My Body—His Temple
The Prophet Daniel's Guide to Nutrition

The paperback and e-book are in the process of being updated for a second edition. Much of the information you have been enjoying on this web site is contained in this book. Kenny Loy is a Certified Nutritionist and a Christian author. He obtained his Certification in Nutrition in 1999 from American Health Science University. Kenny has answered hundreds of Bible and nutrition questions from people worldwide. Many of these questions can be found on this website and in his books. The following is an example of what you'll be getting:

Classical Experimental Design

Daniel was a scientist (Daniel 1:4) and used the first recorded method of classical experimental design in Daniel 1. This was nearly 2,000 years before Roger Bacon "discovered" this scientific method. The classical experimental design must contain a control group and an experimental group in order to compare results. A hypothesis must be formed with an independent and dependent variable, i.e. the cause and effect.

In Daniel's experiment, the control group subjects consumed the king's meat and wine. The experimental group subjects had vegetables and water. All other conditions were identical, so the before-and-after test would compare the changes from the one-variable diet. His hypothesis contained the independent variable, the cause—diet. It also contained the dependent variable, the effect—healthier and better nourished bodies.

The results of the ten day test proved his hypothesis; therefore, "Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drink; and gave them pulse." This is the strongest biblical proof that I have seen to verify that a vegetarian lifestyle is healthier than a rich diet.

Vegetarians Are Healthier

For reasons which I will elaborate on later, vegetarians are among the healthiest and longest living people on earth. For instance, although these cultures live in a harsh environment and eat little to no meat, the Russian Caucasians, the Yucatan Indians, the East Indian Todas, and the Pakistan Hunzakuts live to be 90 to 100 years old. The three cultures that live the longest in the world are the Vilcambas (Andes of Ecuador), the Abkhasians (Black Sea), and the Hunzas (Himalayas of Northern Pakistan). All three cultures are completely vegetarian or very close to it. The largest group, the Hunzas, only consume an average of 1.5% of total calories from animal products. The elderly in these cultures not only live to be over 100 years old, but live vital, healthy lives until their death. (Robbins, John. Diet for a New America. Walpole, New Hampshire: Stillpoint Publishing, 1987. 154-155.)

Many laboratory tests have been conducted in order to compare the strength and stamina of meat-eaters against vegetarians. Yale Professor Irving Fisher selected men from three groups: meat-eating athletes, vegetarian athletes, and vegetarian sedentary subjects. He found that the meat-eating athletes showed far less endurance than even the sedentary vegetarians. Dr. J. Ioteyko of Paris performed a comparable study and found that vegetarians averaged two to three times more stamina than meat eaters. Also, he found that vegetarians only took one-fifth of the time to recover from exhaustion than did their meat-eating counterparts. A Danish study in 1968 revealed that men peddling on a stationary bicycle until muscle failure lasted an average of 114 minutes on a mixed meat and vegetable diet, 57 minutes on a high-meat diet, and a whopping 167 minutes on a strict vegetarian diet. (Robbins, John. Diet for a New America. Walpole, New Hampshire: Stillpoint Publishing, 1987. 156-158.)

It is inarguable that a meatless diet is healthy. Deep down, we all know it. The overwhelming evidence, biblical and scientific, is in favor of a vegetarian diet, consisting of raw fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds, with limited amounts of whole grains, brown rice, potatoes, and legumes.