The Bible Diet (also known as the Maker’s Diet) is a diet promoted on radio and in books by writer and motivational speaker Jordan S. Rubin, who says it is based on teachings from the books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy and other books of the bible, that certain foods are either forbidden (“unclean”) or acceptable (“clean”) to God. Rubin also markets supplements associated with the diet though his company Garden of Life, Inc.

Rubin claims that the diet was responsible for his recovery from Crohn’s disease at the age of 19. When he was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, he went to all kinds of doctors, and finally turned to the Bible. Wanting to share his newfound knowledge, he wrote the Maker’s Diet, a wonderful book that explains his story and how to do it yourself.

The diet classifies food according to certain factors such as how the food was raised, cooked or cleaned; how a particular animal lived, such as if it was a so-called “creeping” animal or not; and its physical form, such as whether a certain fish had fins and scales or not. The rules for determining clean and unclean foods are derived from certain passages from the Bible in the books of Genesis, Proverbs, Luke, Paul, Exodus, Peter, Leviticus, Judges, Deuteronomy, Isaiah, 1 Corinthians, Habakkuk, and Daniel.

Check out Rubin’s books below and give the Maker’s Diet a try!