Health Amplified: Conversion

Conversion:

Why are many people converting to a gluten free, dairy free diet? More and more people are suffering with allergies and intolerances. Is it just a fad that will pass or do we need to make some serious changes?

The Bible mentions milk, wheat and honey on numerous occasions. That’s dairy and gluten! We all know that raw honey is good for us, but the words “gluten free” and “dairy free” are becoming household names. Let’s push honey aside a bit and focus on dairy and wheat.

I don’t think that God would categorise milk and wheat as a place of abundance, blessing, nourishment and fertility, if He intended it to make His children sick. So something happened between Biblical times and 2020.

Factors influencing milk and wheat:

· Pesticides.

· Bleaching of wheat.

· Separation of the grain structure.

· Manipulation and modification of the gene strands (GMO)

· Antibiotics in the animals.

· Growth hormones.

· Type of feed for the animals.

· Processing and pasteurization (enzymes which aid digestion of the milk are destroyed.)

· Fear, anxiety and stress. (This causes disruption of digestion in your gut)

What did milk and wheat look like in its original form? Clean raw milk from grass-fed, pastured animals may provide many health promoting nutrients. Most of this might be lost due to modern day technology.

In the book “Everyday life in the Old Testament Times”, E.W. Heaton writes about beverages used by the Israelites. Quote; “Since water was scarce and not very palatable, a good deal of milk as drunk. It came from goats and sheep. Hebrew has a word for fresh milk, but in the climate of Palestine, it cannot have been used as much as another term meaning sour milk and curds. As soon as the fresh milk was put into the goat-skin bottle, it thickened slightly and went sour. All the better, it was thought, for quenching the thirst.”

Health experts say that the answer is beta-casein. This is a protein found in cow’s milk and there are two types: A1 and A2. Most people who are intolerant to cow’s milk are sensitive to A1 beta-casein and lack the ability to digest it. A1 is apparently highly inflammatory for many people, which can lead to leaky gut syndrome. What do you think about this theory?

Did people in Biblical times drink sheep-, goat-, camel- or cow’s milk? Goat’s milk is more easily digested than other animal’s milk. It is the closest in composition to human breast milk. Certain studies that were done concluded that humans stop producing a specific enzyme to digest the milk after weaning. So are we not supposed to drink animal milk even if it was mentioned and consumed in the Biblical times?

On the other hand, wheat was eaten in its most raw form. Kernels where crushed and made into a flour and the chaff s blown away by the wind. That means the grain’s oil was still available for people to utelise. These days the oil is removed to prevent rancidity of the product. The grain oil aids our body’s cell metabolism, feeding and nourishing the cell walls. This enables toxins to exit your cells, and nutrients to enter your cells. Sufficient energy is then made available to our bodies to use. Today’s processing destructures the entire grain, separating it into many pieces, and then assembles it to create a variety of wheat flours and products.

Solomon in the Bible was seen as the wisest man that ever lived, and received wisdom and understanding from God. 1 Kings 5:11 says that Solomon gave Hiram 20 000 kors of wheat as food for his household every year, and 2 kors of beaten oil (pressed olive oil). I don’t personally think that he would have blessed someone and tried to kill them with so much wheat at the same time!?

Exodus 29:2 “…and unleavened bread and unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil, you shall make them with fine wheat flour.”

Deuteronomy 8:7,8 “For the Lord your God is bringing you into a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills, a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey.”

Psalm 81:16 “But you would be fed with the finest of wheat; with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”

Ezekiel 4:9 “But as for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet and spelt, put them in one vessel and make them into a bread for yourself, you shall eat it…”

Deuteronomy 32:13,14 “He made him ride on high places of the earth, and he ate the produce of the field, and He made him suck honey from the rock, and oil from the flinty rock, curds of the cows, and milk of the flock, with fat of the lambs, and rams, the breed of the Bashon, and goats. With the finest of wheat…”

Judges 4:19 “I’m thirsty”, he said. “Please give me some water”. She opened a skin of milk , gave him a drink and covered him up.

Proverbs 27:27 “You will have plenty of goat’s milk to feed you and your family and to nourish your servant girls.”

If we want to stay healthy, we are going to have to convert to plant based milks or have a cow or a goat in our backyards in the near future. An option is resorting to stoneground flour and learning how to bake your own breads if you want to eat bread.

The same conversion is necessary when it comes to your skin care products. Are you willing to convert back to products that contain raw, organic ingredients that may contain beneficial essential oils? Or do you want to stay with chemically laden, overly processed ingredients with a fragrances and a hint of essential oils? My answer is, get the product closest to its God given state. It will be like food for your skin!

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