Reverend George Malkmus, Founder of Hallelujah Acres
Posts tagged immune system
What’s So Special About The Hallelujah Diet?
Nov 16th
Last week we discussed “What’s So Special About Carrot Juice?” Carrot juice is one of the main ingredients in The Hallelujah Diet. It plays a huge part in the tens of thousands of testimonies we have received from folks who recovered from over 170 different physical problems.
In this Health Tip, we are going to share “What’s So Special about the Hallelujah Diet”.
Unique Because Of Its Foundation
I began my journey to health in 1976 after being told I had colon cancer at the age of 42. Ever since, I have weighed everything I have learned about diet, nutrition, health, and lifestyle against the teachings of the Bible.
If what I was learning about diet was in keeping with God’s original diet as given by God to Adam in Genesis 1:29, then I set it apart as something worthy of serious consideration. Here’s what God said in Genesis 1:29…
“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].”
If what I was learning did not fit this clear, Biblical teaching, I cast it aside as chaff. Genesis 1:29 became my guiding light in my journey to health.
It will soon to be 35 years since I began this journey. It’s already been more than 20 years since I wrote my first book, “Why Christians Get Sick”. As I go back and re-read what I believed and wrote those many years ago, and after many years of additional research, I’m thrilled to be able to say that not a single concept that I held those many years ago needs to be changed or updated.
Why is this true? Because Hallelujah Acres itself and what we believe and teach here has been been founded on the Word of God from inception.
Here’s what Jesus had to say about His words in Matthew 24:35…
“Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.”
And again in 1 Peter 1:25…
“But the word of the Lord endureth for ever.”
On the other hand, today’s science, the curriculum in universities, and the philosophies of today’s dietitians, medical doctors, and so-called authorities of this world are constantly changing.
They tell us one thing today and then a few years later the exact opposite. Here’s how the Bible describes today’s so-called experts and authorities: “Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.” (2 Timothy 3:7)
Because most people listen to what the world’s authorities and their wisdom have to say about diet and health, and how to rid themselves of physical problems, there is great confusion. In response to this worldly wisdom, the Bible says “…the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.” (1 Corinthians 3:19)
Why do Christians listen to and believe what the Bible has to say in the spiritual realm, but when it comes to the physical realm, they listen to and believe the world’s authorities – especially when it has already proven to be an utter failure time and again?
Unique Because Of Its Approach
The world’s approach to physical problems is a symptomatic approach! Rather than seeking out the cause of a physical problem, and eliminating the cause so that the symptom can go away, the world continues to treat the symptom.
The medical community has a different drug for every symptom. The problem with this approach is that the drug merely covers or masks the symptom, while never dealing with the cause. The patient never gets well. Oh, they can drug the symptom into submission and thus reduce the symptoms manifestation, but once the drug is stopped, the symptom returns.
At Hallelujah Acres we teach that the symptom is not the problem! Rather, the symptom is merely the outward manifestation of a broken down immune system or organ not functioning properly.
Rather than trying to rid the body of the symptom through the use of a drug, at Hallelujah Acres we say that if you want to get well, “stop putting into the body that which is causing the symptom.”
At Hallelujah Acres we teach that almost every physical problem we experience is merely the body reacting to having something put into it which God never intended.
When a person applies The Hallelujah Diet approach and eliminates the cause of the symptom, most physical and even psychological symptoms are gone within a matter of days and occasionally as long as a few months.
Friends, God’s way works far better than the world’s way! If you haven’t already given God’s way a try, I believe you will be pleasantly surprised at the outcome.
For Example…
Some years ago during a question and answer period at Health Minister Training someone asked, “What do you recommend for migraine headaches?”
Those on the panel offered suggestions ranging from cayenne pepper to soaking feet in hot water and then ice-water. After the panel had exhausted their suggestions, I asked the Health Ministers how many of them had experienced migraine headaches before adopting The Hallelujah Diet.
Approximately 20 raised their hands. Then I asked, “How many saw your migraines go away after adopting the Hallelujah Diet?” The response was 100%. Then I asked, “How long did it take for your migraines to go away after adopting The Hallelujah Diet? All had seen their migraines simply disappear within the first month of making the diet change.
One lady told how she had been experiencing migraines for over 50 years. They were totally gone within three weeks after adopting The Hallelujah Diet. Notice that after they had removed the cause of their migraines, the symptom (migraines) simply went away.
Over the years, tens of thousands have written to share with me that after they applied the teachings of Hallelujah Acres and made the diet and lifestyle change we teach, they had seen all of their physical and even psychological problems disappear – even terminal cancers.
Here at Hallelujah Acres we teach that most physical and even psychological breakdowns will disappear after we change diet and lifestyle from an unhealthy one to a healthy one.
Hallelujah Acres teaches that when physical problems manifest, in most instances, man is simply reaping what he has sown. Galatians 6:7 puts it this way: “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” God says: “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” in Hosea 4:6.
Unique In Its Cost
Last year, total disease care costs in the United States exceeded $2.7 trillion. If Health Care Reform is ever fully enacted, health care costs in the U.S. are projected to increase by another one to two trillion dollars.
I personally stopped carrying health insurance 35 years ago. After my cancer experience, I learned that I could control my own health by refusing to eat things that made me sick, eating a health-promoting diet, and exercising regularly. Over 35 years, I estimate that I have saved over $150,000 in health insurance premiums through a simple change in diet and lifestyle.
When Rhonda and I started Hallelujah Acres in 1992, we wanted the health information we had learned to be available to anyone who desired it without cost. Though we support the ministry through the sale of books, DVDs, CDs, juicers, BarleyMax, etc., anyone who desires the information that can restore their health can receive it free of charge:
Seminars – Since I began sharing “God’s Way to Ultimate Health” almost 20 years ago, I have never charged for the information. Tens of thousands have attended these seminars across America and in other countries. Multitudes have written to report health restored as a result of listening to and applying this information.
Weekly Health Tip – Though I have written nearly 700 weekly electronic Health Tips over the past 13 years (taking about 14,000 hours to write), I have never charged for a single issue. Each issue contains a feature article, testimonies, a recipe, and more.
Biblical Nutrition 101 – This 12-lesson course for individual or group study provides all the information necessary to restore health and empower the body to heal itself. Many thousands have downloaded this free course.
Hallelujah Acres Health News – This 48-page bi-monthly magazine is read by over a half-million people each issue. It contains scientifically-validated research articles, original recipes from The Hallelujah Acres Cafe, personal testimonies, and much more.
Website – Our website includes hundreds of hours of nutritional informational videos, downloads, and more presented from a Biblical perspective. Tens-of-thousands of people visit our website weekly!
60 Days to Reclaim Your Health – This web-based video program contains a powerhouse of information on how to restore one’s health, along with recipes and daily boosts sent to you by email.
60 Days to a Hallelujah Waistline – Another interactive internet program that teaches how to lose unwanted pounds. Over 7,000 have already taken this course and reported incredible weigh losses, many of over 100 pounds and a few over 200.
Hallelujah Acres Facebook Page – Become a fan of the Hallelujah Acres Facebook page and stay in touch with over 6,000 others. There’s a topic each day and knowledgeable staff to respond to questions.
Hallelujah Acres Is A Ministry
We make this information available without charge because Hallelujah Acres is first and foremost a ministry. We are dedicated to eliminating sickness from the Christian community in particular, and the world in general, if they wish to listen.
We sell products that match what we teach. Profits we make on those products help pay the bills and support the ministry. We currently have 55 full-time employees helping us reach the world with the message that “you don’t have to be sick.”
At Hallelujah Acres we teach health from a biblical perspective. We teach how God designed us to be nourished. This teaching may sound strange to people who have been programmed by the world’s system – but multitudes are experiencing that what we teach here at Hallelujah Acres is indeed truth and that it does work!
White Death?
Oct 1st
Are you addicted to it? Consuming refined white sugar is one of the worst things we can do for our immune system, weight, and total health.
Many holistic doctors say white sugar is a killing you. This may be overly simplistic, but it does sum up refined sugar’s impact on the physical body.
Not all sugars are unhealthy. Certain sugars have minimal negative impact and remarkable health benefits. However the refined white sugar that most people use every day is harmful even in small amounts.
Refined sugar suppresses the immune system. It has been shown to decrease the vitality and number of white blood cells, limiting the body’s ability to respond to invaders.
It also depresses the body’s energy field and makes the blood acidic. Both of these make the body more susceptible to toxins, bacteria and viruses. Sugar also feeds bacteria such as candida and yeast.
Refined sugar hits your bloodstream hard, severely impacts blood sugar levels, decreases digestive enzymes, increases body weight, and negatively affects the pancreas.
Found in most soft drinks, candy, sauces, salad dressings, baked goods and thousands of other prepared foods, refined sugar can be very difficult to avoid unless you are fixing your own food from scratch.
If you want to experience ultimate health as God designed for your body, avoid refined sugar!
How We Contribute To Our Own Physical Problems (Part 5)
May 18th
For the past four Health Tips (#648 through #651) we have been talking 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.
In Health Tip #648 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 #650 we discussed how the ACID in animal sourced foods cause a myriad of problems, including acid stomach, heartburn, osteoporosis, and more, and how if the blood becomes even slightly acidic, we die.
In Health Tip #651 we talked about PROTEIN and how the excessive amounts of protein found in animal source foods harm the body, and contribute to numerous physical problems.
In this Health Tip we are going to talk about another food, one that most people consume in huge amounts daily, that is extremely devastating to the body. And what is that food? Well, it is not a food at all, but rather a toxic and addictive drug. It is called sugar, and after animal sourced foods is the second greatest cause of both the physical as well as the mental problems being experienced today.
THE DANGERS OF REFINED SUGAR
If you remember nothing else from this article regarding refined sugar, remember this: “REFINED SUGAR TURNS OFF YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM!”
God, in His infinite wisdom, realized that the human physical body He created, which every person reading this possesses, would come in contact with some what we will call “bad guys,” during our earthly journey through life.
These “bad guys” are called germs, viruses, bacteria, etc. In order to protect us from these “bad guys,” God built into the human physical body a means of protection. It is called the immune system.
Our immune system is comprised of a unique grouping of cells, designed by God, and given the task of identifying and destroying these foreign invaders (“bad guys”) before they can do significant harm to the body.
Disease-causing organisms such as those listed above are detected by the immune system, tagged for destruction, and then annihilated by these hungry immune system cells, but only when the immune system is kept strong and healthy and functioning at optimal levels.
The immune system God placed into our physical body is designed to recognize even cancer cells, also in the category of “bad guys”, as abnormal and unwelcome. A strong, healthy, immune system, operating at optimal levels will seek out cancer cells and actually destroy them before they multiply if, but only IF, the immune system is operating at optimal levels.
It is of vital important we realize that after God had created the human physical body, with a self-protecting immune system built right in that physical body, God had done His part in providing us with a body that would efficiently handle these harmful germs, viruses, bacteria, and even cancers. But now we come to MAN’S PART!
WHAT IS MAN’S PART?
It is the responsibility of every man, woman and child (the child is the parents responsibility until the child is old enough to take control), that we not place into the body anything that would comprise our immune system, because doing so would render it incapable of fulfilling its God given task of protecting the body.
In other words, we must each do everything we can possibly do to keep our immune system in such a condition that it remains STRONG and HEALTHY, and thus capable of fulfilling the task God gave it of protecting our physical bodies from these “bad guys.”
Our daily diet and lifestyle determines whether our immune system is strong and healthy, and working at optimal levels – OR – weak and ineffective, and thus unable to fulfill its intended function! In other words God has given us the controls that determine wellness or sickness.
When functioning at optimal levels, the immune system can recognize, seek out, and destroy all of the “bad guys” in our body. But if our diet and lifestyle are poor, then our immune system will be too weak and compromised, and thus unable to fulfill its God given task of protecting us from the “bad guys”.
HOW REFINED SUGAR EFFECTS OUR IMMUNE SYSTEM
The single most destructive thing we can place into our body, with regards to the immune system, is refined sugar! As I said earlier in this article, refined sugar is an immune system suppressant! It literally knocks out or compromises the very system God gave us to protect us from the “bad guys.”
And yet, and sadly, the average American consumes approximately 50 teaspoons of refined sugar each and every day of their life. It takes approximately 3 feet of sugar cane to produce 1 teaspoon of refined sugar. Thus, for a person to obtain 50 teaspoons of sugar from sugar cane (the daily average), that person would have to chew, digest, and assimilate 150 feet of sugar cane each and every day.
Since there are approximately 11 teaspoons of sugar in just a single 12-ounce can of soda pop, a person would have to consume 33 feet of sugar cane to obtain an equivalent amount of sugar. And can you even begin to fathom how many feet of sugar cane would have to be chewed, digested, and assimilated to equal the amount of refined sugar found in breakfast cereals, candy, cake, cookies, pies, ice cream, donuts, etc., etc.
Dr. Agatha Thrash, (M.D.), explains how sugar affects the immune system when she writes:
“Another important fact about sugar has to do with disease resistance. The white blood cells with segmented nuclei increase in numbers in the blood stream when the body has a bacterial infection. These cells destroy bacteria. They are the body’s soldiers. However, when the blood sugar level goes up, these cells get sluggish and cannot destroy as many bacteria.”
Dr. Thrash then provides a chart showing how much sugar it takes to affect the ability of the white blood cells to destroy bacteria:
“Six teaspoons of sugar (the amount of sugar in a single candy bar) reduces the ability of these white blood cells to destroy unfriendly bacteria by 25%; Twelve teaspoons (the amount of sugar in a single can of soda pop) reduces the ability of these white blood cells to destroy unfriendly bacteria by 60%; And twenty-four teaspoons (just half the average daily intake of refined sugar), reduces the ability of these white blood cells to destroy unfriendly bacteria by 92%.”
Every time a person drinks a soda pop or other beverage containing refined sugar, eats a piece of candy or a breakfast cereal containing refined sugar, has a piece of cake or donut or a cookie or piece of pie, they are placing an addictive drug into their body that will compromise the very immune system God gave them to protect them from the “bad guys.”
REFINED SUGAR DOES MORE THAN COMPROMISE THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
Refined sugar impacts the quality of life by: (1) Increases the severity of PMS; (2) Decreases cognitive or intellectual function, especially in children; (3) Sugar also contributes to our current epidemic of heart disease, excess weight, and so much more.
Following is just a partial list of health problems related to the intake of refined sugar:
- Acne
- addiction to drugs and caffeine
- alcoholism
- allergies
- anxiety
- behavioral problems
- binge eating
- bloating
- bone loss
- candidiasis
- depression
- difficulty concentrating
- eczema
- edema
- emotional problems
- fatigue
- food cravings
- hormonal problems
- hyperactivity
- insomnia
- menstrual difficulties
- mental illness
- mood swings
- premature aging
- psoriasis
- and the list goes on and on.
Prior to my adopting The Hallelujah Acres Diet and Lifestyle (based on God’s Genesis 1:29 diet) in 1976, I experienced several head colds each and every year; the flu annually; as well as sore throats, headaches, upset stomach, fevers, and debilitating seasonal allergies. Since adopting The Hallelujah Acres Diet and Lifestyle 34 years ago I have not experienced a single one of these physical problems! WHY! There are several reasons.
1. When I adopted The Hallelujah Acres Diet and Lifestyle in 1976, I eliminated ALL refined sugar from my diet, and except for those occasions when I was not aware it was contained in something I was consuming, I haven’t placed any refined sugar into my body. How could I do that? I did it by so programming my mind that when I was confronted with a food containing refined sugar, in my mind I visualized a skull and cross-bones emblazed upon it, rather than seeing it as a tasty delight.
When I made the diet change in 1976, in addition to the elimination of all refined sugar, I also eliminated from my diet all animal sourced foods (both flesh and dairy); products containing white bleached flour; refined table salt, and caffeine.
2. At the same time I stopped all refined sugar intake, along with the other items mentioned in above, I totally changed my diet. Overnight I went from a diet that consisted almost totally of cooked foods with lots of animal foods, to a diet consisting of almost totally raw plant sourced foods, a diet similar to God’s Genesis 1:29 Diet. Also, I began consuming an abundance of raw, freshly extracted vegetable juices.
The only reason I have been free of colds, the flu, sore throats, headaches, upset stomachs, fevers, and debilitating seasonal allergies for the past 34 years is because I stopped consuming the diet that produced them, and began a diet and lifestyle that protected me from them.
Thus by consuming a diet comprised of an abundance of living plant sourced foods, along with lots of freshly extracted vegetable juices and barley juice powder, including lots of exercise, my body has been able to continue to protect me and maintain that immunity for over 34 years.
But this immunity is not only available to me, but available to all who are willing to apply the principles that will protect them also.
I did not achieve this degree of wellness because God singled me out, and has been protecting me from all these physical problems for the past 34 years. God doesn’t do that! Rather, God gives each of us a choice as to whether we live in wellness or sickness. If we want to live in wellness, we must adopt the diet and lifestyle God designed these physical bodies we each possess to live by, which is so clearly articulated in Genesis 1:29 in the Bible.
If we desire sickness, then all we have to do is do what we have been programmed to do by this world in which we live. Sickness is the result of following the worlds diet and lifestyle – yes, the Standard American Diet (SAD), along with a sedentary couch potato lifestyle.
God very clearly tells us in Romans 12:2 “And be not conformed to this world.” And in Galatians 6:7 the Bible tells us we have a CHOICE as to whether we live in health or in sickness: “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
For over 18 years now, Hallelujah Acres has been sharing with all who would listen how they too could disease proof their body. Millions have listened and applied our teachings, while tens-of-thousands have written to tell me that by simply applying the principles we have shared here at Hallelujah Acres, they have recovered from over 170 different physical problems, and that they no longer get sick.
That’s a great BIG HALLELUJAH my friend! Won’t you join us, so that you too, can experience the health God designed for you and your family?
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