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@donutnarwhal135

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly, if it feels like it's against the word of wisdom, just don't eat it until you double check. Also, read the ingredients! I was drinking this one type of soda for a while without knowing it had green tea in it

Thank you so much! I am a new convert and I appreciate your information and testimony. it reminds me to look at the blessing given to me by the lord through the Word of Wisdom.

Thanks Mimi ☺, this is really awesome& honest. The Church realeased a statement end of 2019 explaining some stuff,i did my research& chose to go on a mostly Plant based lifestyle since then, i do eat meat when i miss it.😃 There is no perfect Word of Wisdon diet& people will be judgey all the time trying to tell you according to their own understanding but gaining a personal testimony has been helpful for me. ❤

The caffeine thing is an interesting topic. Back in the day, caffinated plants used to be used for migraines and headaches, for hyperactivity, or mental awareness. Coffee was sometimes the easiest form available back then. Now days, we have other methods to relieve headaches, and peppermint tea (or peppermint oil; for external use) so we don't NEED to turn to coffee as a medicine. Now, if we really need a caffeine boost for any reason, we have choices our ancestors did not have. On the topic of tea, too, black tea comes from a specific plant, Camellia sinensis. Green and white tea (white tea being the baby green tea leaves) is from the same plant but has not undergone withering or oxidation. Herbal tea is as it sounds: tea made from leaves or flowers of the everyday culinary herbs. You can even make tea from flowers in your garden like gardenias, roses, pansies (all good in salads, too!), chamomile, dandelion flowers and leaves, you can make tea from a citrus peel or apples, or cinnamon sticks. Herbal teass also have nutrients (like rosehip tea is packed with vitamin C!), chamomile and rose have vitamin E, etc. Herbal teas always have a nutrient benefit.

@Mimi.Bascom

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for your insights! This is super informative!!

@snowboardutah3

3 жыл бұрын

And green tea has excellent nutritional values too (antioxidants for free radicals in your body). What's your point?

I'm glad I found you, I'm also LDS and I started to drink healthier recently and it makes a big difference.

I must be a terrible member I keep seeing the acronym WOW and was getting confused on why everyone was so wowed then it hit me lol. Great Vids!

This was such a good video!! And I loved your experience about your colleague coming up to you during your trip and wanting to know more. That’s so cool!!

Thank you for this video. So helpful. I'm just learning about word of wisdom now and it's so much cultural shock for me as tea is big in culture. Thank you for sharing this information. :)

As a new member I hope but I don't smoke, drink or do any type of drugs only if it is prescribed to me. So I follow the Word of Wisdom before I knew about it. I would like to hear more about the LDS Doctrine of something that you have not covered.

I would think green tea skincare products or skincare/exfoliants containing caffeine (coffee beans) in them is ok, since they don't have the same potentially addictive qualities to them when used in that way on the skin, vs. when they are consumed orally and circulated throughout the body in a much higher dosage.

I'm an ex latter day saint but I'm considering rejoining. I want to follow the word of wisdom regardless. I can't drink caffeine as I take a certain medication but I do drink decaf tea and coffee. I also smoke and drink but not to excess. I feel like the word of wisdom is a good thing to follow but I can't seem to stop smoking or drinking alcohol/coffee etc I have a coffee substitute I like but I always go for coffee. I enjoy herbal teas but I always go for regular as it's cheaper. I can't seem to kick the habit. I also struggle with an eating disorder and I know undereating is harmful to the body and I don't really know how to take care of my body. Maybe the word of wisdom can help. Great video!

@meganderry3985

3 жыл бұрын

There are some great non-alcoholic liquors out there now! As for ED you should join a group or talk to some people who get it. Our perceptions of ourselves are always 1 million x worse then what we actually look like!

@snowboardutah3

3 жыл бұрын

@@meganderry3985 If you are talking about mixers than it would be just juice 🤣

Thanks for the thing about boba tea! I've always wanted to try it but was always sad because I thought it was against the word of wisdom. Is there boba tea that isn't made of tea leaves?

@Mimi.Bascom

3 жыл бұрын

Just saw another comment here that says it depends on the base tea used. If you use oolong tea instead of black or green tea it’s okay!

@plebeixnn9642

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mimi.Bascom Okay, thanks!

@clairekeller7765

3 жыл бұрын

you should always check and make sure with the place you’re buying it from, but usually if it’s milk tea or milk based boba it won’t have any type of real tea base.

Well spoken sister

i have always had drinks with caffeine and hadn't thought about it, but i found last year my blood pressure was high, and caffeine contributes to that

Miss u Mimi love ur channel

Awesome video 😃

certain animals definitely don’t exist just for humans to eat and i don’t know any members that eat meat sparingly, they eat it once or twice a day! i think it says to eat meat sparingly because lots of people eat too much as opposed to too little. think about the planet, animals and your health!

I always find it interesting that people say they follow the Word of Wisdom - and also order a frappuccino or something with mocha in the name of the beverage. Believe that a beverage with "ccino" or "mocha" means it is a type of coffee product. Personally I don't like the smell of coffee (even that aisle in the grocery store) - so avoid going to Starbucks mainly for two reasons... 1) their hot chocolate is never chocolaty enough, and 2) of course it smells like coffee. Also I served a mission in Japan and green tea it is *not* one of the few teas missionaries & members should drink. We could have mugicha - which is a wheat tea and takes a while to get used to. I haven't had any since returning from Japan in the late 80's.

@snowboardutah3

3 жыл бұрын

I agree. Smelling coffee is next to murder for me. I hope and pray one day coffee is gone from the face of the earth. Until then, I will just suffer in torture.

so i need help. i’ve been a member for 6 years and i’ve never been able to stop drinking coffee. also i drink alcohol sometimes socially too. reason being, i just don’t believe that it was a real revelation. and i went on a mission and everything......it’s not like i go around saying “the WOW is fake!!!”, this is a personal struggle for me. so i truly would love someone to help me with this. i do have a testimony of joseph smith btw. but i just don’t believe in the WOW bc it’s waaaay too pointless in my opinion (at least coffee/tea part). and i’m tired of people’s answers just being “yeah it makes no sense but where’s your faith? this is a commandment to test your faith!” ummm sorry no i don’t follow things blindly. anyways please comment if you feel like you can help me bc i would really appreciate this😭🤍

@Mimi.Bascom

3 жыл бұрын

Hey girl, thanks for your comment! In the video I made points about how substance addiction takes away our agency (one of the greatest blessings we’ve been given) and that mind altering substances hinder our ability to hear the Savior. Also, people didn’t think tobacco/alcohol wasn’t harmful to the body at the time of the revelation so some refused to follow it. But research in later years have proved them to be harmful - so even though coffee and tea don’t have harmful effects right now (and maybe the never will), what it really comes down to sacrifice. The Word of Wisdom is definitely a real commandment - otherwise it wouldn’t be in our scripture and be a requirement to receive a temple recommend. Despite the health benefits, Heavenly Father wants us to make sacrifices to prove that we’re faithful just like the Savior sacrificed His life for us. I would definitely recommend praying about this. Praying to receive confirmation that the Word of Wisdom was a real revelation. I hope this helps 🤍

@homesteadgamer1257

3 жыл бұрын

I can relate to this. The only way I know how to help is to bear my testimony on this. So 2 summers ago, I got little sleep, and so I'd accompany my autistic child to school and stay there with her all day. At the tine, I was inactive at the church, and had grown up in a coffe-drinking home, so it was an easy boost to fall onto. But soon it went from 2 cups of coffee a day to sometimes 12-18!! And about 1/3 of that was the super strong Starbucks coffee. Well, needless to say, I began having severe stomach pain and bloating. I had given myself a severe case of GERD. In fact, I had programned my stomach to produce an extremely weak acid by ingesting SO much acid (from the coffee). I ruined my stomach AND my throat, because acid reflux happened so often. Because I have asthma, and inflammation from coffee irritation put me into an asthma attack. I still suffer from it today. Sometimes even drinking water first thing in the a.m. gives me acid reflux. I am also terrified of coffee headaches, which are the worst pain in the world (and I've given borth twice!). So, My advice for weaning off coffee: switch to caffinated soda, then energy drinks (just make sure they don't have black or green tea; I prefer Monster Juice). I know the energy drink thing sounds weird, but oddly, there is no headache from not drinking an energy drink. Soda can give you a "coffee" headache, though, and more closely resembles coffee. So start with soda, then switch to low-carbonated energy drinks in place of coffee. It will take time to adjust fully. But it will be worth it.

@poisonisley9832

3 жыл бұрын

I struggle with the WOW as well! I understand alcohol and smoking but I grew up in the south and I was not raised in the church like my husband. Sweet tea and coffee has always been apart of my life, I can go without it. I’ve done it many times but it just doesn’t make sense to me and anytime I ask why? I’m always met with an “idk”....it says not to drink hot drinks but we LDS members drink hot chocolate like it’s going out of style. Iced tea/hot tea is wrong but herbal tea is okay? It’s hot as well... there is just to many holes, also let’s not forget Jesus drank wine as she said above and anytime I make that statement I’m told that “there wasn’t many options back then to drink” but it’s Jesus!!! Even if the WOW is modern day revelation it was JESUS! He could have turned that water into anything and he chose wine! Also “drink of the wine and be merry!” I don’t do any drugs but yes I drink coffee and tea. I know members who follow the word of wisdom but they drink monster energy drinks, soda, etc... which is even worse in my opinion than tea and coffee. I have PCOS and it’s so hard for me to lose weight. Anytime I ask my doctor what to drink of my diet I’m always told green tea and black coffee 🙄 it’s just confusing and I’m so tired of not having an answer.

Boba Tea is okay as long as the base tea that is used is Oolong tea, not black or green.

@homesteadgamer1257

3 жыл бұрын

Oolong is made from the same plant as black and green tea, though, so I think it's a dicey topic. The oxidation levels are all thst change black to green to oolong.

The war in the world, started with “hot drink” or coffee and tea on the table..

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Where in the Word of God (Bible) does it speak about caffeine?

The thing is I do drink coffee. Unfortunately, because I don't know what to drink every morning. I don't like milk, orange juice makes my heart beat faster. I'm skeptical about soda in the morning. My uncle drink coffee apparently, he lives in Utah.

@homesteadgamer1257

3 жыл бұрын

You don't NEED to drink anything in the mornings 🙂 (besides water!). I don't know how coffee became a morning drink, because it started out as an after supper drink (not the same as a nightcap or social drink). Don't feel pressured to drink anything in the morning, or anytime, just because other people are addicted.

The command to eat meat did not come into play until after the flood of Noah. So, we were originally not permitted to eat meat before that time in human history.

*Tea* is developed/processed from Camellia sinensis native to China/East Asia. Common forms are black tea, green tea, white tea, oolong tea. It is a Word of Wisdom no-no. The proscribed "hot drinks" in D&C 89:9 are interpreted as tea & coffee. Herbal "tea" that does not contain Camellia sinensis is technically not *tea* per se & depending on ingredients, not a WoW problem. Most herbal teas are quite healthful & full of beneficial nutrients. Green tea & white tea confer undeniable health benefits but are specifically forbidden by the Word of Wisdom. Thus it is as a demonstration of obedience that we comply with prophetic counsel by abstaining & not because it is harmful to health. The overwhelming consensus of longstanding nutrition science re tea as a healthful beverage is well established.

The question about why mormons cant drink alcohol when Jesus drank wine was a great valid question with not such a clear answer. Its ok to say “i dont know the answer” but your answer was not clear at all.

@Mimi.Bascom

3 жыл бұрын

The answer is that the Word of Wisdom hadn’t been given at that point. It wasn’t revealed until the 1830s to the prophet Joseph Smith when he asked God about tobacco. Sorry if that wasn’t made clear in my video!

@dbn2201

2 жыл бұрын

If you Google and do some research there is very good evidence that Jesus did NOT drink alcoholic wine.

Good video.

@Mimi.Bascom

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😊

It literally says To be sent greeting; not by commandment or constraint, but by revelation and the word of wisdom, showing forth the order and will of God in the temporal salvation of all saints in the last days- you referenced it as commandment the whole times. That's not the right phrasing!

@Mimi.Bascom

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry for misspeaking in this video! I guess I called it a commandment since following the Word of Wisdom is a prerequisite to receiving a temple recommend!

@meganderry3985

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, sorry that may have sounded harsh. I didn't mean it like that, I just don't like that we teach it like that all over when that’s technically not doctrine. Love what you do!

I think as long as you are not ingesting it, it doesn't count.

Drink but don't get addicted is what I feel is the line,

@Mimi.Bascom

3 жыл бұрын

With things like soda - yes! But the Word of Wisdom specifically says not to drink alcohol!

@meachew

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mimi.Bascom oh agree lol, thx for answering 🙂

Hi Mimi!!

@Mimi.Bascom

3 жыл бұрын

Hey girl!!

The word of wisdom says to eat meat sparingly only in times of winter and famine where other foods where not assessable at the time. God makes it very clear that if we can he would prefer if we ate no meat at all. Most Mormons do not follow the word of wisdom and the prophets do not push it enough because they love meat more than they love gods commandments. The church has been corrupted in some places