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Leviticus 10:9, Numbers 6:3, Isaiah 5:22, I Corinthians 6:10, and Ephesians 5:18 encourage us to not drink wine nor strong drink.

I Corinthians 3:17 summarizes the importance of scriptural based health codes: “if any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy” and it teaches we are the temple of God and the temple will be destroyed if it is defiled.

I Timothy 4:3 Commands us to abstain from meats.

Deuteronomy 14:3-21 tells the children of Israel to not eat any abominable thing, and specifies what is appropriate and what is not.

TABLE 2. Biblical Health Admonitions

Scientifically the health code pattern is pretty much the same. Certainly over my life I have seen the introduction of scientific studies on the impact of tobacco and alcohol. It seems like everyone who drinks coffee or tea acknowledges, without prompting, how addictive these drinks are. It seems obvious that we should each establish or adopt a health code for our selves. Especially when information, or patterns from both axes of the science-religion matrix point to the same truths.

It is often very hard to incorporate obvious truths into our personal lives. I struggle with over eating. The health code described above has never been an issue for me. I remember sitting in a bar at the beach in Dakar, Senegal in 1978, where the only thing safe for westerner’s to drink was boiled or bottled, and passing on available drinks because of the health code. My companion said, “Roice, have a beer. It’s the only thing safe to drink and no one will know.” My response was, “I will know, and I’m someone, and God will know, an he is someone.” I remember being challenged to gambei (drink a toast) with “the white one” (Mauti, or pure alcohol) at the head table in front of about 200 colleagues at a banquet in The Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China in about 1986. I just laughed and told our host he already knew my toast with orange soda was more sincere than most of others with alcohol. These interactions with other scientists provide a means to, almost daily, bear a subtle testimony of my faith.

However, when it comes to controlling the amount of food I put in my mouth, it has been a challenge. I think many of us are programmed to eat when we are sad or disappointed or angry or alone or hurt or bored or etc. The last couple of years I have strived to better recognize recognize how much I eat by counting the number of swallows of water, fruit, vegetables, protein, dairy, breads & starches, and sugar I eat each day. The graphs are interesting. I lost 30 pounds in 2002 and 365 days in 2003. My point being that patterns and information are only of benefit if we apply them in our daily lives. And the promise includes walking and not being faint, running and not being weary, and having great treasures of knowledge opened to our minds.^1.46 What success I have had in life I attribute largely to following this health code and thus being receptive to the teachings of the spirit.

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