on others throughout the long day—
Pleasant to live with and blessed are they.
(From the book, SILKEN THREADS by Wilhelmina Stitch)

Dr. Emoto's Experiments

Have you read about Dr. Emoto and his incredible experiments with water? He exposed water samples to sound, music, words, and prayer and it's simply fantastic what he discovered. He took a pure water sample and took pictures of it with a special microscope. It showed beautiful hexagonal crystal shapes. Different waters were found to have different shapes of crystals, or none at all.

He took a polluted water sample: it was a murky blob of water. He took that polluted water sample and had a Buddhist priest pray over it. It became beautiful, like the pure water! This teaches us that prayer makes a difference.

He exposed distilled water samples to various types of music and found that harmonic music such as folk music and classical music creates beautiful crystal shapes, and that these, exposed to a heavy beat or heavy metal, became conelike and distorted. What does this tell us about what we should listen to, to be healthy?

He went further and taped words to the glass containing water samples and found that WORDS THEMSELVES affected the water. It didn't make a difference whether the person putting the words on the glasses knew what the words meant - in any language, the words themselves made a difference!

"Love" and "Thank you" made beautiful shapes. "You make me sick, I will kill you" made an ugly amoeba-like blob. The words "Love and gratitude" made the most exquisitely shaped crystal. You can see these and read the details for yourself. Just google Dr. Emoto's name.

Pure thought, directed even across the world, affected water samples, and, I believe, affected them instantaneously. When we praying over our food, this pure thought directed toward the food can actually change the makeup of our food. Is this not a fantastic concept?

Just think: our bodies are 70% water, and the earth is 70% water, too. Our thoughts can affect our cells, and our thoughts can affect the cells of others. No wonder people who are prayed for improve faster than people who aren't. Just think what a difference it would make if we prayed more, for ourselves, for our friends, for our earth...

No wonder we are told to pray for our enemies! Just think what that does - it not only humbles us, but it changes them! Wow!