{"id":10,"date":"2008-05-05T15:58:38","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T21:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/wordofwisdom\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2011-06-27T21:20:40","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T03:20:40","slug":"grain","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/wordofwisdom\/allowed-items\/grain\/","title":{"rendered":"Grain"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl>\n<dt>Doesn&#8217;t the Word of Wisdom say man is only supposed to eat wheat?<\/dt>\n<dd>Verses 14 &amp; 16 state that all grain should be used for \t\t\tfood and for our use.<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<dt>How much of a part of our diet should grain play?<\/dt>\n<dd>Verse 14 says that all grain should be the staff of life, \t\t\tsuggesting it should be the main staple of our diet, supplemented by \t\t\tother foods.<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<dt>Should bread be made with whole wheat flour instead of white flour?<\/dt>\n<dd>From a health standpoint, yes. From a Word of Wisdom \t\t\tstandpoint, not necessarily. The Word of Wisdom only lists the grain, \t\t\tnot how much of the head that should be used.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is no prohibition in Section 89, for instance, as to \t\t\tthe eating of white bread, using white flour, white sugar, cocoa, \t\t\tchocolate, eggs, milk, meat, or anything else, except items classified \t\t\tunder the headings, tea, coffee, tobacco, and liquor&#8221; (Bruce R. \t\t\tMcConkie, <cite>Mormon Doctrine<\/cite>, p.846).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Persons who say that it is against the Word of Wisdom to eat \t\t\twhite flour simply do not know what they are talking about. The same \t\t\tis true with respect to white sugar. The Church has never banned or \t\t\teven raised a question about either one. Only unauthorized persons who \t\t\tspeak on their own responsibility try to make Church doctrine out of \t\t\ttheir private personal views&#8221; (Elder \t\t\tMark E. Peterson, <cite>Patterns for Living<\/cite> [Bookcraft, 1962], pp. \t\t\t235-37).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doesn&#8217;t the Word of Wisdom say man is only supposed to eat wheat? Verses 14 &amp; 16 state that all grain should be used for food and for our use. How much of a part of our diet should grain play? Verse 14 says that all grain should be the staff of life, suggesting it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/wordofwisdom\/allowed-items\/grain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Grain&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":57,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2Bc4t-a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/wordofwisdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/wordofwisdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/wordofwisdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/wordofwisdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/wordofwisdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/wordofwisdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/wordofwisdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/103"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/wordofwisdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/wordofwisdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}