The Hallelujah Diet

People often ask me "What do you eat?" Here is my answer:

BREAKFAST: One tablespoon of barley juice powder* powder either dry and let it dissolve in my mouth or 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 may 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 vitally important to me that the barley juice powder powder I use comes from American Image Marketing and that it contains kelp. There are other companies that have tried to imitate this product, but they are not processed the same way. I have tried other products, but they do not give the same results.

LUNCH: One tablespoon of barley juice powder powder, as at breakfast. Sometimes I stir my barley juice powder into 8 to 12 ounces of freshly extracted carrot juice,** which I find especially delicious and extremely nutritious. At least a half hour after the barley juice powder, I prefer an all-raw fruit lunch. A banana, apple, dates, etc. Organic is always best when available. (Sometimes I have a vegetable salad for lunch instead of the fruit.) It is important that this be an all raw meal!

SUPPER: One tablespoon of barley juice powder powder either dry or in a couple ounces of distilled water or in carrot juice. Carrot juice must be freshly extracted, never canned, bottled or frozen. Then, at least 30 minutes after the barley juice powder, I eat a large green vegetable salad of leaf lettuce (never head lettuce), broccoli, cauliflower, celery, carrots, etc. I enjoy adding half an avocado in most of my vegetable salads. This 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 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 be sure I get the essential fatty acids needed by my body, 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. Flax seed oil is what I would use if I had cancer.

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 barley juice powder 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. barley juice powder 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 into my body each day and always consume at least 3 tablespoons of it a day. Another AIM product I 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 Champion Juicer. I try to drink at least 16 to 24 ounces each day. When I had my colon cancer 18 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 barley juice powder. The reason barley juice powder and carrot juice are 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 33 % of nutrients reaching cell level, depending on the health of the digestive system.
3. When vegetable juices or barley juice powder 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.

Two other considerations:

1. If I had cancer I would not have fruit (Nathan Pritikin, Dr. Stanley Bass, and the macrobiotics believe that fruit sugar helps to spread cancer.) If I had candida, I would not have fruit or carrot juice (because of the high glycemic index). If I had diabetes, I would monitor my blood sugar very carefully while transitioning to the Hallelujah Acres program.
2. We encourage individuals with chronic health challenges who want to try the Hallelujah Diet to work with a nutritionally-minded physician who has knowledge of our program. If your doctor doesn't know about our program, please share it with hi/her and ask them to discuss it with you. If your doctor then tells you the diet is dangerous, ask why so many people are being healed of so many different ailments with our program? If your doctor can't provide a satisfactory answer, you may want to seek out a physician who has a better understanding of the nutrition/disease connection.