Reverend George Malkmus, Founder of Hallelujah Acres
Posts tagged Genesis 1:29
A New Life at 90-Years-Young
Feb 24th
In last week’s Health Tip #692, I shared a number of birthday greetings I had received from across America and around the world. One of those greetings was from Health Ministers George and Peggy N. who live in Mesa, Arizona:
“Happy Birthday George! You look great on the cover of the recent ‘Hallelujah Acres Health News’. We showed your picture to our ‘Get Healthy/Stay Balanced’ students and asked the question – ‘Don’t you want this kind of energy, health and vitality as you approach your 8th decade?’ We certainly do! We sent a testimony of my mom who has been on The Hallelujah Diet for 15 years to you recently. She will celebrate her 90th birthday in March.”
Accompanying that birthday greeting was the testimony of that 89-year-old woman:
“My name is Marie H.; I was born in Aurora, Missouri on March 25, 1921. In June 1996, at the age of 75, I heard Rev. George Malkmus in Lodi, California give his testimony about overcoming cancer by simply changing his diet.
One thing George talked about was acid reflux. I had this condition and had chewed antacid tablets like candy for over 30 years. George said, ‘you can get over acid reflux in seven days by simply giving up animal products.’
Could his claim really be true and could I give up animal products for a whole week? So being from the ‘show me’ state, I said to myself, ‘show me!’ With the encouragement of my daughter, Peggy, I took George’s challenge.
On the sixth day of the seven-day challenge, I no longer had acid reflux. But not only did I give up meat for those seven days, but haven’t eaten any meat in nearly 15 years. And as a result, and by following The Hallelujah Diet, have been antacid free for 15 years.
My daughter, Peggy and her husband have been Hallelujah Acres Health Ministers for over 15 years and they showed me how to prepare healthy meals for my husband and me. I didn’t miss my old SAD diet, but my husband would grumble about missing his meat.
However, The Hallelujah Diet dramatically improved our health. My husband no longer needed his high blood pressure medicine and nor his pre-diabetic medication. He went to be with the Lord a few years ago, but I believe that his quality of life in his later days was lengthened by The Hallelujah Diet. We were married for 65 years.
I will be 90-years-young this month. Actually I tell people that ‘I will be 25 on the 90th day of March.’ I recently passed my driver’s license test with a 100% score. I still drive to church, grocery shopping, the mall, and eat out with friends. I also clean my own home and prepare my own meals.
A few years ago, Peggy and her husband took me to Hawaii. It was very exciting riding a parasail with my daughter, riding on the back of a Sea-Doo with my son-in-law, and putting my toes in the sand at the beach with my great grandchildren. Life is good!
Three of my grandchildren wrote the raw food recipe book: ‘How We All Went Raw.’ They call themselves the Top Raw Men; because they are in TOP physical condition because they are on the Hallelujah Diet and eat raw fruits and vegetables, seeds and nuts. My granddaughter calls herself the ‘Chic Flavor’ of the Top Raw Men.
I meet weekly for lunch at a local raw food restaurant run by Liz F., another Hallelujah Acres Health Minister in Sacramento, California. The other day a customer in the restaurant bought my grandchildren’s book and walked over to my table and asked me to autograph the book. I asked her what she would like me to write and she replied, ‘just sign it Top Raw Grandma,’ and I did.
When I go to my doctor for my annual checkup, the doctor invariably asks me to name all the medicines that I am taking. The doctor and medical staff are always amazed with my answer. ‘I feel healthy; have no pain, and TAKE NO MEDICATIONS.’
I give all the credit for my good health to Jesus for leading me to The Hallelujah Diet. Thank you George, Rhonda, Paul, and Ann Malkmus for teaching and living the Genesis 1:29 diet. Amen!”
EDITOR’S NOTE: Dr. Norman Walker was introduced to the raw plant-based diet 50s and went on to live within seven months of 100th his birthday. Above we read the testimony by Marie, who made the diet change to a 100% plant-based diet at age 75 and is still experiencing excellent health at age 90. These types of testimonies are not unusual for senior citizens who adopt The Hallelujah Diet. We have had testimonies of people in their 80s and 90s coming out of wheelchairs and even nursing homes after making the diet change. (Children with parents in nursing homes who put parents on BarleyMax and take them daily carrot and other raw freshly extracted vegetable juices often see almost miraculous improvement in their parents’ health!)
Hallelujah Acres Celebrates 19 Years of Ministry
Feb 8th
On February 12, 2011, the very same day I celebrate my 77th birthday, Hallelujah Acres will celebrate its 19th birthday. Following is a brief review, telling of Hallelujah Acres’ beginning, growth, and current status, along with our vision for the future:
In 1976, I was 42 years old and pastor of The Greater Glens Falls Bible Baptist Church in Hudson Falls, New York, a church I had established in 1970, with just my family of six and an advertisement in the local paper that we were starting a new church.
By 1976 the church had a membership of over 600, a Christian School with over 100 students in grades K-12, a Bible Institute program, a weekly radio broadcast titled “America Needs Christ” on several radio stations, and over a dozen young people in school preparing for the ministry. God’s blessing was surely on that ministry!
Then in January 1976, amidst all that blessing, I started experiencing rectal bleeding and a baseball sized tumor was discovered under my left rib cage. Then came the news – “colon cancer.”
Just prior to those devastating words I had lost my mother, a registered nurse, to colon cancer after she had chosen the medical route for her treatment. At the time of mother’s death I was convinced she died not from the cancer, but rather the treatments given her. Because of mother’s bad experience, I went searching for an alternative way of dealing with my cancer.
In my search, I reached out to an evangelist friend in Texas by the name of Lester Roloff. At the time, many in the Christian community considered Brother Roloff a “health nut” and were severely critical of his Biblically-based health message.
But that criticism didn’t stop me from listening to and heeding his advice when he discouraged me from going the medical route. He encouraged me to stop eating the world’s meat-based, sugar-laden, Standard American Diet (SAD), which he said was the cause of my cancer.
In place of the world’s SAD diet, Brother Roloff encouraged me to eat only the foods God told Adam and Eve to eat in the Garden of Eden in Genesis 1:29, along with lots of fresh vegetable juices. I made the diet change overnight and it wasn’t long before the rectal bleeding had stopped.
Within one year of making the diet change, my tumor (as well as all symptoms of cancer) was gone – without any medical intervention. During that first year, not only did my cancer go away, but so did all other physical problems I was experiencing prior to making the diet change.
That experience caused me as a pastor and student of the Bible to search the Scriptures to see if I could find more counsel from God pertaining to diet, health, nutrition, lifestyle, etc. I was looking for information that could possibly shed additional light on what appeared to be an almost miraculous recovery.
That Biblical search led me to numerous verses in addition to the Genesis 1:29 verse Brother Roloff had turned me on to. Verses like 3 John 2:1, where we read: “Beloved, I wish above all things that though mayest prosper and BE IN HEALTH, even as thy soul prospereth.”
In 1988, my miraculous cancer recovery, along with the numerous Bible verses I had found, inspired the writing of my first book Why Christians Get Sick. This book was originally self-published and then picked up by Destiny Image, a Christian Publisher.
Over a million copies of this book are now in print and the book has been translated into several languages. The book contains over 100 of the Scripture verses I had found that related to diet, health, nutrition, lifestyle, etc. This book still produces more positive feedback than any of the five books I have written.
In 1991, before Hallelujah Acres had its official beginning, I held a seminar in Rogersville, Tennessee, attended by only a few people. A young lady by the name of Rhonda was in attendance. Her car had been hit by a freight train in 1981. As a result of that accident, arthritis had settled into almost every joint in her body and she could hardly move.
Rhonda adopted The Hallelujah Diet, she says, “to prove it could not help my arthritic condition doctors had been unable to help in the previous ten years.” Within a year of making the diet change, her arthritis was gone and she had lost 85 pounds. I love to tell folks that “After I rebuilt her body I married her!”
On February 12, 1992, because of all that was being learned and personally experienced, Rhonda and I established Hallelujah Acres, a Christian ministry! It was established for the purpose of teaching health from a Biblical perspective. Hallelujah Acres was our humble effort to restore health to a very sick Christian community, a community that was just as sick as the non-Christian community in spite of abundant prayer.
The ministry began in a tiny, 11-foot-wide, 16-seat vegetarian restaurant and health food store on Main Street in the little town of Rogersville, Tennessee. Few frequented our restaurant in those early days – that is until I started offering a free “How to Eliminate Sickness” seminar Saturday mornings.
As people started listening and applying what was being taught, there came testimonies of miraculous healings from myriad physical problems – everything from cancers to diabetes to incredible reports of weight loss.
One man, after only six months on the diet, reported a 60-pound weight loss as well as the disappearance of 28 different physical problems. But that was just the beginning. Since then, tens-of-thousands have written to tell me that after adopting The Hallelujah Diet they have recovered from over 170 different physical problems, including terminal cancers.
It wasn’t long before pastors from across the country were asking me to hold seminars in their churches and in the mid-1990s, Pat Robertson asked me to appear on the 700 Club.
That 9-minute interview generated more response than anything the 700 Club had ever previously experienced. Since then, appearances on Trinity Broadcasting, the Jim Bakker Show, ABC Nightline, NBC, CBS, along with numerous appearances on FOX News and The Food Network, have introduced The Hallelujah Diet to millions.
In 1993, Hallelujah Acres began publishing a free paper publication that has a current readership of over a half-million. In 1997 we established a wonderful website which contains hundreds of hours of nutritional information from a Biblical perspective.
In addition, since 1997, I have personally written a FREE electronic Hallelujah Health Tip, currently being mailed weekly to over 40,000 homes around the world. You are reading consecutive issue #690.
Today, Hallelujah Acres sits on 20 beautifully landscaped acres of land on the outskirts of Shelby, North Carolina (population 21,000), located between Charlotte and the gorgeous mountains of North Carolina less than an hour to the west. Mountain views are common in this area of mostly rolling hills, and the climate is the best – mild winters, incredible spring and fall, and summers not as hot as I experienced in New York.
With a current staff of 46 people, our Biblical health message is bringing hope and healing to millions around the world, and we have trained over 10,000 Health Ministers to help us take this message to the world.
Included in those 10,000-plus Health Ministers are 63 medical doctors, 75 chiropractors, 300 plus registered nurses and over 900 pastors who are sharing this information in their churches. These Hallelujah Acres trained Health Ministers are currently located in every state in the United States as well as in 49 foreign countries.
Our call center fields some 500 incoming calls a day and our shipping department mails sometimes over 500 parcels a day, not only to addresses in America, but to some 139 foreign countries. The profits derived from the sale of products are how we support the ministry. Thus every time someone purchases something from Hallelujah Acres they are helping us reach more people with God’s Health Message.
In 1998 we established “Hallelujah Acres Canada” and currently have a lovely store and shipping center located in Toronto, and have hundreds of trained Health Ministers scattered across all of the Canadian provinces. We even mail a Canadian version of our paper publication to thousands across Canada at no cost.
In 2003 we opened our first Hallelujah Acres Lifestyle Center in Lake Lure, North Carolina, then a second in Plant City, Florida, and another in Branson, Missouri. These lifestyle centers are in the homes of trained Health Ministers who take people into their homes for a week or two to teach them how to implement The Hallelujah Diet at home. Several other Lifestyle Centers are in the plans.
In these Lifestyle Centers people learn about the diet and receive hands-on instructions into the how-to of our program as well as helping prepare and then taste the delicious foods of The Hallelujah Diet. These Lifestyle Centers are incredibly popular and so helpful in introducing people to the ease with which they can make The Hallelujah Diet a part of their everyday life.
By 2006, Hallelujah Acres was running out of room. We did not want to relocate, so where to go was a huge question. But just like God had done time and time again before, when the need arose, He answered by availing us to 300 acres of land located directly across the road from Hallelujah Acres.
While we keep an eye on the economy to implement the plan for 72-room hotel and 250 seat Hallelujah Acres Restaurant on that land, we have moved ahead with developing “The Villages of Hallelujah Acres,” the nation’s first healthy lifestyle community. Ground breaking for “The Villages” took place on February 29, 2008 and infrastructure was completed by 2010. All utilities, including sewer, water, electric, natural gas, telephone, cable, and high speed internet, are underground and available.
Three homes have already been built in the Villages, one being the residence of this editor and Rhonda, to which we moved on November 3, 2009. We were very excited to be The Villages’ first residents.
The Villages will eventually have some 600 residences including 190 (one, two, and three bedroom) condominiums. A number of homesites have been sold or reserved while several families have moved to the area awaiting the completion of our first condominium.
The internet has become more and more important to our growth in recent years, and this past year we have totally revamped our www.hacres.com web site, our Villages website, and our new Hallelujah Acres Lifestyle Center website is due to go online any day now. Also our product website has been totally revamped and ordering on the internet improved dramatically.
What does the future hold for Hallelujah Acres? Only God knows! But it is thrilling to see how far Hallelujah Acres has already come since God gave me a vision back in 1988 which I shared in the last chapter of my first book “Why Christians Get Sick.” Following are the words I wrote over 20 years ago concerning the future of a ministry that was only a dream at the time of the writing:
“My goal is to make Hallelujah Acres into a modern Garden of Eden, from which God’s natural ways of health and healing will flow to Christians around the world. I envision Hallelujah Acres as being a place where Christians can come to seminars where they will learn how to grow, prepare, and serve foods as God intended. Nutrition and proper care of the body will be taught and then these Christians can go back to their respective areas of influence to share this knowledge with others. I personally believe that the American people, and especially Christians, are thoroughly disenchanted with the present means available for dealing with sickness, and are just waiting for someone to show them a better way. I want to and am willing and ready to do all I can to make this happen. Will you help me? The job is staggering, but the potential rewards can be fabulously exciting.”
“As for the future, I envision Christian Churches worldwide as being places were prayer requests for sickness are a thing of the past, and God’s people exude the wellness God designed for His human creation. If Jesus tarries and with your help, I believe this is an attainable goal. Dear reader, will you join us as we continue our efforts to reach ever more fellow Christians, and anyone else who will listen, with the Biblical Health Message God has entrusted us with? With stronger and healthier bodies, we will be better equipped to fulfill that Great Commission Jesus entrusted us with – Which is: “Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature.” (Mark 16:15)”
I close by repeating a few additional words I wrote over 20 years ago: “Will you help me? The job is staggering but the potential rewards can be fabulously exciting.”
Will you join us here at Hallelujah Acres and help us take God’s health message to multitudes of Christians around the world who are sick and dying needlessly, as well as to anyone else who will listen?
“Universal Health Care” is not the solution to our current health care crisis because it forces everyone into a system that has already proven to be a failure. However, we here at Hallelujah Acres do have the solution, it is God’s solution, and is articulated in the Word of God.
Please join us, because together and with God’s help, we can bring health and healing to a society that is sick and dying needlessly. My dream is to see churches that no longer spend most of prayer time praying for the sick, but rather praying for the souls of those that know not Jesus, and where our monies no longer go for sick care.
“Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and BE IN HEALTH, even as thy soul prospereth.”
III John 2
What Does Rhonda’s Kitchen Look Like?
Feb 1st
In recent Health Tips we have evaluated the “size” of your family and what items are found in a weight-gaining kitchen and what a healthy kitchen looks like.
Today I want to complete this series by giving you a literary tour of our home – specifically, Rhonda’s kitchen. I want to share how Rhonda has been able to create a 21st century version of the “healthy kitchen” principles God laid down in the early chapters of Genesis.
What Did Adam & Eve’s Kitchen Look Like?
Before we share what Rhonda’s Kitchen looks like, I want to do a little review of what we learned last week and share a few new bits of information. Last week, we took you back to the book of Genesis where we explored what Adam and Eve’s kitchen looked like.
Adam and Eve’s kitchen was (1) in a warm climate, (2) in the great out of doors, (3) in a garden, and (4) available 24/7 for picking or harvesting. Also, all their food was (5) plant-based, and (6) consumed in its natural raw form as served up by nature.
After Eve had picked and partaken of the forbidden fruit that God said was off limits in Genesis 3:6, she gave some to Adam and he also ate. As a result, sin entered the human race. Sin always has consequences, and one of the consequences for Adam and Eve disobeying God was that they were forced to leave the Garden.
“Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. (Genesis 3:23)
Besides being forced to leave the garden, another consequence of disobeying God was that their food supply was no longer going to be readily available 24/7 just for the picking or harvesting without labor as it had been previously:
“And unto Adam God said, Because thou has hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and has eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying , Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee: and thou shalt eat the herb [vegetable] of the field: In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.” (Genesis 3:17-19)
As a result of their sin, (1) Adam and Eve are forced to leave the Garden, (2) thorns and thistles (weeds) became a hindrance to growing their food which required labor to remove, and (3) apparently vegetables [“herbs”] became the predominant part of their diet.
Most Of Our Grandparents Lived On A Farm Or Grew A Garden
It wasn’t too many years ago that most of us had parents, grandparents or at least great-grandparents that lived on a farm, had a garden, and grew a large percentage of their food. I can still remember my grandmother hoeing weeds at the crack of dawn and bringing in baskets full of fresh produce.
However, during World War II many left the farms and moved to the cities and began working in factories where they obtained a pay check which was used to purchase their daily bread (food). Families leaving the farm was a sad day in many ways. Food was no longer farm fresh, organic, and no longer was exercise [labor] necessary to obtain it.
Where Do We Find Ourselves Today… And What Can We Do About It?
There is much that we can do! I remember in the late 1970s I had the privilege of spending some time at the Hippocrates Health Institute in Boston, Massachusetts with Dr. Ann Wigmore. Dr. Ann (as we affectionately called her) lived in a three-story brownstone that she had turned into a literal garden.
There in the middle of the big city, she grew wheat grass, buckwheat and sunflower sprouts on cafeteria trays placed on racks in front of windows. These freshly grown greens were either juiced or consumed as sprouts in salads. Something else that was unique about Dr. Ann’s kitchen was that there was no stove.
Amazingly, Dr. Ann had managed to create a Garden of Eden setting in a house in the midst of a big city. Using this 100% plant-based diet, Dr. Ann had not only been able to restore her own health, but was teaching others how to improve their health. Sadly, she perished when fire destroyed her home.
Dr. Ann’s efforts to bring the garden into the home were an inspiration to me. The things I have learned from Dr. Ann, the Bible, and others, as well as personal experiences Rhonda and I have had, have culminated in Rhonda’s kitchen.
What Does Rhonda’s Kitchen Look Like?
The first thing out the norm is that Rhonda’s kitchen has two refrigerators. Because the predominant part of our diet is raw, plant-based foods, she needs lots of cold storage space to keep raw fruits and vegetables fresh. She does have a stove in her kitchen but it doesn’t receive a lot of usage.
There is also a lot of counter space in her kitchen for the preparation of the raw foods along with space to accommodate the appliances to prepare them:
Two juicers, one a Green Star Juicer and the other a Hurom juicer. We use the Green Star Juicer when we are going to make a lot of juice for storage in the refrigerator in 8-oz jelly jars, and the Hurom when we want to quickly make a couple of glasses for immediate consumption. Juicers are used daily in Rhonda’s kitchen. The Champion juicer is also an excellent juicer and will do most of what a Green Star Juicer will do.
We also make nut butters with the Green Star Juicer. We also use it to make a soft frozen dessert in the summer time using frozen fruits such as bananas, strawberries, blueberries, and other fruits (we always keep bags of frozen fruit in the freezer). These raw frozen fruit creams are our substitute for sugar-den dairy ice cream. The Green Star juicer also makes fantastic raw apple sauce and even raw baby foods.
The juicer is the single most important and most used appliance in Rhonda’s kitchen because it allows her to take raw veggies carrots being the most dominant, and remove the fiber. This increases the percentage of nutrients reaching cellular level from 35% (when the whole vegetable is consumed) to 92% (after the fiber has been removed through juicing). We keep a 25-pound bag of carrots in the fridge; it lasts about one week.
Our Vitamix Turboblend VS blender is an amazing machine that has no equal. Rarely does a day go by that this machine is not used several times. Rhonda and I each make a green smoothie mid-morning and I use it to make my blended salad each evening. Rhonda uses it many more times each day in food preparation and for pureeing foods.
After the juicer, the Vitamix is the next most important appliance on the kitchen counter in Rhonda’s Kitchen. When a whole plant food is chewed, the only nutrients derived from that food is from the cells that were broken open by the teeth, while those nutrients not released by chewing pass through and out of the body. The Vitamix thoroughly masticates the food, releasing up to seven times more nutrients then when chewed.
Distiller – In order of importance, the distiller is the next most important appliance on our counter. We have been using a Waterwise 8800 distiller for many years and are thrilled with its performance. It distills a gallon of tap water in four hours, and is a handsome and quiet appliance. A teaspoon of WaterMax is added to each gallon to restore its alkalinity. Drinking only pure water is imperative in our house.
Food Processor – Rhonda uses a KitchenAid 12-cup food processor for a myriad of things, including shredding, slicing, chopping and blending ingredients for salads, dressings, desserts, etc. Back in the days of the Hallelujah Acres restaurant in Rogersville, Tennessee we had three girls that spent hours chopping up salad ingredients each morning, all of which could have been done in mere minutes if we had a food processor like this one.
The Tribest personal blender is a mini-blender used for numerous small chores. We grind a quarter cup of flax seeds in it each morning to add to our green smoothies, and grind seeds or nuts for topping salads. It quickly mixes salad dressings, and blends small amounts of most anything. We even take it on trips for use in our motel room when traveling.
Rhonda’s Excalibur 2900 food dehydrator is used very often. She uses it in the summer to remove the moisture from our garden tomatoes to make dehydrated tomatoes. She then coarsely breaks up these dehydrated tomatoes for a salad topping. Almost all fruits can be dehydrated. But these are just the beginning. You can make entire meals in an Excalibur dehydrator.
Rhonda also has a citrus juice extractor on the counter. In addition to the appliances that sit on the kitchen counter, in the drawers and cabinets are numerous other items: a salad spinner to remove water after washing salad greens; a nice selection of very sharp knives (Rada knives are her favorite); a number of cutting boards; measuring cups and spoons and the list goes on. And yes, she even has a few pots and pans and casserole dishes for when she prepares and serves cooked food.
We also use a sprouter and sprouting bags for taking raw organic seeds and growing them into fresh sprouts in just a few days. Sprouts are a wonderful way to have fresh, organically grown garden veggies available year round and especially in the worst of winter weather.
The important food item in our kitchen is BarleyMax – it is the single most important part of our nutritional intake each day. It is nutrient dense, organic, raw, and processed in such a way that the enzymes are kept intact. We keep a case of BarleyMax on hand at most times and it is the number one item in our bag when we travel.
There is a stove in Rhonda’s kitchen with which she prepares that 15% of the Hallelujah Diet that calls for cooked foods. The stove is never used more than once a day. The stove is rarely used in the summer but some cooked food is enjoyed in the winter. We also have a bread maker in the pantry to make an occasional loaf of homemade, whole grain, bread.
Then there is a large selection of herbs and spices which she has learned to use to make some of the tastiest dishes that tantalize our taste buds.
Proximity, Convenience, and Focus
First, Rhonda’s kitchen is only a few feet from a garden path that leads to our raised bed gardens. This provides an abundance of fresh organically grown vegetables and herbs beginning in April and lasting into November.
Second – Our home, located in the Villages of Hallelujah Acres, is directly across the street from our Hallelujah Acres store where there is always an abundance of organic produce for purchase. This gives us two ways to get our produce: walk to the garden or walk to the store.
Third – Rhonda’s kitchen is set up to process raw vegetables (which are the predominant part of our diet) in such a way that we gain the most nutrients from the foods we grow or purchase. The juicer and blender allow us to receive maximum nutrients from the foods we grow and purchase. What about fruit? As the years have passed, fruit has become less and less a part of our diet, yet we still enjoy it, especially the blueberries which are very high in antioxidants.
Comparing Rhonda’s Kitchen to God’s Original Kitchen
- Food served in God’s original kitchen was raw and organic. Most of the food served in Rhonda’s kitchen is also raw and organic.
- Food served in God’s kitchen was available just for the picking or harvesting. Much of the food served in Rhonda’s kitchen is available for the picking or harvesting many months of the year with only a small amount of labor in our own raised bed gardens. W are also right across the street from a store where fresh produce is available for purchase.
- Where Rhonda’s kitchen differs greatly from God’s original kitchen is the availability of electricity. Electricity allows her to keep raw produce fresh in refrigerators, while the availability of electricity makes it possible to operate machines that make food preparation so much more simple and less time consuming.
Location, Location, Location
We are so excited to have our home located in The Villages of Hallelujah Acres here in Shelby, North Carolina where we have our own organic garden and orchard at our door step, and we’re right across the street from the Hallelujah Acres food store where we can purchase what we can’t grow, as well as the other healthy items that make meals more enjoyable.
We are also excited to live in a like-minded community where healthy living is emphasized and where neighbors do not think you are strange for avoiding the world’s diet. Rather, neighbors are supportive of The Hallelujah Diet and the lifestyle we promote.
And talking about lifestyle, the Villages provides all manner of opportunities to exercise, which plays a huge part in keeping the body healthy, strong, and youthful. Already we have paved and street-lighted sidewalks, along with paved bicycle paths and plans for a clubhouse, chlorine-free swimming pool, tennis courts, and so much more.
One final thing, the weather here is temperate. The growing season is long and you can usually tell the season by the calendar: short winters with average January high of 50 degrees, and short summers with average July high of 88 degrees. Long, green spring times and spectacularly colored autumns provide great incentive to spend lots of time in God’s great outdoors.
Y’all Come And See Us When You Can!
What Does A Healthy Kitchen Look Like?
Jan 25th
In recent Health Tips we have evaluated the “size” of your family and what items are found in a weight-gaining kitchen.
In this Health Tip we are going to explore what comprises a healthy kitchen; those items that will not only produce health, but also produce a body that is slim and trim and fit for the Master’s use. We will also consider those items that do not qualify to be in a healthy kitchen.
What Does A Healthy Kitchen Look Like?
We are going to begin our search for the answer to that question by going to the source of all truth, the Bible, and see what we can learn from God, the Creator of mankind, about the subject:
“And the Lord God formed man of the dust (dirt, minerals) of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. And the Lord God planted a garden eastward of Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.” (Genesis 2:7-8)
“And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food. . . . And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat.” (Genesis 2:15-16)
Then God gives us an even more detailed description of what food items should be in a healthy kitchen in the following verses:
“AND GOD SAID, Behold, I have given you every herb (vegetable) 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). . . . AND GOD SAW everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.” (Genesis 1:29,31a)
What Did God’s “Kitchen” Look Like?
First, God’s kitchen was located outside in a garden. Because this garden was in a warm climate where food was able to grow year-round, food was readily available on a daily basis. God then created the first “gardeners” – Adam and Eve.
“And the Lord God said it is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. . . . And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon ADAM , and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from the man, made he a woman. . . . And Adam called his wife’s name EVE.” “Genesis 2:18, 21-22, 3:20)
“And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.” (Genesis 2:23-24)
So what have we learned thus far? God has created a man and then a woman, and placed them in a garden that was to be the source of nourishment for their physical bodies.
From these beginning verses in the book of Genesis (the book of Beginnings) we have already learned a lot of information that will help us on our journey to discovering “What a Healthy Kitchen Looks Like.”
What Foods Qualify To Be In A Healthy Kitchen?
First, let’s take a look at what qualifications God said a food must have in order to qualify as a food to be in the kitchen of Adam and Eve:
“AND GOD SAID, Behold I have given you every herb (vegetable) 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)
In other words, the only foods that qualified to meet God’s standard to be in that first kitchen (Adam & Eve’s kitchen) were plant-sourced.
Furthermore, these foods had to be living foods that had their enzymes (life force) still intact, and also had the ability to reproduce from a seed. This fact was extremely important, because if the food didn’t have the ability to reproduce for all eternity to support human life, the food supply would run out! This would be the end of man’s ability to live and perpetuate the human race on planet earth.
The foods that qualified to be in that first kitchen included all enzymatically alive fruits and vegetables capable of reproducing from the seed contained in the food or on the plant from which the food came, including (but not limited to):
- Fruits: Apples, peaches, pears, plums, nectarines, watermelon, cantaloupe, bananas, persimmon, grapes, blueberries, etc., as well as those foods we often consider vegetables which are technically fruits because they contain the seed within (tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, peppers, avocados, etc).
- Vegetables: Called “herbs” in the Bible, these would include all leafy greens such as lettuce, kale, and collards, as well as celery, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, beets, potatoes, sweet potatoes, kohlrabi, onions, leeks, garlic, as well as the grains of corn, barley, etc, and beans.
What Foods Do NOT Qualify To Be In A Healthy Kitchen?
The listing of foods that would not qualify to be in Adam and Eve’s kitchen is a very long one but these disqualified foods are really easy to determine…
Any food that does not come from a seed, have its enzymes intact and the ability to reproduce would be disqualified.
These include all animal flesh, because it is not plant-based as God clearly instructed Adam it must be in Genesis 1:29. Nor is animal flesh enzymatically alive.
Other disqualified foods include all manufactured and processed foods found in any type container, and technically any food that has been cooked. Once a food has been cooked, even though it qualified before cooking to be in a healthy kitchen, loses its ability to reproduce because the heat destroys its enzymes (life-force).
How Close Can We Come to Meeting God’s Criteria Today?
Meeting God’s criteria for a healthy kitchen isn’t as hard as it might at first appear. While most people do not live in a warm climate, or in a garden, people who live in a house with even a small lawn or amount of ground bordering their home can have a raised bed garden in which they can grow an amazing amount of food during the growing season.
For instance, in just one square yard of ground, 16 lettuce plants could be grown per month during growing season; 64 carrots; or one cherry tomato bearing 100’s of small tomatoes. Or you can grow an amazing amount of fresh garden foods in containers or large pots on a porch or patio that receives sun most of the day.
Rhonda and I have three 4×12 foot raised beds near our kitchen door in which we grow most of our vegetables from April through November. In addition we have planted an edible landscape for our fruit foods. A person who has as little as one eighth of an acre can create an edible landscape around their home and literally live in a garden.
Rhonda and I currently have 47 blueberry bushes, 5 thornless blackberries, six scuppernong (muscadine) grape vines, three fig trees, plus two apple trees, a peach and pear tree, along with a persimmon tree. All our garden foods are grown organically, and we plan to slowly increase the varieties in coming years.
For those who do not live in a house where there is available space, we are so blessed today to have health food stores that often carry fresh organic garden produce. Many of today’s supermarkets are also carrying increasing varieties of fresh organic produce.
Now that we have learned what foods qualify for a Healthy Kitchen, we need to share how a person can set up a healthy kitchen… stay tuned for that in next week’s Health Tip!
I will take you on a literary tour of Rhonda’s kitchens (she has two of them), and share how she has set them up to promotes health rather than disease and sickness.
What You Don’t Know About Animal Protein Can Kill You
May 11th
In Health Tip #648 we talked about how animal sourced foods were the single most dangerous foods a person could consume, being the cause or contributing cause of some 90% of all physical problems being experienced. Specifically in this Health Tip we talked about the FAT contained in animal sourced foods that clog the arteries, and contribute to high blood pressure, heart attacks and strokes.
In Health Tip #649 and Health Tip #650 we discussed how the ACID in animal sourced foods cause a myriad of problems, including acid stomach, heartburn, osteoporosis, and how if the blood becomes even slightly acidic, we die.
In this Health Tip we are going to talk about PROTEIN and how the excessive amounts of protein found in animal source foods harm the body. As our source of information we will share excerpts from a book I wrote in 1995, co-authored with Michael Dye, titled God’s Way to Ultimate Health. Though written some fifteen years ago, you will find the information you are about to read is as up-to-date as tomorrow’s newspaper.
Beginning on page 125 of God’s Way to Ultimate Health, in Chapter 15, titled Protein and Propaganda we learn the following:
Protein is by far the most widely discussed and publicized nutritional requirement of our body. With all this information available about protein, you might assume that people are pretty well informed on the subject. WRONG!
The average American consumes over 100 grams of protein a day, which is three to five times as much as experts now say is necessary. We all know that protein is an essential nutrient, but what most of us have not been told is that excessive amounts of protein can be hazardous to our health.
The dangers of a high-protein diet are not commonly known by the general public because we have been fed more misinformation and propaganda about protein than any other category of nutrition. A combination of badly outdated animal experiments and self-serving indoctrination disguised as nutritional education has left most people badly misinformed about our body’s protein needs.
Several generations of school children and doctors were taught incorrectly that we need meat, dairy and eggs for protein. The meat, dairy and egg industries funded this ‘nutritional education’ and it became official U. S. government policy. Much of the evidence used to support the claim that animal products are ideal for meeting human protein needs was based on a now discredited experiment on rats conducted in 1914.
The medical and nutritional establishments have been slow to accept evidence contrary to the status-quo of self-serving ‘nutritional education’ promoted by major commercial influences such as the meat and dairy industry. But facing the facts has forced doctors and nutritionists to steer more and more people away from animal products (because of cholesterol, saturated fat, mucous, excess protein, zero fiber, etc.) and to more fresh fruits and vegetables.
It has been interesting to observe over the years how expert opinions and official policies have changed, sometimes reluctantly, in the area of health and nutrition. The subject of protein requirements provides a classic example of how experts and official policies have been proven wrong and forced to change.
Nutritionists have drastically altered their thinking about human protein needs since that infamous rat study more than 80 years ago. But this updated knowledge has been very slow to reach the public. Most adults will remember being told repeatedly (and incorrectly) in school about how important it is to get lots of protein.
This new knowledge has left a wide gap between what nutritional experts now say about protein versus what was being taught just a couple decades ago in school. In an effort to fill this wide gap of information as thoroughly and concisely as possible, here is a six-point summary of what we should know about protein.
EDITOR: We only have room in this health tip to share this first point:
1) Modern research has shown that we should be more concerned about consuming too much protein rather than not getting enough. Protein is an extremely important nutrient, but when we get too much protein, or protein that we cannot digest, it causes problems. In Your Health, Your Choice, Dr. Ted Morter warns,
“In our society, one of the principle sources of physiological toxins is too much protein.”
It may come as quite a shock to people trying to consume as much protein as possible to read in major medical journals and scientific reports that excess protein has been found to promote the growth of cancer cells and can cause liver and kidney disorders, digestive problems, gout, arthritis, calcium deficiencies (including osteoporosis) and other harmful mineral imbalances.
Numerous studies have found that animals and humans subjected to high-protein diets have a consistently higher rate of cancer development. As for humans, T. Colin Campbell, a Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University and the senior science adviser to the American Institute for Cancer Research, says there is a “strong correlation between dietary protein intake and cancer of the breast, prostate, pancreas and colon.”
In Your Health, Your Choice, Dr. Morter writes, “The paradox of protein is that it is not only essential but also potentially health-destroying. Adequate amounts are vital to keeping your cells hale and hearty and on the job; but unrelenting consumption of excess dietary protein congests your cells and forces the pH of your life-sustaining fluids down to cell-stifling, disease-producing levels. Cells overburdened with protein become toxic.”
Writing in the Sept. 3, 1982 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers Dr. Barry Branner and Timothy Meyer state that: “undigested protein must be eliminated by the kidneys. This unnecessary work stresses out the kidneys so much that gradually lesions are developed and tissues begin to harden.” In the colon, this excess protein waste putrefies into toxic substances, some of which are absorbed into the bloodstream.
Dr. Willard Visek, Professor of Clinical Sciences at the University of Illinois Medical School, warns, “A high protein diet also breaks down the pancreas and lowers resistance to cancer as well as contributes to the development of diabetes.”
Anyone successfully indoctrinated by the meat and dairy industry’s nutritional education would be puzzled by the numerous studies finding osteoporosis, a calcium deficiency that makes the bones porous and brittle, is prominent among people with high consumption of both protein and calcium.
For example, the March 1983 Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that by age 65, the measurable bone loss of meat-eaters was five to six times worse than of vegetarians. The August 22, 1984 issue of the Medical Tribune also found that vegetarians have “significantly stronger bones.”
African Bantu women average only 350-mg. of calcium per day (far below the National Dairy Council recommendation of 1,200 mg.), but seldom break a bone, and osteoporosis is practically non-existent, because they have a low-protein diet. At the other extreme, Eskimos have the highest calcium intake in the world (more than 2,000 mg. a day), but they suffer from one of the highest rates of osteoporosis because their diet is also the highest in protein.
The explanation for these findings is that meat consumption leaves an acidic residue, and a diet of acid-forming foods requires the body to balance its pH by withdrawing calcium (an alkaline mineral) from the bones and teeth. So even if we consume sufficient calcium, a high-protein, meat-based diet will cause calcium to be leached from our bones.
Dr. John McDougall reports on one long-term study finding that even with calcium intakes as high as 1,400 mgs. a day, if the subjects consumed 75 grams of protein daily, there was more calcium lost in their urine than absorbed into their body. These results show that to avoid a calcium deficiency, it may be more important to reduce protein intake than to increase calcium consumption.
In his 1976 book, How to Get Well, Dr. Paavo Airola, PhD., N.D., notes:
we “have been brought to believe that a high protein diet is a must if you wish to attain a high level of health and prevent disease. Health writers and ‘experts’ who advocated high protein diets were misled by slanted research, which was financed by dairy and meat industries, or by insufficient and outdated information. Most recent research, worldwide, both scientific and empirical, shows more and more convincingly that our past beliefs in regard to high requirements of protein are out-dated and incorrect, and that the actual daily need for protein is far below that which has long been considered necessary. Researchers, working independently in many parts of the world, arrived at the conclusion that our actual daily need of protein is only 25 to 35 grams (raw protein being utilized twice as well as cooked) . . . But what is even more important, the worldwide research brings almost daily confirmation of the scientific premise . . . that proteins, essential and important as they are, can be extremely harmful when consumed in excess of your actual need.”
Dr. Airola continues: “The metabolism of proteins consumed in excess of the actual need leaves toxic residues of metabolic waste in tissues, causes autotoxemia, over acidity and nutritional deficiencies, accumulation of uric acid and purines in the tissues, intestinal putrefaction, and contributes to the development of many of our most common and serious diseases, such as arthritis, kidney damage, pyorrhea, schizophrenia, osteoporosis, arteriosclerosis, heart disease, and cancer. A high protein diet also causes premature aging and lowers life expectancy.”
EDITOR’S NOTE: God’s Way to Ultimate Health, the book the above quotes were taken from, was first published in 1995 by Hallelujah Acres. The book remains a best seller and there are now over a half million copies of this book in print. The book is divided into four parts:
- A Biblical Foundation for Health – Chapters 1-13 (Pages 24-117)
- An “Amen” From Modern Science – Chapters 14-23 (Pages 118-183)
- An “Amen” From People Who Have Tried the Hallelujah Diet – Chapters 24-26 (Pages 188-235)
- Recipes and Tips on How to Prepare Natural Foods – Chapters 27-30 (Pages 244-274)
On pages 12-20, appear endorsements of the book by a Doctor of Divinity, a Medical Doctor, a Doctor of Chiropractics, and a Doctor of Nutrition. (I share one of the endorsements to the book written by Evangelist and Doctor of Divinity, Dr. J. C. House on this blog.)
In addition, hundreds of testimonies, from people who saw numerous physical problems disappear after adopting The Hallelujah Diet, line the borders of most pages in this large, 282 page, 8 ½ x 11 book. On the front cover is a gorgeous full color oil painting of a young couple, hand-in-hand, walking down a winding path lined with all manner of fruits and vegetables leading to a garden. On the back cover is a picture of Rhonda and Rev. Malkmus on top of a snow covered Tennessee hilltop, along with a picture of Michael Dye, who assisted in the writing of the book.
“God’s Way to Ultimate Health by Rev. George Malkmus with Michael Dye is the ultimate nutritional guidebook, and has everything you need to know about how to return to God’s original plan for nourishing the human body. Read what the Bible says about diet and how modern science supports this Biblical wisdom. This cornerstone book of The Hallelujah Diet contains 282 pages of vital information and real-life testimonies—a book that many people say saved their life.”
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