Reverend George Malkmus, Founder of Hallelujah Acres
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47% of U.S. Meat Tainted With Bacteria
Apr 30th
Here’s a startling article from the April 15, 2011 edition of foxnews.com…
Here’s something to think about the next time you stop by the meat counter at your local grocery store – there may be drug-resistant strains of bacteria lurking in the steak or chicken.
A study by the Translational Genomics Research Institute, found that Staphylococcus aureus – a bacteria that causes most staph infections including skin infections, pneumonia and blood poisoning – are present in meat and poultry from U.S. grocery stores at “unexpectedly high rates.”
Researchers found nearly half of the meat and poultry samples – 47 percent – were contaminated with S. aureus, and more than half of those bacteria – 52 percent – were resistant to at least three classes of antibiotics.
For the study, researchers looked at 136 samples involving 80 brands of beef, chicken, pork and turkey from 26 grocery stores in five cities including Los Angeles, Chicago, Fort Lauderdale, Flagstaff and Washington, D.C.
“For the first time, we know how much of our meat and poultry is contaminated with antibiotic-resistant Staph, and it is substantial.” Dr. Lance B. Price, senior author of the study and Director of TGen’s Center for Food Microbiology and Environmental Health, said in a news release.
“The fact that drug-resistant S. aureus was so prevalent, and likely came from the food animals themselves, is troubling, and demands attention to how antibiotics are used in food-animal production today.”
According to the findings published in the journal Clinical infectious Disease, “industrial farms, where food animals are steadily fed low doses of antibiotics, “are ideal breeding grounds for drug-resistant bacteria that move from animals to humans.”
“Antibiotics are the most important drugs that we have to treat Staph infections; but when Staph are resistant to three, four, five or even nine different antibiotics – like we saw in this study – that leaves physicians few options,” Price said.
Experts say although Staph can be killed with proper cooking, it still may pose a risk to people who handle food improperly, and cross-contamination in the kitchen.
In previous Health Tips this editor has warned that animal source foods are the primary cause of heart attacks, strokes, cancer, Type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis, arthritis, asthma, allergies, heart burn, acid stomach, gout, and more.
In recent years we have also learned of the potential dangers of mad cow disease being transferred to humans who consume flesh from contaminated animals, and now we learn that deadly staph infections can come from meat tainted with drug-resistant bacteria.
I’m so glad I stopped consuming all animal source foods over 35 years ago when I adopted the 100% plant based, Genesis 1:29, diet God told we human to consume some 6,000 years ago. God had it right from the very beginning and we humans have had it so wrong!
I’m sure that the millions on the Hallelujah Diet across America and around the world will agree with me when I say “I’ so glad that I don’t eat anything that comes from an animal anymore!”
P.S. Isn’t it interesting how the media makes such a loud noise when they find a little bacteria on some spinach, how recalls are ordered, and that warnings regarding the dangers are wide spread?
Yet the above findings concerning the extremely dangerous bacteria found on nearly 50% of all animal flesh products, bacterium that has the potential of killing a person, garners hardly a word of concern or warning.
That bacterium on the spinach may make a person whose immune system isn’t working well to have a little upset stomach problem, but seldom does it cause death. I’m going to keep my immune system strong with The Hallelujah Diet and continue to eat my spinach, thank you!
Sunflower-Almond Nut Loaf
Apr 15th
If someone if your family is resisting The Hallelujah Diet because they don’t want to give up meat, try this recipe! It’s packed with a healthy dose of plant protein, living enzymes, and loads of flavor.
Send Us Your Recipes
If you have a favorite recipe send it our way! We will share the best of them in future Health Tips and on our website. They can be raw or cooked, but they must be vegan (no animal products), and contain no refined sugar, refined grains, or table salt.
What Does A Weight Gaining Kitchen Look Like?
Jan 18th
In last week’s Health Tip we asked “What Does A Healthy Family Look Like?” Under that heading I asked our readers to evaluate: “What is the Size of Your Family.” I wasn’t looking for the number of people in the family, but rather how large family members were and how many pounds they were carrying.
In this week’s Health Tip I want to share some things that cause a family to be overweight and then show how that family can take control of their overweight condition.
We are going to begin by taking a look in the kitchen to see what a person is eating – which is the primary cause of excess weight.
What Does A Weight Gaining Kitchen Look Like?
There are certain foods that contribute to weight gain and there are other foods that contribute to a slim and trim body. Let’s examine the weight gaining foods first.
Carbs
Refined carbs, especially refined sugar, are the greatest cause of weight gain. Anything containing refined sugar should not be found in the kitchen of a home that wants family members to be slim and trim. Where do we find refined sugar in the average kitchen?
Soft drinks – The average 12-oz can of soft drink contains approximately 11 teaspoons of sugar. If a person were to consume just one 12-oz can of soft drink each day for one year, the sugar in that soft drink would cause their body to gain approximately 15 pounds of weight. Now think of all the sugar in those liter bottles!
Bread, cakes, cookies, pies, pastries, cereals, jams, jellies, candy, gum – Almost every one of these items contain large amounts of refined sugar, a substance that not only causes weight gain but also psychological problems. Almost every manufactured product on the grocery store shelf contains some form of refined sugar.
Artificial sugars – These “sugar free” products are not only dangerous in themselves, but cause an increase in appetite, thereby defeating the very reason many people use them. Refined sugars and artificial sugars could also be classified as addictive drugs.
Refined Grains – Refined grains, when ingested, turn rapidly to sugar. Almost all breads, donuts, cookies, pies, pastries, and most breakfast cereals are made with refined grains. When a person consumes these products they are getting a double weight gaining whammy – not only from the sugar in the product, but also from the refined grain.
Fat
All animal products contain fat and the fat in these animal products contributes to excess body fat. That chicken many people think is less fattening than a beef patty is loaded with fat. Remove the skin from the breast of the chicken and broil it, and the percentage of fat remaining in that chicken breast is still 20%. Beef contains some 20 to 40% fat, and park is 40 to 60% fat.
When you cook these animal sourced foods it is impossible to get all the fat out. It’s not hard to imagine where that remaining fat ends up.
Other sources of fat include milk, cheese, hydrogenated oils, lard, and the fats found in deep fried foods such as doughnuts, French fries, fried fish, chicken nuggets, potato chips, etc.
These fats not only contribute to excess weight, but also clog the arteries causing high blood pressure, need for by-passes and stents, and often lead to a heart attack or stroke.
What’s In Your Kitchen?
As we enter the kitchen, we are going to open various doors in that kitchen to see what we see behind them. We are going to be looking for foods that contribute to weight gain behind those various doors.
The Freezer Door – The first thing that jumps out as we open the freezer door in many homes is that pint, quart or half-gallon of ice cream or maybe some popsicles. Ice cream not only contains lots of refined sugar (approximately 37%), but is also loaded with fat.
What else can we find? A stack of beef patties or package of hot dogs? Did you ever notice the fat that drains from these patties or dogs as you grill them? Did you ever consider what happens to the fat that does not drain from these items? That fat is taken into the body and that fat adds to your body fat.
Maybe you have a frozen pizza in there, covered with cheese, pepperoni, sausage, and hamburger meat. Some of the pizzas being sold today even boast “double cheese” and some even have cheese baked into their crusts.
The Refrigerator Door – As we open the refrigerator door what might we see? A six-pack of soda or beer? Are you aware that both of these contribute greatly to weight gain? So do fruit juices. Most of them are sweetened with refined sugar, which contribute to weight gain.
Even 100% fruit juices are loaded with natural sugars that can contribute to weight gain. Then there are the sugar laden Kool Aid, Gatorade, and other sport drinks.
Let me emphasize again that milk and cheese are huge sources of animal fat. Cow milk and cheese are not only highly fattening, but possibly the most dangerous items in the refrigerator.
And beware of the “low fat” deception, allowed by government, found on the label of a container of milk. The percentage is based on weight, not as a percentage of calories. As a percentage of total calories, a container of 1% milk is actually 26% fat, and 2% milk is 37% fat.
The Pantry Door – Is that a box of macaroni and cheese I see sitting on the pantry shelf, a very fattening food? Are there bags of sugar and white flour, boxes of cookies, crackers, and refined grain pastas? In most pantries there is also a container of refined salt. Refined table salt causes the body to retain water which can also contribute to weight gain.
What Does The Menu In A Restaurant Look Like?
For a moment, let’s look at what is being served in fast food restaurants. Take a typical fast food meal: animal flesh and cheese between a refined white flour bun, deep fat fried potatoes, and a sugar-laden soft drink. Other items might include deep fried chicken nuggets or a deep fried chicken or fish patty on a white flour bun.
Have you ever considered the size of the patrons in an all-you-can-eat buffet restaurant? Yet even in the finest restaurant there is a meat entrée, rolls and sugar desserts, and the salads usually have cheese and bacon bits added. All fattening foods!
Lack of Exercise
Failing to exercise on a daily basis encourages weight gain and discourages weight loss. The basic formula for weight gain and weight loss is this: consume more calories than are burned, and the body will gain weight. Burn more calories than are consumed, and the body will lose weight.
Consequences
- Children who are obese are twice as likely to die before age 55.
- Obese teen girls are more likely to die between the ages of 35 and 56.
- Because of an unhealthy, fattening diet, the average young adult is now facing increased risk of heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, stroke, and cancer.
- But it’s not just the young people facing these problems. Heart disease is the number one cause of death among adults. Cancer is a close second. Type 2 diabetes is rampant and low bone density is becoming an increasing concern.
Discouraged? Don’t Be!
Some reading this might at this point be so discouraged they are ready to throw up their hands and say, “There is nothing my family can eat that will not contribute to their weight gain!” Ah, but there is!
It is called The Hallelujah Diet. For nearly 20 years, tens-of-thousands of folks from around the world have written to share what happened when they changed their diet. When they switched from the unhealthy SAD foods to The Hallelujah Diet, they not only lost weight but were able to maintain that weight loss while eliminating many other physical problems.
Some of the weight losses have been dramatic. In January 2008 one gentlemen adopted The Hallelujah Diet and lost 206 pounds by October of the same year. Another gentleman in Texas lost 320 pounds and proclaimed “I’m not half the man I used to be.”
Several years ago I taught a class titled “Biblical Nutrition 101” in the church Rhonda and I were attending at the time. By the end of the six-month class, the 32 participants who adopted The Hallelujah Diet lost a combined total of more than 700 pounds.
A recent poll on www.hacres.com asked people if they had lost weight on The Hallelujah Diet. Of 240 who responded, 166 (or 69%) reported a weight loss. That is phenomenal!
What Does A Healthy Kitchen Look Like?
Next week, the good Lord willing, we will share ideas to replace those fattening foods in the freezer, refrigerator and pantry - foods that will help a person lose weight, obtain optimal weight, maintain that weight, and assist the body to rid itself of most other physical problems.
We will also share what a “Hallelujah Kitchen” looks like and provide a simple exercise program that will assist in helping a person obtain and maintain their weight goals.
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.”
For more information or to purchase the book call 800.915.9355, or visit our online store.
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