By Bob McCauley, ND
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I received many comments on my blog about Paula Deen’s announcement that she had diabetes. Several were e-mailed to me directly and defended Paula Deen, and basically told me to leave her alone. Below is a typical comment that I received, and my response to one of them.
Comment:
The U.S can easily pick up a new ally or casually discard a trusted one. A person’s diet is not so important as his/her’s heart. Everyone will die sooner or later. So what living ten more years? Does it make any difference to the universe? Isn’t it more important as to how a person be remembered by people?
Here is my reply to her:
Sharon:
Thanks for your comments. You raise some intriguing ideas in your comments about my Paula Deen blog earlier this week. A person’s heart is important, however Great Health is not as much about longevity as it is quality of health day to day. Putting the right things in our body that are provided to us by nature is honoring the Temple that God has given us.
Yes, we will all die, and I believe that God will take us when He decides we are ready, and of course the healthiest diet in the world will not prevent or change that. However, while I am waiting for my time I will live on the foods that God has provided to us so we can be healthy.
I am honored to care for my body, my Temple with things that belong in it and not just what I happen to like the taste of. I like the taste of many foods such as pizza and cookies but I do not eat them because when I do I am essentially putting trash inside my Temple. And it does make a difference to God how we treat our Temple, just like it makes a difference to Him whether we sin or not.
As we should abstain from doing wrong, love our neighbors and enemies alike, we should be true to God by honoring the Temple that he gave us, our body.
If Paula Deen wants to make a positive difference in the world she can give up her career of showing people how they can make really great tasting foods that poison the body, trash our Temple and ruin our health. She herself is an example of what happens when you eat the kinds of foods that she makes. She has known about her condition of diabetes for 3 years and chose to not say a word about it – that is until she settled a deal with a drug company to promote a drug that cures, handles, manages, and/or lessens diabetes. Actually I don’t know what the drug Victoza is supposed to do for the condition of diabetes, but I know drugs don’t work because they attempt to overcome the natural mechanisms of the body. Victoza, I am certain, is no different and drugs do not lead to health.
True health is only found in nature and I’m sure Paula Deen would say that she is “not about to give up her career and the taste of the foods that she loves” for a higher cause. And if she said it in front of her audience I am 100% positive she would get a big round of applause, perhaps a standing ovation.
In my opinion, we are not meant to live on Earth a few decades, eat the foods we like the taste of and then die from a disease that these foods will inevitably cause. Rather, we are meant to consume foods that nature provides to us in the condition they are provided to us, which is raw and not cooked. When we do so we avoid the diseases that nearly all of us believe is inevitable and we honor the Temple that God has given us, our body. It is a lesson that not only Paula Deen, but everyone should learn. And if Paula Deen did that she would be remembered as someone who is made a positive difference in people’s lives instead of introducing and addicting them them to foods that lead to disease.
Bob McCauley, ND
Thanx Bob, couldn’t have said it better myself
I am so with you on this. It’s not so much that in the past she may have lacked enlightenment as to what is right and what is wrong, she has now stepped over the line. Where in the begining of her career she just new that she liked to cook and share her good tasting recipes, she is now promoting ill health so she and the pharmaceutical company can profit. These are not the actions of a person filled with God’s light & goodness. For that kind of person would have taken a deep look at thier crisis and said “There must be a lesson to be learned from my illness. How can I learn it, change, and then help others to change?”
God’s light shines in all of us, some just brighter then others. How sad it is that she chooses to dim her source. But I am reminded that we are all here for our own lessons and come into this life at different stages of learning. I forgive her for what she is doing and like you will work harder at educating others to counter the negative energy she sends out.