I cannot eat junk food or dessert.

[missmuffet]

2 hours ago, ayin jade said:

I was programed from an early age to eat raw vegies and fruit. Candy was considered a rare treat. We never ate dessert either. 

That is a very healthy choice for a parent....but do you think that the child who was denied sweets is going to crave it more as an adult?

[Starise]

8 minutes ago, missmuffet said:

Not neccessarily. Everyone has the same pancreas. Everyone is at risk. The lab test A1C will tell you if you are at risk of diabetes.

I'm thinking more generally of older people compared to younger people. The older you get the the more the body seems to have trouble dealing with sugar.

I can remember eating two snickers bars one right after the other when I was 19. No way that wouldn't affect me now.

[Sower]

2 hours ago, ayin jade said:

I was programed from an early age to eat raw vegies and fruit. Candy was considered a rare treat. We never ate dessert either. 

You me and everybody I knew. "Clean your plate", and the poor starving Chinese kids lecture) A 'sweet' treat was someones annual birthday with cake and home made ice cream, and that was a maybe.
The only candy we got was when we found a soda/beer bottle and cashed them in for 2 cents. I used to walk home from school and ck out possible sources of loose lost coin. I would stop at every soda/candy machine and telephone booth and have a stick to poke under the machine hoping to find a nickle or dime that someone dropped and just left it. I could often clean up and would stop at the bakery and put my dime down and get a "cold" chocolate Eclair. Man o man o man, was it delicious. I guarantee those occasional sweet treat created one fantastic appreciation of a rare candy, and to use my God given brain to find and get coins others wouldn't stoop for. 

[missmuffet]

1 minute ago, Starise said:

I'm thinking more generally of older people compared to younger people. The older you get the the more the body seems to have trouble dealing with sugar.

I can remember eating two snickers bars one right after the other when I was 19. No way that wouldn't affect me now.

At any age too much sugar is not good. It is addictive and is not healthy. I am not saying cut sugar out of your diet totally. I am just saying eat it in moderation. 

[missmuffet]

1 minute ago, Sower said:

You me and everybody I knew. "Clean your plate", and the poor starving Chinese kids lecture) A 'sweet' treat was someones annual birthday with cake and home made ice cream, and that was a maybe.
The only candy we got was when we found a soda/beer bottle and cashed them in for 2 cents. I used to walk home from school and ck out possible sources of loose lost coin. I would stop at every soda/candy machine and telephone booth and have a stick to poke under the machine hoping to find a nickle or dime that someone dropped and just left it. I could often clean up and would stop at the bakery and put my dime down and get a "cold" chocolate Eclair. Man o man o man, was it delicious. I guarantee those occasional sweet treat created one fantastic appreciation of a rare candy, and to use my God given brain to find and get coins others wouldn't stoop for. 

The worse thing a parent can do is to pile food up on their children's plate and then tell them they have to eat it all. It causes obesity. Another bad thing a parent can do is to force their children to eat something they hate "you can not leave the table until you finish your spinach" even though they hate spinach. If they did not do that it allows that child to grow up and maybe evenually like spinach. But it is a psychological thing. That child may hate spinach the rest of their life. 

[ayin jade]

34 minutes ago, missmuffet said:

That is a very healthy choice for a parent....but do you think that the child who was denied sweets is going to crave it more as an adult?

I crave vegies and fruit more than candy.

 

However I caved in today and had a donut. 

[Sower]

47 minutes ago, missmuffet said:

The worse thing a parent can do is to pile food up on their children's plate and then tell them they have to eat it all. It causes obesity. Another bad thing a parent can do is to force their children to eat something they hate "you can not leave the table until you finish your spinach" even though they hate spinach. If they did not do that it allows that child to grow up and maybe evenually like spinach. But it is a psychological thing. That child may hate spinach the rest of their life. 

Take what you want.
Eat what you take!

[TheBlade]

19 hours ago, Wayne222 said:

      I always loved donuts and coffee. I always like seven layer chocolate cake. I loved potato chips and dip with soda pop. I really loved ice cream ha ha. Does anyone think it's spiritual wrong to eat such foods since it's harmful to the body ?

Wayne I don't know you but I rebuke this in Jesus name haha (just playing). Man you better be wrong. I have like 16 frozen. I take maybe one out each day.  Love Ice Cream but have not had it in awhile. I think if one over does this duh on anything. Coffee..love coffee, Tea. Never had for ME a witness in my spirit that I should stop. 

Maybe God know something about us that we don't and sees something coming we don't and if we (the one Hes dealing with) stop it.. then whats coming will not happen. I don't know lol

[Wayne222]

13 hours ago, Marathoner said:

If we are in a position to exercise choice in the matter, my friend, then I agree that it makes perfect sense to eat sensibly. No question about that! For years I labored under the sun looking after my adopted mother's greenhouse and gardens, and also shepherding her livestock. Nothing can possibly compare to the fruits of our labor when that fruit adorns the table, and the fact that we accomplished this in the high desert is nothing less than astonishing. She started it on her own and when I arrived, her dream of an oasis of green in an unforgiving land became reality. But this is an ideal, not necessarily a reality for us all. I think what you're doing is great! It's certainly better for you than living on burgers and donuts. 

I've never asked the Lord for healing because I'm content with my lot in this life, so I can't say that I identify with that part of your post. Whatever befalls me is His will and if there are consequences to how I live or what I've suffered, I accept this knowing it's my place. I don't ask Him to rescue me from anything. I only ask the Lord for the strength to endure whatever comes. Therefore, when it pleased the Lord to restore my legs which were affected by muscular dystrophy (they were getting progressively weaker), I was rendered speechless by what He had done. I'm still reeling because I never once asked Him to do such a thing. My legs are strong because of Him!

I never ask for healing, brother. Whatever the Lord does, He does so because it pleases Him. And He has done so much for my sake that I don't dare ask Him for a single thing. Why should I? God gives me what I need, no more and no less.  

I think it actually pleases God our Father when we asked for our needs. Jesus said ask in his name. I think it's humble to admit need and ask. But you have a good heart brother.

[missmuffet]

1 hour ago, Sower said:

Take what you want.
Eat what you take!

But if a parent piles food on a child's plate and knows that some of that food is what they hate then they are being controlling and not very good parent. It is different with an adult.