FLASH!!!
Before reading on, Please read this:
We Aren't
Getting Healthier and Living Longer
Why are Health, Wellness, and Eating Well a Part of Christian Simple Living?
Because it’s a basic part of our faith practice:
God cares about our health, our community’s health, and the health of
the His planet. Applying the principles of Christian simple living to
our diets and habits automatically improves our health by eliminating
bad eating and living habits in much the same way as the Old Testament
dietary laws helped our Jewish ancestors.
It is about loving those
around us. Failing to keep our bodies healthy puts a significant drain
on everyone else by increasing the number, duration, and seriousness of
our illnesses, which other people have to pay for through higher
insurance and medical payments or through higher taxes to pay for
Medicaid, Medicare, and the Children's Health Insurance Program as well
as
other safety-net programs.
When we keep ourselves in good health we need
fewer prescription drugs, doctor and hospital visits, and have less lost
time due to illness. By making the effort to stay healthy we don’t
become a drain on society by contributing to dramatically rising health
care costs, or the huge social disparities in health care that exist due
to our over-use of the health care system.
Being good stewards of God’s
world. Eating healthy foods is much better for the environment – what is
good for us to eat, happily also turns out to be good for the planet!
THE BIG ADDED BONUS:
living this way will make you feel and look
better than you ever have before.
You will:
- Be mentally sharper and look younger;
- Be more productive far longer,
- Become what God made you to be,
- Like yourself a lot more. It's hard to love others when you don't really love yourself!
Here is another issue where the dials
and gauges on our modern dashboards are indicating the same disastrous
trends often predicted in the Bible: Our self-interest is not in our
best interest - the science and our faith agree.
Research over the past
couple of decades has shown that our consumer lifestyle has had a major
negative impact on our health. Just as our desire for more and more
stuff has resulted in environmental devastation, it has also caused us
to eat lots of food that have made us fat, and has caused cancer, heart
disease, diabetes, and a host of other ills – not to mention becoming
physically quite lazy and badly out-of-shape. Our lifestyle is just as
devastating to our health as it is to the environment – it’s killing us!
Simple is better – less is more.
What We Can do to Get Healthy and Stay Well
Check out these four pages within our Health and
Wellness section:
Here's to your good health!
Puppetry for Christian living and simplicity
Please visit our collaborating organization, The New Community Project website:
www.newcommunityproject.org