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God's Way to Ultimate Health: A Common Sense Guide for Eliminating Sickness Through Nutrition
God's Way to Ultimate Health offers a powerful and timely reminder of the diet God originally provided for mankind, and shows how far we have strayed from God's plan. This book shows how we can regain our health simply by returning to the diet and lifestyle God originally planned for us. God's Way to Ultimate Health teaches health from a Biblical perspective.
282 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 1996
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May 24, 2012
A Few Good Concepts
I am familiar with this book and read it at the invitation of my Father who had cancer and eventually went on to be an elite Health Minister with Hallelujah Acres.
My concerns with regard to this book are not with a vegan diet which I understand and observe many to be on and to do just fine.
My concerns are with the philosophy and teachings underpinning the book and how it is used to profit the author and the organization of Hallelujah Acres which seeks not just to have you change your diet, but to buy their products.
The entire premise of this book theologically is based upon George Malkmus' interpretation of Gen 1:29 which he takes to mean that God created mankind to eat only fruits and vegetables. Based upon this interpretation, which is not accepted by a majority of Biblical Scholars, Malkmus suggests that meat entered the human diet after the Noah's Flood. While he does not suggest necessarily that eating meat itself is sinful, he does strongly push the idea that this was God's original plan for diet and therefore anyone seeking to eat optimally should consider this as the first choice.
He goes further to teach that illness is caused and/or escalated by what he deems the Standard American Diet (conveniently acronymed as SAD for emphasis.)
Chielf culprits are any and all meat products, dairy products and then sugar, flour, salt.
It would be one thing if he left it here and invited you to join him with his diet plan.
He doesn't however.
Based on this rather shaky premise of questionable theology and some pretty questionable science and nutrition teaching that suggests there is an esoteric life giving quality to eating live food as opposed to "dead" food he goes on to teach that there are things he has come up with to go above and beyond eating natural raw food.
This is the real point of the book in my opinion.
He wants you to buy BarleyMax, a product he sells through his traditional multi-level marketing business for a profit.
This is important enough to repeat.
Hallelujah Acres is not a ministry in a formal sense at all. They are a business and they sell products. Malkmus, through his weekly newsletter often appeals to what he does and calls it a ministry. He justifies it and calls "ministry" such actions as giving free seminars, free electronic newsletters, counselors etc and holds that up as "proof" of his ministry. Other companies call this "marketing."
Nutritionally their featured product "BarleyMax" (before this they uses an AMA product names "BarleyGreen" which received warning from the FDA for excessive claims beyond what science could demonstrate) is sold by them and their "Health Ministers" often serve as financial marketing partners who in turn profit from their ministry.
Recent developments in their teachings include now supplimenting their diet with vitamin B12 which is a common deficiency in Vegans and can lead to irreversible nerve damage. They resisted this recommendation for years despite overwhelming evidence of the need for this suppliment and then conveniently began to offer the suppliment themselves; another cash flow.
Often supporters of this diet frame their support for this diet in spiritual terms implying or outright claiming that this is God's diet plan and any who oppose their teaching or question their claims are attacking God and supporting Satan.
The primary method of support are an overwhelming number of testimonies regularly put out from people who are on the diet. Consistent in these testimonies are that many are on the front end of the diet and very excited about the weight loss and energy they have. Updates on these people is rare. There are always new people coming on who are caught up in the excitement and willing to claim healings and health improvement.
Medical verification of these claims is not consistent.
George Malkmus' own personal testimony of healing from cancer is based upon examinations by chiropractors and there is no pathology or medical records to substantiate his claims.
Tied into this teaching is a very strong negative assessment of the medical profession and the outright implication that they are profiteers seeking to perpetuate illness for their own gain in many instances.
Ironically, in recent years, Malkmus has suffered a stroke and had high blood pressure which his diet and herb treatments could not control. He now sees a doctor and is on medications to control this condition. There is some question as to the nature of the stroke itself and whether it might not have been caused or exacerbated by his diet's deficiencies.
In closing let me tell you how the story of my father ended. He was diagnosed in October of 1999 with kidney cancer in the 4th stage. He went on the Hallelujah Diet when the medical prognosis offered little hope. He did make remarkable progress although it was never medically verified as he refused to see a doctor.
He dropped 70 pounds, exercised and did seem to do very well and went beyond the 2 year outside window he was given as an estimate by the doctors. He was convinced he was healed and gave a great deal of credit to the Hallelujah Diet for his progress.
In July of 2004 he travelled to Shelby, North Carolina to become an elite Health Minister to step up his promoting of this diet to the many people that were encouraged by his testimony.
He submitted a testimony to Hallelujah Acres and they published it in their Health Tips Newsletter in August of 2004 emphasising his claim of healing and his praise of their diet despite the fact that in the testimony itself he acknowledged it was not verified medically.
My dad finally began to go to see 2 doctors in Mexico where he retired to when he began to have serious health issues and pain. In October of 2004, just 3 months after his testimony of healing was published, it was confirmed that his cancer had furhter metasticized and spread to 6 other organs.
Dad refused further medical treatment even for pain management, and died on Christmas morning of 2004, 5 months after his testimony.
In fairness to Hallelujah Acres, I sent them an update of his story recently asking them to publish the update in their newsletter. They did so, but only after considerable pressure on my part to get an answer from them and when they did publish the e-mail they edited out the date of death and allowed people to think by implcation that Dad lived longer than he did. They also stated, without any medical support that Dad was in remission and then inferred that he came out of "remission" due to some actions of his own, rather than any shortcomings of the diet.
I think there are many good elements to a vegan diet and than managed carefully it leads to weight loss, a correction of some medical conditions and a sense of energy and well-being for many people.
I am not against veganism or diet.
I am skeptical of the Hallelujah Diet's inner teachings, workings and their personal profiting from their diet plan which they entwine with questionable theology, questionable science and less than honest representations of their for-profit status and manipulation of testimonies and claims.
Please read this book with this in mind, do some additional research on your own. Don't accept the claims of this organization without checking their claims, teachings and science from other sources as well.
I am familiar with this book and read it at the invitation of my Father who had cancer and eventually went on to be an elite Health Minister with Hallelujah Acres.
My concerns with regard to this book are not with a vegan diet which I understand and observe many to be on and to do just fine.
My concerns are with the philosophy and teachings underpinning the book and how it is used to profit the author and the organization of Hallelujah Acres which seeks not just to have you change your diet, but to buy their products.
The entire premise of this book theologically is based upon George Malkmus' interpretation of Gen 1:29 which he takes to mean that God created mankind to eat only fruits and vegetables. Based upon this interpretation, which is not accepted by a majority of Biblical Scholars, Malkmus suggests that meat entered the human diet after the Noah's Flood. While he does not suggest necessarily that eating meat itself is sinful, he does strongly push the idea that this was God's original plan for diet and therefore anyone seeking to eat optimally should consider this as the first choice.
He goes further to teach that illness is caused and/or escalated by what he deems the Standard American Diet (conveniently acronymed as SAD for emphasis.)
Chielf culprits are any and all meat products, dairy products and then sugar, flour, salt.
It would be one thing if he left it here and invited you to join him with his diet plan.
He doesn't however.
Based on this rather shaky premise of questionable theology and some pretty questionable science and nutrition teaching that suggests there is an esoteric life giving quality to eating live food as opposed to "dead" food he goes on to teach that there are things he has come up with to go above and beyond eating natural raw food.
This is the real point of the book in my opinion.
He wants you to buy BarleyMax, a product he sells through his traditional multi-level marketing business for a profit.
This is important enough to repeat.
Hallelujah Acres is not a ministry in a formal sense at all. They are a business and they sell products. Malkmus, through his weekly newsletter often appeals to what he does and calls it a ministry. He justifies it and calls "ministry" such actions as giving free seminars, free electronic newsletters, counselors etc and holds that up as "proof" of his ministry. Other companies call this "marketing."
Nutritionally their featured product "BarleyMax" (before this they uses an AMA product names "BarleyGreen" which received warning from the FDA for excessive claims beyond what science could demonstrate) is sold by them and their "Health Ministers" often serve as financial marketing partners who in turn profit from their ministry.
Recent developments in their teachings include now supplimenting their diet with vitamin B12 which is a common deficiency in Vegans and can lead to irreversible nerve damage. They resisted this recommendation for years despite overwhelming evidence of the need for this suppliment and then conveniently began to offer the suppliment themselves; another cash flow.
Often supporters of this diet frame their support for this diet in spiritual terms implying or outright claiming that this is God's diet plan and any who oppose their teaching or question their claims are attacking God and supporting Satan.
The primary method of support are an overwhelming number of testimonies regularly put out from people who are on the diet. Consistent in these testimonies are that many are on the front end of the diet and very excited about the weight loss and energy they have. Updates on these people is rare. There are always new people coming on who are caught up in the excitement and willing to claim healings and health improvement.
Medical verification of these claims is not consistent.
George Malkmus' own personal testimony of healing from cancer is based upon examinations by chiropractors and there is no pathology or medical records to substantiate his claims.
Tied into this teaching is a very strong negative assessment of the medical profession and the outright implication that they are profiteers seeking to perpetuate illness for their own gain in many instances.
Ironically, in recent years, Malkmus has suffered a stroke and had high blood pressure which his diet and herb treatments could not control. He now sees a doctor and is on medications to control this condition. There is some question as to the nature of the stroke itself and whether it might not have been caused or exacerbated by his diet's deficiencies.
In closing let me tell you how the story of my father ended. He was diagnosed in October of 1999 with kidney cancer in the 4th stage. He went on the Hallelujah Diet when the medical prognosis offered little hope. He did make remarkable progress although it was never medically verified as he refused to see a doctor.
He dropped 70 pounds, exercised and did seem to do very well and went beyond the 2 year outside window he was given as an estimate by the doctors. He was convinced he was healed and gave a great deal of credit to the Hallelujah Diet for his progress.
In July of 2004 he travelled to Shelby, North Carolina to become an elite Health Minister to step up his promoting of this diet to the many people that were encouraged by his testimony.
He submitted a testimony to Hallelujah Acres and they published it in their Health Tips Newsletter in August of 2004 emphasising his claim of healing and his praise of their diet despite the fact that in the testimony itself he acknowledged it was not verified medically.
My dad finally began to go to see 2 doctors in Mexico where he retired to when he began to have serious health issues and pain. In October of 2004, just 3 months after his testimony of healing was published, it was confirmed that his cancer had furhter metasticized and spread to 6 other organs.
Dad refused further medical treatment even for pain management, and died on Christmas morning of 2004, 5 months after his testimony.
In fairness to Hallelujah Acres, I sent them an update of his story recently asking them to publish the update in their newsletter. They did so, but only after considerable pressure on my part to get an answer from them and when they did publish the e-mail they edited out the date of death and allowed people to think by implcation that Dad lived longer than he did. They also stated, without any medical support that Dad was in remission and then inferred that he came out of "remission" due to some actions of his own, rather than any shortcomings of the diet.
I think there are many good elements to a vegan diet and than managed carefully it leads to weight loss, a correction of some medical conditions and a sense of energy and well-being for many people.
I am not against veganism or diet.
I am skeptical of the Hallelujah Diet's inner teachings, workings and their personal profiting from their diet plan which they entwine with questionable theology, questionable science and less than honest representations of their for-profit status and manipulation of testimonies and claims.
Please read this book with this in mind, do some additional research on your own. Don't accept the claims of this organization without checking their claims, teachings and science from other sources as well.
February 7, 2014
The Malkmus' approach to beating cancer worked for Karen, my wife, 15 years ago when we followed God's leading to do so.
That approach is now outlined in an easy-to-read, helpful new Book by Ann Malkmus entitled "Unraveling The Mystery ...An Effective Approach To Beating Cancer".
It's reviwed on Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00I5UW...
God also used the Malkmus' simple approach to heal me from Chronic Fatigue & Immune Deficiency Syndrome at the same time ...after 3 years of total disability and the prayers of a great many righteous wo(men).
You can read our Healing Testimonies at http://is.gd/7HV30s.
Blessings all!
GaryFPatton
(2014-02-07 © gfp '42™)
That approach is now outlined in an easy-to-read, helpful new Book by Ann Malkmus entitled "Unraveling The Mystery ...An Effective Approach To Beating Cancer".
It's reviwed on Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00I5UW...
God also used the Malkmus' simple approach to heal me from Chronic Fatigue & Immune Deficiency Syndrome at the same time ...after 3 years of total disability and the prayers of a great many righteous wo(men).
You can read our Healing Testimonies at http://is.gd/7HV30s.
Blessings all!
GaryFPatton
(2014-02-07 © gfp '42™)
March 27, 2018
Too much repetition. Same information over and over again in different chapters.
June 7, 2022
Good Christian angle on the problem of diet and exercise.
January 8, 2025
recommended by Chris Wark (of Chris Beat Cancer)
April 11, 2025
Pretty antidotal, but it’s interesting to see the cross over between the raw food vegans and modern day animal based diets.
February 19, 2017
I heard about this book when Daddy & I were watching "The 700 Club." Was many years ago. The Author was on the show telling Us about the book. We bought 1 for Us & each of Our Family Members. I think itz a great book & makes sense. I love raw veggies & fruits. Always did. I highly recommend this book. Think itz interesting what the Author has to say. My Grandpa believed Your diet is so important. Just saw a video about how bad pork & shell fish is for You. I also learned from a Dr. Friend that raw fish is bad also. He said, pork, shell fish & raw fish is not very good for You!!!
July 20, 2012
The Michael Dye-written chapters are far better as he isn't as repetitive as George. This book has some very helpful information though.
October 4, 2015
I need this one;)
August 4, 2016
I like this book. It is similar to "Never Fear Cancer Again" but with different details and small changes in method.
August 15, 2016
Fantastic book on health. Unbelievably powerful insights. So much to learn. I will use it as my personal textbook for health matters
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