Reverend George Malkmus, Founder of Hallelujah Acres
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Diabetes Reversed In 10 Days!
Feb 9th
On February 12, 2012 Hallelujah Acres celebrated its 20th Anniversary, and as we begin our 21st year, the testimonies continue to roll in. Ever since Hallelujah Acres had its beginning 20 years ago, the testimonies take the credit for motivating multitudes around the world to give The Hallelujah Diet a try.
If you are on the Hallelujah Diet and have experienced improvement in your health please send me your testimony so that I can share it with nearly 100,000 subscribers!
“I love to share with others how in just 10 days after adopting The Hallelujah Diet I had reversed my Type 2 diabetes and was off insulin. In addition, my total weight loss thus far is 85 pounds.”
Vickie B.
“Hi George; 14 years ago, after adopting your Hallelujah Diet and prayer, my wife Karen’s cancer was pronounced benign and my chronic fatigue and immune deficiency syndrome were a thing of the past. And here we are 14 years later still following your diet and lifestyle and enjoying excellent health. God bless you and your ministry. You continue in our prayers as you guys celebrate 20 years of being used mightily by the Holy Spirit in and outside the Body of Messiah.”
Gary P.
“People are very intrigued as to what I am doing, because they see the positive effects The Hallelujah Diet has had upon me. Since adopting The Hallelujah Diet I have lost 175 pounds, reversed my pre-diabetes through diet alone, and my face, hair and hands have regained a more youthful appearance. When my efforts to encourage someone else to adopt The Hallelujah Diet fails, I just let my physical and visible example do what my words can’t do. My selling point, since my words are falling on deaf ears, is to just live the life and be a visible example of what the diet can do for them.”
Marsha W.
“Since adopting The Hallelujah Diet I have lost 130 pounds. Some people say I have ‘great will power’. Maybe! But the truth is that I chose to eat and live this way. Success is all about making the right choices.”
Kevin F.
“Rev. Malkmus, I loved reading about the history of Hallelujah Acres in recent Health Tips. I remember when you had your stroke and how you overcame it by your diet. You are a wonderful inspiration to all who know you and read about you. It was good to hear about Paul and how he left his military retirement to join Hallelujah Acres. That’s trusting God and helps us to know that after God takes you to heaven, Hallelujah Acres will continue to be there to bring hope and healing to all who commit their lives to eating right. God bless all of you!”
Liz G.
“Hello! I have read your Health Tips for many years now, thinking that you must be on the right track concerning how to recover from health problems and health in general. Thank you for sharing. What are your plans for bringing The Hallelujah Diet to Norway? Are there any Health Ministers here in Norway? Please continue the good work! I am not completely on your diet, but have my own juicer and do some juicing.”
Jostein B., Stavanger, Norway
Rev. Malkmus Responds: Hi Jostein, I’m sorry we do not have a Hallelujah Acres trained Health Minister in Norway – But it would be wonderful if you could become one. What a wonderful ministry you could have in your country, helping your countrymen improve their health!
From Lung Cancer to Living Testimony
Dec 15th
Ever since Hallelujah Acres had its beginning in 1992, the thing that has caused more people than anything else to give the Hallelujah Diet and Lifestyle a try are the testimonies.
When people read these testimonies they say: “Wow, if that person can get rid of this or that problem through a simple diet and lifestyle change, maybe I need to give it a try.” And they do, and soon we receive another testimony.
“In August I was diagnosed with lung cancer and given but 18 months to live. Almost immediately someone told me about Hallelujah Acres; I went to their website; called Hallelujah Acres in Shelby; ended up at the Hallelujah Acres Lifestyle Center in Parkersburg, West Virginia; and began The Hallelujah Recovery Diet in an effort to save my life.
Since beginning this aggressive diet plan I have had no setbacks, am enjoying the program and reading and studying all I can about a basically raw, plant based diet. I am so amazed that all this information is available from Hallelujah Acres at no cost – the food recipes, the juicing recipes, with materials available everyday to read and study, including the encouragement that comes from the Bible.
I just wanted to take a minute to say ‘Praise the Lord’ and ‘Thank You’ for all you have already done in my life with your website, printed materials, publications, books, and products. You have totally blessed and enhanced my life. I now expect to fully recover from my lung cancer and will be standing in line to give my testimony of healing in the near future. Bless you all at Hallelujah Acres.”
Anonymous
“Dear Dr. Malkmus, Thank you so much for the advice on knee replacement in your recent Health Tip. I am currently involved with a physician who is recommending cortisone and/or knee replacement for my left knee. I politely declined his offers, and was finally able to get him to allow me to try physical therapy and diet before submitting to his modalities.
I am an African American female, 77 years of age, and a vegan who has not used a prescription medication in over a decade. I also hold a BS/HOSM, and an MA in Social Gerontology. Sir, you are indeed a blessing to us all. I will let you know how I make out. Have a Blessed Christmas.”
Sylvia B.
“Dear Rev. Malkmus, Three years ago my neighbor told me about Rhonda’s ‘Recipes for Life from God’s Garden’ recipe book and I bought it. But sadly never read it. Then in August of this year I cried out to God to help me with my health and weight gain.
In response, the Holy Spirit brought Rhonda’s book to my remembrance and prompted me to go to my office and search for it. I found it, and after reading her book, at that very moment, began my journey into a new lifestyle.
On The Hallelujah Diet, in just the first five weeks, I effortlessly lost 15 pounds and then slowly lost another five pounds for a total weight loss of 20 pounds.
I am now 62 years old, weigh 139 pounds, and feel GREAT! Since making the diet change my varicose veins have shown considerable improvement and leg pain has greatly lessened. I now have great energy and feel 20 years younger.
I have started an exercise routine and am looking forward to another 5 to 10 pound weight loss. In view of what I have experienced in just four months on The Hallelujah Diet, I will never go back to the Standard American Diet (SAD). Life is too wonderful and precious to return to that old diet and lifestyle that caused my weight gain and made me sick.
Give Rhonda my love and heartfelt thanks for writing her book and thank you for the wonderful work you and Hallelujah Acres are doing. My husband made the diet and lifestyle change with me and has lost 18 pounds and is as excited about this new lifestyle as I am.
We are telling all our friends and family about how a simple change in diet and lifestyle can change their lives as it has changed ours.”
JoElla M.
Life With Dignity On The Hallelujah Diet
Nov 24th
In last week’s testimonies, we shared the experience of Health Minister Anita’s 80-year-old husband Bud, who after a four year battle with prostate cancer passed on to be with Jesus.
In that testimony, Anita shared how The Hallelujah Diet allowed him to have quality of life and an extended life without suffering the medical torture he would have experienced had he gone the medical route.
Following are a few of the responses to that testimony:
“I absolutely love reading these testimonies of the benefits of The Hallelujah Diet. Thank you!!!”
Becky A.
“Actually, that’s my goal. I don’t want a painful death. I want to thrive and pass on with grace when it’s my time.”
Kaylene P.
“I do believe this courageous gentleman went home because it was his time and that he died of old age, not only the cancer! Eighty years old is a well run race. What a blessing to hear how we can still die well and with our loved ones helping us in this day and age – Thank you for your very personal and brave testimony! God Bless!!!”
Donna C.
“Rev. Malkmus, thank you for your website and for the people that share their testimonies of living victoriously after adopting healthy eating. I was told I had colon cancer (just like you) and would have to have surgery to remove a portion of my colon and then having it reattached.
The following Sunday in a session for adults, our pastor was teaching on living holistically by adopting The Hallelujah Diet. I felt the Lord leading me to attend and the pastor talked about not only The Hallelujah Diet but also a book titled ‘The China Study’ by T. Colin Campbell. I got the book, read it, and realized that God wanted me to participate in my healing by changing the way I ate, which I learned had been the cause of my cancer.
So I immediately began a new way to live, by so eating that my body could receive the nutrients it needed to heal itself. After making the diet and lifestyle change, a final examination of my colon revealed my colon clear of cancer.
Praise God, I am now eating to live and no longer living to eat. In addition to having my colon still intact, I have lost some unwanted weight and have my health back, for which I thank God.”
Merilyn D.
“Pastor Malkmus, it is with a grin and a smile that I pass this information that I read today on a CBN email newsletter on to you. It said that doctors have just discovered that stem cells taken from the patient’s heart and allowed to mature and then reintroduced back into the patient’s heart have been observed to regenerate the heart for patients with heart failure and thus they are learning that the body has the ability to heal itself.
WOW! What a discovery!
Finally the world is learning what you have been saying over and over in your Health Tips for years, only they attribute this healing to the stem cells, while you attribute this ability of the body to heal itself to God and the stem cells that He created.
I want to also thank you for your recent article on the dangers of refined sugar which I have passed on to many. If only people would learn that the body will heal itself if we give it the right building materials, rather than relying on the world to do what only God gave the body the ability to do.
God bless you Pastor Malkmus and your ministry. I fully trust and believe in what you teach.”
Miriam E.
“Five years ago after my sister was diagnosed with colon cancer, we both attended your free first Saturday-of-the-month seminar there in Shelby. It was my first experience hearing how what we eat and drink can affect our health.
After purchasing several of your books and reading a great deal both from them and on your website, I decided to adopt The Hallelujah Diet. Since making that diet change five years ago I have lost 104 pounds.
Thank you Dr. Malkmus for sharing this lifesaving knowledge!”
Melissa W.
NOTE: Our next first-Saturday-of-the-month, “God’s Way to Ultimate Health” seminar is scheduled for Saturday, December 3, right here at Hallelujah Acres in Shelby, North Carolina. In addition to there being no cost for the lifesaving information, all who attend will receive a free copy of the Hallelujah Acres Health News.
The World’s Diet – Dangerously High In Refined Sugar
Nov 15th
Over the last several weeks, we have been learning about the shortcomings and dangers of the world’s diet.
In this Health Tip we are going to examine a substance that makes up a high percentage of the world’s diet — and discover why it is so dangerous to your health.
Refined Sugar Is A Dead, Fiberless Poison
Refined sugar is not a food substance at all. It is a dangerous poison that is consumed by almost every man, woman, and child, in large quantities, on a daily basis.
It is a dead (contains no enzymatic activity), fiberless, and good-for-nothing killer that creates monumental problems within the body.
Refined sugar is something God never intended our physical bodies to consume.
The only sugar God designed our physical bodies to ever have to deal with are the natural sugars found in the living (enzymatically alive), raw fruits and vegetables God created for us in the Garden!
Only 100 years ago, the average annual intake of refined sugar was approximately 5 pounds per person per year. Today, the average annual intake of refined sugar is around 172 pounds per person per year.
This means that if a person is consuming the Standard American Diet (SAD), that person is placing into their God-made physical bodies approximately 50 teaspoons of refined sugar, each and every day of their life.
If a person lives to the age of 80, they will have during their lifetime placed into their body some 13,760 pounds of refined sugar.
My friends that means that the average person on the “world’s diet” consumes nearly 7 tons of refined sugar in their lifetime.
That amount, 13,760 pounds, equals 2,752 five-pound bags of refined sugar.
Can you visualize what 2,752 five pound bags of refined sugar looks like when in the grocery store there are usually no more than ten 5-pound bags on the shelf?
Refined Sugar Is A Dead Food
All refined sugars originated as a natural, unrefined sugar in a living plant. As such, natural sugars contain a complete complement of enzymes, nutrients and fiber, just as God intended.
By the time natural sugar reaches its refined sugar stage, all nutrients have been removed, all enzymes destroyed, and all fiber removed.
As such, refined sugar is a very dead and toxic substance.
Let’s look for a moment at the process of taking sugar cane or sugar beet in its nutrient rich, fiber rich, enzymatically alive state as found in the plant, into a refined, fiberless, lifeless, nutrient-devoid product.
The following information was taken from a newsletter written by Charlotte Gerson of the world-famous Gerson Clinic:
“Sugar is a basic element in starchy food; however, processed sugar is a completely different matter. The sugar we purchase in the supermarket for personal consumption is processed sugar. This kind of sugar is heated up in chalk-milk, so that calcium and protein are extracted. After the process, it becomes alkaloid, destroying all vitamin content. In the second phase the sugar is mixed with acid chalk, carbonic gas, sulfur dioxide and finally with natrium bicarbonate. The mixture is cooked and cooled off several times and thereafter crystallized and centrifuged. The dead mass is then treated with strontium hydroxide. Subsequently it arrives at the refinery where it is passed over chalk carbon acid to clean it. Dark coloring is removed by adding sulfuric acid and then it is filtered with bone charcoal. Finally, it is colored with Indathrenblue or the highly toxic Ultramarine. This product’s chemical composition is C12H22O11, which you can buy in shops as ‘pure cane’ sugar.”
Refined Sugar Is Fragmented
Through heating and mechanical and chemical processing, all vitamins, proteins, fats, enzymes and fiber – indeed, every single nutrient is removed until nothing but pure white sugar, pure ‘naked calories,’ pure refined carbohydrate remains.
Sixty-four food elements are destroyed in the processing. Fragmented foods like these set up nutritional imbalances that precipitate health problems galore.
Refined Sugar Is Highly Acidic
Like animal source foods and refined grains, refined sugar is also extremely ‘acid forming.’
In fact, refined sugar is possibly the most acidic substance one can consume. Soft drinks, which usually contain at least 10 teaspoons of refined sugar, have a pH between 2.8 and 3.5, making it the greatest source of acid we can place into our bodies.
In an effort to neutralize all of this acid, the body takes vital alkaline minerals, calcium being the most plentiful, from the body’s bone structure in an effort to neutralize the acidity. The acidity found in all animal source foods and refined grains cause the body to lose calcium as well.
This highly refined acidic sugar intake, along with the consumption of acidic animal and acidic grain source foods, causes the body to remove so much calcium from the bones and teeth that the bones become osteoporotic (porous) and teeth decay.
Refined Sugar Creates Blood Sugar Disorders
One pound of apples contains 263 calories, whereas one pound of candy contains 1800 calories.
Refined sugar is concentrated far beyond what the God-created human body was designed to process at one time, while the body processes the much smaller amount of natural sugar found in apples just fine.
If a body is going to survive, it must find a way to somehow cope with the incredibly high amounts of sugar found in refined sugar. The body learns how to cope with it, but in so doing, often creates two new physical problems – diabetes and hypoglycemia.
Diabetes
The primary cause of diabetes is the fat contained in animal products which coats the cells and hinders the insulin from entering the cell.
But when a diabetic consumes refined sugar, the pancreas has difficulty producing adequate insulin when the blood sugar rises. Concentrated amounts of sugar cause a rapid rise in blood sugar.
Chronic intake of refined sugar eventually exhausts the pancreas as it tries to compensate. Thus the diabetic is condemned to having to take ever-increasing amounts of insulin to compensate.
Diabetes is the #3 killer disease in America, preceded only by cardiovascular related problems and cancer.
Hypoglycemia
Hypoglycemia is the flip side of diabetes. Hypoglycemia occurs when the body still has a fairly strong pancreas. The body overreacts to concentrated sugar intake and releases too much insulin from the pancreas. Blood sugar levels then plummet far below the normal stable level.
The suffering hypoglycemic often experiences fatigue, headaches; mental depression, and irritability.
Depression is often dealt with by the intake of more refined sugar, and so the hypoglycemic is caught in an endless cycle that causes the pancreas to wear out from constant over stimulation.
This often results in diabetes, because now the sufferer cannot produce sufficient insulin for normal metabolic activities.
Refined Sugar Promotes Emotional Instability
After a “sugarholic” has consumed a box of candy — or bag of cookies, or any large amount of refined sugar — they know how self-abused and depressed they feel.
Indeed, studies reveal a strong link between juvenile and adult criminal offenses and sugar addiction.
Similar research reveals a link between mental illness and sugar abuse. Hypoglycemic reactions, for the very sensitive consumer, promote extreme irrationality and emotional instability, which can lead to aggressiveness.
Studies reveal that sugar may be as involved in mental illness, divorce, and crime as alcohol has been found to be.
Refined sugar is one of the major contributing factors to depression!
ADD and ADHD are running rampant among our children and even some adults!
Isn’t it a paradox that these emotional problems, caused by a very toxic and poisonous addictive drug called refined sugar, are then treated with another poison — like Ritalin or Prozac!
How sad!
If your child is having a behavioral problem, why not consider removing all refined sugar in their diet instead?
Refined Sugar Contributes To Heart Disease
Animal fat is not the only contributing factor in heart disease.
Those on a highly refined sugar diet show significantly higher levels of fat in their blood than those who eat no refined sugar.
This high fat content in the blood is directly related to the development of plaque build-up within the arteries, then to hardening of the arteries, and ultimately to heart attacks and strokes.
Refined Sugar Leads To Addiction And Weight Gain
Refined sugar is highly caloric in its pure form.
But then it is often made worse by combining it with something containing high fat, like shortening, along with some salt.
This produces a tempting goodie like candy, cookies, cake, pie, fudge, a donut, or cinnamon bun.
Often these high sugar foods are consumed with a high calorie sugar drink, like soda pop.
All of this sugar contributes to weight gain.
If a person consumes just one 12-ounce can of soda pop a day for one year, that 10 teaspoons of sugar found in each can of soda could add 12 pounds to their weight in just one year.
When these excess calories are not burned for energy, they are stored as fat, contributing to the obesity epidemic we are seeing today among children and adults alike. Obesity is an underlying factor in not only cardiovascular disease but most other chronic diseases.
Furthermore, because of the way it plays havoc with emotions, refined sugar is highly addicting – it works exactly like a drug. This means that once a sugarholic sufferer has given into this crystalline sweetness, they can’t stop consuming.
Refined sugar is every bit as addictive as nicotine and alcohol and withdrawal from it can be as difficult as withdrawing from cocaine!
We have found that when a person decides to adopt The Hallelujah Diet, they usually do not have a great deal of difficulty eliminating the animal products, white flour products, table salt, or even caffeine (which is another addictive drug).
Many find that the most difficult substance to eliminate is refined sugar.
Sugar has a powerful addictive influence upon many people.
Have you ever noticed that children, who are allowed to have candy, are always asking for more?
They are never satisfied no matter how much you give them! This is because their little bodies have become addicted to sugar and their bodies are screaming for a fix.
NOTE – For those parents who would like to have a better understanding of how refined sugar is affecting their child’s behavior, I would like to recommend a book written by Barbara Reed Stitt titled: “Food and Behavior.”
Refined Sugar Compromises The Immune System
Let’s remember that the immune system is what God built into your body to protect you from the germs, viruses, and bacteria of this world.
The immune system is our first line of defense!
But refined sugar is an immune system suppressant — it knocks out this first line of defense.
That is why those who consume refined sugar find themselves susceptible to colds, the flu, and all sorts of other physical breakdowns, while those who consume The Hallelujah Diet, which contains no refined sugar, rarely if ever experiences a cold, the flu, or other physical breakdowns.
This editor hasn’t experienced a cold or the flu since eliminating refined sugar and adopting a primarily raw, plant-based diet over 35 years ago!
Don’t forget, God tells us we are going to reap what we sow…
“Be not deceived: God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
Sugar Contributes To Myriad Physical Problems
Refined sugar is associated with malnutrition and decreased resistance to disease.
Refined sugar impacts quality of life — it increases the severity of PMS; decreases cognitive or intellectual function, especially in children; contributes to heart disease and cancer; and so much more.
Following is just a partial list of other 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
- Candida
- 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.
Conclusion
Refined sugar and products made with it become the cause or contributing cause of many of the physical problems being experienced today.
Refined sugar products are all dead, fiberless, and following animal source foods, are the second most popular of the deadly, killer foods of our day.
No wonder God says in Hosea 4:6:
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.”
Is it not a sad commentary, that instead of dealing with our physical problems by eliminating their causes, we deal with symptoms?
We take a poisonous medication instead. It will never fix the problem — but rather exacerbate it!
Almost every physical problem we experience in a lifetime, other than accidents, is because we have failed to nourish our physical bodies the way God intended in Genesis 1:29!
“AND GOD SAID, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed (vegetable), 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
If you are consuming the “world’s diet”…
And suffering the consequences with all those physical problems you keep asking God and the doctors to fix…
Isn’t it about time you considered changing your diet from the “world’s diet” to “GOD’s diet…
So that you can experience the abundant health God designed for you?
Next week, the good Lord willing and if the creeks don’t rise too high, we will explore another item that is consumed in large quantities by the average person on the world’s diet that is also devoid of fiber…
Trust you will join us!
Thinking Outside The (Medicine) Box
Nov 3rd
When Rhonda and I started Hallelujah Acres in that little 11-foot-wide store front on February 12, 1992, our message “You Don’t Have to Be Sick” was mocked and ridiculed by most in the Christian community. It is exciting today to know that our efforts for nearly 20 years are now bringing health and healing as evidenced by these testimonies:
“Dear George: Thank you for allowing God to use you. I love the way you say things that others are afraid to say in your Health Tips – Such as “How Prayer Can Hinder the Healing of God’s People” and “How Churches Promote ill Health”.
I love how you think outside of the box of conventional medicine.
Thank you for allowing God to use you in this way. God bless you in your (His) ministry.”
Linda C., Missouri
“I just want to tell anybody who doubts the Hallelujah Acres message of “You Don’t Have to be Sick” that you need doubt it no more. My husband and I began to get serious about our health by adopting The Hallelujah Diet in April 2011 and as a result my husband is no longer diabetic.
In six months his blood sugar has dropped from over 300 to under 120 and he no longer has to take any medicine to control his blood/sugar levels. His doctor is even impressed.
Rev. Malkmus, we thank you for your inspired teachings. You are doing such a wonderful work.”
Crystal T.
“Hi Rhonda and George, First let me say I was completely blessed by the Women’s Retreat two weeks ago. Such powerful speakers, I learned so much and hope to attend the next one in 2012. We are preparing to go to Haiti for our next missionary trip. Yesterday as we were packing up to go I tripped over a cement rise and flew forward grabbing a table to break the fall. The problem was that the table was not secured to the ground and I continued my flight hitting the cement patio bouncing twice on my right hip and landing flat on my back which is fused on one side and I have severe scoliosis.
My praise report is that though most people, especially women who fall in my age category (77) always break a hip – but I am here to say that there are no broken bones thanks to God’s Hallelujah Diet.
I got up this morning a little sore, and proceeded to sing praises to our Lord in the praise and worship team at church. God is so goooooodddd!”
Missionary and Hallelujah Acres Health Minister Carla C., Florida
“Five years ago I was diagnosed with lupus and was very sick. I really thought that my life was going to go downhill from that point on as I did a lot of research on the disease and for everyone with this disease it seems to just snowball and get worse and worse until they finally die of some kind of complication. Also I learned that lupus patients are very highly medicated.
I decided that instead of going the medical route I would try The Hallelujah Diet of juicing carrots and eating an 85% raw 15% plant based diet. I was only three days into the diet when I began to gain energy I hadn’t had in years. I continued to get better and better – and really, in three months into it, was pretty much healed of the disease.
I had no idea that a person could feel so good. I felt and still do feel better than I can ever remember feeling even as a teenager.
I am now 48 years old. I also lost 25 pounds which was a nice plus. I completely, 100%, recommend this diet to everyone – especially if you are sick.
Yes, it is a lifestyle change but if you really love life and want to live it to its fullest, you need to give it a try.”
Maria A., Nebraska
“The Hallelujah Diet is not an easy diet to follow, but the benefits are remarkable. You feel better than you have ever felt and the foods you eat are satisfying. I don’t get hungry or want to binge anymore and I am off sugar, meat, refined flour, dairy etc.
Not only do I feel better, but I have peace of mind. I will shortly be getting off of my cholesterol medicine. My goal is to get of my diabetes medicine and blood pressure medicine.
I am under a doctor’s care, but I found out the both my doctor and his wife are on the diet as well.”
Joyce P.
Help! My 12-Year-Old Son Weighs Over 200 Pounds
Oct 29th
“Hello George, My son is 12 years old and weighs over 200 pounds. I am extremely worried about him and his health.
I have taken him to see a doctor because of concern over his blood pressure which averages around 150/85. I realize this is way too high, especially for a child, and have been trying to be an inspiration to him by setting an example by going on The Hallelujah Diet.
But I am finding it difficult to help my son because my husband is setting a very bad example by consuming a diet that is high in animal fat and sugar, and my husband is extremely overweight and never exercises.
My son eats well when he and I are together but reverts to bad food choices when he is with his father.
I have started him on an exercise program with a personal trainer and his blood pressure comes down with exercise but this trainer wants to put him on a low glycemic diet.
The trainer wants me to take him off the raw vegetable juice of carrot/kale/celery/cucumber juice I have been giving him each morning because it contains carrot juice which he says is high on the glycemic scale.
My husband agrees with the trainer, but I am convinced that the juice is doing much more good than bad.
I realize that if my son does not lose a lot of weight he is going to develop some extremely serious health issues. What can I do to help my son? Please advise.”
Carol D.
Editor Responds – My heart goes out to you and all the women who are trying to improve their own health, the health of their children, or even their husband’s health when the husband refuses to cooperate. And then there are the times when the husband is the one trying to lead the family to better health and the wife will not cooperate.
This situation can be most frustrating and there is no easy answer.
First, I would suggest prayer.
Second, I would suggest you set the example by eating a plant based diet and exercising daily.
Third, I would try and get your husband to read some information alerting him on the potential to the serious physical consequences that await your son if his obese condition is not dealt with and soon. Fortunately you have a son who appears to want to help his own obese condition because he is willing to drink the juices you have been providing him and he is willing to exercise.
Now regarding the removal of carrot juice from his diet because of a high glycemic index…
Some years ago, our own Dr. Michael Donaldson did some research on the glycemic index of carrot juice and observed some very interesting findings:
- To one group of people he gave a 50-gram carbohydrate serving of homemade whole wheat bread.
- To another group he gave a 14.5 ounce glass of carrot juice.
- To the third group he gave a 14.5-ounce glass of carrot juice with 30 grams of Udo’s oil.
The group consuming the bread experienced a higher glycemic response than the group consuming carrot juice.
The group consuming carrot juice with Udo’s oil experienced less of a glycemic response than either of the other groups.
But there was something else interesting about the results. The whole wheat bread group experienced not only a greater increase in blood glucose, but sustained that increase for a longer period of time.
The juice you are providing your son comprised of carrot/kale/celery/cucumber is a much lower glycemic juice than pure carrot juice and significantly lower than that of bread.
The juice also provides him with a wealth of benefits – it will aid his weight loss and give his body the nutrients it so desperately needs to help restore his body to health and prevent further deterioration.
Vegetable juice drinks without carrot can be quite bitter; many find them objectionable. Adding carrot (which is only 16% sugar by the way) makes the juice very palatable — and carrots are loaded with nutrients.
A good balance in juicing would be to make 50% of your juice veggies other than carrot and the remaining 50% carrot juice. You and your son (yes your husband especially) are in my prayers.
EDITOR’S NOTE – You can access our complete blood glucose study here. It is also very important to realize that this study used 14.5 ounces of juice while the recommended serving size is only 8 ounces on The Hallelujah Diet!
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