God's Way to Ultimate Health
by Rev. George Malkmus with Michael Dye

In God’s Way to Ultimate Health, Rev. George Malkmus provides a blueprint for attaining optimal health. A complete “how-to-do-it,” this packed 8.5 x 11” book will show you precisely how to change the eating and lifestyle habits that are currently making you sick. The article which follows gives an excellent overview of the book. 

God’s Way to Ultimate Health is written by Rev. George Malkmus with Michael Dye, Rhonda Malkmus & Rob Vaughan

God’s Way to Ultimate Health is based on the simple premise that the human body was created by God to be nourished and sustained in perfect health on a vegetarian diet of raw fruits and vegetables.

Mankind has strayed far from that original diet handed down in Genesis 1:29. The price tag for our modern diet and lifestyle is a massive health care crisis beyond compare with any time in history.

Rev. George Malkmus makes a compelling case, from a Biblical perspective, of why we should return to the diet by which our body was originally intended to be nourished. This book contends that the nourishment God gave mankind in the form of fresh, living, raw fruits and vegetables in the Garden of Eden was as perfect as any other part of God's Creation.

But God’s Way to Ultimate Health is much more than just a Biblical theory of diet. This book offers living proof that proper diet and lifestyle can help people to prevent or heal disease. Rev. Malkmus uses the story of his own recovery from colon cancer, along with the letters and personal testimonials of people who have used this diet to recover from cancer, heart attacks, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, arthritis and other diseases -- usually after first trying the medical route with no relief. This book includes more than 100 letters from people all over the world offering testimonies about the difference this diet has made in their lives and expressing their appreciation for the ministry of Hallelujah Acres.

The cumulative effect of the Biblical truths, first-hand testimonials and scientific research in this book create an extraordinarily powerful incentive for anyone who values their health to give this program a try. The results documented in God’s Way to Ultimate Health show that something as simple as a change in diet and lifestyle can produce benefits far superior to anything that can be obtained by the more drastic and intrusive medical means of surgery, chemotherapy, radiation or prescription drugs … and without the devastating side effects.

In addition to the Biblical reasoning for this diet and the first-hand testimonials that it does indeed work, God’s Way to Ultimate Health also offers the research of co-author Michael Dye, which shows the very best and most recent information available to medical science whole-heartedly confirms the wisdom of the diet handed down in Genesis 1:29.

And God’s Way to Ultimate Health helps you to make this dietary transition as easy as possible as Rhonda Malkmus offers an entire section of recipes, tips on food combining and how to set up your own natural foods kitchen.

For those who have been eating the typical American diet, God’s Way to Ultimate Health may forever change the way they think about the food we put into our body. Christians should already know our body is the temple of God; this book gives a whole new insight on how to treat it as such. And the common-sense truth of this book will appeal to Christians as well as non-Christians, because regardless of a person's religious or nonreligious persuasion, we have all the reason in the world to be concerned about our personal health and well-being.

God’s Way to Ultimate Health is a real eye-opener because most people -- even Christians who have devoted their lives to God -- give no consideration to whether the food they are using to nourish their body is in the natural and living (raw) form as it was created for us by God. The way we nourish our bodies today has more to do with our response to the television commercials of profit-oriented, multi-national junk food corporations than it does to our nutritional needs, our common sense, or what our Creator has so graciously provided for us.

Rev. Malkmus writes: "God made no mistakes when He created earth, nature and man. He did not fail to provide man with everything he needed to be properly nourished so we could experience perfect health. Man has erred by attempting to improve on what God made by cooking and processing food." He notes that every other animal in nature eats its food raw, as created by God. But man alone thinks he can cook (and therefore, kill) food, can it, preserve it with chemicals, refine it, radiate it or even create it from synthetic materials in a laboratory, and still get adequate nutrition.

It has become "normal" to live off fast foods, frozen TV dinners, processed and artificial foods fortified with synthetic vitamins, and animal products at almost every meal. We feed our children trash such as candy bars and sugar-coated cereals with artificial blueberries. We consume countless chemical additives that no knowledgeable person could even pretend to be safe.

Then after feeding our body in accordance with the ways of the world, we respond in an equally unnatural fashion when we get sick by submitting to the drugs, surgery, radiation, chemotherapy and other procedures of the world's "health care" system.

For the sake of our physical and emotional health, Rev. Malkmus believes we should instead embrace God's system of health care by returning to the original diet we were given in Genesis 1:29.

Rev. Malkmus writes: "When God created man, He placed him in a garden and told him his diet was to consist of raw fruits and vegetables. On this diet, man lived an average of 912 years without sickness! Following the flood, meat and cooked food were added to man's diet. As a result, sickness entered the human race and man's life span declined from an average of 912 years to 100 years by the time you get to the end of Genesis!"

Rev. Malkmus uses the first chapter of his book, which is featured beginning on page 1 of this newsletter, to establish the wide gap between God's Way and Man's Way of dealing with health. But despite this conflict, God’s Way to Ultimate Health, shows the most up-to-date scientific knowledge available today actually confirms the wisdom of God's Original Diet, given to us in Genesis 1:29. Our modern medical and scientific experts know the fat, cholesterol and chemical additives of the meat-centered and processed American diet are directly responsible for our high rates of cancer, heart attacks and other degenerative diseases. When a person has cancer or heart disease, many medical doctors recommend they give up meat, and eat more fresh fruits and vegetables. The question is, why wait until a heart attack or cancer diagnosis to begin properly nourishing your body?

God’s Way to Ultimate Health offers a valuable education in all the major categories of nutrition. Michael Dye explains why synthetic vitamins and processed foods do not offer the same nutrients as raw food, and that there is a major difference between organic and inorganic minerals. And you will be surprised to discover how badly you have been misled about protein. Rob Vaughan also offers a valuable insight on the extremely important and underestimated role of enzymes, the "very secret to life itself," which are found only in live (raw) foods.

Exercise is another major ingredient to health, and this book includes recommendations on what to do to stay in shape. As with diet, the best answer is often quite simple. One of the most effective exercises is walking. And when the weather is unsuitable, the book suggests several indoor alternatives. Rob also has a very informative chapter on the technical aspects of how aerobic exercise improves the efficiency of our lungs, cardio-vascular and lymphatic system, and increases our metabolism. All of this improves our ability to transport blood and oxygen throughout the body, which gets nutrients into our cells and the harmful waste products out. And all of this points to the wisdom of the Biblical injunction that we are to earn our food "by the sweat of thy face."

Michael explains the vital role water plays in our body (after all, our body is 70 percent water) and why the water we drink should be distilled. He writes chapters on the importance of a healthy colon, and what to expect in the transition stages of changing your diet. Michael also offers the encouragement that "Giving Up Meat is Easier Than You Think."

And Rhonda makes it even easier with her recipes and tips on how to set up your own natural foods kitchen. Rhonda realizes how important this information is to those in the transitional stage of changing their diet, because that was the dilemma she faced when she married George in April of 1992.

Rhonda graciously shares her knowledge of vegetarian food preparation, and how to make this transition. She provides a lengthy list of items you should have in your kitchen, ranging from a vegetable peeler and steamer to larger items such as a juicer and water distiller. She lists dozens of herbs and natural foods with which many readers may not be familiar, along with an explanation of the flavor and uses of each item. This is a valuable section because even people with decades of cooking experience may be unfamiliar with foods such as couscous, tahini, basmati rice and quinoa.

Rhonda also includes a very helpful section on making substitutions in your recipes that call for unhealthy items such as meat stock, eggs, sugar, etc. She even tells how to make cream soups without dairy products. Many pages of raw foods recipes are also included. There are no pudding recipes, but as they say, "The proof is in the pudding." By putting these recipes to use, you will find that a vegetarian diet of at least 75 to 85 percent raw fruits and vegetables can be both delicious to your taste buds and healing for your body.

The very essence of the teachings of Rev. Malkmus in God’s Way to Ultimate Health is that God created our body to be self-healing if we give it the proper nourishment and exercise. This nourishment for self-healing must be from living food because our body is composed of some 100 trillion living cells, and these living cells must have live food (raw food) to properly function and reproduce new living cells. We replace about 300 million cells per minute with new cells, which means we are constantly rebuilding our body. About 98 percent of the atoms in our body today will be replaced one year from now. To understand that we are made of living cells that require living food is the first step in understanding the incredibly complex -- yet incredibly simple -- way in which our bodies were created by God to be self-healing.

Rev. Malkmus writes, "We should be struck with awe at what a marvelous, self-healing body God has given us. It is so exciting to realize that we can control the health of our body cells by proper diet and exercise!!! Based on what we put into our bodies... we determine what our body will be made of, and how well it will function. Thus, we can prevent sickness!!!" Rev. Malkmus emphasizes that if we give our body the living food with which God intended it to be nourished, along with proper exercise, our body can heal internal organs just as it heals a scratch on the surface of our skin. Drugs do not heal our body. Surgery does not heal our body. Only our body is capable of healing our body. But we must give our body the nourishment that promotes this self-healing.

God’s Way to Ultimate Health offers the simple but long-overlooked Biblical truth about the food our body was originally intended by God to use for nutrition, along with an "amen" from modern science, personal testimonies that show this diet does indeed work... and even the recipes and tips you need to make the transition. This big book of over 250 8.5-by-11-inch pages will serve as a spiritual inspiration and a How-To Manual to help you maximize your body's self-healing capability so you can achieve your own Ultimate Health.

Copyright 1998, 1999 by Hallelujah Acres. All rights reserved.

The Hallelujah Diet

by Rev. George Malkmus

People often ask me, “What do you eat?” Here is my answer:

Breakfast
One tablespoon of Barleygreen powder. I let it dissolve in my mouth, or mix it in a couple of ounces of distilled water at room temperature. That is usually all I have until noon! If I do get hungry, then I eat a piece of fresh juicy fruit later in the morning. Cooked food is an absolute no-no as my body is in a cleansing mode until about noon each day. It is important to me that the Barleygreen powder comes from American Image Marketing (AIM) and that it contains kelp. Other companies have tried to imitate this product, but their products are not processed the same way. I have tried other products, but they do not give the same results, nor do the Barleygreen caplets if swallowed. The caplets, however, can be dissolved in the mouth like a lozenge, however. I enjoy them in this form, especially while traveling.

Lunch
One tablespoon of Barleygreen powder, as at breakfast. Sometimes I stir my Barleygreen into eight ounces of freshly extracted carrot juice, which I find especially delicious and extremely nutritious. At least thirty minutes after consuming the Barleygreen, I prefer an all-raw fruit lunch: bananas, apples, dates, etc. Organic is always best when available. (Sometimes instead of fruit I have a vegetable salad for lunch.) It is important that this be an all raw meal!

Supper
One tablespoon of Barleygreen powder either dry or stirred in a couple ounces of distilled water or carrot juice. Carrot juice must be freshly extracted, never canned, bottled or frozen. At least thirty minutes after consuming the Barleygreen, I eat a large green vegetable salad of leaf lettuce (never head lettuce), broccoli, cauliflower, celery, carrots, etc. The salad is usually followed by some cooked food (baked potato, baked sweet potato, brown rice, steamed vegetables, whole grain pasta, whole grain bread, and so on). Later in the evening I often have a glass or two of organic apple juice or a piece of juicy fruit. (My diet consists of approximately 85 percent raw food and 15 percent cooked food.)

To ensure that I get the essential fatty acids my body needs, I also have one tablespoon of Udo's Choice Perfected Oil Blend. I either have this on my evening salad or straight out of the bottle.

Exercise is also an essential part of my program. I do at least one hour of vigorous exercise daily. Additionally, I try to get some sunshine on as much of my body as possible every day. 

           The reason I supplement my diet with Barleygreen is that our food today is being grown for the most part on very deficient soils that often lack all the nutrients my body needs for building new, strong, healthy, vital, vibrant cells. Barleygreen is grown organically and contains the widest spectrum of nutrients available today from a single source that I am aware of. It is also loaded with enzymes. I consider it the single most important food I put in my body each day and always consume at least 3 tablespoons of it a day. Another AIM product we find very beneficial is Herbal Fiberblend, for added fiber, preventative maintenance of the colon and insurance against parasitic infestations.

      The second-most important thing I put into my body each day is freshly extracted carrot juice made from large California juicing carrots in a Green Power juicer. I try to drink at least 16 to 24 ounces each day. When I had my colon cancer 20 years ago, I consumed 32 to 64 ounces of carrot juice each day. If I had a serious physical problem today I would consume up to eight 8-ounce glasses of carrot juice each day in addition to my three to four tablespoons of Barleygreen. The reason Barleygreen and carrot juice is so important to me is:

1. Cooked food has practically no nutritional value.
   
2. A large percentage of the nutrients in raw food are lost in the digestion process, with only 1 to 35 % of nutrients reaching cell level, depending on the health of the digestive system.
   

3. When vegetable juices or Barleygreen is consumed, up to 92% of the nutrients reach cell level. This is because the pulp has been removed and thus no digestion is necessary. Raw vegetable juices are the fastest way to nourish the cells and rebuild the immune system and essential body organs.

The Five White Dangers

In 1962, Dr. Frank Logsdon, former pastor of the famous Moody Memorial Church in Chicago, was a dinner guest in my home.  Over the dinner table, he told a fascinating story of how he had had cancer and -- rather than going the medical route -- had gone to the Page Institute in Tampa, Florida. 

At this Institute, he was told to remove five white foods from his diet, and to switch to a raw vegetarian / fruitarian diet. He had done this and his cancer disappeared! Dr. Logsdon was about 60 years old at the time he was in my home. Several years ago, I learned he was still preaching . . . which would put his age close to 90 now!

Interestingly, the five white foods he was told had caused his cancer are the same foods my research has shown to be causing most of our physical problems.

What are the five white foods causing our physical problems? I will list them, starting with the most dangerous substance we put into our body . . . MEAT!

MEAT contains white fat! The average American meat eater puts over 50 pounds of fat (cholesterol) into their body per year! This fat clogs the arteries, ultimately causing the heart attacks and strokes that will kill approximately 50 percent of our population.

Meat is also the culprit in causing colon cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer and other forms of cancer. Cancer is responsible for 33 percent of American deaths.

And meat is the primary cause of adult-onset diabetes, which kills 9 percent of our population. Meat also causes gout and arthritis and a host of other physical problems.

We are told that we need meat for protein and strength, but we are not told that the cooking of meat changes the molecular structure of the protein and renders the protein in meat unusable by the body. If we look to nature, we will find that there is not a single animal in the wild that cooks the flesh it eats! Seventeen years of research has revealed meat as it is produced today to be the single most dangerous food that we put into our body. I have not eaten any meat in 17 years.

DAIRY is the second most dangerous substance we can put into our bodies for many of the same reasons. We are told milk is the perfect food, and needed for calcium. But we are not told that the pasteurizing of milk (heating it to temperatures of 160 degrees or higher) changes the calcium to an inorganic form, which cannot be assimilated by the body. 

In nature, no animal pasteurizes its milk... and no animal drinks the milk of another species, nor does it ever drink milk after the age of weaning. The only source of bad cholesterol (LDL) is animal products! ANIMAL PRODUCTS ARE NOT GOOD FOOD!!!

SALT is another white substance that creates untold physical problems and suffering. The body needs sodium, but it must be in an organic form in order to be usable by the body. Table salt, sodium chloride, is an inorganic sodium compound formed by the union of sodium and chlorine that is extremely toxic to the body, causing it to retain fluid in an effort to keep this protoplasmic poison in suspension and out of the cells.

SUGAR is the fourth white substance creating our physical problems. Sugar is so changed and concentrated from its original plant form... that it is actually a drug! Just 10 teaspoons (approximately the amount found in one soft drink) will immobilize the immune system by about 33 percent. Approximately 30 teaspoons of sugar will shut down the immune system for a whole day.

WHITE FLOUR has had all the good substances (bran and germ) removed during processing. Then it is bleached, sometimes with a bleaching agent similar to Clorox. Finally, they add some coal-tar-derived (carcinogenic) vitamins and it is sold to the unsuspecting public as "enriched." WHITE FLOUR IS NOT GOOD FOOD... IN FACT IT IS HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH!

(These five white substances are covered in detail in my book, Why Christians Get Sick.)

In addition to these five white substances, we must also consider the impact of drugs on our bodies. Most people are aware of how dangerous alcohol and nicotine are to the body, but fail to realize that the caffeine in coffee, tea and soft drinks is also an extremely dangerous substance! Caffeine is called a stimulant because it excites all of the nerve endings in an effort to rid the body of this poisonous substance. If a person drinks over two or three cups of coffee a day on a regular basis, they will usually develop severe drug withdrawal headaches if they suddenly stop drinking it. Alcohol, nicotine and caffeine are dangerous drugs!

Now that we have briefly covered the substances that are creating most of our physical problems, let us look at the foods that nourish and heal our body.

In the May 1993 issue of Back to the Garden, in an article titled God's Original Diet, I emphasized that the ideal diet for man is raw fruits and vegetables. This opinion is based on more than twenty years of my scientific and nutritional research, biblical study, and the personal experiences of myself and others who have tried this diet. Much of what I say may sound radical to some, but why should any Christian be surprised to find that modern science and personal experience have confirmed that "God's Original Diet" of raw fruits and vegetables (see Genesis 1:29) is the ideal diet for mankind?

It has now been more than twenty years since I switched from a diet that was predominately made up of the five white substances previously listed, which caused me to have serious teeth and gum problems, hemorrhoids, hypoglycemia, high blood pressure, severe sinus and allergy problems,  frequent colds, headaches, pimples, body odor, dandruff, low energy . . . and colon cancer at age 42! In 1976, at age 42, I switched to a totally raw vegetarian / fruitarian diet with large amounts of freshly extracted vegetable juices. In fact, for one year I never ate a piece of cooked food. During that year, not only did my colon cancer go away, but so did every other physical problem I had! 

After that first year, I added some cooked food to my diet. Presently, my diet consists of approximately 85 percent raw foods, with the balance made up of freshly prepared cooked vegetarian food.

I eat no meat, no dairy, no sugar and no white flour products, and haven't for over twenty years!  My diet is usually raw until the conclusion of the day, with my only cooked food -- if any at all -- coming at the end of the evening meal.

The reason one should maintain at least a 75- to 85-percent ratio of raw foods is that when food is cooked, almost all its nutritional value is destroyed. All enzymes are destroyed by cooking. Approximately 83 percent of all vitamins are destroyed by cooking and the heat changes protein into a form that cannot be assimilated. Cooking also reduces the organic minerals our body needs into an inorganic, unusable form.

In addition to diet, a lifestyle that includes exercise is an essential element to healthy living.  I almost always do stretching exercises, deep breathing exercises and at least an hour of aerobic exercise each day. This diet and lifestyle has sustained me in perfect health with high energy for more than twenty years now!

The Bible says: "Bless the Lord . . . Who healeth all thy diseases; who redeemeth thy life from destruction . . . Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things, so that thy youth is renewed like the eagles." (Psalm 103:1-5)