Youth is renewed like the eagles
“Who satisfies your mouth with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagles.” Psalm 103:5
In an excellent article called “Five things you are doing that are Weakening Your Immune System”, Jeanette Padilla identifies five key causes of compromised immune function that leads to degenerative disease.
1. Eating Fattening foods
2. Eating too much sugar
3. Ignoring Constipation
4. Being sedentary
5. Being Antisocial
Many of the points she makes are important reminders to us as Christians in order to help us to be “fit vessels for the Master to use.” For instance, studies have found that drinking 2 cans of soda pop actually reduces the germ killing abilities of our white blood cells by 40%. Moreover, consuming excessive amounts of unhealthy fats (not the healthy fats in oils, fruits, meats and nuts) compromises our immune system as well as causing unnecessary weight gain. However, the part of the article that really caught my eye was the importance of social interaction for maintaining health. “Some studies,” Jeanette noted, “reveal the more human interaction we have, the more likely we are to live longer and healthier lives. One study monitored 276 individuals between the ages of 18 and 55 discovered that those who had six or more human connections were four times better at combating cold- causing viruses.”
So my conclusion:
Sit less, Love deeply, Laugh often, Eat
nutritional and in all things give God the
Glory.
Because of grace,
Tim
