Faith-based diet, wiccan-style

Recent reports have pegged churches as breeding grounds for obesity, largely because of the large amounts of fatty foods often served at church social events.

Baptists and fundamentalist Protestants were found to be the most likely to be obese, while Seventh-Day Adventists, Mormons, Christian Scientists, and Jews and other non-Christians tended to have healthier weights. It’s thought that because those religions put more of an emphasis on health (Adventists, for example, are vegetarian) their congregations tend to be healthier.

All this got us wondering on this Halloween’s eve: what about people with more unconventional beliefs? Is there, for example, a wiccan diet? Turns out, not too surprisingly, that there are people who have written about the preferred diet for wiccans, or, more accurately, pagans.

As paganism is normally associated with connection to nature and reverence of the earth, it makes sense that these would be the guiding principles in a wiccan or pagan diet. An archived website that was selling a book described the wiccan diet as a way to boost energy and think more clearly, as well as lose weight. The site didn’t offer any details and has since been closed.

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I don't know that there is any one king of pagan or wiccan diet, but I am a vegan. This choice wasn't entirely spiritual, but I think that it dovetails nicely with neo-pagan principals.

The fact that I've lost a *huge* amount of weight is just a bonus! ;)