The LDS health code also promotes healthy behaviors — eating fruits, vegetables and grains and limiting meat — but fewer members follow that advice, according to another study by LDS Church-owned BYU.
Maybe they should. Mormons are heavier than those outside their faith, according to a separate BYU study.
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!" Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
The LDS health code also promotes healthy behaviors — eating fruits, vegetables and grains and limiting meat — but fewer members follow that advice, according to another study by LDS Church-owned BYU.
Maybe they should. Mormons are heavier than those outside their faith, according to a separate BYU study.
From my own anecdotal observations, it seems Mormon youth and young adults are skinnier and healthier than average, but once they get married and start having kids, they let themselves go. I think most people let themselves go once they settle down and have kids. Since Mormons tend to marry at a younger age, perhaps that skews the numbers.
"We have taken up arms in defense of our liberty, our property, our wives, and our children; we are determined to preserve them, or die." - Captain Moroni - 'Address to the Inhabitants of Canada' 1775
Since I'm a pescetarian and the alcohol I occasionally drink is usually grain-based (D&C 89:17), I like to tease my husband that I keep the Word of Wisdom better than he does.
"It seems to me that these women were the head (κεφάλαιον) of the church which was at Philippi." ~ John Chrysostom, Homilies on Philippians 13
MsJack wrote:Since I'm a pescetarian and the alcohol I occasionally drink is usually grain-based (D&C 89:17), I like to tease my husband that I keep the Word of Wisdom better than he does.
The reality is, you probably do!
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!" Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
The Trib wrote:Joseph Smith was right about tobacco, but alcohol, coffee and tea pose more complex questions.
Aww, I was hoping they'd show the science in support of tobacco's healing properties on bruises and sick cattle -- I don't think I've ever had a look at it before.