Hi Friends,

Thanks for opening the note today. Hope you are all well and doing great.

Please Enjoy!

It’s a Forks Farm week !

This Saturday from 10 am until 3 pm. For more information and directions go to www.Forksfarmmarket.com. Come and have fun, say hi to Todd and John (The Owners), enjoy good music, farm animals, and don’t forget to visit our Hallelujah Hive tent and Laura’s Sweet Gourmet tent.

The three most important foods that I put into my body. What are they? I bet you are wondering how I, Mark Gibson stay so incredibly fit, almost 6 foot, large biceps, and colorful, youthful hair. OK! NOT! I realize I started a little late in life on the nutritional and exercise thing. I’m just a little short of 6 foot (6inches short). The biceps aren’t quite that big. The hair is colorful if you like different shades of gray. But hey! I’m trying. I’m always watching for that brown hair to appear when I look into the mirror. LOL!

I do however feel like a kid much of the time. I get to climb mountains with my beautiful wife Dorothy. My arthritis and nerve ending problems are gone from around ten years ago. Praise the Lord, my maker, for giving me food that is medicine! I do not fear disease anymore.

The three most important foods I put into my body are:  Pure Water, Barley Max, Raw Honey and fresh bee Pollen. Oh that’s 4. Sorry! The proof of the pudding is that my wife, children and I have not visited the doctors since 1995 when I was diagnosed with an incurable disease. The four of us have not taken any meds including as much as an aspirin. If I am boasting, it is only in what God can do through good natural nutrition.

Please enjoy this article on how to be free of disease and the fear of it.

Alkaline or Acid, Could be Life or Death

I know that there are those out there that want to be healthy but may not understand the science behind it. For instance, you may be thinking, “How do I get rid of all that heartburn, all that gas, depression, the tiredness, so many colds and sore throats, the dry skin, the acne, the weight, the aches and pains, the fear of terrible disease?” It seems like everybody is getting cancer, diabetes, or heart disease and stroke. I’m scared of the future. Nevertheless, I try to eat right. I just have no discipline. Help!

That was me, Mark Gibson, about 14 years ago. Then what I feared the most came upon me at age 42. However, we have a God that loves us so much that He brought people into my life with great Wisdom, who taught me what to do to get 100% well. Not only that, but even how to get my youth back.

Something I learned that was very simple for me was that some things in life are acid, and some things are alkaline. We need mostly alkaline with just a tinge of acid. You see our blood is 7.4 ph. That is alkaline. Everything our bodies take in needs to be brought to a PH of 7.4 for our blood. If our blood’s ph changed at all this way or that, we would die. Therefore, our bodies do what is necessary with what it has. For instance, if we eat or drink something cooked that contains high protein, like cows’ milk or meat, our bodies need alkaline to neutralize the animal protein, which is very acidic. If there is not enough available, like from raw leafy greens (best food source of alkaline), it drains calcium (alkaline) from the bones. If this happens enough, we get osteoporosis.

Let me give you a list of some conditions that contain acid or cause acid in our body.

Above everything else are cigarettes and high negative stress. Yes, stress causes the body to release uric acid, which is also contained in meat products. Uric acid causes joint problems such as arthritis. In addition, pollution helps give us an acid system. Foods that contain acid are dairy, meat and fish products, most cooked foods especially fried, tomato sauce, spicy foods, white vinegar, white sugar, white flour, artificial ingredients and caffeine. High acid is also connected to unforgiveness, bitterness, jealousy, fear, worry, anxiety, taking on the responsibility of the world, ourselves, etc. YUK. Did I say that acid is found in the nightly news?

Now let’s talk about some alkaline causing conditions. First of all a merry heart. Also peace, joy, love, hope, forgiveness, prayer, and meditation are high in alkaline.  Pure water! We need to drink half our body weight in ounces each day, along with about a half teaspoon sea salt, to help the body perform healing functions and other functions.

Moving water, such as a waterfall gives off negative ions, which help our sinuses and mood when we breathe it in (lit beeswax candles do the same thing). Some alkaline foods are  raw vegetables, some raw fruits, baked potatoes, millet, nuts, seeds, and raw vegetable juices.

Now if we can aim our diet/lifestyles more towards the alkaline way of life, one of those things that cause acid (worry of contracting disease) will go away. Excluding any accidents, or heroic martyrdom, we were created to pass on peacefully, blessing our children-grandchildren-great grandchildren-great great grandchildren-etc., and then passing on, maybe even in our sleep.

God told Noah in Genesis 6:3 that man would live only 120 years. That’s not sickly-nursing home, depending on everyone else, years. Sure, we can live with our kids when we’re 105, but we can work the garden while they’re at their work.

Did you know that putting acidic foods into our bodies affects our mood, whether we’re depressed or happy, even effecting us spiritually? They have found that putting artificial junk like food coloring, hydrogenated oils, meat and dairy from animals fed antibiotics and fatteners, causes more aggressive behavior, nervous tension, migraines, etc.

Those with a mainly or mostly vegan diet, for the most part, tend to be more peaceful people. Also, the myth that being a vegan makes one weak is a lie from the pits of Hell.

The strongest weight lifter for his age/weight class in the United States drinks organic apple juice before he lifts at a meet (he is an older vegan). Some of the medal winners at the Olympics you’ll find are vegan. Carl Lewis, the fastest man on the earth is a vegan. The strongest animals in the world (gorillas and elephants) got big and strong on green leaves.

In the book of Daniel in the Bible, Daniel and his friends were total vegan, only plant-based foods and water, and they were the champions of the Kings court and throughout the empire of Babylon. They looked stronger then all the Kings men and had the greatest wisdom in the empire.

I, yours truly, after 44 years of lots of meat and dairy (much acid), have personally tried this vegan (alkaline) lifestyle for the last 10+ years. I admit that I am not Mr. America. However, I have never felt better in my life. Every year I feel stronger. Who wants to arm wrestle? Ha-Ha.

Alkaline is the key. After studying the masters of diet in the Bible and in the world yesterday, and today, I am convinced. I looked not only at what they said, but the legacy and testimony that they left. I already mentioned some.

Norman Walker died somewhere between 109 and 119 after getting home from his daily bike ride with his friends and passed away during his daily nap. Paul Bragg died in a surfing accident at age 95 in Hawaii. George Malkmus, after being told he had 6 months to live with colon cancer, at 42, is now in his seventies, healthy and teaching all over the world. Lorraine Day, once head surgeon for 20 years at the San Francisco General Hospital, on her death bed with breast cancer, refused chemo and radiation. On the so-called Hallelujah Diet (vegan), she now teaches all over the country, and you may have seen her on TV. She’s the one that looks about 40, but is actually almost 70. Jack la Lanne is 94 and still working out 2 hrs a day.

My sister Linda, Dorothy, and I have actually talked to cancer survivors, who were dying, changed their diets, and now are very healthy and cancer free. The Bible says in first chapter of Genesis that our diet is to be plant based (alkaline).

Before I say anything else, I just want to mention that I don’t believe eating animal products such as meat and dairy is a sin. It’s not. Eating raw, organic dairy can actually be good for you. Organic meat eaten in moderation may also be of some benefit. However, please stay with me.

God fed Israel manna from the sky in the dessert for 40 years. There was no problem until they wanted meat. God gave it to them, they gorged on it, and many of them died with it still in their mouths.

I have a question. If meat is so good, when we get to Heaven do you think that God will be up there butchering animals, then putting them on the grill for our eating pleasure. If you believe this, the next time a child asks you, after their cat dies, if there are animals in Heaven, just tell them yes, but we’ll probably eat them.

Now I’m not trying to put down meat eaters. Like I said, it is not a sin to eat meat. It is not.

I’m trying, like was pointed out to me when I was sick, to point folks toward a path to optimal healing and health, like these great patriarchs, I have been discussing, traveled. The Lord knows we don’t need more fighting amongst ourselves like democrats and republicans.

If we want to have maximum health, we need to eat more alkaline foods and less acidic. Animal products from the grocery store tend to be the most acidic.

Curve the high stress, exercise liberally, get plenty of sunshine, drink lots of pure water (8 to 10 glasses a day), meditate on peaceful things, pray, and EAT ALKALINE. My diet consists of lots of lots of distilled water, Barley Max, raw honey, raw bee pollen, fiber, and lots of raw fruits and veggies. The little bit of acidic I eat is fine because of all the alkaline.

I hope this has been a help. If you would like to find out more, please visit our website at www.HallelujahHive.com . For questions or orders, you can order through our website or over the phone. Call Mark or Dorothy at 570-401-1353 or 570-868-8172.

Hope to see you at the markets this week,

Mark

“Throw away the gods your forefathers worshipped beyond the river and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day who you will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond the river, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”

Joshua, Chapter 24, The Bible