Welcome to Chapter 1 of the “Real Food Nutrition and Health Study!” Below are a couple of my favorite questions and my answers. I hope you’ll share the impressions you got from the reading here too!
Do you agree that we should shift our focus from nutrients to whole foods? Why or why not?
I do not agree. 
All joking aside, I agree. 
If we single out nutrients in a certain food, chances are, that nutrient doesn’t work by itself. It works together with other substances in the food to benefit your body. God put beta-carotene in the carrot along with all the other nutrients! He didn’t isolate it! So we should consume foods the way He put them together. We should trust the way He did things. He knows what He’s doing, after all!
Why should we prepare foods traditionally?
Well, traditionally prepared foods have been around forever. And the people back then were healthier than we are now! The people back then had time to figure out all the kinks in preparing food. So who should we trust? Your great-great-grandmother or the food industry who would lose billions and billions of dollars if they resorted to old methods? We should prepare foods the traditional way.
I enjoyed this lesson because… Well, because I enjoy learning something new! 
It was sort of hilarious reading about the ups and downs with eggs and butter. I came away with a new understanding of why the food industry doesn’t change. I knew that they would probably lose a lot of money, but it shocked me to see exactly how much. 
*steps off podium* Your turn! 
Visit my mom’s or sister’s blogs, where they also have discussions going for chapter 1!
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Hi Haniya,
My name is Annie and I am twelve years old. The thing that stood out to me the most in chapter 1 was how the scientists fell for ‘nutritionisim’, when really God designed things to work in unity as a whole. We also looked in the Bible for verses that spoke of unity and I believe that God designed even our food to work in unity.
Hi Annie! That is really great point!
Do you have the references for the Bible verses? I would love to look them up!
Hi Haniya,
Here are some really good verses about unity. Ephesians 4:16 (amplified version) says “for because of Him the whole body (the church, in all its various parts closely) joined and firmly knit together by the joints and ligaments with which it is supplied, when each part (with power adapted to its need) is working properly (in all its functions)grows to full mutirty, building itself up in love.
My mom showed me that Romans 1:20 says that God’s qualities are shown through His creation. Ephesians 4:16 makes me think of the carrot with all of its nutrients working together in the whole carrot.
My mom also shared with us that in the tower of Babel, Gen. 11:1-9 (esp. vs. 6) that God said since the people are one (in unity) and have one languge that nothing they purpose to do would be impossible for them. That tells me that unity is a powerful thing and my parents also told me that God doesn’t violate His own laws, so He had to confuse their languge…I think that unity is a law that God designed that works in many things.
My favorite verse about unity is Psalms 133:1.
P.S. My little sister Rinnah (21 months) LOVES to watch your video “kids at heart” and constantly says “again… again!” She also shakes her head like the goats do.
That makes sense about the Tower of Babel!
I’ve never thought of it that way before.
Aw, that’s sweet about your sister! I love it too!
Tell her hello!
I like Psalms 133:1 too. It was one of my memory verses at the end of the school year! Do you have memory verses? Right now I’m memorizing I Timothy 6:20: “O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding vane and profane babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called.” And then I Corinthians 4:2: “Moreover, it is required of stewards that a man be found faithful.”
The verse in Timothy is for my science! Can you tell? Both of those verses are from the KJV of the Bible.
Haniya
Hey Haniya,
I can’t believe it’s 2011 already!
My Sunday school teacher is having my class memorize Ephesians 6:10-18. Also my mom wrote verses on index cards & we closed our eyes & picked one; mine is Zephaniah 3:17 “The Lord your God in your midst, The Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing”. Today we also started a trial bible study by shpublishing.com. It is really fun
In the study we are memorizing Hebrews 4:12.
I have to go eat dinner. After we eat we might go sledding!
My mom let me subscribe to your blog!
-Annie
I know–I can’t either! And now it’s almost February! But time can go as fast as it likes because the quicker it goes, the quicker I get my braces off and that’s definitely a good thing.
That’s a cool idea for getting memory verses!
Ooh, fun! Did you?
~Haniya
We did go sledding with my Dad. That made it all the more fun!:D After that we went for a walk in the woods by our house. the creek in the woods was frozen,when we walked across it cracked and my sister, Abbie almost fell in. I’ll admit I was just a little scared in the dark woods, just a little;)
Abbie and I went sledding today,too. We tied two sleds together! Lots of fun!:D
TTYL
~Annie
Aww, that’s awesome!
I love it when my dad joins in too. 
Wow, she almost fell in?! That’s freaky… It reminds of Little Women, when Jo and Laurie were racing each other on ice skates and Amy fell in.
Yay! That sounds like a lot of fun. It hasn’t snowed hardly at all here–just in late November/early December. Weird! This winter and the last haven’t been good snow years. The winters before those were awesome though. We got 3 feet one year.
Haniya
Wow, 3 feet! We got about 3 inches. Last Tuesday & Wednesday it was almost 70 degrees. We were glad that it was getting warmer…then it had to snow today.
-Annie