Word of Wisdom

Today I met with my daughter's doctor.  He is helping us medicate her for her anxiety.  What I really like about this doctor is that he is looking at the whole picture.  He has started her on a slew of vitamins and ordered a bunch of blood work.  The blood work results came back and he said that he is concerned about a few things.  There is potential for a major diet change in her life that will effect the rest of the family from a few different sources.  He has ordered more blood work so we will see what happens.  

As I was reading my scriptures today I read from Chapter 3 of Jesus the Christ by, James E. Talmage.  I think this is just what I needed at this moment.  Talmage talks about the Word of Wisdom, that we have been told not to put certain substances into our bodies and yet we do.  Just as Adam and Eve were told not to put certain substances into their bodies and yet they did.  Just as Adam and Eve were told that these substances could shorten their lives so we have been told that certain substances, if consumed, could shorten our lives.  

It really made me feel that we need to eat more healthy in our family.  I honest just don't know how to change.  Maybe it is a matter of not trying to be perfect.  Being okay with falling but then getting back on the horse.  I know Heavenly Father has a plan for our family and if I search for it He will present it to me.

3. 

The Fall a Process of Physical Degeneracy.—A modern revelation given to the Church in 1833 (D&C 89), prescribes rules for 

right living, particularly as regards the uses of stimulants, narcotics, and foods 

unsuited to the body. Concerning the physical causes by which the fall was 

brought about, and the close relation between those causes and current violations of the Word of Wisdom embodied in the revelation referred to above, the 

following is in point. “This, [the Word of Wisdom] like other revelations that have 

come in the present dispensation, is not wholly new.It is as old as the human race. The principle of the Word of Wisdom was revealed unto Adam. All the essentials of the Word of Wisdom were made known unto him in his immortal state, before he had taken into his body those things that made of it a thing of earth. He was 

warned against that very practice. He was not told to treat his body as something to be tortured. He was not told to look upon it as the fakir of India has come to 

look upon his body, or professes to look upon it, as a thing to be utterly 

condemned;but he was told that he must not take into that body certain things 

which were there at hand. He was warned that, if he did, his body would lose the power which it then held of living for ever, and that he would become subject to 

death. It was pointed out to him, as it has been pointed out to you, that there are many good fruits to be plucked, to be eaten, to be enjoyed. We believe in 

enjoying good food. We think that these good things are given us of God. We 

believe in getting all the enjoyment out of eating that we can; and, therefore, we 

should avoid gluttony, and we should avoid extremes in all our habits of eating;

and as was told unto Adam, so is it told unto us:Touch not these things, for in the day that thou does't it thy life shall be shortened and thou shalt die.

“Here let me say that therein consisted the fall--the eating of things unfit, the taking into the body of the things that made of that body a thing of earth: . . . . It is true that they disobeyed the law of God, in eating things they were told not to eat; but who amongst you can rise up and condemn?”