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Also, you'll never get sick -- if you do, you haven't followed the diet stricly enough. He berated himself last year when he did get sick, and he started hallucinating while I was with him. This diet doesn't give you enough B vitamins, so the founder has concocted his own expensive B vitamin supplement, which you must buy only from Halelujah Acres. Anyone else heard of this group? Any more info?
Lots of info on Rev. George Malkmus and his Hallelujah Diet:
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I haven't run across Malkmus specifically, but I am familiar with the work of one of his teachers, Ann Wigmore.
Looking over the Hallelujah website sure brings back memories. In the late 70s I worked in health food stores, much of what Malkmus sells and promotes through his site is just like what we promoted through the stores, without the overt God emphasis. Can be a good money making racket, the supplements and juicers needed are expensive. And if a customer says it isn't working, they are told to buy more, and think differently. They are to blame, not the products, not the fact that it is an inadequate dangerous diet.
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[i:263813272c]You won't acquire health or maintain it by following the typical "death-style" of contemporary society. If this way that Hallelujah Acres promotes sounds strange or even radical, consider that if your lifestyle is not substantially different from others around you then your end result will also be much the same as theirs: disease, suffering, and death. On the other hand, tens of thousands of testimonies of health and healing received by this ministry over many years, along with independent scientific studies, confirm that God's ways are indeed superior to man's poor substitutes.[/i:263813272c]
This is very familiar language to me also, Leonard Orr of Rebirthing infamy speaks in a similiar fashion, as do others. It is an us and them device. They are death culture, we are Godly and pure.
Fasting, starving, limited inadequate diets.......compounded with extreme practices.....definitely a dangerous combo.
I would think any of info on the Rick Ross site for friends and family members would apply to your situation, worth reviewing. People immersed in these extreme health practices are most likely going to hear any disagreement as a test, as voice from the "death culture", and the like, so it's important to read up on how best to go about offering a helping hand. And if it gets to an emergency level, worth calling in authorities, if a person is starving and hallucinating, they are a danger to themselves.
Sarah