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Prescription for Health

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  Embracing Living Foods for Wellness A foundation of lasting health lies in consuming an abundance of living foods each day. These include organic, fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, nuts, and seeds. Such foods are considered “living” because they are rich in natural enzymes, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and phytonutrients—elements necessary for vibrant health and energy. In contrast, man-made or highly processed foods are often described as “dead.” These foods such as fast foods, sugary snacks, processed products, junk foods, and typical snack items lack enzymes and are generally deficient in essential nutrients. Relying heavily on these dead foods can, over time, contribute to degenerative diseases and a shortened life span. Transitioning to Healthier Eating Habits You can gradually shift away from unhealthy eating patterns by purposefully replacing “dead foods” with nourishing, living foods. Make a conscious choice this week to select only foods that support your o...
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This May Explain Why You're Still Scrolling at 2 AM

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  ...Hidden Hunger? It's 2:17 AM. You've got work tomorrow. You're not even enjoying what you're watching anymore, but you can't stop. One more video. One more post. One more search for something that might finally feel like enough . Your brain is doing exactly what it's designed to do. Neuroscientists call it "seeking behavior"—the dopamine loop that keeps you hunting for the next hit of novelty, connection, or stimulation. It's the same mechanism that made our ancestors search for food when they were hungry. Except now? You're not hungry for food. You're hungry for something you can't name. We've gotten really good at feeding ourselves. Craft cocktails tailored to our taste. Netflix queues curated to our mood. Friend groups filtered to our vibe. We've optimized everything. So why are we still... searching? Here's the thing psychology reveals: consumption and satisfaction aren't the same thing. You can binge an entire s...
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Your Appetite is Important. How Much Consideration Do You Give It?

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Appetite is the desire to eat, influenced by various factors including physical health, emotional state, and environmental conditions, and plays a crucial role in overall health. Appetite refers to the desire to eat food, which is distinct from hunger, the body's biological response to a lack of food. While hunger signals a need for nourishment, appetite can be influenced by a variety of factors, including mood, environment, and health conditions. However, God has given us a brain structure that is capable of filtering and rationalizing the calls of the appetite. Giving in to an appetite is one of the primary causes of illness, dis-ease, and sickness. Thankfully, we can educate our appetites. They way to achieve the behavioral change needed to improve health and prevent disease is by educating the appetite along with exercising willpower.  Appetite education is a gradual process, something that each individual must live for themselves as a personal growth experience. To educate the...
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S.N.A.P. — The Plan That Always Pays Your Benefits!

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  🥕 S.N.A.P. — The Plan That Still Feeds Your Soul You ever stand in the checkout line and watch the food roll down the belt—chips, soda, neon boxes—and wonder, how did we get here? How did “food” become something that can sit on a shelf for a year, but can’t keep a body alive for a week? For millions of Americans, the SNAP Program —the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program —is a lifeline. It keeps hunger from the door. It’s government help that matters. But here’s the question that nobody’s asking: 👉 If the system feeds us but doesn’t nourish us, are we truly being helped? 🍞 When Full Doesn’t Mean Fed Let’s be real. The SNAP card will pay for soda but not for vitamins. It’ll probably cover white bread, but not the whole grain that keeps your brain alive. It’ll load your pantry with calories but starve your cells of life. And before we judge “those people on benefits,” let’s be honest—most of us, SNAP or not, shop in the same aisles, fall for the same marketing, and bit...
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Vitamin C: The Secret Micronutrient

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Vitamin C plays a significant role in several key functions of the body. Its importance to the proper functioning of the immune system cannot be overestimated. Over the last few years, studies have confirmed that vitamin C helps to increase resistance to infectious diseases including cancer.  Vitamin C is also considered an antioxidant that is vital to tissue growth and repair. Vitamin C also plays a role in the formation of collagen which is essential for healthy bones, teeth, and skin.  Vitamin C and E work together more effectively when combined to extend antioxidant activity. Vitamin C can also act to help prevent high blood pressure and hardening of the arteries. It also helps the body use iron.  Since the body does not manufacture it, this wonderful vitamin must be replaced daily through certain foods or herbal supplements. Some natural sources of vitamin C are citrus fruits, green leafy vegetables, broccoli, berries, green and red peppers, camu camu, amla, acerola,...
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Something’s Off. You Can Feel It, Right?

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  Everyone says the future is customizable. You can build your identity, your truth, your brand, even your purpose. But… then why does it feel like we’re sinking in options but starving for meaning? Behind all the upgrades and affirmations, there's a quiet question knocking: What if it’s not about finding yourself—but worshiping what’s true? Not If You Worship — But What Worship isn’t just religious ritual. It’s attention, affection, devotion. What you give your best energy to. That’s why Tim Keller once said, “You don’t get to decide whether or not to worship. Everyone worships. The only choice is what to worship.” And here’s the twist: what you worship shapes what you become. Science Can Measure Worship Now—And the Results Are Striking 🧠 Neuroscience : Dr. Andrew Newberg (University of Pennsylvania), a leading researcher in neurotheology, found that long-term worship of a personal, loving God leads to increased activity in the prefrontal cortex (reason, empathy, planning) an...
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Go Ahead and Accuse Me, OK?: Hope In The Judgement

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  Imagine a courtroom. You’re the one on trial. There’s a prosecutor—relentless, smug, armed with receipts. He lists your failures, exposes private shame, names every time you gave in, gave up, lashed out, broke down. You shrink. He’s not wrong. But then you notice something: The prosecutor isn’t neutral. He’s the one who tempted you. The very one accusing you of falling… is the one who set the trap. This is not fiction. Scripture tells us there is an accuser—Satan—whose name literally means the accuser . (Revelation 12:10) His strategy? First, seduce. Then, shame. He lures us into destruction… then condemns us for being destroyed. But Jesus steps into the courtroom. And His judgment flips the entire system. Take the woman in John 8, dragged into public by religious leaders, caught in adultery. According to the law, she deserved death. But notice what Jesus did: He exposed the accusers , not the accused. He wrote something in the dust—mysterious, maybe the sins of the cro...
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