Reverend George Malkmus, Founder of Hallelujah Acres
Raw Zucchini Hummus
Jun 22nd
Rhonda is constantly creating new recipes. With zucchini coming from our garden in abundance, she recently experimented with using zucchini to make a hummus and it turned out tasty enough to share. It can be used not only as a hummus, but also a veggie dip or even a sandwich spread in place of mayonnaise.
Obesity – A Preventable And Reversible Epidemic
Jun 21st
Right now, right here in America, we are experiencing an obesity problem of epidemic proportions.
Two out of every three American adults are either overweight or obese – and this epidemic also affects children. Today, one out of every three children ages 2-19 is overweight or obese, and most of these children, because of this overweight condition will become diabetic. Diabetes is already epidemic among the children of America.
“The generation of children born in 2000 will likely live shorter life spans than their parents. Economic productivity of this generation will probably be less than their parents as well. Indeed, an obese adult adds $1,400 excess health care costs annually compared with his or her non-obese peers.”
ABC News Report; May 13, 2010
The very future of our nation is at stake if this exploding waistline problem isn’t halted. On January 3, 2010, Hallelujah Acres, in an attempt to slow down this rapid expansion of obesity, launched a 60-Day Challenge titled “60 Days to a Hallelujah Waistline.”
This 60-Day Challenge has been a tremendous success as over 7,200 people, from over 100 different countries around the world, signed up for the Challenge. And the testimonies of lost weight have been pouring in from around the world as a result of accepting this challenge.
SHORTENED LIFESPAN
This obesity epidemic is occurring at ever younger ages. Already one-third of all American children between the ages of 2-19 years are overweight or obese, which puts them at ever increasing risk of developing serious diseases that will shorten their lives. And the number of obese and overweight children is expected to continue to increase.
Researchers tell us that by mid-century children will be living shorter lives than their parents because obesity will bring increased risk of obesity-related illnesses like diabetes, heart disease and cancer – lowering the average life expectancy by at least five years.
Friends, we have a problem and rather than trying to treat the problem with doctor visits and drugs as is currently being done, let’s look for the cause. If the cause is sought, found, and eliminated, then we can stop this scourge. And there is a cause, and we here at Hallelujah Acres know what that cause is.
WHAT IS MAKING AMERICA FAT
The cause of obesity and overweight individuals, both adults and children, can be traced to their diet and lifestyle. If you will compare the number of obese and overweight individuals today with the number of obese and overweight people of yesteryear, you will see there has been an ever increasing explosion of expanding waistlines.
LET’S EXAMINE TODAY’S DIET & LIFESTYLE OF THE AVERAGE PERSON…
When I was a boy, we did not have fast-food restaurants, or the availability of potato chips, corn chips, and the vast array of sugar loaded soft drinks and snack foods (or even vending machines where they could be readily purchased).
Nor did we have televisions or computers. And even when junk food items started to become available, children did not have the money to purchase them or the cars to drive to stores where they were available. Rather we were active on the sandlot playing stick-ball after school and going on hikes and playing sports on weekends. Why even in school, gym class was a part of every day’s schooling.
But today, children have cars and money to buy junk food and sodas. Fast food restaurants abound and vending machines are everywhere. Instead of playing ball on the sandlot or going on hikes in the woods, today’s children have televisions and computers and video games to occupy their time where all they do is sit. And in many of our schools gym classes have been sharply curtailed or eliminated
All of this sedentary lifestyle and easily available sugar and fat laden junk food is creating a generation of overweight and obese children who are becoming overweight and obese adults. If you haven’t seen the video “Supersize Me” you need to see what just a month on fast foods will do to a person’s physical body and health.
WHAT IS THE SOLUTION
The solution is a simple one, but its implementation is not so easy. If parents do not want their children to be overweight or obese, they must teach their children the importance of proper diet and an active lifestyle. But parents must go beyond instruction; they must set the example in both a healthy diet and active lifestyle. Children become what parents do more than what parents say.
“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” (Proverbs 22:6)
SUGGESTIONS TO PREVENT AND REVERSE OBESITY
- Eliminate all sugar laden drinks and foods. Soft drinks and all beverages containing sugar should be eliminated and replaced with pure water or occasional lemonade sweetened with maple syrup, honey, stevia, or Agave Nectar (use all concentrated sugars sparingly). Just the sugar contained in one 12-oz soft drink, if consumed daily for one year, will add 15-pounds of weight to the consumer and diet sodas create hunger.
- Eliminate sugar laden candy, deserts, and snacks. Sugar and refined flour products create overweight and obese people. Replace these sugar and refined flour desserts and treats with fresh fruit and healthy snacks and desserts.
- Eliminate or set strict limits or television time and monitor what they are watching. Also, set strict limits on how much time they can sit at a computer or play video games. Television sets and computers in a child’s room ought to be forbidden.
- Do not allow your child to become a couch potato. Make sure that your child has at least an hour of vigorous exercise every day. If they resist, make it mandatory or they lose a privilege.
- Parents need to set the example in both diet and lifestyle. Prepare only healthy, non-fattening meals for not only your children but also yourself and make sure they see you getting daily and vigorous exercise. How about making exercise a family affair.
- Explain to your children the risks involved to their health by making poor diet and lifestyle choices. Do they really want to be fat and have to stick themselves every day with insulin or lose their eyesight? Point out to them possibly friends or family members who have experienced heart attacks or strokes or cancer or are diabetic and tie their health problems to bad diet and lifestyle. Teach them that bad diet and lifestyle choices have bad consequences.
- Make sure your child receives adequate sleep each night.
- Always have on hand healthy foods for snacks and rewards.
CREATING HEALTH & PREVENTING OVERWEIGHT PEOPLE IS NOT DIFFICULT
We face a growing obesity problem among the youth of America, and sugar and white flour products along with lack of exercise are the primary cause. Let’s love our children and grandchildren enough to protect them the best we can from those who in ignorance, are attempting to do great harm to our children by providing them with unhealthy items.
On The Hallelujah Acres diet, instead of providing these sugary and addictive substances, we offer alternatives such as fresh fruit. Instead of sugary ice cream we offer frozen banana and fruit crèmes; Instead of soda we offer an occasional honey sweetened real lemonade and green smoothies. Yes friend, for every sugary “treat” the world tempts our children with; we here at Hallelujah Acres offer a healthy substitute.
New Hope For The Future
Jun 21st
“Dear Pastor Malkmus, after reading two of your books, God’s Way to Ultimate Health and The Hallelujah Diet, I want to say that I admire and salute you. Reading your books proved to me that there are people like you still out there, people who stand faithfully and are working hard to spread the old good news of God’s way of healing and God’s initial designed diet for us as found in Genesis 1:29.
I was thrilled, and praise the Lord for the light shared by you. Now, for sure, I want to be added to your mailing list to receive your paper publication. May God be with you, your family and your ministry of healing! Continue to be that bright and shining light in a very dark world.”
Ting Ting L., Loma Linda, California
“For four months I did the Hallelujah Diet 100% and felt absolutely great. Then during a trip to Florida I fell off the wagon, so to speak, started eating all the wrong things and have been feeling the effects for two months now. My nails that had grown so strong and hard while on the diet are now soft and splitting, my hair which had become so lovely on the diet is starting to fall out, and I have gained back 7 of the 10 pounds I had lost while on the diet.
I didn’t like these side-effects, and so two days ago, tired of feeling so bad and tired, decided enough was enough. I started back on the Hallelujah Diet – drinking the green smoothies, eating salads, and getting some exercise. Hallelujah, I have already begun losing weight and feeling so much better. I will never fall off the Hallelujah Diet wagon again. Thank you Rev. Malkmus and Hallelujah Acres for what you do!”
Lena C.
“My wife and I have just recently adopted the Hallelujah Acres Diet and Lifestyle. Prior to adopting the diet, I thought I had been taking pretty good care of my body, but have recently learned that just wasn’t so. Before the diet change, my typical day would include about 10 cups of coffee, six cans of soft drinks, and eating junk foods throughout the day. I now know that these items are not good for me and that God would prefer me make better choices and take better care of the body He gave me so that I can avoid health problems in the future and live longer so that I can better serve Him.
My dad died recently from cancer. After learning what I have concerning the Hallelujah Diet, I believe my father could have avoided his cancer if he had known about and followed the Hallelujah Diet. In fact, I am convinced that it wasn’t the cancer that killed my dad, but rather the medical treatments he received. We have also been looking for a long time for an answer to help my wife with her COPD and asthma and believe that this diet and lifestyle is what we have been looking for.
After a week’s stay at the Hallelujah Acres Lifestyle Center in Lake Lure, North Carolina and just a few weeks on the Hallelujah Diet, my wife has already seen improvements in her health. This is after she had put her faith in medical doctors for many years, seen no improvements in her health, and recently been told there was nothing more they could do to help her but a lung transplant. After learning about the Hallelujah Diet and Lifestyle, we now have hope for her future.”
Charles C., Monticello, Minnesota
Rev. Malkmus Reports from Pittsburgh & Toronto
Jun 21st
We left home at noon on Wednesday, June 16 and drove till supper time. Got a motel, had our BarleyMax, and then had a nice salad and some cooked veggies at a Ryan’s across the road from the motel.
Thursday we were on the road at 8:00 a.m. and drove till about 3:00 p.m. when we checked into our motel at the Pittsburgh Airport Marriott. Took a short nap, had our BarleyMax in some carrot juice we had brought with us, an apple and banana, and were in the room where the seminar was to take place at 5:00. We then greeted folks till the seminar began at 6:30. About 200 in attendance, great testimonies, and were back in our motel room about 10:30.
Friday morning we left the motel about 8:00 and drove to Toronto, Canada, arriving at our hotel around 3:00 p.m. Had the evening free. For supper we had our last carrot juice we had brought with us (it only keeps 3 days in our plug in refrigerator in the car), along with BarleyMax. Supper was a lovely salad and then some whole wheat pasta loaded with veggies in the hotel restaurant.
Saturday morning we had free and then about noon drove over to Hallelujah Acres Canada where Judy Fleming who heads up Hallelujah Acres Canada had spring rolls and a nice plate of fruit awaiting us. From 2:00 until 5:00 I spoke to over 60 folks, most of them Canadian Health Ministers, who had gathered. It was great to see so many Health Ministers, some we had trained over 12 years ago while still in Tennessee, who are still faithfully sharing God’s health message.
Sunday afternoon we had nearly 200 in attendance for our Toronto Seminar. Great testimonies and so many excited people present. One lady from Nigeria brought me a lovely hand-made shirt from her country, and said she had learned about Hallelujah Acres in Nigeria.
We left Toronto about 5:00 p.m., and drove across the Canadian border about 6:30, arriving in East Aurora, New York (where our Monday evening seminar is scheduled) about 7:30. Had our BarleyMax and then found an Italian restaurant where we were able to get a nice salad and some roasted veggies. Got to bed about 10:00.
I am writing this from my motel room here in East Aurora, New York early Monday morning. We have the day off and plan on a nice walk and then will be at the church about 6:00 this evening for the East Aurora seminar. Tomorrow morning we begin our 12-hour drive back to our home in Shelby, North Carolina. By the time we arrive home, we will have driven almost 2,000 miles and delivered 3 seminars on this trip. In August we have seminars scheduled in Algona, Iowa, Branson, Missouri and Independence, Missouri.
I thank the Lord that at 76 years of age I still have the energy to maintain a vigorous schedule and share God’s Health Message with many. And to think that Rhonda, who had arthritis so severe when she adopted the Hallelujah Diet 19-years ago, is able to travel with me these many miles with no pain. God has been so good to us and blessed us in so many ways.
Thank you for your prayers!
Great Grain Robbery Worse Than Previously Thought
Jun 15th
We’re continuing our series on How we Contribute to our own Physical Problems.
Today we’ll learn more about grains, and continue to share why they become problematic when consumed in their refined form.
REFINED GRAINS CREATE BLOOD SUGAR DISORDERS
When whole grains are processed something very serious with potentially devastating health consequences happens to that grain. In order to understand this, we need to recall what refined grains are.
A refined grain is a whole grain that has been stripped of its outer shell (fiber) and its germ (nutrients), leaving only the endosperm (embryo sack).
During processing, refined grains go through a heating, mechanical, and chemical process, during which vitamins, proteins, fats, enzymes, (in fact, almost all nutrients) and the fiber are removed, leaving practically nothing but pure white, naked calories – pure refined carbohydrate.
When you read the word “enriched” on the label of a refined grain product, it means the manufacturer, after removing the germ from the whole grain which contained the nutrients, has attempted to replace some of the lost nutrients with chemical additives.
Also, when a person consumes a refined grain, because the fiber has been removed, a high percentage of the starch (which is practically all that is left after the fiber and germ have been removed) is very quickly broken down into simple sugars.
These simple sugars from refined grain hit the blood stream almost as rapidly as refined sugars do. Dealing with all of this sugar exhausts the pancreas and/or adrenals, and produces the same diabetic/hypoglycemic reactions we learned about in Health Tip #652 and #653.
The average lifetime consumption of refined sugar is approximately 10,000 pounds per person, and the lifetime intake of refined grains, which converts to sugar very rapidly, is approximately 13,000 pounds. Friends, can you now better understand why the people of today suffer with a multitude of blood sugar problems?
This incredibly high intake of refined sugar and refined grains is devastating and is causing a myriad of psychological problems, dealt with by guess what – drugs. No one has ever recovered from a psychological problem through the use of drugs. Rather these drugs only exacerbate the problem, often leading to new problems for which additional drugs are often prescribed.
Prior to the year 1900, practically no refined sugars or refined grains were consumed in America or any other place in the world. For sure there were no refined sugars, or refined grains in the diet God gave Adam and Eden in the Garden of Eden. Nor will you find any refined sugar or refined grains in The Hallelujah Acres Diet.
One of the reasons The Hallelujah Diet helps those with emotional, phychological, and depression problems recover is because these sugars are the primary cause of the problem. On The Hallelujah Diet the cause is eliminated.
We need to remember that every physical and psychological problem has a cause. If we want to recover from a problem the single most important thing we must do to affect a recovery is remove the cause. The Bible puts it this way in Proverbs 26:2:
“…the curse causeless shall not come.”
REFINED GRAINS PROMOTE EMOTIONAL INSTABLILTY
Sadly, studies reveal a strong link between juvenile and adult criminal offenses and not only refined sugar, but also refined grains. Similar research reveals a strong link between mental illness and sugar derived from these refined sources:
Hypoglycemic reactions, for the very sensitive consumer, promote extreme irrationality, emotional instability, and often time’s aggressiveness. Recent studies reveal that sugar, coming from both refined sugars and refined grains, may be as involved in mental illness, divorce, and crime as alcohol has been found to be.
These refined grains and sugars also play a significant role in the bad behavior of children. This bad behavior often leads to a child being diagnosed with ADD or ADHD. And the doctor, rather than telling the parent they need to remove the cause of the child’s problem, prescribes a drug that can have potentially devastating consequences.
Through the years, I have received some wonderful testimonies from mothers reporting that after removing refined grains and sugar from their child’s diet and placing them on a basically raw plant diet, the child became a totally different and well-behaved person.
Depression is also one of the most rapidly growing problems in our society, and refined sugars, along with refined grains, are a major contributing factor!
REFINED GRAINS ARE EXCESSIVELY STARCHY
Refined grains are one of the starchiest foods consumed by humans and present an overwhelmingly difficult task for the digestive system. Refined grains also cause mucus formation. Since 1965, scientists have repeatedly linked high gluten consumption, coming from refined grains, to learning disorders and schizophrenia. (Those with gluten intolerance usually cannot handle whole grains either.)
REFINED GRAINS CONTAIN HIGH AMOUNTS OF GLUTEN
Gluten is the “grayish, sticky component of wheat flour and some of the other grain flours, composed mainly of the proteins gladin and glutenin.” (Webster)
Not all grains contain gluten. Examples of those that do not contain gluten include millet, amaranth, quinoa and oats.
“Refined grains such as wheat, which is exceptionally high in gluten, can produce many physical and mental problems, in addition to celiac disease. Problems linked to high gluten intake can include: asthma, allergies, gluten intolerance, digestive disturbances, yeast infections, various mucus and congestive disturbances, several types of arthritis, and even chronic overeating.” (Source: “Grain Damage” by Douglas Graham, D.C.)
REFINED GRAINS LEAD TO ADDICTION AND WEIGHT GAIN
Refined grains are addictive! We have found that when a person decides to adopt The Hallelujah Diet, refined sugar and refined grains are the two most difficult items to eliminate from the diet – much more difficult than eliminating animal source foods. Why? Because these sugars have a very powerful addictive influence upon the body – as powerful as nicotine and alcohol.
Another thing we need to remember concerning refined grains is that whenever a food has been fragmented, it is nutrient-deficient and always results in lower levels of nutrition and health. This is the case concerning refined grain products.
Because refined grains do not provide satisfaction at the cellular level, the body continues to be hungry – continuing to seek adequate nutrients to satisfy nutritional needs. This leads to overeating.
Sadly, all these refined foods have produced a nation of overfed, undernourished, predominantly overweight people.
The Hallelujah Diet, by comparison, produces a people who are properly nourished while at the same time consuming a much lower volume of food. The Hallelujah Diet contributes to a person being of ideal weight along with possessing a healthy, strong physical body, a sound mind, and an uncompromised immune system.
REFINED GRAINS COMPROMISE THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
We need to remember that the immune system was built into each of our physical bodies by God to protect us from the germs, viruses, and bacteria of this world. Our immune system is our first line of defense!
Refined grains, which convert very rapidly to sugar, along with refined sugar suppress the immune system, keeping it from being able to perform its God-given tasks.
Does this give us a clue as to why so many people experience infections, colds, the flu, along with other flu like symptoms and more? Since this editor adopted a predominantly raw, plant-based diet, free of refined grains or refined sugars, over thirty-four years ago, I have not experienced any infections, the flu, or even a cold. Not even one time.
Does not the Bible tell us that we will reap what we sow in Galatians 6:7?
“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man [or woman] soweth, that shall he [or she] also reap.”
REFINED GRAINS CAUSE MANY OTHER PHYSICAL PROBLEMS
Finally, refined grains are associated with not only malnutrition, decreased resistance to disease, mental instability, and being overweight. Refined grains impact our quality of life.
Refined grains cause or increase the severity of PMS symptoms. They decrease cognitive or intellectual function, especially in children. Refined grains, along with refined sugar, also contribute to our current epidemic of heart disease and so much more.
Following is just a partial list of other health problems related to the intake of refined grains: acne, addiction to drugs (including caffeine and alcohol) anxiety, behavioral problems, binge eating, bloating, bone loss, Candidiasis, depression, difficulty concentrating, eczema, edema, emotional problems, fatigue, food cravings, hormonal imbalances, hyperactivity, insomnia, mental illness, mood swings, premature aging, psoriasis, and the list goes on.
IN CONCLUSION:
For almost every negative influence refined sugar has upon the body refined grains offer an equally negative influence. If we want to have a strong healthy body and mind, we must eliminate not only refined sugars from our diet, but also refined grains!
After spending three Health Tips on the subject of refined grains, sharing all the physical and mental problems refined grains can create within not only our own bodies, but especially the bodies of our children, don’t you think it is time we all removed refined grains, along with refined sugars from our homes?
Will you say “Amen” to that?
Raw Organic Blueberry Pie
Jun 15th
Here in North Carolina, blueberries are just beginning to ripen, and are they ever delicious. Rhonda and I planted 47 Rabbit Eye blueberry bushes along our driveway this past winter and they are providing us with an unbelievable amount of blueberries this first season.
There are so many things you can create with these nutritious berries. This past week Rhonda made me a frozen blueberry non-dairy cheese cake (made with macadamia nuts) that was absolutely delicious. This week she made a blueberry pie using a nut crust that was so tasty I just have to share the recipe.
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