Hi Health Minded Friends,
Thank you for opening the note today. Hope you are all doing well.
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Covered Dish/ Nutrition Meetings!
Last week while talking excitedly about our up-coming parties…….I mean covered dish nutrition meetings, I mentioned the word “vegan” quite a lot. I fear that some folks may have gotten the wrong impression. Let me just say that the reason we are so strict with the ingredients at our covered dish/nutrition meetings is that meat eaters can eat vegan food but vegans can’t eat meat.
Although my family and I are mainly vegan food eaters, we do not teach that it is bad to eat animal products such as meat, fish and dairy. Biting a cow for the purpose of eating it is not a sin. In fact, some of the longest and healthiest living people in the world do in-deed eat meat, fish, eggs and dairy.
The problem with our American love affair with animal products is that we can eat too much at a time and we buy the food from the wrong sources.
If I were going to eat animal products, I would do like they do in the healthiest places in the world. I would either hunt the game myself, or buy from a hunter, or go to an organic farm, like, for instance, “Forks Farm”, which is on the links page of our website. I would likewise buy my dairy raw from an organic farm. There is a shop across from us, “Hilltop Meadow Farm”, at Hometown Farmers Market that sells raw organic dairy. I can even introduce you to our Mennonite friends, Lloyd and Ester, if you choose to visit them.
Raw and organic products from a cow is always much better when the cow is grass fed. You know that grass is where the raw protein and calcium is.
Another tip for long great health is building the daily meal around vegetables and starches or whole grains. If you insist on animal products, they should include only a couple ounces of the meal.
As they say, “Everything in moderation”. The problem is, how many of us can do just that, eat 2 ounces of venison with dinner????? I can just see me 15 years ago at my favorite meat restaurant asking the waiter, “May I have the 16 ounce prime rib in a 2 ounce size please? And, for dessert, I’ll have ice cream, but please hold most of it.
The doctor once told me when I was very ill that I can get away with eating 1 piece of cake a week for the rest of my life. Well, that didn’t last long. One became two, which became four. You know how it works. That is why I went cold turkey (please excuse the pun) when I weaned myself off all animal products. I haven’t eaten any animal in most of the last 12.5 years. I have no desire, even though I totally lusted after hamburgers, ice cream, and such until I was 44.
A friend of mine told me this morning that she just loves lobster tail and would like to have that once in a while. I told her “Go ahead, eat lobster tail occasionally.” It is having these rich foods 3 times a day that gets us Americans in trouble.
At the monthly classes we will be exploring paths to great health, prevention and healing of disease, youthful energy and longevity.
Not everyone has to be a vegan. Not everyone has to be a meat eater. It revolves around the quality of what we put into our bodies. It is how much we put into our bodies. As Fred Bisci would say, “it is more important what you don’t put in your body”.
Are we dealing with a serious disease that needs healing? There is a path. Do we want to prevent disease? There is a path.
The study of nutrition from nature and what it can do is absolutely fascinating. My mother used to say to me; “Mark, if everyone jumped off of the Brooklyn Bridge, would you follow them?”
Ladies and Gentlemen, we do not have to follow the masses to the fast food joints. We do not have to follow the masses to the hospitals. We do not have to follow the masses to the nursing homes. We do not have to follow the masses to an early grave.
Are you personally dealing with a disease, with weight problems, with brain fog? Come to these monthly classes and just see what happens. Someone who had been on his deathbed with the same so-called incurable disease that I had and recovered, told me there was a path and gave me some advice 13 years ago. Today I am 100% healed. I am not in remission. I am healed. I am not an Ulcerative Colitis survivor. I am healed. Praise God!!
The classes will be in Reading, Wilkes –Barre and Dorrance. Make the drive. It could change your life and the life you might touch at these meetings.
This Saturday at 2 pm, at the Blue House
Please bring a healthy snack to share. This week the class is all about the bees!!!!
For more info and directions call Mark or Dorothy at 570-401-1353 or 570-868-8172.
For what we are all about, our natural products and ordering, our professional website is: www.HallelujahHive.com
The Farmers Markets are open and we have many good SALES going on. Please come out.
Hope to see you at class and the markets,
Mark
“Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God-this is your spiritual act of worship. do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world…….” Romans 12:1&2
