Common Denominators of Great Diets
There are so many conflicting diets on the market which often do help people that it can get very confusing trying to determine what you should and should not eat. Are there some common denominators that run through the best ones, things that I should be sure to focus on? The answer is “yes.”
Which of the 10 Commandments Can You Break and No One Raises an Eyebrow?
Having recently suffered a heart attack because of stress, I decided I should research what the Bible says about Sabbath rest. Growing up on a dairy farm, we milked cows every Sunday. As a preacher, I preached every Sunday. However, in the story of creation God established the rhythm of six days of work and one day of rest.
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Ever So SLOWLY Learning About Blood Pressure
Four days after leaving the hospital from my heart bypass surgery, I met for the first time with a nurse practitioner at the office of my “functional medicine” MD, Dr. Jose Fernandez who was recommended to me by my chiropractor. She told us to purchase a $30 blood pressure monitor and check my blood pressure morning and evening. I did. You can also purchase one from Amazon.
I saw it steadily going down, which concerned me. So I called the hospital where the surgery was performed and talked to the head nurse on the floor I was on. She informed me the first of the two numbers given in a blood pressure test is the number to be concerned about and it should not go below 90 (I was still at 92.) The first number (systolic) is your blood pressure when the heart beats and pressure is exerted in the arteries, and the second number (diastolic) is blood pressure between each heartbeat when the heart is at rest and not pumping blood into the arteries.
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Drugs, Nutrition and the Lord
My first choice is always prayer and nutrition. I believe that if you give your body the right tools to work with, it has been designed by God to heal itself. The right tools include great nutrition. I also believe that, in a crisis situation, pharmaceuticals can be a good stopgap measure.
Causes of Heart Disease: Inflammation, Oxidation, Sugar and Stress
The information contained in this blog has been drawn from The Great Cholesterol Myth. I highly recommend this book. It is down-to-earth and easy to read.
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Biblical Truths Related to Heart Disease
Defining “heart” – Biblically speaking, “heart” is both the pump for your blood and the center of your soul or immaterial being. Just as your physical heart gives life to your physical body, your spiritual heart gives life to your spiritual body.
How Could I Have Been So Wrong?
I was 100% convinced that if I ate right, exercised, and didn’t drink or smoke, I had zero chance of ever having a heart attack. And yet I had one. How could I have made such a cataclysmic mistake? As a teacher of truth I was upset, angry and aghast that I held such a mistruth or half-truth. When I experienced chest pains, my wife had the presence of mind to give me a dropperful of Dr. Schulze’s “Cayenne” in some water, so my pains subsided and I walked into the urgent care facility 10 minutes later.
Ketogenic Diet - Part 4: Questions and Answers
See: Our diets over the years for an update about our current diet.
Well, I have received a lot of response to the three-part series I wrote on the ketogenic diet, so let me try to answer a number of questions that were posed to me.
Where Do I Find Expert Health Advice I Can Trust?
When something crops up healthwise in my life, and I want to find the most recent, trustworthy, natural and spiritual advice available which could help resolve the issue, where do I go? I don’t just want to Google the condition I have, as that will pull up all sorts of websites, some of which are untrustworthy and some of which are not offering natural solutions. What do I do?
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Ketogenic Diet for Weight Loss and Health - Part 3 of 4
See: Our diets over the years for an update about our current diet.
This is part three in a four-part series on the ketogenic diet. As we explored the ketogenic diet we had a re-awakened interest in fasting.
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