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Food for Thought:

A holy trinity of religious diet books is shouting out the praises of the Lord and healthy eating. While each book extols the benefits of a different diet, all are based on Biblical passages and pay homage to natural foods.

The Hallelujah Diet by the Rev. George Malkmus features a vegan eating plan that borrows from the foods eaten in the Garden of Eden (e.g., fruits, veggies, nuts and seeds). Drawing on the Book of Genesis, the diet bans all animal products, except for honey, and promotes an 80% raw diet.

What Would Jesus Eat? by Dr. Don Colbert encourages dieters to eat non-animal-derived “living” foods and to refrain from eating “dead” or processed foods.

Finally, Jordan S. Rubin’s The Maker’s Diet cites the Book of Leviticus as its source in advising readers to eat foods in their most organic and least processed form. One example of this is the author’s recommendation to drink raw, fermented milk rather than pasteurized milk. This has met with some controversy from nutrition experts who question the safety and viability of drinking unprocessed dairy products.