God's Food For Life AlphaOmegaFood.com Volume Five, Number 2, February, 2005 http://www.alphaomegafood.com ddpolk@alphaomegafood.com Contents: Fresh Air Testimony Foods that Beat Cancer! New Hallelujah Acres Web Site Growing Organic Spinach Year Round The New USDA Food Guidelines Know Your Numbers: BP, HDL, LDL, etc. Pray for Doug's Book T. Colin Campbell's New Book Popeye Soup ............................................................................ A Word from the LORD: "Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rearward [protection]." - Isaiah 58:8 KJV ............................................................................. Fresh Air Testimony One of dear friends sent us this email this week. We continue to get wonderful testimonies on the EcoQuest Fresh Air machines. If you haven't tried one, we can let you field test one at no obligation. Call us at 877-200-0862 or locally at 731-423-5313. Our EcoQuest web site is "Due to excessive pipe smoke in my office I was forced to take action in December ('04). My eyes were painful, red and swollen and I was unable to wear my contact lenses. I called Marilyn and she sent Doug to the rescue with an EcoQuest Fresh Air system. Before the end of the day I noticed the air was easier to breathe, my eyes didn't feel as bad and the pipe smoke odor in my area was not noticeable. The UPS delivery man was astonished as were the others in my office who do not smoke. They couldn't believe how much better the air smelled after just a few hours of using the Fresh Air System. My husband even noticed the heavy smoke smell usually on my clothes after work was not there! When I used my EcoQuest Fresh Air machine at home, I noticed after the first couple of days the dust that had been floating, settled from the air onto my furniture. I dusted and vacuumed the house several times the first week and now you can't see the dust floating in the sun rays that come through the window and the usual dusty furniture is almost clear of the dust coating. I can dust less often now. [Did you know that germs float on dust and particulate in the air?] The quality of air, cooking and pet odors have improved in my home as well. My family and I are very well pleased with our Fresh Air system. Thank you." Mary Lynn H., Jackson, TN ........................................................................... Foods That Beat Cancer Are you battling cancer? Is a loved one struggling with this terrible disease? Cancer is threatening to become the leading killer of Americans. Right now the leader is heart disease. But if America continues its love affair with animal products and processed foods, these two killers will become almost a sure fate for the land of the free. Because we are free to eat what we want and because the message about health is so confusing, millions are dying needlessly, and that includes one out of every two Americans. What is more startling is that of those who die of heart disease - death is the first symptom. The largest study ever done, The China Project, proves conclusively that animal flesh causes heart disease and cancer. In his new book, The China Study, Dr. T. Colin Campbell, presents even more evidence that animal products cause cancer and heart disease as well as affect diabetes, obesity, auto-immune diseases, bone health, kidney health, vision, and brain disorders in old age (like cognitive dysfunction and Alzheimer’s). So what foods are cancer fighters? It's not difficult. It is very simple. Organic fruits and vegetables are the best cancer fighters on earth. No drug or therapy can match them. And when you eat them raw, juiced, or blended, they are even more powerful. Research is abundant that vegetables that are rich in flavonoids, vitamins, and minerals can prevent and even reverse cancer. Evidence is also abundant that eating a diet that is lacking in those nutrients will lead to cancer and other degenerative diseases. It is equally important to avoid the known immune-suppressing foods, such as the omega-6 fats and sugar, as well as cancer-stimulating nutrients such as methionine, iron, and copper. Food additives such as MSG, hydrolized vegetable protein, aspartate (aspartame), and cysteine can cause brain disorders. Flouride in toothpaste can boost the potency of carcinogens and increase tumor growth by as much as 25 percent. Cows milk contains a significant number of cancer viruses, primarily those responsible for leukemia and lymphoma, two of the most common diseases in cattle. I could go on for pages and pages. Please, if you have a loved one who is suffering from cancer, tell him/her about the mounds and mounds of research that proves that animal products and processed foods cause and feed cancer. (NOTE: For people in the Jackson area, I will be going into greater depth on this subject at the February All-Raw Dinner & Support Group Meeting on Saturday, February 19 at 6:00 PM at the BSU Building on North Parkway. Please call 423-5313 one week in advance if you plan to attend.) May the Lord bless you with courage and wisdom to help your brother, sister, friend or neighbor. We are here to help. Call us at 877-200-0862 or visit our web site at .............................................................................. New Hallelujah Acres Web Site The new web site is operational! When you order, you can insert our Health Minister Pin. Please help us by using our Pin, ACO. It doesn't cost you any more to do that and it will help us carry on our ministry. The new web site has many pages and all sorts of subjects. There are forums, testimonies, products, back issues of "Health Tips" weekly email newsletter, "Back to the Garden" quarterly magazine, and many other helpful areas to enlighten and educate as well as inspire you to health and wellness through God's original diet. .......................................................................... Growing Organic Spinach Year Round For two years now I have grown my own spinach in my backyard. You can too!. Just build this simple bed and you can add great spinach to your salads and sandwiches without paying expensive produce prices for it. This bed is made from PVC which you can get from the local hardware store. Mix up your dirt with lots of organic matter including sand, leaves, compost, fireplace ashes, topsoil, and old sawdust. Water about twice a week and cut only the mature leaves and you will have spinach for months on end. Call me at 731-423-5313 for details and pictures. ............................................................................. The New USDA Food Guidelines Every few years the USDA publishes new food guidelines that supposedly help Americans and the world know the ingredients for a healthy diet and lifestyle. The new food guidelines can be found at where you have to go to the link called "Additional Information on the New Dietary Guidelines". At that place you will see that among the recommendations is one called "Food Groups to Encourage". This recommendation clearly leaves out meats, but leaves in dairy. This is a move in the right direction but not far enough in the right direction. This past year there were several open forums where a variety of health professionals, food industry representatives, and researchers aired their opinions and suggestions about how to improve the food guidelines and food pyramid. The new food pyramid is not complete yet and it will be interesting to see who had the most power in influencing the new pyramid. See for the old pyramid and possibly a future site of the new one. Let's pray that true science and valid research will overcome the powerful lobbies of the meat and dairy industry and we can finally have some governmental support for the plant-based diet. The Hallelujah Diet and Lifestyle is the way to health and wellness. The guidelines laid down by the Holy Bible are still the best and most perfect ones in existence. I include a quote from Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn concerning the plant-based diet and its ability to reverse cardiovascular disease. "The single biggest step toward adopting this strategy would be to have United States dietary guidelines support a plant-based diet. An expert committee purged of industrial and political influence is required to assure that science is the basis for dietary recommendations." ............................................................................. Know Your Numbers! It is absolutely vital that you know your numbers. No, I don't mean your house number, or phone number, or social security number, although they are important. I mean the numbers that are vital to your knowledge of the state of health of your body. Numbers like your Blood Pressure, your Total Cholesterol, your HDL, your LDL, your serum glucose level, your homocystene, your triglycerides, and if you have cancer, your C-reactive protein levels. What are the normal numbers that indicate health? That may vary some but for most folks here are the numbers that usually mean that you are healthy. Blood Pressure: 120/80 (The second number is important because it measures blood pressure when the heart is at rest - diastolic pressure. That pressure is important as an indicator of the possibility of a heart attack or stroke because it measure the arterial pressure at rest). Total Cholesterol: This should be below 150 cc/dl to be heart attack proof Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL): This should be below 80 cc/dl to be heart attack proof High Density Lipoprotein (HDL): This should be above 40 cc/dl to be heart attack proof Triglycerides: This should be less than 150 mg/dl to be heart attack proof Homocystene: This is a blood protein and should be less than 10 (low folate levels and low B12 levels will also coincide with high homocystene levels) Serum glucose level: 4 to 8 mmol/L C-reactive protein: lower than 1.0 mg/L. ......................................................................... Pray for Doug's Book For over two years I have risen before five o'clock and worked on a book. The book tells of a battle between Satan and Christians for their physical bodies. We are in a battle with the most powerful person on earth (except the Lord Jesus). We are losing the battle. Christians are falling on the battle field of nutritional knowledge. Most Christians are just as blinded by Satan's lies as the lost, unsaved world, especially in regard to diet. Someone needs to beam in the glorious light of Genesis 1:29 and enlighten our brothers and sisters to the way to LIFE. I pray that you will help me to get the book, "The Battle For the Body", published and spread across this globe. I believe that it will help the church to wake up to the fact that our diet and lifestyles have strayed so far away from the original Biblical plan that we are dying before our time. Praise the Lord for Hallelujah Acres and brother George Malkmus! Praise the Lord for medical doctors who are leading the charge back to the plant-based diet! Now help me pray that the theological wall that has kept Christians from abandoning the animal- based diet will be torn down and we can reclaim our rightful place among the healthy and disease free. ........................................................................... T. Colin Campbell's New Book "Health Tips" from Hallelujah Acres is previewing this new book by the world's leading researcher in nutritional science. The book, The China Study, will be shared at the annual Health Minister Reunion in April. Marilyn and I plan to be there. Look for this great new book from Hallelujah Acres soon. Brother Malkmus is previewing it now in his weekly "Health Tips" email newsletter. Go to the Hallelujah Acres web site to subscribe at . ...................................................................... Popeye Soup (RAW) My dear friend, Stephanie, sent me this recipe recently. I have tweaked it a little. It is a very nutritious and delicious soup. 1 cup vegetable stock (fresh or Pacific Foods) 1 avocado, peeled 1 cup packed raw organic spinach (We like more spinach, say 1-1/2 cups) 2 peeled cucumbers (I reduced this to just 1/2 cucumber, personal preference) 1/3 red sweet pepper 2 green onions 1 clove garlic juice of half a lemon or lime (I reduced this to 1 teaspoon.) sea salt to taste 1/2 t. dill tiny pinch of chili powder Blend avocado and soup stock until creamy; then blend in the spinach. Process until creamy. Cut up remaining ingredients & blend. If desired, warm soup to 105 degrees on stove or in dehydrator. ........................................................................ For Toll Free Ordering ONLY, call 1-877-200-0862. For health consultations and questions about our products, please call 731-423-5313 or email us at ddpolk@alphaomegafood.com. Back Issues of "God's Food For Life" are available on the home page click the Back Issues Button at far right. 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