‘Tis the season for family, faith, fellowship ”” and fat.
As families gather around buffet tables smothered with food on Thanksgiving, religious diet groups caution us God might not approve of that second piece of pie. Yes, that’s right. The omnipresent world of wonder diets and slim-down regimes now has a foothold in the world of the omnipotent.
Faith-based weight loss groups have been a quietly growing presence for more than three decades. Organizations such as First Place 4 Health, a Texas-based group with chapters in more than 12,000 churches nationwide, and the Weigh Down Workshop,which offers in-person and online Bible-based weight-loss plans, boast that participants have lost the pounds (and kept them off) by placing more faith in God, and less in Ben & Jerry’s.
Bible based weight loss plans? Oh, please! Bring the kids home from school, throw out the Pilgrim-Indian costumes and feed them high fiber
toufu turkey and a green salad with no-cal, lite dressing, then send them out to play during which no one is permitted to win or lose and their is no violent activity whatsoever. Happy thanksgiving. Larry