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187: God’s Good Table with Maureen Diaz

Chelsea Blackbird

The Bible serves us up some really good insight when it comes to how and what we should eat. Red meat, fat, dairy and salt are all part of the provision God has given us as part of our diet and, yet, these are some of the most controversial and demonized foods among modern dietary “experts.”

In this week’s podcast, Maureen Diaz, the founder of God’s Good Table, is talking about THE EXPERT when it comes to our bodies and how we can find health, healing and hope through timeless principles rooted in God’s Word.

EPISODE 187: God’s Good Table with Maureen Diaz

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Show Notes


(0:00) Intro

  • Hello my friend, welcome back to the club, how are you today?

  • Maureen Diaz is with us today; she has been learning, studying and sharing traditional healing and cooking for over 30 years and I’m so excited to get to pick her brain and chat about the Bible, food and our amazing bodies.

  • Welcome Maureen to The Christian Health Club podcast!

(2:50) Tell us how you got started on this health journey and how you related it to Biblical principles. 

  • 1 of 6 children — Mother fed them as “cheaply” as possible

  • Watched her mother struggle with health ailments

    • Her mother began her own health journey

    • She gave up easy convenient foods and opted for whole foods.

  • Father was a vibrant man, she noticed that he got butter while every one else got margarine

  • Maureen began to embrace real foods and was interested in health and nutrition

  • Garden of Eden / Land of Caanan contradictions

  • God gave us both plant and animal foods

    • He gave us everything we need to live healthy lives

  • They were able to turn around her husband’s debilitating Lyme disease.

  • Grandchildren are being raised on real food.

(36:38) How God designed us to be meat eaters:

  • Teeth, hydrochloric acid, design of the digestive system

  • The difference in God’s design for herbivores

  • Epigentics - generational changes that are produced primarily by trauma and diet

(40:45) God gave instructions on what to eat and how to properly slaughter

  • Not to eat flesh with the life in it - that is the blood

  • Toxins are stored in the fat of animals

  • No shellfish, vultures, pork, smooth skin fish, etc (clean up crew - eat dead carcasses)

  • Every creature is here for a purpose

  • HOW is the meat being produced?

  • Ecosystem per God’s design

(52:50) Pork and Seafood

  • Enzymes in sauerkraut mitigate negative input from the pork

  • Vital Choice Seafood

  • Wild for Salmon - Pensylvania

(56:30) Importance of fats and salt:

  • Fat soluble nutrients — A, D, E, K

  • Activators come from primarily animal fats

  • Raw leafy greens are high in oxylates - hello kidney stones

  • Salt is really important for human health

    • Not intended to be consumed as purified sodiuam

    • Redmond’s Salt

    • Celtic Sea Salt

(1:06:39) Closing thoughts:

  • Anchor verse

    • Palms 139:14

  • Anchor meal

    • Grass-fed ribeye is all time favorite

    • Brined herb roasted chicken with pureed roasted vegetables with cream, sourdough bread, panacotta

(1:10:45) Where can people find you?

(1:16:15) Outro & Disclaimer

Thanks for listening! Have a healthy and blessed week!




XOXO,

Chelsea