by Katerina Nikolas

Created on: July 05, 2010

The Bible diet is such a popular one that there are many versions, which each involves buying a book instead of just leafing through a handy Bible for diet advice. Of course none of the books advocate the same diet, as they all contradict one another in parts, and none of them are written by qualified nutritionists or Biblical scholars of expertise.

One version of the Bible diet is that by Rosemary Ellis, who promotes a way of getting thin with the only expense involved being purchasing her book. However as the diet is targeted towards Christians she could just have recommended they follow the dietary practices of Lent, as this is all she is advocating.

The diet can be followed as either a 3, 7, 10 or 40 day fast, supported by prayer. Ellis writes that “most of us are killing ourselves through a junk food Armageddon”, but rather contradicts her self by saying it’s perfectly acceptable to return to all the banned horror foods of the diet, when the diet is over. Thus for 40 days you abstain from all meat products which is not only good for cleansing the body, but for protecting animals from cruel abuse, and when the 40 days are up you can go back to eating these poor defenceless animals again, along with your chocolate cake.

Along with prayer the dieter is meant to limit their exposure to television and advertising which she believes pollutes the mind, but unfortunately there isn’t a handy Bible quote to trot out to support her viewpoint. She has elected to base her theories on the book of Daniel, and promotes a vegetarian diet which allows only plant based foods to be consumed, and forbids soda, coffee and tea.

It is fine to take organic vitamin supplements even though they aren't referred to in Biblical recommendations, but the author has not gone so far as the author of the Maker’s diet, also known as the Bible diet, who established his own supplement company to cash in on his book.

Ellis also likes to color code food which will give dieters something to do as they aren’t supposed to be watching television. She also likes to advocate the benefits of fasting as cleansing the body, which has not a shed of scientific evidence to support it.

There are so many Bible based diets on offer from the Maker’s diet, to the Hallelujah diet, and Dr Lorraine Days 10 step health plan. The only real difference between Ellis and the others is she does not claim her diet will cure you of cancer. You would be well advised to save your money and read the Bible if a Bible based diet appeals to you as predictibly the diet only contradicts a large part of the diet, with passages used to prop up her theories.

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