Proverbs 23:1-3 gives us a sober warning about food:
"When you sit down to eat with a ruler,
Consider carefully what is before you;
And put a knife to your throat
If you are a man given to appetite.
Do not desire his delicacies,
For they are deceptive food (Proverbs 23:1-3)."
Many people are overweight today because they do not know about the warning in Proverbs 23:1-3 to consider carefully what they eat.
It applies to us too because
we are the rulers; we control what we put in our mouths.
Our grocery stores are filled with deceptive foods – processed foods that appear nourishing to our bodies but are not.
Instead, these foods hijack our brain’s reward and calming systems (Dopamine, Serotonin, Beta Endorphin primarily) and
we become addicted to them.
These foods interfere with our ability to eat with self-control. Self-control is a fruit of God’s spirit.
One additional fact complicates the issue: Some people who are
suffering from emotional issues want food to hijack them!
To quote an old commercial, it is their "Calgon, take me away!" substance. Food becomes their escape from emotional pain.
As a result, part of
them wants to continue eating deceptive foods, even though the overeating they cause is ruining their health and quality of life.
I know this issue well. Deceptive foods hijacked my life for over 20 years!
However, God showed me 5 ways to recognize a deceptive food so that I could take my brain, body, and life back.
Click here to learn these 5 ways so that you can do the same. '
Be blessed in Health, Healing, and Wholeness,