Doctors Offer Their View Do the health laws of the Bible have a foundation in medical fact? Rex Russell, M.D., writes: As we look at modern science and nutrition, we will find that ... there is an amazing overlap between Gods original laws of clean and unclean and solid hygienic principles ... Scripture and medical research agree that modern lifestyles lived without reference to Gods laws and design shorten life and hasten death (What the Bible Says About Healthy Living, 1999, pp. 14, 16). Nutritionist David Meinz says that even though we may not understand all aspects of the biblical dietary laws, we would be wise to follow them. Much of the wisdom revealed in the Bible now makes sense to us from our modern perspective, he says, but should that mean we wont consider the areas that havent yet been scientifically proven? Weve only discovered that animal fat is bad for us in the last 50 years. To the Christian a century ago, the directive in Leviticus:3:17 It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood. to avoid animal fat made no sense at all. Yet its clear to us today. What if theres something in lobster thats harmful to our health? What if we dont discover what it is until 50 years from now? Do we require scientific proof before we give the Bible the benefit of the doubt? ( Eating by the Book, 1999, p. 226). Reginald Cherry, M.D., comments on why medical doctors and researchers have come to agree with the Bibles instruction not to eat fat. Why is this prohibition against fat so important for us? he asks. Over 53 percent of people in large industrialized countries die of heart disease. Heart disease is most commonly caused by fat deposits that build up in the arteries, often beginning in the teenage years ( The Bible Cure, 1998, p. 20).
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