Jesus Diet

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The Jesus Diet is a fad diet promoted in several different versions by different people. WWJD is the name of the game here, with the idea that eating what Jesus ate is the key to staying thin and healthy.

Presumably, this includes fasting, fish, unleavened bread, and turning water into wine.

Different versions include:

  • Don Colbert's many books in The Bible Cure For... series
  • Gene Wall Cole's Jesus' Diet for the Whole World (2005), claimed to be "from deep inside the Vatican Vaults!"
  • Numerous promoters of raw foodism and macrobiotics using the term "Jesus Diet"
  • Michael H. Brown's The Strength of Samson: How To Attain It (1974), aimed at bodybuilders
  • Rich Tucker's Biblical Nutrition (1973)

Along those same lines, several products have hit the market lately such as:

  • Bible Bar,[1] a Power Bar-like concoction made from the seven ingredients recommended by the LORD in the book of Deuteronomy 8:8: "a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey;"[2]
  • Ezekiel 4:9 Bread, made from the recipe found in Ezekiel 4:9: "Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the 390 days you lie on your side." (note however that Ezekiel 4:12 adds a really bizarre ingredient to the mix: "Eat the food as you would a barley cake; bake it in the sight of the people, using human excrement for fuel.")[3]

There is no word yet on whether the Jesus Diet includes using human dung as a fuel for baking your bread.

The concept of the Bible as an eating guide is not new. Bible cake used Biblical quotations in its recipe (and sounds pretty tasty), and can be dated back to 1906 (as scripture cake).

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ↑ [1] "The Bible Bar - A Great Source Of Deuteronomy’s Seven Good Foods" Cliff Scott Enterprises
  2. ↑ Deuteronomy 8:8 (New International Version). BibleGateway.com
  3. ↑ Ezekiel 4:9; Ezekiel 4:12 (New International Version). BibleGateway.com. Admittedly, cow patties and the like have been used for fuel for centuries, but this was a little over the top, which was kind of the point.
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