davidnelson said:
I feel like following the Kosher diet. I feel that it is a lot healthier. I want to follow the bible diet. What do you guys think?
I say "go for it". I eat this way. That said, Kosher is only applying to meats and what meats not to eat. But you can get a 'U' symbol on a box of Cheez-its and I don't think it's that healthy because it's still processed. It may be
better in that they watched the ingredients and methods, but there's processing to consider that in the time of ancient Israel did not have, but ate foods in their raw form (natural). Doing that will assure you this is closer to the Kosher they had.
My otlder brother practices half-Kosher. He still eats pork but developed an allergy to shellfish in his old age. Since I'm only 10 years behind, and he started this about 10 years ago, that puts me at the age now that he started, and I do take after him somewhat in my health. He's not sickly but there's things like this he has to watch. So, by my eating this way the last few years may be a blessing in disguise because for all I know I may be allergic now, too. I'm not willing to risk chocking up to test it out. Pork has its issues, too, but it's at least closer to other land animals. Permissible land animals are sheep (goats), cattle, and venison that passes the Kosher laws in the bible. And chicken and turkey is OK for the "flying" animals as long as it does not kill and eat blood. For fish, anything with fins and scales. Don't eat "creeping" things except the hopping kind (consult the bible for more detail) such as grasshoppers, but I don't eat insects anyway. But the point is no chocolate covered ants.