Barach analyzes and offers a healthy alternative to the “food as fuel” theory. He concludes:
While it may be necessary for some Christians to diet, it seems to me that an approach to dieting that depends on eliminating all these other aspects of food in favor of presenting food only as fuel is wrongheaded.
Resurrectio et Vita 
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