Don't Fix it if it isn't Broken

Why do we say "We got fixed" when what we really mean is "We had the doctor break a system that was functioning exactly how He designed it to?


I have been reading this book. It is the one that started the whole "Quiverfull" movement.

This book boils down to asking one question:

Is God really Lord of ALL your life?

I find that most Christians think He is but have a definite blind spot when choosing how many eternal souls (babies) they will allow God to bring into this world through them.

If you want to know why so many are now having larger than average families, why the Duggers are like they are, What the Bible says about babies, then read this book. The Hesses answer all the questions you would expect: overpopulation, finances, health, etc. that are given as reasons to limit family size.

I highly encourage EVERY Christian couple to read either "A Full Quiver," "Be Fruitful and Multiply," or "Children: Blessing or Burden?" You already know the anti-child, small-family side of the argument. At least find out the reasoning behind the other viewpoint.

Oh, and PRAY ABOUT IT!

If I accomplish nothing  else, If I get you to honestly seek God's will about the size of your family, I have succeeded.

Cholesterol Myths

"The Cholesterol Myth."

No new conclusions, but lots of supporting evidence for things I have heard before and that are only logical.

Nourishing Traditions and Cholesterol

Just reading Nourishing Traditions (still in the intro). Interesting facts on how healthy it is to eat butter.

Yes, butter is GOOD for you. it is anti-bacterial and choke full of vitamins. The type of saturated fats in it are easily digested, not easily stored as body fat and is the substance used to build arteries out of.

High cholesterol is caused not by eating cholesterol but by eating sugar and trans-fats (man made fats).

Not eating Natural cholesterol to lower your blood cholesterol count is like firing your police force in order to lower your crime rate. The body produces cholesterol in order to repair the damage done by sugars and man made fats. Get rid of your sugar and hydrogenated fats and your cholesterol will drop.

Later note added:
Nourishing Traditions is a very interesting book detailing the helath benifets of a traditional diet. Modern science has had a biased opinion not actually supported by studies for decades. Fat is not the culprit in heart disease. If it was, our rate of heart disease should have dropped as we lowered our fat, especially saturated fat, intake. Instead, it has gone up.

Traditional (God made) fats like butter, lard, coconut oil,  beef fat are choke full of vitamins and minerals and other nutrients we need to be healthy. Man made fats are unnatural and the body doesn't even know what to do with them so it stores them. They then, in turn, cause the arteries to clog and- bingo!- heart attack.