God's Way to Ultimate Health
by Pastor George H. Malkmus
The year was 1976. I was 42 years old and I was told I had colon cancer. A tumor about the size of a baseball had been found underneath my left rib cage where the transverse and descending colon come together. I was devastated!
"Why me Lord? I don't understand!"
It was because of this -- what appeared to be a tragic event in my life, and the research and personal experiences that followed -- that taught me GOD'S WAY TO ULTIMATE HEALTH.
Let me elaborate a little more on how it all happened. In 1976 I was the pastor of a Baptist Church, in Glens Falls, New York. A church I had founded in 1970. It was a very successful ministry. Membership in this church had grown from nothing to over 600 members. In addition to the church, we had a Christian School, grades K through 12, along with a Bible Institute, both of which I had also founded. Five large busses brought people to the services, while my radio broadcast, America Needs Christ, was heard on many radio stations each week. Over a dozen young people from our church and school were in college preparing for full-time ministry. Truly, this was the high point of my ministry and God certainly was blessing.
Just prior to all this, I had watched my own mother die of colon cancer. Mom was a registered nurse, and she had believed her doctors when they told her that chemotherapy, radiation and surgery were her only hope of surviving. Mom submitted to these treatments and died a horrible death! At the time of her death, I felt it was the treatments she had received at the hands of the medical doctors that had ultimately caused her death rather than the cancer itself.
What was I to do? Should I submit my body to the same medical treatments mom had? What I had seen my mother go through was so horrible! Also, as a pastor, I had sat at the bedside of so many people while pastoring various churches through 20 years of ministry and watched the devastating effects of chemotherapy, radiation and surgery experienced by others in the treatment of their cancers. I had also conducted the funerals for many of them.
Another thing that bothered me was that in so many cases prayer didn't seem to make any difference. I had seen some of the most dedicated Christians, even after great faith, personal prayer as well as collective prayer, get sicker and sicker and often die after going the medical route. What should I do? I had a family and a church that needed me. Many people told me I should go the medical route and some were putting pressure on me to do just that.
It was during this time of uncertainty, that I turned for help from an Evangelist friend in Texas by the name of Lester Roloff. "Brother Roloff," as we affectionately called him was one of those "health-nuts." We often referred to him as "ole Carrot Juice Roloff." I was really in a dilemma as to what I should do for my cancer when I called Brother Roloff. His advice to me sounded strange. He advised me not to go the medical route of chemotherapy, radiation and surgery as mom had gone... BUT TO SIMPLY CHANGE MY DIET TO RAW FRUITS AND VEGETABLES, AND DRINK LOTS OF CARROT JUICE!
Wow! That sounded too simplistic! But it sure sounded better then the medical route which I had pretty well decided I was not going to pursue. So overnight, I changed from a meat-centered, cooked and processed food diet with plenty of sugar desserts, to an all-raw diet with lots of carrot juice. I stayed on this total raw diet for approximately one year. I didn't eat any cooked food during that year... just raw fruits, raw vegetables and one to two quarts a day of freshly extracted, raw carrot juice.
The results were spectacular! Almost immediately I started to get well! In less than one year, my tumor had totally disappeared. It simply got smaller and smaller until it was gone. But that was not all. In less than one year, every other physical problem I had been experiencing also disappeared! Such physical problems as hemorrhoids, hypoglycemia, severe allergies and sinuses, high blood pressure, fatigue, pimples, colds, flu... even body odor and dandruff were gone! All gone!
In the years that have followed -- and I am over 60 years old at this writing -- I have not experienced as much as a cold, sore throat, upset stomach, been to a doctor or taken as much as an aspirin. It is so thrilling, at the age of 60 plus, to still be able to play football, basketball and softball with the boys, jog five miles with ease, and have more energy, endurance and stamina than I had when I was 20 years old.
With that as a little background, let me share how God used this experience in my life to create Hallelujah Acres Ministries. You see, ever since that day in 1976 when I was told that I had cancer, I have been researching nutrition, healthy lifestyles and how it all relates to the Bible. Also, I have been experimenting on my own body to see how it reacted to various foods. Along with all this, I have also been watching and listening to the testimonies of thousands of others who have made similar diet changes.
My conclusion after all these years of research and experience is that WE DO NOT HAVE TO BE SICK! That disease and sickness are self-inflicted! That almost every physical problem, other than accidents, is caused by improper diet and lifestyle! And all we have to do to be well is eat and live according to the way God intended!
In the nearly 20 years since I recovered from colon cancer, one of the most basic and important things I have learned is that there is a vast difference between God's Ways and Man's Ways! I have found that while most good Christians want to go God's way, and have tried to protect themselves from the sins of the world... they have accepted the world's teachings in almost every area of life concerning how to care for the physical body, which the Bible says is literally God's temple.
A tragic example of this is when you look at the two ways to approach cancer, one of the most devastating and horrible diseases in history. My mother went the World's Way (the medical route) in an attempt to rid herself of her cancer. She accepted the drugs, radiation and surgery of these doctors, and as far as I am concerned, these treatments were what caused her death! I rejected the World's Way and went God's Way. I turned to the Bible, adopted God's original diet as found in Genesis 1:29 and every physical problem simply went away, including my cancer.
And my experience was not unique! My wife Rhonda came to a Health Seminar I was conducting in 1991. (We were married April 11, 1992.) She was wearing a size 20 dress at that time and was almost crippled with arthritis. Within approximately one year after changing her diet and lifestyle, she had lost over 80 pounds, reduced her dress size to a 10, and her arthritis was totally gone. Even a degenerated spine, the result of a bout with spinal meningitis at age 7, had healed. Yes, X-rays revealed her spine was totally healed, degeneration gone in less than two years after changing her diet and lifestyle.
Another example is Frank, a dear friend of mine who was a diabetic when I first met him in 1989. At that time he was trying to control his blood sugar with pills prescribed by his doctor. I encouraged him to change his diet in 1989, which he did not do. Two years later the doctor told him that the pills weren't adequate any more and that he must be admitted to the hospital to adjust and stabilize his blood sugar and start him on two daily shots of injection insulin. Again I told Frank he needed to change his diet. And again he paid no heed.
After another two years had elapsed, the doctor told Frank that he needed to put him into the hospital and cut off his foot, which is not an uncommon occurrence for those who go the medical (world's) route in the treatment of diabetes. Only this time Frank said "no" to his doctor. And instead he came to one of our seminars. He immediately adopted God's Natural Diet and in less than two weeks he was off insulin and his blood sugar was in normal range. That was over two years ago. Today, Frank is still off all medication and still has both his feet.
We have received thousands of testimonies as dramatic as these, and some even more so, from people who have switched from the World's Way of eating and treating physical problems to God's Way.
What we need in America and around the world is a HEALTH REVOLUTION! We must turn away from the World's Way of dealing with physical and emotional problems and turn to God's Way! The World's Way is bankrupting us, costing Americans over a trillion ($1,000,000,000,000.00) dollars a year while the physical and emotional condition of our population -- Christian and non-Christian alike -- continues to decline.
In order to make intelligent changes we must realize there are alternatives to the world's approach to health and how we deal with physical problems. We must understand both ways... and why one works and why the other does not. Sadly, very few, including most pastors, preachers, missionaries and evangelists, have been aware of God's Way, when it comes to the physical body and thus we have been programmed only in the World's Way, even from the pulpits in our churches. We have been programmed in most churches to get to the doctor quick and then submit to whatever the doctor says as God's Way of dealing with that physical problem.
Because of this programming, most people, when they first hear of God's Ways, think them strange and far out. So in order to help understand the differences, let's look at a few physical problems being faced by many people today, both in and out of the church, and compare the two ways of dealing with these problems.
Take cardiovascular problems, which result in heart attacks and strokes. Heart disease is the number one killer (approximately 50% of all deaths) in America today. Every 34 seconds, someone in America dies from physical problems associated with this disease. And let's remember that the cost to those who go the medical route (the World's Way) for the treatment of this problem is over $110 billion per year.
The first approach usually taken by medical doctors in an effort to control this problem is to prescribe drugs. It is not uncommon for a person with high blood pressure to be taking as many as three or four different drugs. One of these drugs will chemically force the blood vessels to dilate (expand), thus lowering blood pressure. But this drug causes the heart to speed up. In an effort to control the speeding up of the heart caused by the first drug, the doctor usually prescribes a second drug to slow it down. Each of these drugs is capable of causing the body to retain fluid, and so the doctor often prescribes a third drug, a diuretic, which is designed to chemically force the body to release the extra fluid being retained in an effort to try and keep all these drugs (poisons) from doing more harm.
Then to top it all off, almost all of these drugs can cause new problems. The diuretics can cause dizziness, headaches and even depression... while at the same time raising cholesterol levels! And on top of all this, there are the "beta blockers" that can cause not only depression, but insomnia, as well as liver and kidney damage. The world's approach of using drugs just causes more and more problems within the body while never dealing with that which is causing the problem.
In an effort to lower cholesterol, doctors prescribe over $2,000,000,000 ($2 billion) worth of drugs a year, and frankly, they don't do the job. Yet the side-effects from these drugs can cause liver damage, headaches, diarrhea or constipation, and are now being linked to depression, violence and even suicide.
Angioplasties (balloon therapy) is another way the world tries to deal with clogged arteries. The average cost of this procedure is $15,000, not counting the drugs and follow up. And yet a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1992 showed that half of the angioplasties in the United States were probably unnecessary. Studies also show that for those who had this procedure, 57 percent of them have their arteries close back up.
Then there is by-pass surgery. The average cost of this operation is over $45,000. It is a very dangerous operation, that finds most patients back on the operating table within three to five years (because their arteries have clogged back up again), if they are not dead.
One of the latest of the new technologies for cleaning out the arteries is called atherectomy. This procedure is something like a Roto-Rooter. They take a tiny, high-speed rotating knife, insert it in the arteries and ream out the cholesterol. And remember, that even though the medical doctors do all of these things to their patients and charge them over 110 billion dollars a year for these treatments, it hasn't reduced the number of people dying from heart attacks and strokes by one iota.
Now compare all the above efforts by the medical doctors (the World's Way) of treating cardiovascular problems with God's Way. Here at Hallelujah Acres, we have testimony after testimony from people who had experienced high blood pressure, high cholesterol and clogged arteries who were able to totally reverse this problem, usually in a very short time, by something as simple as changing their diet and lifestyle. How can this be?
Well, it all goes back to our failure to eat and live the way God intended! The world's diet is full of fat and salt and other contaminates that clog up our arteries and produce all sorts of physical problems. Yet, in most instances, all a person has to do to correct a physical problem is change their diet and lifestyle! When they do this, the body will usually clean the arteries out all by itself and the problem will usually simply disappear in a very short time. And further, studies show that if a person stops consuming animal products, they will reduce their chances of ever having a heart attack or stroke by over 96%!
What is the cost of going God's way? Probably a reduced grocery bill and a long healthy life. While the cost of going the World's Way can be continued physical problems, thousands and thousands of dollars in medical bills for treatments that never get to the root cause (diet and lifestyle) and probably an early death.
I have found that the World's Way (the medical route) of dealing with physical problems is almost always wrong! Take diabetes as another example. Compare the World's Way of treating adult-onset diabetes compared to God's Way in the case of Frank, my friend we just read about. Going the doctor/drug route, Frank had continued to deteriorate for years as his doctor increased his insulin while treating infections in his feet with antibiotics and other drugs the doctor told him were being caused by his diabetes. In fact, the doctor had him on a high-protein diet, which consisted of two slices of bacon for breakfast, four ounces of meat for lunch and dinner, and three glasses of milk a day. These are the very things that cause adult-onset diabetes!
By the time the doctor told Frank that he was going to have to cut his foot off, Frank had already spent over $40,000 treating his diabetes! But Frank refused to let the doctor cut off his foot, simply changed his diet and lifestyle (stopped eating animal products and started eating raw fruits and vegetables and their juices), and in less than two weeks he was off insulin and his blood sugar level was in normal range.
As I write this, it has now been two years since Frank changed his diet and lifestyle from the World's Way to God's Way. He has taken zero drugs during these two years and yet he still has both his feet and has returned to working in his business every day following a forced retirement because of his physical problems some three years ago. Frank also had heart problems which have totally disappeared
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Take arthritis as another example. The medical profession still says that the cause of arthritis is not known. The only thing they tell their patients is that they can expect it to get worse and worse and that there is no way to reverse it. They also treat arthritis with drugs and surgery while the patient's physical condition usually continues to decline. Cortisone and similar drugs are often administered to try and help relieve the pain, but it doesn't last long and when the pain returns, it is usually worse than ever. And the side-effects from these drugs can include high blood pressure, diabetes, cataracts, bone loss (osteoporosis), ulcers and more.
Now compare the doctor (world's) approach to the testimony of my wife Rhonda with her arthritis and what happened when she changed from the World's Way to God's Way. She was crippled up with arthritis for over 10 years, unable to walk a block without extreme pain and she took pain pills by the handfuls. Within one year after changing her diet, she went from not being able to walk a block without severe pain and exhaustion -- to speed-walking four miles in less than an hour! Her arthritis was totally gone and she has not had a pain pill since. Not even an aspirin. What did she do to bring about this total elimination of arthritis from her body? She simply changed her diet from the World's Diet and Lifestyle to God's Diet and Lifestyle and all her physical problems simply and quite quickly disappeared.
Compare my mom's experience with mine in the treatment of cancer. Mom went the World's Way and accepted the doctors' chemotherapy, radiation and surgery... treatments that I felt ultimately caused her death. I refused the world's treatments, adopted God's diet as He gave it in Genesis 1:29, and my cancer simply disappeared. And I have been totally free of all physical problems since 1976. Approximately 30 percent of our population presently dies because of cancer even though over $100 billion is being spent on chemotherapy alone, while the costs and the deaths continue to increase.
On God's Ultimate Diet, almost every physical problem will usually disappear in a comparatively short period of time! Weight normalizes. Emotional problems disappear. Life takes on a whole new glow and becomes exciting. Until someone personally experiences it, they cannot fully comprehend the total scope of the benefits of living and eating God's Way. It improves the physical, as well as the emotional and psychological well being of a person. People become happier, depressions go away, problems don't seem so monumental. Our whole outlook on life improves. Even the spiritual part of us becomes more attuned.
Most doctors mean well, but all of their training is in the World's Way. In fact, the average doctor knows practically nothing about nutrition because the typical doctor has received less than three hours of nutritional training in his entire preparation to become a doctor. And the nutritional training they do receive is the World's Way, not God's Way, so even what they have learned about nutrition is usually wrong.
Sadly, doctors are just as sick as their patients and have the same types of physical problems! If doctors cannot keep their own bodies well and functioning properly, how in the world can they help anyone else? The doctors of this world, for the most part, do not understand God's Way. The only training they have had is in the World's Way. And they have been taught that the World's Way is the only way. There are laws that support the World's Way and they are taught that any other way is 'quackery.' Including what you are reading in this newsletter.
However, we are thrilled to find that more and more doctors are starting to question their indoctrination in medical school as they see the devastating consequences as their drugging, burning and cutting fail patient after patient. Many are allowing their eyes to be opened and are moving in God's direction. Pray for them! The peer pressure and controls on them by their union, the American Medical Association, is very powerful. In many states, a doctor can even lose his license if he recommends or treats his patients' physical problems with anything other than drugs, radiation and surgery.
The key to preventing heart attacks, strokes, cancer, diabetes, arthritis and a host of other physical problems is in our own hands. We can literally control whether we are going to be sick or not and how long we are going to live by simply choosing how we live our lives... the World's Way or God's Way! God's Way (barring accidents) leads to a long, happy, pain-free, sickness-free life! While the World's Way usually leads to a shortened, often unhappy, sickness-filled life with lots of pain and suffering and emotional problems, to say nothing of the financial costs.
I have set before you two very different paths... one a broad road (the World's Way) that leads to destruction, and the other a narrow road (God's Way) that leads to life! I trust that you will very carefully consider both roads ... and that you will choose ''GOD'S WAY TO ULTIMATE HEALTH!"
"... I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live." (Deuteronomy 30:19)
