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Very Good Read, The Diet works This is a good read, chock full of inspirational true stories, impartial research to back Rubin's claims, and easy to follow diet instructions. The fellow in the prior post has misinterpreted badly the Bible passages he notes (with overly great verbosity). In the Mark 7 passage, Jesus is making the point that diet doesn't make a man sinful - breaking moral law does (sinful attitudes/motives) - that's the context. The Pharisees thought that diet trumped morality. Jesus was correcting them, but he never said that those meats were now clean for healthy consumption. He said food does not cause moral defilement. In the Acts 10 passage, he gets it wrong again. God was telling Paul to not call anything unclean **that he had cleansed**. There is no indication in that passage that the animals in that dream were of the forbidden type - Peter arbitrarily called things unclean. Which fits with the context of what Jesus was getting at: nowhere did God ever say that the Gentiles could not receive redemption, and in fact even in the old testament, God redeemed Gentiles like Rahab. Peter had an unbiblical bias, which God was correcting. The rest of his opinioned tome is equally inaccurate. Nowhere does Rubin imply that following the law will get a man saved. Again, there is a distinction between moral law (the things that had the penalty of death), and health laws of the old testament. The Jews believed that following the moral law would get them to heaven. Jesus corrected that by saying no one has kept the moral law - no one - and that they were written to help us know that we need a savior to get to heaven - and one that will free us from our propensity to sin, morally. But the health laws are more akin to gravity and physics - you can violate them and still go to heaven, but you may get there faster than you wanted to.