From The Week Newsletter:
Christian diet books that promote menus based on Bible verses are flooding bookstores. The Hallelujah Diet and What Would Jesus Eat say God meant people to eat only foods available in the Garden of Eden, which means a largely vegetarian, vegan, or raw food diet. But the Rev. George Malkmus admitted that his Hallelujah Diet needed to be adjusted because it was low in B-12. “This shocked me, that God’s perfect eating plan could have a flaw,” he said. “But we realized that fruits and vegetables back then were more nutritious because of the topsoil.”