Christian Insight into Biblical Nutrition Simplified

This book is a systematic study going through the Bible with its references of fasting and abstinence. The author Jim has been looking into fasting and the diets of Jesus and Mary since the 1980's and after extensive research. In this day and age fasting is needed because of all the poisons, toxins, pesticides, heavy metals and other chemicals in our environment which get into our bodies. Fasting can flush these out before they start to multiply and cause degenerative disease and death. The most widely observed and most prominent occasion of fasting in Judaism was the Day of Atonement. Fasting is found throughout scriptures and in many of the Church Fathers such as: St. Augustine, St. John Chrysostom, Saint Clement of Rome, and others connected fasting with penance or purification. The biblical references throughout this work help define the nature and purpose of fasting, the categories and types of fasting in the past and today.