Dianne Miller runs the website http://www.leviticus11.com/, where she
offers a version of the Jesus diet;
that is, “Health and Strength Products” based on “Chapter 11 of Leviticus (the
Dietary Laws of the Mosaic Code) of the Old Testament or the Torah. That
chapter tells us which animals are clean and which are unclean and that you
should not eat unclean animals. This is a rule given to us to maintain good health.”
I don’t recommend going there for health or dietary advice, to put things
diplomatically.
The website contains mostly New Age bullshit and
pseudoscience, though. For instance, Miller pushes the fear of Electro-Magnetic
Fields – “(v]irtually all research on the serious health effects of man-made
EMF” has apparently shown seriously adverse health effects of long-term
exposure to EMF. It is notable, I suppose, that she doesn’t give any
references; by “research” she apparently means conclusions made somewhere on
the University of Google. Fortunately, you can apparently use Q-links (“a
breakthrough technological marriage of Eastern and Western approaches to stress
and imbalance” based on “biofields”) and various plastic junk to protect
yourself. “Many scientists, particularly in Eastern medicine, believe the kind
of energies the Q-Link helps to regulate control the whole system of blood circulation and
affect the sound functioning of the entire body,” says Miller, blatantly
flaunting her lack of understanding of the distinction between science and pseudo-religious
woo.
You can also obtain books (hardly more reliable) and advice on “alternative energy” by Mike Brown (presumably the guy behind the 1974 book The
Strength of Samson: How To Attain It aimed at bodybuilders) and read about the miracles “Desiccated Argentine beef liver has done” for Lauren Laughlin, “a
licensed massage therapist and marathon runner.” But you probably shouldn’t if
you care about spending your time wisely.
Diagnosis: Completely at loss, and so helplessly ignorant that it is hard to suspect fraud.
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