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4)  When we call a diet an “eating plan” or “lifestyle change” people are convinced that it’s not a diet.  If the diet thinking is still the same you are still in bondage.










As a believer, am I willing to follow Paul’s admonition in Romans 12:2?
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As a believer, are you putting your hope in anything other than the truth of God? 


It’s common knowledge that diets don’t work--yet their popularity continues.  There are                      4 reasons, and 4 questions for believers:


1)  Diets offer false hope to people who know they don’t work, but hope this time it will. 













“Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.  Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is-his good, pleasing and perfect will.”





















This has been a Nutrition Bite with Registered Dietitian Diane Preves. 
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Christians & Popular Diets


Welcome to Nutrition Bites
with Registered Dietitian Diane Preves, developer of the 10-week N.E.W. LIFE program,   author of Restoring the Blessing and Diet Book Reviews.
2)  Diets appeal to a “short-sighted mentality”.  We are a nation with an appetite for immediate gratification, with little or no regard for consequences.  Parents succumb to materialism as children are sacrificed.  Adultery abounds with little regard for marriage and children.  Gluttony is rampant while health takes a back seat.  Greed overrode common sense for many home buyers and mortgage lenders and millions of Americans lost their homes.  Short-sighted pleasures of all kinds are available from erotic television and movie viewing to addictions such as pornography and gambling.  Diets appeal to a short-sighted society since the weight will come off, but with no regard to long-term weight and health. 
As a believer, do you check dietary advice through the lens of the Holy Spirit?  Are you walking in the Spirit with fruits of patience and self-control, or looking for a quick fix?
3)  A third reason why diets remain popular is that people are confident in new diets when             doctor-authors give legitimacy by “educating” the public with scientific explanations.
As a believer, am I operating in the discernment of the Holy Spirit?  Am I aware “where the doctor is coming from” spiritually when he espouses evolution?  Do I even care?