Hallelujah
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The Hallelujah Diet is “Biblically based, scientifically validated and personally evidenced,” according to its author, Rev. George Malkmus. It appeared in the 1970s as one of the first popular vegan diets.
The diet allows for no meat, alcohol, caffeine, dairy products, sugar, flour, or even salt and pepper. You eliminate carbonated beverages, sweeteners, non-dairy creamers, and other such products, along with canned fruits and vegetables, lard, margarine and shortenings, and all processed foods like candy, bread, and cereals. Your diet becomes 85% raw fruits and vegetables, and 15% cooked foods, supplemented by products like BarleyMax®, BeetMax®, and packaged vitamins sold through the Hallelujah Acres Foundation. The diet allows almond and banana milk; raw almonds, macadamia nuts, and walnuts; sunflower seeds and other unprocessed seeds; raw soups and herbs.
Rev. Malkmus bases his diet on Genesis 1:29: “Then God said, ‘Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you.’” Rev. Malkmus interprets this to mean that people should only eat plants. He writes in his book that he believes God later cursed humankind with a shortened life span when God told Noah in Genesis 9:3, “Every moving thing that lives shall be meat for you; even as the green plants.”
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Expert Review:
A study done by the Hallelujah Acres’ own nutritionist, Dr. Michael Donaldson, found that most of the 141 people who were following the Hallelujah Diet had deficiencies in vitamins B12 and D, iron, selenium, pantothenic acid, zinc, and protein. The average man on the diet was consuming only 47 grams of protein, and 9% of them consumed only around 33 grams. Women’s calcium intake averaged 577, about half the normal daily need. After this study, the foundation started selling vitamins.
Reverend Malkmus also had to back down from his claims that the Hallelujah Diet cured people of maladies like cancer, diabetes, and arthritis after a government investigation.
As soon as anyone creating a diet tells you that you must eat this special formula they sell, buyer beware.
Sample Menu:
Recipes offered: Vegan
This is a typical day on the Hallelujah Diet:
BREAKFAST: One serving (teaspoon) of BarleyMax® powder
MID-MORNING SNACK: 8-oz. glass of fresh vegetable juice with flax seed. Make the drink from a combination of two parts carrots to one part greens. If you cannot do this, you may drink CarrotJuiceMax® and BarleyMax® or a piece of fresh fruit.
LUNCH: Have another serving of BarleyMax®. Thirty minutes later, eat raw vegetables or raw fruit, but limit fruit to only 15% of your daily intake.
MID-AFTERNOON SNACK: 8-oz. glass of carrot/vegetable juice or CarrotJuiceMax® or BeetMax® with trail mix.
DINNER: Before supper, have another serving (teaspoon) of BarleyMax®. Thirty minutes later, have a large salad made from leafy non-head lettuce and a variety of vegetables. After you eat your salad, you can have your only cooked food of the day in the form of steamed vegetables, a vegetable sandwich on whole-grain bread, a baked sweet potato, or squash. Your cooked foods should be only 15% of your daily intake, but you can have them at either lunch or dinner.
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Dangerous diet that is missing critical nutritional elements, is too high in carbohydrates, and does not provide sufficient energy (calories).
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