In the first article on Biblical Diet, I mentioned a great source book that should be in every family library: The Maker’s Diet, by Dr. Jordan Rubin.
The following excerpt from Dr. Rubin’s book is intended to whet your appetite enough to make you want to get your own copy of the book, since it will make you seriously consider whether or not you should continue to indulge your appetite for the flesh of unclean animals:
Elmer Josephson . . . was a pastor, missionary, and cancer survivor. In his landmark volume God’s Key to Health and Happiness, he wrote:
“Some ask, why did the Lord make the unclean animals? They were created as scavengers. As a rule they are meat-eating animals that clean up anything that is left dead in the fields, etc. But scavengers were never created for human consumption. The flesh of the swine is said by many authorities to be the prime cause of much ill health, causing blood diseases, weakness of the stomach, liver troubles, eczema, consumption, tumors, cancer, etc.
“The scaleless fish and all shell fish including the oyster, clam, lobster, shrimp, etc., modern science discovers to be but lumps of devitalized and disease producing filth, because of inadequate excretion. These are the scavengers, the garbage containers of the waters and the seas.”
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Pork products in particular top the list of favorite foods for many. . . Some don’t even realize their favorite snacks or food items come from swine. The pig did not make the Creator’s list of ‘clean’ animals for very good reason. Clean animals that chew the cud have an alimentary canal and a secondary end receptacle. Essentially, they have three stomachs available to process and refine their clean, vegetation-based food into “flesh” in a process that takes more than twenty-four hours in general.
Pig or swine, on the other hand, never limit their diet to vegetation. They will eat anything they can find—including their own young and sick or dead pigs from the same pen.
Josephson claimed the pig’s single stomach arrangement was very simple in design and function and that it was combined with limited excretory organ system: “four hours after the pig has eaten his polluted swill and other putrid, offensive matter, man may eat the same [swill} second handed off the ribs of the pig.”
With impeccable logic, Josephson adds, “Did anything biologically happen to the swine [since Biblical times], or did the digestive tract of man have some kind of miracle transformation? No, the Bible, science and experience have all proven the contrary.
Regarding scavengers of the sea, we see media warnings about toxic crabs, clams, and oysters . . . Why? Scientists literally gauge the contaminate levels of our oceans, bays, rivers, and lakes by measuring the mercury and biological toxin levels in the flesh of crabs, clams, oysters, and lobsters.
Consider Dr. [Peter] Rothchild’s explanation of the toxic effects of what the Bible calls “unclean” foods:
Do not consume any meat of scavenger animals comprising pork, all shell fish varieties, skin fish which are scale-less fish, scavenger birds, snakes and most reptiles. The reason for this [biblical] prohibition is dual.
The first consists in that the meat of such animals is about ten times more perishable, difficult to preserve, than that of the allowed animals. Frequently people do not realize a piece of meat is already poisonously spoiled until they perceive the toxic symptoms . . . [and have already] ingested it.
The second reason consists in the scary fact that the . . . by-products that originate from digesting such scavenger meat are highly poisonous. We’re referring specifically to the so-called death enzymes, such as cadaverine, putrescine . . . these death enzymes are extraordinarily useful in nature. Without their assistance no flesh would revert to dust . . . they are extremely useful to break down a corpse, but terribly inconvenient in a living human body.
[From an unpublished book entitled The Art of Health]
Dr. Rothschild considered God as “the greatest master nutritionist of all times” who gave mankind an all-purpose diet more than 3000 years ago.
Our 3rd article will be on CLEAN animals, according to Leviticus 11. Information that’s good for the gut should be ingested in chewable digestible doses; hence this continuing series on the Biblical Diet. Actually, if you have a bible [any version/translation will do], go ahead and start reading Leviticus 11.
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