ARTICLES RELATED TO FAITH BASED DIETS
Praise the Lord and pass the devil's food cake. Doughnuts after church services. Cheesecake at the temple. Spaghetti dinners in the parish hall. Fried chicken for the Sunday potluck. Pastries to help break the Ramadan fast.....A 1998 Purdue University study found that religious people were more overweight than non-religious people. Though the problem cut across all faiths, Baptists were the heaviest, with Jews, Muslims and Buddhists the least overweight....
Christians are selling their faith, from coffee mugs to games to scripture mints. Retailers like Wal-Mart are welcoming them and pushing their merchandise. hrist-based diets alone have generated tens of millions of dollars: Body by God, What Would Jesus Eat?, Lose it for Life, The Maker's Diet. The author of the latter....
Faith-based diets are growing in popularity. A local woman developed a Bible-based weight-loss program. But are we talking literally eating what the disciples ate? Not necessarily so. "What I discovered were these techniques for overcoming temptation that work as well today as they worked then. They've just been forgotten about," Fowler said.....
Christian-based diets are catching on in the Chippewa Valley. One of the newest books on the subject is even on the national best-seller list.
Dilts believes God led her to a new approach grounded in Christian teaching, less concerned with dieting and girth control than a whole new approach to life. "I pictured a Christian Weight Watchers," recalls the mother of two. "I really battled with God. I said, 'You plan it.' He said, 'No, you do it.' "...
