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Dieting has become a common practice in our society.

During the 20th century, with the rise of the entertainment industry, namely movies and television, physical image began to become a huge fixation for our society. Magazines showing off models and actors and actresses at every checkout stand showed the public the "perfect" figure. We have been told what we should aspire to look like and it has become ingrained in us. To achieve this, many people began to create extreme eating plans or diets which would help people to lose weight and create their own "perfect" body. The problem with this is many were created not by scientists who understand how the body works, but by people trying to make money. Diets plans have made people extremely rich over the years. The consumers of these diets buy into it hoping they get the same results they see on the commercials where people have lost incredible amounts of weight. Often times these diets have very negative side affects to them if people are not careful.

Two themes from the reformation that apply to this fad are sola fide and sola scriptura. Sola fide refers to the ideology that faith is all that is required to achieve salvation. Sola Scriptura refers to the ideology that the scriptures contain the keys to salvation. In the reformation these were competing ideologies. In this situation they still compete. I would apply the idea of sola fide to the followers of fad dieting. They believe the diet works and trust that if they keep at it they will achieve the results they want. If they believe in it, it will work. I would apply sola scriptura to scientists who understand how the body works and how these diets can affect it. They believe in the "book" or science which gives us an understanding of how diets can harm, or help the body. Those who are in the sola fide camp so often don't research and look into the science behind the diets and don't understand possible dangers lurking behind the hope of weight loss.

Many diets do work and can help us become healthier, but the obsession of looking perfect and losing weight can lead people to blindly follow diets and ignore potential dangers.

"This is My Work and My Glory"

“For behold, this is my work and my glory – to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.”  This scripture is found in the book of Moses where God reveals his grand purpose for His children.  While studying the Renaissance and Reformation, I have noticed in particular how God’s hand played a role in the very details of events transpiring in this time span. Throughout the 14^th – 17^th century and then later in the 19^th century when the gospel of Jesus Christ was brought back to the earth in what we know as the restoration.  

The restoration of the gospel was happening long before the spring of 1820.  Elder Bruce R. McConkie (1915–85) of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles taught, “Beginning in the 14th century, the Lord began to prepare those social, educational, religious, economic, and governmental conditions under which he could more easily restore the gospel for the last time among men.”