Vegan Nutrition 101

The purpose of this short course is to show the SDA who are vegetarians for the most part a proper way to eat that will ensure we are healthy and living long lives according to Gods will.

What will we learn:

WHAT/WHO IS A VEGAN
THE DIFFERANCE BETWEEN VEGAN AND VEGETARIAN
NUTRIONAL FACTS
HOW TO SHOP LIKE A VEGETARIAN
MENU PLANING
VEGAN RECIPIES

WHAT IS A VEGAN?

Vegetarianism has been around for thousands of years and is documented as being practiced by the ancient Egyptians and Ethiopians in Africa, Hindus in India, Buddist in China and is even talked about in the Bible.

"And God said, "See I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed: to you it shall be for food. GEN 1:29-30

There are many types of vegetarians. There are vegetarians that eat eggs (Ovo-Vegerarians), types that eat cheese and milk and no eggs (Lacto-Vegetarians). However a Vegan goes a little further and aside from not eating meat, does not eat cheese, milk, eggs or dairy and some do not eat honey.

NOTE: Now there are those who will say to us that the Bible tells us in Leviticus chapter 2 that we can eat meat of certant kinds. And they would be correct. To these folks I offer the following food for thought. The Bible explaines that are human bodies are temples, temples of the Most High God.

And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them and walk in them; and I will be there God, and they shall be my people. 2COR 6:16

The Bible also tells us that God dwells in the temple. The temple is the house of the Lord.

If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is Holy, which temple you are. 1 Cor 3:17

We can not defile our temple, Gods temple for if we do so we will be destroyed. This is what is hapening when we get these differant cancers, arthritis and body pains as well as other disese of the body. We eat all this meat and our bodies are destroyed just as the Bible explaines.

Meat has been scientificly proven to be destructive to our bodies to the point of death. Eating meat has been linked to colon cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure and increased cholesterol. (ALL DEADLY) According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, people who eat large amounts of meat double there risk of colon cancer. This is partially due to the amount of time that red meat stays in your intestines, coupled with a lack of exercise, lake of water consumption and a diet low in fruits and vegetables which contain the necessary fiber to move food along quickly.

In essance when you eat meat you are defileing the temple of God and thus you are destroyed. So we have a choice. We can eat meat and be destroyed or we can choose life and eat of the fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains that God has provided for us.

Yes we can eat meat and yes God has even given instructions on what meat we can and can not eat. The Bible also explains that if given a choice between life and death we are to chose life.

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live. DEU 30:19