68 Years of Nutritional Study by Dr. Mary Ruth Swope

68 Years of Nutritional Study

by Dr. Mary Ruth Swope

The greatest lessons I have learned after 68 years of study, research and teaching in the field of Foods and Nutrition, mostly at the university level, are these:

1. Life can only come from life. “Dead food” makes dead people.

2. Life begins, is maintained and ends at the cellular level. Doctor’s agree!

3. Plant foods grown organically, served fresh, raw and unprocessed are our best sources of life.

They also are our best “medicines”. (The Father of Medicine, Hippocrates, said this in 450 BC –

before the birth of Jesus.)

4. Man-made foods are “dead foods”; they cause disease and early death.

5. International research studies have proven that the Jewish dietary laws, when followed, produce the healthiest people on earth. Read Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which [is] the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

6. Herbs made from stems, roots, bark, leaves, fruit and blossoms of natural plants outperform

synthetic drugs to restore sick cells in almost all cases – and without dangerous, expensive

side-effects.

7. The Bible declares barley leaves to be God’s champion food creation – the most perfect and

complete of all foods. Leviticus 23:9-11 (offerings had to be perfect!)

8. I believe almonds are God’s second most perfect food creation. They are a near-perfect food.

Like barley, they are a first fruit.

9. I do not believe in the germ theory of disease. Disease results when the immune system is weak.

Poor eating and lifestyle habits cause a weakened immune system. We are then subjected to

all kinds of disease because of a lack of fighter cells.

10. The “Real Doctor” is in every cell. He has a recipe for changing any sick cell into a healthy one.

Man-made drugs are needed only for crisis situations; Nutrients heal.

11. We were made to have Divine health with an expected life-span of 120 years. (Genesis 6:3)

12. Following are the basic rules of a healthy diet. I am trusting God is the most brilliant Scientist

ever – and I hope you, too, will follow His advice for your physical health. Here is the record

of His advice:

A. Plan A of the Original Diet for Adam and Eve (Genesis 1:29). All of Nature’s foods are balanced

sources of protein, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals (the natural

medicines). Eat a wide variety in every category for the best health.

• Eleven cereal grains (barley, wheat, rye, spelt, millet, oats, etc.)

• Sixty-four vegetables.

• Beans, legumes, lentils, seeds and nuts.

• Forty-six fruits.

• Goats’ milk, eggs, cheese and butter were allowed.

• God allowed “a little” honey.

Then God cursed the soil and people began to lose their vibrant health.

B. Plan B of the Original Diet.

In Genesis 3:18 God added the green herbs of the field to their diet.

(Things like garlic, capsicum, black cohost, bee pollen, parsley, black walnut, catnip etc.).

C. Plan C of the Original Biblical Diet

In Genesis 9:3 God added meat to the approved diet with carefully designed rules to distinguish

clean from unclean meats. See Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 for guidance.

Modern-day researchers confirm this information.

These are the basic rules of a healthy diet.

Leviticus 11:1 And the "I AM" spoke unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,

11:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These [are] the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that [are] on the earth.

11:3 Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, [and] cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat.

11:4 Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: [as] the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he [is] unclean unto you.

11:5 And the rabbit, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he [is] unclean unto you.

11:6 And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he [is] unclean unto you.

11:7 And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he [is] unclean to you.

11:8 Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they [are] unclean to you.

11:9 These shall ye eat of all that [are] in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat.

11:10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which [is] in the waters, they [shall be] an abomination unto you:

11:11 They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, further more ye shall have their carcases in abomination.

11:12 Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that [shall be] an abomination unto you.

11:13 And these [are they which] ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they [are] an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,

11:14 And the vulture, and the kite after his kind;

11:15 Every raven after his kind;

11:16 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,

11:17 And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl,

11:18 And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle,

11:19 And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.

11:20 All fowls that creep, going upon [all] four, [shall be] an abomination unto you.

11:21 Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon [all] four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth;

11:22 [Even] these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.

11:23 But all [other] flying creeping things, which have four feet, [shall be] an abomination unto you.

11:24 And for these ye shall be unclean: whosoever toucheth the carcase of them shall be unclean until the evening.

11:25 And whosoever beareth [ought] of the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.

11:26 [The carcases] of every beast which divideth the hoof, and [is] not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, [are] unclean unto you: every one that toucheth them shall be unclean.

11:27 And whatsoever goeth upon his paws, among all manner of beasts that go on [all] four, those [are] unclean unto you: whoso toucheth their carcase shall be unclean until the evening.

11:28 And he that beareth the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening: they [are] unclean unto you.

11:29 These also [shall be] unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind,

11:30 And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.

11:31 These [are] unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the evening.

11:32 And upon whatsoever [any] of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether [it be] any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel [it be], wherein [any] work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening; so it shall be cleansed.

11:33 And every earthen vessel, whereinto [any] of them falleth, whatsoever [is] in it shall be unclean; and ye shall break it.

11:34 Of all meat which may be eaten, [that] on which [such] water cometh shall be unclean: and all drink that may be drunk in every [such] vessel shall be unclean.

11:35 And every [thing] whereupon [any part] of their carcase falleth shall be unclean; [whether it be] oven, or ranges for pots, they shall be broken down: [for] they [are] unclean, and shall be unclean unto you.

11:36 Nevertheless a fountain or pit, [wherein there is] plenty of water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcase shall be unclean.

11:37 And if [any part] of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it [shall be] clean.

11:38 But if [any] water be put upon the seed, and [any part] of their carcase fall thereon, it [shall be] unclean unto you.

11:39 And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that toucheth the carcase thereof shall be unclean until the evening.

11:40 And he that eateth of the carcase of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening: he also that beareth the carcase of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.

11:41 And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth [shall be] an abomination; it shall not be eaten.

11:42 Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon [all] four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they [are] an abomination.

11:43 Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.

11:44 For I [am] the "I AM" your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I [am] holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

11:45 For I [am] the "I AM" that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I [am] holy.

11:46 This [is] the Law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth:

11:47 To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.