It's apparent to me that most Americans believe that they can only hope to live to about 78. But God's word tells us that the limit is 120 years. This is verifiable by scientists, who tell us that we can only hope for a maximum of 90 cell divisions per lifetime translating into 120 years of life.

So why not live life abundantly? Why not fuel our bodies with the fuel that God intended in Genesis 1:29. The raw foods that He provided are being proven over and over again to be rich in all the nutrition that our bodies require. But how do we overcome the lowered nutrition levels in plants grown on depleted soils? We can juice the organic vegetables such as carrots, beets, and spinach, thereby getting pure nutrition to our cells quickly without having to digest the pulp. That's why we recommend fresh organic carrot juice, beet juice, celery juice, spinach juice, and for convenience sake, BarleyMax. BarleyMax is the main juice we should be drinking because it is organically grown, cut before going to seed, juiced and dehydrated at low temperature without loosing valuable enzymes.

Marilyn and I strongly believe that our self-healing miraculous bodies are capable of being healthy up to 120 years of age, barring accidents. Won't you try The Hallelujah Diet & Lifestyle? Call us at 877-200- 0862 and we'll help you live abundantly for as long as God wants you to.

There is a great temptation for anyone that is experiencing gall stones and discomfort in the gall bladder area to resort to surgical removal of the gall bladder, called cholecystectomy. Most medical doctors will recommend such a procedure when symptoms indicate. But what are the implications of removing an organ that God placed in the body? Here are some things to think about.

According to clinical studies, there is an increased risk of colon cancer with cholecystectomy surgery. There is also the necessity for limiting fats and oils in the diet after surgery, since the gall bladder's primary function is aiding in digesting fats.

The gall bladder is attached to the underside of the liver in order to serve as storage for the bile secreted by the liver. Bile is an important element in the process of digestion because it is involved in the digestion of fats. According to Dr. Norman Walker, renowned nutritionist, bile helps in the digestive processes by neutralizing the acid chyme which passes through the duodenum from the stomach by emulsifying fats. It also promotes peristalsis, contraction and relaxation of the alimentary canal, thus moving undigestible matter out of the colon to prevent purtrfaction.

A diet with excess animal fat can stress the gall bladder to the point where it can cause much pain and discomfort. A diet with no animal fat and good vegetable fats can allow the gall bladder to heal.

So why not change the diet rather than resort to dangerous surgery? The Hallelujah Diet & Lifestyle can enable your gall bladder to heal itself because you will be giving your body the fuel that God designed for it.

Before I can tell you how to make juicing easy, let me first tell you why the juice is so important.

If there are two foods on earth that I believe that I could not live healthy without, they are fresh barley grass juice and fresh carrot juice. Let me tell you why.

Carrots are one of the cheapest vegetables in the store. They keep well in a cold refrigerator. The fresh juice yielded from a Green Star juicer will last from 3 to 5 days when kept in the refrigerator in eight- ounce canning jars filled to the brim. The nutrition in fresh carrot juice is astounding. Loaded with antioxidants (anti-ageing, cancer-fighting compounds), vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, and micronutrients, fresh carrot juice is an invigorating multinutrient liquid that everyone should drink.

BarleyMax, the dehydrated organic barley grass juice from Hallelujah Acres, is the most easily stored and convenient live food on earth. It is a live food that can be stored for up to 18 months! Incredible, but true. Marilyn and I would not go a day without our BarleyMax. The strongest animals on earth eat only grass. Did you know that barley has one of the widest spectrum of nutrients of any food on earth? It is a whole food concentrate in natural form, with the synergy that God intended. Along with raw fruits and vegetables, raw nuts and seeds, these two juices can help us to excellent health God's way. Now here are some tips to make juicing easier and less burdensome.

• Buy the best juicer, the Green Star
• Juice only sweet California carrots
• store your juice in eight-ounce canning jars
• fill the jars to the brim unless you are freezing them
• if freezing the juice leave a small amount of air
• juice only once or twice every week
• mix other fresh vegetable juices with your carrot juice
• mix BarleyMax with your carrot juice as you drink it
• peel any carrot that has darkened spots
• discard carrots that are limp

My childhood memories of Christmas morning at the Polk house are rich. A part of our Christmas morning was unloading our stockings that Santa had stuffed and hung over the fireplace. At one time we had eight stockings over that fireplace. It was such fun dumping our stockings out and discovering the surprises inside. Without fail, our stockings held one or two big, sweet navel oranges. Little did I know at the time that those oranges were full of great nutrition.

Some important information that I didn't even suspect back then was that oranges contain a great source of vitamin C, an essential nutrient that is also a great disease fighter. An average orange contains over 69 milligrams of vitamin C, almost a full day's recommended amount. This potent nutrient can protect from or shorten the effects of colds, pneumonia, and bronchitis. Vitamin C in oranges can also protect you from cancers of the stomach, throat, lungs, bladder, and pancreas. In addition to vitamin C, oranges contain other cancer fighters such as fiber, folate, flavonoids, and the carotenoiod, beta-cryptoxanthin.

It's always best to eat fresh oranges and to drink freshly squeezed orange juice rather than to take vitamin C supplements, which can lead to diarrhea and other stomach problems when taken in large doses. The pasteurized juice is much less nutritional than the freshly sqeezed juice, because of the high heat that kills many beneficial enzymes. The canned juice is also much more acidic, as well as being more of a glycemic burden than the fresh juice.

A great mid-morning snack is a fresh orange. Oranges are used in many great tasting recipes from Marilyn and Hallelujah Acres. Orange you glad that God gave us oranges? I sure am.

Here are two holiday recipes we hope you enjoy.
Paradise Fruit (A healthy ambrosia)

• 4 oranges, peeled and cut in bite-size pieces
• 1 pink grapefruit, peeled and cut in bite-size pieces
• 2 cups fresh, diced pineapple
• 2 tablespoons pure maple syrup

• 5 Medjool dates, pitted and chopped
• 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
• 1/2 cup unsweetened coconut

• 1/3 cup organic ketchup
• 1/3 cup raw honey
• juice from one lemon
• 2 garlic cloves
• 1/2 small onion
• 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
• 1/2 teaspoon paprika
• 1/4 teaspoon celery seed
• 1/3 cup flaxseed oil

Marilyn and I will be teaching our Get Healthy Stay Balanced class beginning Monday, January 8, 2007, at 6:30 p.m. at the Jackson State Community College Baptist Student Center on North Parkway in Jackson, TN. We need your registration of $25.00 to us by December 26th. Change your life. Call us at 877-200- 0862 for more information or email us at ddpolk@alphaomegafood.com.

The nutritional and health information in this web page is based on the teachings of God's Holy Word- the Bible, as well as personal experiences. We do not offer medical advice or prescribe the use of diet as a form of treatment for sickness without the approval of a health professional. Because there is always some risk involved when changing diet and lifestyles, we are not responsible for any adverse effects or consequences that might result. Please do not apply the information in this web page if you are not willing to assume the risk. If you do use the information in this web page without the approval of a health professional, you are prescribing for yourself, which is your constitutional right, but Alpha Omega Food assumes no responsibility.