Article May 5, 1973 Issue

The Cause and Cure of Overweight

CLARISSA CAMPBELL ORR

It's a commonly accepted theory that an excess of food or an improperly balanced diet is usually the cause of overweight. Consequently, meals are often a tedious process of counting calories and figuring daily quotas of vitamins and minerals in order to prevent or cure overweight.

But lots of people will admit that this isn't a very successful method of weight regulation. Either they don't lose anything, or they lose poundage in the wrong place or very quickly regain lost weight. This may be a hint that both the theory and the method are based on some serious misconceptions.

When spiritually understood, the Bible invites us to look at body and health in an entirely new way, to connect them to God's control and care of His creation. In Job, for example, we read: "Ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; . . . or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee. ... Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind." ^{Job 12:7-10;}

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