187: God’s Good Table with Maureen Diaz
The Bible serves us up some really good insight when it comes to how and what we should eat. Red meat, fat, dairy and salt are all part of the provision God has given us as part of our diet and, yet, these are some of the most controversial and demonized foods among modern dietary “experts.”
In this week’s podcast, Maureen Diaz, the founder of God’s Good Table, is talking about THE EXPERT when it comes to our bodies and how we can find health, healing and hope through timeless principles rooted in God’s Word.
EPISODE 187: God’s Good Table with Maureen Diaz
Show Notes
(0:00) Intro
Hello my friend, welcome back to the club, how are you today?
Maureen Diaz is with us today; she has been learning, studying and sharing traditional healing and cooking for over 30 years and I’m so excited to get to pick her brain and chat about the Bible, food and our amazing bodies.
Welcome Maureen to The Christian Health Club podcast!
(2:50) Tell us how you got started on this health journey and how you related it to Biblical principles.
1 of 6 children — Mother fed them as “cheaply” as possible
Watched her mother struggle with health ailments
Her mother began her own health journey
She gave up easy convenient foods and opted for whole foods.
Father was a vibrant man, she noticed that he got butter while every one else got margarine
Maureen began to embrace real foods and was interested in health and nutrition
How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of your Doctor by Dr. Robert Mendelsohn
Ron Shmid & Weston A. Price
Traditional diets = Robust health
Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon
Garden of Eden / Land of Caanan contradictions
God gave us both plant and animal foods
He gave us everything we need to live healthy lives
They were able to turn around her husband’s debilitating Lyme disease.
Grandchildren are being raised on real food.
(36:38) How God designed us to be meat eaters:
Teeth, hydrochloric acid, design of the digestive system
The difference in God’s design for herbivores
Epigentics - generational changes that are produced primarily by trauma and diet
(40:45) God gave instructions on what to eat and how to properly slaughter
Not to eat flesh with the life in it - that is the blood
Toxins are stored in the fat of animals
No shellfish, vultures, pork, smooth skin fish, etc (clean up crew - eat dead carcasses)
Every creature is here for a purpose
HOW is the meat being produced?
Ecosystem per God’s design
(52:50) Pork and Seafood
Enzymes in sauerkraut mitigate negative input from the pork
Vital Choice Seafood
Wild for Salmon - Pensylvania
(56:30) Importance of fats and salt:
Fat soluble nutrients — A, D, E, K
Activators come from primarily animal fats
Raw leafy greens are high in oxylates - hello kidney stones
Salt is really important for human health
Not intended to be consumed as purified sodiuam
Redmond’s Salt
Celtic Sea Salt
(1:06:39) Closing thoughts:
Anchor verse
Palms 139:14
Anchor meal
Grass-fed ribeye is all time favorite
Brined herb roasted chicken with pureed roasted vegetables with cream, sourdough bread, panacotta
(1:10:45) Where can people find you?
Polyface Farm - August 11-13, 2023
IG: godsgoodtable
(1:16:15) Outro & Disclaimer
Thanks for listening! Have a healthy and blessed week!