Welcome to the Finding Joy in Your Home Podcast. I am your host, Jamie Valmay, and this is the podcast where we blend

deeply theological topics with thoroughly practical application, all for God's glory.

Hey friends, welcome back to my podcast. Very, very excited to be joining you here today to talk about one of my favorite topics,

which is healthy living. Now, we've been doing kind of a lot of topics on that lately,

and the reason for that is because I just wrote a new book called A Christian's Guide to Healthy

Living. So we have a lot of topics to talk about coming out of this one topic.

And I think it is a very important time to talk about this.

So if you're feeling a little bit burnt out on this topic or maybe you're not super

interested, I encourage you to listen along today because there's some really good

lessons to pull from this.

And the thing is, the reason why this is important is for a few

reasons. Okay. Number one is that healthy living is important. When we look at our world today,

when we look at how toxic everything is, and we look at the rates of sickness and

diabetes and heart disease and cancer and all of these other things. I mean, asthma, everything.

There's so many things that we're faced with today, and these numbers are continuing to skyrocket.

It is important

to look at and say, how can I care for my family well when all of these things are happening?

How can I maybe help my children to not have as many of these health risks in the future?

How can I help my own current hormones and my energy levels and my husband and all these

things? So it is important. It's so important. It's

something I'm really passionate about. But there is a trend also that I have noticed in the last

couple of years where healthy living, non-toxic things, you know, all these topics have become

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