The quality of food determines your health. What you eat immediately becomes you.
Our lives are shaped by our focus. Which simply means, what we behold we become. Our culture has yet to behold the One who conquered death.
For Debra Peek-Haynes, First Lady and wife of Dr. Frederick D. Haynes III, senior pastor of Dallas megachurch Friendship West Baptist, ministry is a journey that started in her mother’s womb. She was born into a pastor’s home in New Jersey. While her father led the church, her mother was both first lady and a social worker. “I grew up in a home that was about ministry and aspiring to do the things you felt led to do,” she explains.
Making changes to a toxic free life had to first start with an attitude change for me.
Chemicals, preservatives and synthetic ingredients have taken the place of natural foods and we're allowing them to enter our bodies.
I have wrestled with poor body image issues for as long as I can remember. My first memory of my body image was when I was about 6 or 7 and an aunt said to me, "If you keep eating that way you are going to be as big as a house."
Raw food is alive, it still contains the vital nutrients and enzymes that gave the food life in the first place. Cooking food (above 239?F) destroys all of the enzymes and the food becomes "dead".
Enzymes are vital in that the body requires them to digest and absorb food, effectively helping to turn it into fuel.