LIVING LIFE TO THE FULL A GIFT TO BE CELEBRATED!

THE BREAD OF LIFE

Genesis 1:10, NKJV And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:11-13, NKJV Then God said, ‘Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree ...

Genesis 1:11-13, NKJV ...that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth’; and it was so.

Genesis 1:11-13, NKJV And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit,...

...whose seed is in itself according to its kind. Genesis 1:11-13, NKJV ...whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good...

...So the evening and the morning were the third day. Genesis 1:11-13, NKJV ...So the evening and the morning were the third day.

Genesis 1:27, NKJV So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

Genesis 1:29-30, NKJV And God said, ‘See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth,...

Genesis 1:29-30, NKJV ...and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. Also, to every beast of the earth,...

Genesis 1:29-30, NKJV ...to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life,...

I have given every green herb for food’; and it was so. Genesis 1:29-30, NKJV I have given every green herb for food’; and it was so.

Genesis 1:31-2:3, NKJV Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Genesis 1:31-2:3, NKJV Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished.

Genesis 1:31-2:3, NKJV And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day...

Genesis 1:31-2:3, NKJV ...from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it,...

Genesis 1:31-2:3, NKJV ...because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

Nutrients

Nutrients: Carbohydrates Proteins Fats Vitamins Fat soluble

Nutrients: Water soluble. Minerals. Trace minerals. Antioxidants and phytochemicals

Five essential food groups

Cereals and Grains

Fruits and Vegetables

Legumes, Nuts, and Seeds

Dairy and Eggs

Fats, Oils, Sweets, and Salt

USDA “Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2000” “Use plant foods as the foundation of your meals... Eating a variety of grains (especially whole-grains), fruits and vegetables is the basis of healthful eating.”

“Make half your plate fruits and vegetables.” USDA “Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010” “Make half your plate fruits and vegetables.”

Advantages of a vegetarian diet: Low in fat, particularly saturated fat No cholesterol (with a total vegetarian diet) High in dietary fiber

Advantages of a vegetarian diet: Low in refined sugar (need to avoid highly sweetened items, even if from plant foods

Advantages of a vegetarian diet: Contains rich sources of vitamins and minerals Contains high amounts of protective substances such as phytochemicals, antioxidants, etc.

Genesis 9:3, NKJV Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green herbs.

Child Guidance, page 384. E. G. White “It is a mistake to suppose that muscular strength depends on the use of animal food...”

Child Guidance, page 384. E. G. White “The needs of the system can be better supplied, and more vigorous health can be enjoyed without its use.”

Child Guidance, page 384. E. G. White “The grains, with fruits, nuts, and vegetables, contain all the nutritive properties necessary to make good blood.”

“These elements are not so well or so fully supplied by a flesh diet.” Child Guidance, page 384. E. G. White “These elements are not so well or so fully supplied by a flesh diet.”

Child Guidance, page 384. E. G. White “Had the use of flesh been essential to health and strength, animal food would have been included in the diet appointed man in the beginning”

Food choices Variety Quality Balance Moderation Avoidance

USDA, SuperTracker

Romans 14:16-18, NKJV Therefore do not let your good be spoken of as evil; for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking,...

...but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Romans 14:16-18, NKJV ...but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Romans 14:16-18, NKJV For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

Review and Herald, May 29, 1888 (see also, Medical Ministry, p. 269). “It is the desire and plan of Satan to bring in among us those who will go to great extremes—people of narrow minds,...”

Review and Herald, May 29, 1888 (see also, Medical Ministry, p. 269). “...who are critical and sharp, and very tenacious in holding their own conceptions of what the truth means.”

Review and Herald, May 29, 1888 (see also, Medical Ministry, p. 269). “They will be exacting, and will seek to enforce rigorous duties, and go to great lengths in matters of minor importance,...”

Review and Herald, May 29, 1888 (see also, Medical Ministry, p. 269). “...while they neglect the weightier matters of the law—judgment and mercy and the love of God.”

Review and Herald, May 29, 1888 (see also, Medical Ministry, p. 269). “Through the work of a few of this class of persons, the whole body of Sabbath keepers will be designated as bigoted, pharisaical, and fanatical.”

Review and Herald, May 29, 1888 (see also, Medical Ministry, p. 269). “The work of the truth, because of these workers, will be thought to be unworthy of notice.”

‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God’. Luke 4:4, NKJV ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God’.

LIVING LIFE TO THE FULL A GIFT TO BE CELEBRATED!