Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Christian diet programs promote the idea that the human body is a temple that must be kept holy. [2] They have been criticized for then equating having a thin, physically beautiful body with being holy and righteous. [2] A commonly cited Bible verse is 1 Corinthians 6:19–20, which Christian diet programs say means that it is sinful to be ...
Gwendolyn Henley Shamblin Lara (February 18, 1955 – May 29, 2021) was the founder of the Remnant Fellowship Cult , founder of the Christian diet program The Weigh Down Workshop, and an American author. She is the subject of the 2021 HBO Max docuseries, The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin.
Some Taoists strongly discouraged female masturbation. Women were encouraged to practice massaging techniques upon themselves, but were also instructed to avoid thinking sexual thoughts if experiencing a feeling of pleasure. Otherwise, the woman's "labia will open wide and the sexual secretions will flow."
[66]: 88–92 The ethical obligation for sexual self-control was placed equally on all people in the Christian communities, men or women, slave or free. In Paul's letters, porneia , (a single name for an array of sexual behaviors outside marital intercourse), became a central defining concept of sexual morality, and shunning it, a key sign of ...
Overeaters Anonymous (OA) is a twelve-step program founded by Rozanne S. [1] Its first meeting was held in Hollywood, California, USA on January 19, 1960, after Rozanne attended a Gamblers Anonymous meeting and realized that the Twelve Steps could potentially help her with her own addictive behaviors relating to food. [1]
Hara hachi bu is a Japanese philosophy of stopping eating when you’re 80% full. Dietitians share why the method may benefit your health and boost longevity.
The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth is a book written by Beth Allison Barr and published in 2021 by Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group. The book discusses women in Christianity and argues that the restrictive position known as complementarianism is a recent development inconsistent ...
Growing up, Ajahzi Gardner was very aware of being the one and only. The only Black girl on the soccer team, the only Black girl on the gymnastics team, the only Black girl on the cheerleading ...