Junk Food

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I am having a bit of a debate with a friend who insists that junk food is wrong to eat because our body is a temple of the Holy Spirit and we must take care of it. I am agreeing but trying to say that it is ok, or even good, to have junk food from time to time, particularly for Feasts and celebrations.

Can anyone help give me any evidence to use in this matter? For instance, I find it hard to believe Jesus never ate anything bad for Him, especially at one of the many festivals He would have attended!
 
Lazerlike42 said:
I am having a bit of a debate with a friend who insists that junk food is wrong to eat because our body is a temple of the Holy Spirit and we must take care of it. I am agreeing but trying to say that it is ok, or even good, to have junk food from time to time, particularly for Feasts and celebrations.

Can anyone help give me any evidence to use in this matter? For instance, I find it hard to believe Jesus never ate anything bad for Him, especially at one of the many festivals He would have attended!
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Jesus was accused of being a glutton as well as a drunkard, because he didn’t fast to the extremes of St John the Baptist. So clearly he wasn’t especially birdlike or restrained with his eating, although he fasted when occasion demanded too.
 
Don’t fret my friend…I used to eat unhealthy when I had no knowledge on diet and wasn’t interested…

It would be wrong to eat junk food, and say, not being productive…because that would physically be changing your body, and creating laziness, ta boot. If you do like to indulge in sweets, chips, etc. make sure you are exercising throughout the week, and fully functioning.

With that being said, I have recently started eating everything healthy. I have gotten into bodybuilding, and diet is 90% of it. I don’t even call it a diet, because it’s something that I’m never going to give up…lots of eggs, whole grain foods, fish, lean meats, green vegetables…actually, I now think this food tastes better than typical junk food, but that was only once I made the conversion.
 
Well, our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit and as such we should treat them with respect but there is nothing wrong with eating junk food in moderation.
 
I saw my old pastor at a diner having a beer with a friend of his, i jokingly said to him “isn’t your body a temple, Father?”… to which he replied, and i still laugh at his response… from this simple old irish priest, he said to me “well, Chris, tonight there’s a festival in the Temple!”
 
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I saw my old pastor at a diner having a beer with a friend of his, i jokingly said to him “isn’t your body a temple, Father?”… to which he replied, and i still laugh at his response… from this simple old irish priest, he said to me “well, Chris, tonight there’s a festival in the Temple!”
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LOL! That’s cute. There is nothing wrong with drinking in moderation. 🙂
 
Maybe this would be true if one was a diabetic or morbidly obese.
 
Lazerlike42 said:
I Can anyone help give me any evidence to use in this matter? For instance, I find it hard to believe Jesus never ate anything bad for Him, especially at one of the many festivals He would have attended!
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like funnel cakes, corn dogs and cotton candy? trouble is in Jesus’ day even the sweets and munchies were all natural and organic and made from real food, but today most of what passes for snack food is not even food, even if it has as one or two of its ingredients a highly processed derivative of a real food like a potato or whey.
 
puzzleannie said:
…but today most of what passes for snack food is not even food, even if it has as one or two of its ingredients a highly processed derivative of a real food like a potato or whey.
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You mean like the McFish and fries I just ate at 9pm at night? :whistle:

It’s an occasional Friday thing - I promise I don’t do this on a regular basis, if I did, I’d be as big as a Buick! :eek:

I have to agree - we should all be better to ourselves than most of us probably are.

Must get on that treadmil… 😊

~Liza
 
one thing i learned and actually remember from all my exercise phys and nutrition classes in college…

you can eat bad if you exercise religiously… but all the good nutrition in the world won’t make up for lack of exercise.
 
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