I’m honored to be featured at The Local Cook’s Food and Faith Challenge today, writing on the connection between Faith in God and our health.  Here are a few excerpts from my post:

Certainly this God who cares for the sparrow cares for our health. He wants our bodies to be proper temples of the Holy Spirit… The most fascinating fact I’ve learned lately is the powerful connection between the gut and the mind. Did you know that 70% of your immune system is in your gut, along with more neurons than your spinal cord.? (source)

It’s like God wrote a secret code message to the scientists of our day when He created the world: “By the way, now that you’ve figured out how everything microscopic works, please take note that what people eat affects their health! And be thoughtful about it, will ya?” Actually, I don’t think the Lord would use exclamation points. That would be my influence, and one of many reasons He didn’t inspire me to write down any of His Scripture.

and…

The Many Sides of Eating

Eating is also not something that humans do in isolation, neither physically nor figuratively. Eating is an important form of community, and some theorize that it is just that, the community aspect of meal time, that makes eaters either healthy or unhealthy.

Folks in the scientific world have dubbed the superior health of the French people, in spite of their diet heavy in saturated fat and white flour, the “French paradox”. There are as many theories about the answer to that paradox as there are people trying to figure it out, but one possibility is that the French eat slowly, with friends and family, and not to excess. The French do not say, “I am full,” but rather, “I have no more hunger.” When we Americans are expected to eat until we are full, perhaps we’re destining ourselves to obesity!

Read the rest at “Food and Faith Challenge: Health”.

If you’ve got a baby shower – or better yet, a baby! – coming up anytime this spring, I’ve got the perfect gift idea:  soft-soled, handmade leather baby shoes that are as cute as a button!   Bugaloo is having a sale: All shoes $14.99, plus they just unveiled new onesies with the same doggone cute patterns.

Don’t forget to get in on the truly fabulous free lotions offered in this week’s Spring Cleaning: Get the Junk Out! Carnival giveaway.  You can win one of two lotion options here.

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