Reverend George Malkmus, Founder of Hallelujah Acres
Archive for July, 2010
Why Do Christians Struggle With Addictions?
Jul 27th
Last week in Health Tip #661: The Root of Addiction, I wrote: “Five of the six substances we have dealt with are addictive: refined sugar, refined grains, caffeine, Nicotine and alcohol. Only one of them is not addictive: animal flesh (including Dairy).”
I WAS WRONG – ANIMAL FLESH IS ADDICTIVE
For the past month and a half on this blog I have posted the following question to our readers: “Which of these was the hardest thing to give up on The Hallelujah Diet?”
Nearly 400 have responded to that question. Approximately 50% answered with refined sugar. That result did not surprise me as it was in keeping with what I have known for years. Sugar is the single most addictive thing in the Standard American Diet, some saying it is as addictive as heroin.
But in second place, with almost 25% of the votes, was Animal Flesh. This came as a big surprise to me because when I adopted The Hallelujah Diet over 34 years ago, animal products were the easiest thing for me to eliminate from my diet and many through the years have agreed with me.
That new revelation gives me direction for this Health Tip. But before dealing with animal flesh I am going to share a few letters I have received from readers regarding addictions.
“I read your article on addictions with great interest. I have a strong addiction to sweets and over 400 pounds in weight speaks to how indulgent I am… I can’t seem to break my habits and cravings… please pray for me!”
“I have not had a cigarette in over 5 years. However I use low dosages of nicotine in gum and nicotine lozenges. My doctor suggested the nicotine gum and lozenges as an aid to help me stop smoking 5 years ago. Now, 5 years after I stopped smoking cigarettes, I find myself addicted to the nicotine in the gum and lozenges. I would like to abandon the crutch, however, it is not easy to do. Thanks in advance for any information you can shed on this to assist me.”
The above letters are just a small sampling of the types of letters I have received through the years. Most of these letters have come from Christians who want to and have been trying to stop their addiction. Many of them have been praying for victory over their addictions for a long time without experiencing the victory they say they so desire.
There is a real problem of misunderstanding regarding the cause of addictions by many Christians. If a person is going to obtain victory over their addiction, there are several things they must understand.
I will try and address the problem and the solution under the following headings which may take several Health Tips.
- Why do Christians (as well as non-Christians) struggle with addictions?
- Why is God not answering prayers for help in overcoming addictions?
- How can victory over addictions be achieved?
WHY DO CHRISTIANS STRUGGLE WITH ADDICTIONS?
After God had created Adam and placed him in a garden (See Genesis 2:7-9), God told Adam what he was to eat to nourish the physical body that had been given him. What was it he was told to eat?
“And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat (food).” Genesis 1:29
Clearly, God was telling Adam here that all the nutrients necessary to support his physical body were to be found in the living plants God had placed in the Garden before Adam was ever created. Adam’s diet was to consist simply and exclusively of the raw fruits, vegetables, seeds and nuts God had created and placed there.
Following Adam and Eve being expelled from the Garden, the Bible indicates this Genesis 1:29 diet continued to be the exclusive diet of mankind for the next 1,700 years, right up until the flood. During this time, man lives to an average age of 912 (age of patriarchs at death) without a single recorded instance of sickness.
But then came a flood that covered the entire earth. The flood-waters covered all of the plant foods God had told mankind he was to eat for the nourishment of the physical bodies God had created.
“And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.” Genesis 7:19
Because the flood had destroyed all garden foods, it becomes obvious that if man was to continue to sustain life on planet earth, God had to provide something else for man to eat. In response to that need, God allows man to deviate from the exclusive Garden food diet He had originally given Adam in Genesis 1:29, and that had sustained man for the previous 1,700 years for the very first time, for what appears to be survival purposes.
And what was that deviation? Animal flesh!
“Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.” Genesis 9:3
Prior to man being allowed for the first time to consume animal flesh, a non-garden food, there is no indication from Scripture that man had ever experienced an addiction to any of the garden foods. Nor during those 1,700 years, while man was on that exclusive garden diet, will you find the words ‘glutton’ or ‘gluttonous’ used even one time.
However, after the Israelites had gone down into the land of Egypt where they learned to eat a lot of animal flesh, we read:
“And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died at the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat at the flesh pots…” Exodus 16:3
Scripture indicates that while in Egypt, flesh became a big part of their diet and when God was bringing them out of Egypt and these flesh foods were no longer available to them, they were so unhappy they wished they had died.
When God was again the dietitian, during the 40 years of wilderness wandering, what did He miraculously provide the Children of Israel for food and nourishment? Was it not a garden food?
“And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat. . . . And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.”
Exodus 16:15 & 31
Were they satisfied with God’s miraculous and life-sustaining provision during their wanderings? Listen to Moses as he speaks to God concerning Gods provision as they continued on their journey.
“Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? For they weep unto me, saying, give us flesh, that we may eat.” Numbers 11:13
Read the rest of Numbers 11 and learn how God responded to the Israelites murmuring and demand for flesh. Note especially verses 32 and 33.
“And there went forth a wind from the Lord, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp… and the people gathered the quails… And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague.”
It would appear from the above Scriptures, that animal flesh became the very first substance to which man became addicted! But for sure it would not be the last! As man continued through the years to turn ever further from the Garden foods, man become addicted to an increasing number of substances found only outside of the Garden.
Upon reading the above Scriptures regarding the struggle the children of Israel had with animal flesh, along with the results of the poll on my blog, obviously I was wrong when I said animal flesh is not addictive.
In any event, in today’s society we continue to stray ever further from the Garden foods God designed these glorious, God created, physical bodies to be nourished with.
Today, instead of eating exclusively the Garden foods God told us we should in Genesis 1:29, we have allowed our taste buds to be manipulated by and controlled by the world, the food industry!
Most of the so-called foods that comprise the Standard American Diet (SAD) of today are addictive substances, the very substances I shared with you earlier in this Health Tip. Refined sugar, refined grains, caffeine, nicotine, alcohol and now I must add animal flesh to those addictive substances.
Interestingly, these addictive substances are the same substances Hallelujah Acres has been encouraging folks to remove from their diet for the past 18 plus years if they wanted to obtain the health God designed for His human creation. In the place of these addictive substances we have recommended people adopt a 100% plant based diet – a diet similar to the diet God gave to Adam in the garden.
We call this The Hallelujah Diet. It is patterned after the very diet God gave Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden in Genesis 1:29, with a few minor deviations as discussed in last week’s Health Tip #661.
But now comes the problem and the challenge. Most people are literally addicted to almost everything found in the SAD.
What can one do in order to obtain victory over these addictive substances? Let’s start with prayer.
WHY IS GOD NOT ANSWERING MOST PRAYERS FOR HELP IN OVERCOMING ADDICTIONS?
I’ll begin by sharing a letter from a Christian lady who has been praying for God to help her overcome an ADDICTION for a long, long time, only without success:
“I am addicted to sugar, overweight, really desperate, and don’t know where to turn. I am saved and have asked God to help me with this problem, but keep failing over and over again. I am always exhausted in the middle of the day and the only thing that makes me feel better, temporarily, is to eat something sweet. I feel like I am getting weaker and weaker in the area of temptation day by day. I don’t know why it seems so impossible to get the victory over this problem, but with my track record of struggling with overeating and sugar addiction for 40 years, I feel like it is impossible. Please pray for me.”
Ooops! I am out of room for this week. Next week, Lord willing, in Health Tip #663, I will share why many Christians who are praying for victory over various addictions are not having their prayers answered. Then I will offer some suggestions as to how victory over addictions can be achieved.
From The Mailbag: What Caused George Steinbrenner’s Death?
Jul 27th
The very day I read of the New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner’s death due to a massive heart attack, I received the following letter from Wilson:
“George, I began to be interested in the importance of good nutrition in order to obtain good health way back in 1948 while listening to Carlton Fredricks on the radio, when he told how the beautiful wheat seed was mutilated to make white poison bread. Then Jo Willard got me into the American Natural Hygiene society and I became a Lifetime member. Well, as a result of adopting a plant based diet over 62 years ago, I am still at age 88 experiencing great health and enjoying helping folks get into health and nutrition. Some of my first converts were my own mom and dad who lived to almost 102 years because of their making a diet change. What fun that was getting my own parents converted. I want you to know that you and your wife Rhonda are doing a wonderful job. Keep up the good work. Wilson B.
Just a few minutes after receiving the above letter from Wilson, telling how his parents extended their lives by consuming a plant based diet, and sharing how well he was doing physically at age 88, the following news article came across my computer’s screen:
“Yankees owner George Steinbrenner dies at 80… He had just celebrated his 80th birthday July 4. Steinbrenner had a heart attack… and died at about 6:30 a.m. on July 13, 2010… Steinbrenner was in fragile health for years… Steinbrenner had fainted at a memorial service for NFL star Otto Graham in 2003, appeared weak in 2006… Still, the former Big Ten football coach took umbrage when others questioned his fitness. ‘No I did not have a stroke, I am not ill. I work out daily’ Steinbrenner said in 2006. ‘I’d like to see people who are saying that to come down here and do the workout that I do.’”
WHAT CAUSED GEORGE STEINBRENNER’S DEATH?
The answer to that question is an easy one. It is the same thing that caused my dad’s death after experiencing a massive heart attack, and it is the same thing that causes half of all deaths in America.
The culprit also causes high blood pressure, the need for stents and by-pass surgeries and most strokes.
And just what is it that causes all of the above physical problems and early and untimely deaths? Animal fat.
Are you aware that the average 4-year-old that is fed meat and cow milk, both of which contain animal fat, already has fat build up in their arteries? Are you aware autopsies on 19-year-old soldiers who died during the Vietnam war, showed they already had 50% blockage of their arteries?
Every time a person has a steak or hamburger or eats chicken nuggets or any other animal flesh or dairy, they are adding to the fat build-up in their arteries, which will eventually kill 50% of them.
May the death of George Steinbrenner be a warning to all who consume animal sourced foods, both flesh and dairy, as they both contain animal fat.
Let Wilson’s letter above be a source of encouragement to convert to a plant based diet so that you can eliminate the fear of ending your life with a massive heart attack or stroke.
The Hallelujah Acres Diet and Lifestyle contains absolutely no animal fat, but rather helps clean out previous build-up of fat in the arteries, while at the same time building up the heart and making it stronger through exercise.
Only God knows how many massive heart attacks and strokes have been prevented because someone adopted The Hallelujah Acres Diet and Lifestyle.
I ate the same fat laden animal flesh and drank the same fat laden dairy growing up as my dad did. Dad died of a massive heart attack at age 65. I stopped consuming all fat laden animal products at age 42 and have thus far outlived my dad by 11 years.
God says in Galatians 6:7: “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
And in Hosea 4:6 we read: “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge.”
Knowledge is power, but only if you apply that knowledge!
Watermelon Juice – It’s Delicious!
Jul 26th
Over 30 years ago I had the privilege of spending some time with Dr. Ann Wigmore at the Hippocrates Health Institute in Boston, Massachusetts learning all I could about her methods of restoring health through plant based nutrition.
She was an amazing woman and was helping so very many people regain their health on a 100% raw plant based diet with lots of fresh vegetable juices and sprouts. It was there I learned to make wheat grass juice.
I found her kitchen very unique, in that it did not have a stove, but it did have a number of juicers. During my time at Hippocrates, every morning for breakfast they had big pitchers of freshly extracted watermelon juice and it was so delicious. It was the perfect start to a hot summer day.
Ever since then, watermelon juice has been a summer favorite, and it is so easy to make in your juicer.
Here’s how to make it: Watermelon Juice Recipe.
12 Fruits and Veggies Make the “Dirty Dozen” List
Jul 26th
In an attempt to raise awareness about pesticide use, the Environment Working Group (EWG) reviewed 100,000 produce pesticide reports from the U. S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and put together a list of the “Dirty Dozen,” of produce that contains the highest amount of pesticide residues.
According to the EWG’s Amy Rosenthal, if you want to reduce pesticide exposure you do not have to go 100 percent organic. “You can reduce your exposure to pesticides by up to 80 percent by buying the organic version of the Dirty Dozen.”
Following is the Dirty Dozen list:
- Celery
- Peaches
- Strawberries
- Apples
- Domestic Blueberries
- Nectarines
- Sweet Bell Peppers
- Spinach, Kale, and Collard greens
- Cherries
- Potatoes (white)
- Imported Grapes
- Lettuce
When Hallelujah Acres first began promoting organic produce, there were few places to purchase it and the cost was outrageous.
Fortunately, as time has passed, more people have started demanding organic produce after becoming aware of the potential toxins contained in or on fresh produce. The number of stores carrying organic produce has greatly increased and the costs have come down.
Rhonda and I have known for years that most of the items on the list above were ones we needed to buy organic or not eat. Finding the greens such as spinach, kale, collards, and lettuce on the list, however, was a surprise. For sure we will buy only organically raised greens in the future, or raise our own in our organic garden.
Farmers Markets might also be a place to buy greens that have not been sprayed with poison. Before purchasing greens there it might be good to ask the farmer if they have been sprayed.
In next week’s Health Tip, we will list the 15 vegetables and fruits the EWG has designated as being “clean” – that is relatively clean of pesticide residues.
Rev. Malkmus & Rhonda Home after 3,000 Mile Speaking Tour
Jul 26th
Rhonda and I arrived home safely this past Saturday afternoon (July 24) after spending eleven days on the road, driving 2,879 miles, delivering three seminars, and taping two 1-hour television programs. As always it is so good to be home and sleeping in our own beds. Motels are nice when on the road, but there is no place like home!
Thank you so much for your prayers for our safe return!
The Algona, Iowa seminar only had about 150 people in attendance, but when you consider that Algona is a very small farming town in north central Iowa surrounded by cornfields and soybean fields for miles and miles around, that 150 number sounds pretty good. Over half of the people attending had driven at least three hours to attend and several had driven over six hours. It was a good meeting.
Our seminar in Independence, Missouri was a unique one – About two hours before the seminar was to begin, the worst thunder and lightning storm of the season (so I was told) hit town, and continued on and off throughout the evening. They were expecting 600 in attendance and no doubt that number would have shown up if it had not been for the storm. In spite of the storm we had over 300.
Then at one point during the seminar, popping sounds in the ceiling started and with each pop, showers of sparks rained down on the people. I urged the people to remain calm as the ushers moved the people from the area where the sparks were falling as I continued on with the seminar. The air conditioning unit was turned off on a very hot evening, but we did complete the seminar without any further problems and the people lingered for over an hour asking questions after the seminar ended.
Our seminar in the Keeter Center at the College of the Ozarks in Branson, Missouri had some 300 in attendance and we were told that was the largest number they had ever had in the auditorium on the college campus.
While in Branson we had the privilege of staying at the Hallelujah Acres Lifestyle Center in Golden, Missouri (located just outside of Branson). Kevin and Jenifer VanKirk are the owners and hosts of the Lifestyle Center and are wonderful caring people. Their home, located on the shores of Table Rock Lake is rustic and yet has all the amenities including private baths for each room.
Several days before our arrival in Branson, Jennifer had contact with television Evangelist Jim Baker who is developing 600 acres of land into a Christian village called Morningside in Branson. On the campus they have their television studios and when he learned that we were coming to Branson he wanted all of us – Rhonda and myself, Kevin and Jennifer, to all be on his television show.
Jim Bakker was so excited we were there and the first thing he shared with us was that he was on a 100% plant based diet and in just the first four weeks of making the diet change was off all his diabetic medications and his blood sugar levels were normal. We taped one 1-hour show and then he asked us to do another. They will be telecast in about two weeks over Daystar and TBN, as well as on the internet around the world. I believe he said the viewing audience in the U.S. alone is over 58 Million.
This was an added bonus and for sure came as an unexpected opportunity to share God’s Health Message with a potential audience of millions of people around the world. They said that one of the countries they receive a tremendous response from is China. By the way, Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Contraras have recently done shows on Jim Baker’s television programs as well.
Our next scheduled “God’s Way to Ultimate Health” seminars are scheduled for August 7 in Shelby, North Carolina; August 14 in New Bern, North Carolina and August 21 near Spartanburg, South Carolina. If any of these locations are near where you live, we hope to see you there.
The Root of Addiction
Jul 20th
For the past twelve Health Tips we have been dealing with the subject “How We Contribute to Our Own Physical Problems.” During this series we talked about six harmful substances people take into their bodies, usually on a daily basis.
These harmful substances are animal flesh and dairy, refined sugar, refined grains, caffeine, Nicotine and alcohol.
(All of these articles are available in the George Malkmus category on this blog and in printable form in the Health Tip archives.)
Five of the six substances we have dealt with are addictive: refined sugar, refined grains, caffeine, Nicotine and alcohol. Only one of them is not addictive: animal flesh (including Dairy).
WHY DO PEOPLE BECOME ADDICTED TO VARIOUS SUBSTANCES?
At Hallelujah Acres we recommend that all of these harmful substances be removed from the diet. In their place we promote a basically living (raw), 100% plant based diet. We call this “The Hallelujah Diet.” It is an eating plan patterned after the diet God gave Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden in Genesis 1:29, with a few minor deviations.
The Hallelujah Diet’s primary deviation from the Genesis 1:29 diet is that it does allow for 15% of the diet to be comprised of cooked plant-sourced foods such as baked potatoes, whole grains, whole grain pastas, steamed vegetables, baked sweet potatoes, baked squash and beans. The remaining 85% of the diet consists of raw foods along with lots of freshly extracted vegetable juices (the most important part of the Hallelujah Diet).
What I find so interesting in working with and receiving letters from tens of thousands of people through the years is that the items Hallelujah Acres is criticized the most for eliminating from the Hallelujah Diet are the most destructive of anything we can place into our body – cow milk and animal flesh.
Interestingly, when talking about addictive foods, those are the easiest to remove from the diet because they are not classified as addictive. However, many people find it very difficult to give up these animal sourced foods because they have been deceived into believing that they are items the Bible endorses and nutritionists falsely claim are necessary for proper nourishment of the physical body.
With that as a little introduction, let’s begin dealing with the subject of addiction by sharing a letter received from a subscriber.
LETTER FROM A CHRISTIAN ADDICTED TO ALCOHOL & NICOTINE
“I come from a Christian background, yet here I sit smoking butts and drinking beer! I have been reading your Health Tip every week for some time now and know very well the truths it contains! I have always known of the need for ‘live’ foods as opposed to all the dead things we have been raised on. But the temptations of the Standard American Diet (SAD) along with smoking and drinking beer have been greater than I. I have wanted to write for some time now but have not. And I don’t even know what to say – just that I know I need some guidance.”
WHY DO PEOPLE BECOME ADDICTED TO VARIOUS SUBSTANCES?
Let’s turn to the Bible and see if we can’t find something in the Scriptures that will help us answer that question.
In Psalm 139:14 we read,
“I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.”
The Bible repeatedly tells us that the physical body we each possess was made [or created] by God. See Genesis 1:26, 27; 2:7; 5:2; Deuteronomy 4:32; Job 33:4; Psalm 8:5; 100:3; Isaiah 51:13; Malachi 2:10; and there are many, many, more verses.
The Bible also tells us what this beautiful God-made physical body we each possess was to be nourished with in Genesis 1:29.
“And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat (food).”
So what is the Bible telling us here? It is simply saying that this magnificent physical body God created was designed to run on and be nourished with those plant sourced foods that can only be found in the garden!
So here we are, some 6,000 years after God created man and told man what he/she should eat to properly nourish and sustain these physical bodies. In what physical state do we find these physical bodies to be in?
Are these physical bodies “in health” as God said they should be in 3 John 2? Or do we find mankind not only sick from eating the wrong things, but also addicted to some of these harmful substances the body was never designed to ever have to contend with.
As we read the Scriptures, it becomes quite obvious that God designed man to forage for his food, just like all the rest of God’s animal creations. He was intended to consume only the plant foods created by God and placed in that Garden of Eden by God.
“And the Lord God planted a garden eastward of Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food.” (Genesis 2:8-9)
Most people do not realize that for the next 1,700 years after man was expelled from the Garden, he consumed only foods that originated in the garden just as God intended.
From Creation to the Flood, on this 100% plant based Garden diet, man lived to an average age of 912 without a single recorded instance of sickness.
Then came the flood destroying all garden foods.
“And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.” (Genesis 7:19)
When all the garden foods God had told mankind to consume in Genesis 1:29 had been destroyed by the floodwaters, what was man to consume to sustain life?
Following the flood, God gives permission to change the diet for the very first time since He had created man. God gave man permission to consume the flesh of the clean animals that were on the ark. (See Genesis 9:3)
Why did God give man permission to consume the flesh of animals after He had created a body to be nourished exclusively with plant-sourced foods? I personally believe it was for survival purposes because all garden foods had been destroyed by the flood and were temporarily unavailable.
Following the flood, man also began to cook his food.
As we study physiology, we quickly learn that the physical body we each possess is a living organism, comprised of living cells. It was designed by God to be nourished with living (raw) plants.
Animals in the wild, by natural, God-instilled instinct, consume all their food in the living raw form as served up by nature. Sadly, man has lost this natural instinct.
I do believe, though, that if a child were to be placed in a room with only a rabbit and an apple, instinct would take over. The child would instinctively not chase after the rabbit until he caught it, then sink his teeth into the rabbits flesh and eat a chunk. He would rather play with the rabbit and by natural instinct eat the apple.
When we consume garden foods in their natural, living form our cells are satisfied, our body functions flawlessly, and we remain free of sickness and disease just as god intended.
However, when we put other substances into the body, it finds itself in a crisis situation. Now it has to contend with substances it was never designed by God to ever have to deal with.
All the body was designed for were the plant-sourced foods found in the garden for nourishment, water for hydration, and oxygen.
Sadly, today, physical bodies have to contend with all kinds of things that are harmful to the them. Let’s name a few of these substances: animal flesh and dairy, refined sugar, refined grains, caffeine, Nicotine, alcohol and two we haven’t talked about in this series as yet, table salt and trans fats.
The only substances that should ever enter the mouth are substances that nourish the physical body. These are the fuels the body was designed by God to run on and be sustained by. Other substances cause the cells not to be satisfied and they begin demanding satisfaction.
Here’s an example:
When a person gets up in the morning and has something cooked for breakfast, the stomach is satisfied, but not the body’s living cells. Only living foods can satisfy a living organism and this physical body we each possess is comprised of living cells.
When the stomach empties of these dead and devoid of life foods, hunger is once again experienced, usually within a very brief period of time. Why? Because only the stomach has been satisfied with that cooked food, but not the living cells.
So what happens next? It is common in America, after that fullness has worn off, for a person to have a mid-morning coffee and donut snack. But does that dead food devoid of nutrition satisfy the nutritional needs of the body’s living cells? No! As a result, long before lunchtime that person is once again hungry and can’t wait to eat something – sometimes experiencing energy drains and weakness.
So what happens at lunchtime? Multitudes head for the nearest fast-food restaurant. And what do they have for lunch? Maybe a cheeseburger, fries and a soda or milk shake? Once again they fill the stomach with dead items that offer the living cells of their body practically zero nourishment. The hunger again manifests just as soon as the stomach empties.
By mid afternoon they are once again hungry. Instead of providing the body with the living plant sourced foods it was designed by God to be nourished with, they consume maybe a candy bar. Does that dead, sugar-laden candy bar satisfy the body’s living cells? No! By the time they reach home for supper they are famished. The living cells are now screaming for some nourishment.
And what do they have to eat for supper? Probably they consume an entirely cooked meal, consisting of some cooked animal flesh, cooked vegetables, and a cooked sugar dessert, along with possibly a glass of wine. Because there is very little nourishment here, the body is hungry again before bedtime. It has to have something more to eat if they are going to survive till breakfast.
Throughout the day people are hungry, then full, hungry then full, hungry, then full. All day long they suffer while the living cells that comprise the body are starving to death. Only living plant sourced foods can satisfy living cells.
Meanwhile, weight often increases and physical problems manifest. This constant cycle occurs because the only thing that will satisfy the cells and prevent sickness is supplying the body’s living cells with the living plant-sourced foods God designed it to be nourished with.
Because our living cells are not being satisfied with dead food, the body starts craving something that will satisfy the cells. In the attempt to satisfy these cravings, the person often turns to addictive substances such as sugar, refined grains (which turn quickly to sugar), alcohol, caffeine, nicotine, cocaine, heroin and marijuana.
These non-food substances stimulate the body but do not meet the body’s nourishment need. So now the body is screaming for a fix that can only be satisfied by consuming more of that addictive substance.
Thus an addiction begins.
If you are a consumer of any of these addictive substances and say you can quit anytime you wish, just try going cold turkey and see what happens. See how strong you are at eliminating them.
Yes, you are addicted!
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