Everyone agrees good nutrition is very important for diabetics. What they do not agree on is what makes up good nutrition for diabetics.
How do we decide “truth” in matters of diet? If you grew up Adventist, your church school and Sabbath school teachers taught you that the Eden diet is “fruits, grains, and nuts.”1 “Then God said, ‘I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.’ And it was so” (Genesis 1:29-30).
God added vegetables after the Fall and permitted meat (“clean” meat, of course) after the Flood. You also learned that when God gave Peter a vision of unclean animals coming down in a sheet and he was told to “kill and eat,” it was symbolic; and it really meant that he was not to withhold the Gospel from the Gentiles. And somewhere in your church school or academy days, you may have heard that, while the Church permits “clean” meat, you will not be alive when Jesus comes and will not be translated [going to heaven without seeing death] at the Second Coming unless you are what we now call dietary vegan.
Today the term vegan means you also don’t eat honey or wear silk or leather or fur or play with a pigskin football! At NEWSTART® and the other high-carb low-/no-fat programs, the buzzword is “whole-foods plant-based” (WFPB). And they include honey as a permitted food. This is the reason we refer to these protocols as “dietary vegan” and not just “vegan.”
If you did not grow up Adventist and/or if you went to public school, you may have learned about the paleolithic era of pre-historic humans; and your teachers told you that our ancestors were hunters/gatherers, eating primarily meat and whatever grew wild, long before the time of agriculture and animal husbandry. So they did not eat grains or dairy products. And this is where the popular trend of paleo diets had its basis.
I’m not convinced that grains and legumes were part of the original diet in Eden. There was no death in Eden! But grains, for example wheat and oats, have to die in order to provide food. Legume plants also die in the field when farmers harvest their seeds (beans, peas, etc.). I could believe that Adam and Eve could have eaten above-ground vegetables, like beet greens and turnip greens, in the Garden, leaving the beetroot and turnip itself to remain in the ground as a live plant. Genesis 1:30 says that the birds and animals and “creeping things” had “every green plant” for food.
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