Hi Health minded Friends,

Thank you for opening the note today. Hope you are all well and getting even more well.

Warning! The contents of this note could change your life. If you dare…..Please enjoy!

NEW! Covered dish/Nutrition Classes.

I am very excited about the up-coming covered dish/nutrition classes to be held the 3rd Saturday of every month.

At this point in the game, since we have folks spread out all over northern and southern Pennsylvania, we want to have the meetings at three different locations, one each month. I will keep you informed of the location of the month, the teaching topic, speakers, and the culinary theme through this newsletter, and signs at the markets. We wish to meet at the Blue House in Trucksville (Wilkes Barre area), our home in Dorrance (near Mountain Top), and soon to open “Be Nourished” Health food store/Lunchinette.across from the Berkshire Mall in the Reading area.

These meetings will give folks who are interested in a healthy lifestyle a chance to stay connected and supported, learn recipes, and find a path to real health with all the extra benefits, including youthful energy, longevity, and no more fear of disease. Who wants to look forward to nursing homes and chemotherapy? There is a better road. In our seventies, instead of living with painful arthritis, we could be climbing mountains and even have lunch on the summit.

As we get going, each month will be a different food theme, like for example, pizza night, or Mediterranean, Mexican, Oriental, etc.

Starting in April, the meeting time will be 4 pm. Each person brings an ingredient for the salad bar as well as a main or side dish or dessert. Everything must be vegan (nothing from an animal or made from animal ingredients; just follow the directions at the bottom of this page on a healthy vegan diet). We eat the salad and main course, and then have the teaching, DVD, or cooking demo, etc. After the teaching, we have dessert time and fellowship. The atmosphere should be a mix of party and family reunion. In other words, the monthly events should be a lot of fun.

Now there are a lot of topics I can teach on, a lot of wonderful healthy DVDs we can show, but………..we would like your input.

What would you like as a topic on a given meeting? Please send in your ideas. I might talk about enzymes but you would have liked me to talk about healing cancer naturally instead. You have to let me know what you would like as possible topics.

*****Our next meeting is on March 20th at the Blue House in Trucksville. Please Note! This is at 2 pm, and is not a covered dish (the change to covered dish meetings starts in April). However, we would like, if you can, for you to bring a healthy snack to share. Please!! No white sugar, white flour, well, just follow the directions at the bottom of this page on a healthy vegan diet.

The topic is going to be the Honeybees. I plan to show a very interesting DVD on the Beekeepers up in the very north, including Todd Hardie of Honey Gardens. I also plan to talk about what is going on with the bees in America (Are they really going extinct?), the intricacies of a typical bee hive, and the culinary fare that honeybees (the only gourmet chefs in the animal world) serve up for each other and us human folk.

Please add these meetings to your monthly schedule. By being there, you could bless someone else, and help change their life by your support and friendship.

Dorothy and I will be putting together a flyer with the meeting schedule and the rules of the covered dish. In other words, what ingredients are good and healthy, and which ingredients are bad and unhealthy.

For more info, please call Dorothy or Mark (that’s me) at 570-868-8172 or 570-401-1353.

Again, I will keep you informed, as we get closer to starting.

The Markets!

Hometown and Green Dragon Farmers Markets.

Hallelujah Hive is opened year round at these markets: Hometown – 8 am until 8 pm and

Green Dragon – 9 am until 8:30 pm.

Both markets are heated. Many winter specials going on now.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT!

Here are some of the popular questions that are asked us, and our answers from several years ago that still hold true today.

1—How do I get rid of Cholesterol?

Our bodies make cholesterol naturally. Animal products are high in cholesterol and they add to ours if we eat animal products. The American diet is very high in non-fiber foods. Non-fiber foods tend to hold cholesterol in our bodies.

The key is eating less animal products and eating more fiber. The fiber is used as a so-called broom to broom the cholesterol out of the body. We have a product called Fiber Cleanse from Hallelujah Acres, which greatly promotes the process, as well as getting rid of excess weight and parasites.

Remember, eat more fiber or roughage. That means more salads, brown rice, beans, etc.

2— Why don’t we eat fish on the Hallelujah Diet? They ate it in the Bible.

In Bible days the fish was, for the most part, clean. It did not contain mercury poison. Today, 50% of the fish around the world has cancer. Fish is high in cholesterol and contains no fiber. The omegas found in fish do not absorb as well as the omegas from ground flaxseed.

3—I thought honey was honey and it had to be local to heal allergies.

Is all honey the same? Most of your honey in the super market is processed and heated. Even the honey produced by most of the beekeepers is heated somewhat. This destroys most of the nutrition, including the enzymes, turning the honey to sugar.

Honey Gardens wildflower raw honey and our Pennsylvania Swarmbustin raw honey is great for healing spring, summer, and fall allergies. Honey Gardens raw honey, which is produced over 300 miles away works because it is the same flowers that exist here in Pennsylvania and down the east coast.

It is a scientific fact and we see it through testimonies that raw unprocessed-unheated honey heals allergies, digestion problems, stomach ulcers, helps the memory, breathing (including asthma), and folks, this is a big one. According to science and the Bible, raw honey strengthens and builds the bones and teeth. You really didn’t want osteoporosis anyway. Take one or two tablespoons a day to receive these benefits.

My childhood allergies that I had for forty-some-years are now completely gone. They left right after I started eating this honey. I don’t know if part of this was the honey or not (I eat three or four tablespoons a day), but a while back, when I fell off the painters scaffold onto the concrete, butt first, I didn’t break anything. I also believe that the Hallelujah Diet and the barley grass I’ve been consuming for all these years was a big part of my miraculous healing. Thank you God!!

4—People who eat no animal products (meat, fish, fowl, eggs, dairy ) cannot possibly get enough nutrition to survive!!

A man told this to Dorothy at a show we were at.

Dorothy, our daughters Laura and Amy, myself, and many others we know, are living proof that everything this man said is absolutely wrong.

Hope to see you at the markets and class,

Mark

What do Vegans Eat?

Vegetarians do not eat meat, fish, or poultry. Vegans, in addition to being vegetarian, do not eat other animal products and by-products such as eggs, dairy products, whey, and gelatin.

Why Veganism?

People choose to be vegan for health, environmental, and/or ethical reasons.

The consumption of animal fats and proteins has been linked to heart disease, colon and lung cancer, osteoporosis, diabetes, kidney disease, hypertension, obesity, and a number of other debilitating conditions. Cows’ milk contains ideal amounts of fat and protein for young calves, but far too much for humans.

Animal agriculture takes a devastating toll on the earth. It is an inefficient way of producing food, since feed for farm animals requires land, water, fertilizer, and other resources that could otherwise have been used directly for producing human food.

Today’s farms are not like the ones most of us learned about in school; they are mechanized factories where an animal’s welfare is of little concern compared to profit.

Vegan Nutrition

The key to a nutritionally sound vegan diet is variety. A healthy and varied vegan diet includes fruits, vegetables, plenty of leafy greens, whole grain products, nuts, seeds, and legumes.

It is impossible to list all the foods that vegans eat, but here are some guidelines to choosing vegan foods. Many of the vegan foods listed are also good sources of fiber, phytochemicals and other micronutrients:

Sources of Protein in a Vegan Diet: Whole grains (eg. whole wheat flour, bread and pasta, brown rice, oats, rye), nuts (eg. hazelnut, cashews, brazilnut, almonds), seeds (sunflower, sesame, pumpkin), legumes/pulses (peas, beans, lentils), soy products (flour, soy milk, tofu, tempeh).

Sources of Carbs in a Vegan Diet: Whole grains (e.g. whole wheat, oats, barley, brown rice, millet), whole-wheat bread, whole grain pasta and other flour products, lentils, beans, sweet potatoes, dried and fresh fruit.

Sources of Fats in a Vegan Diet: Nuts and seeds, nut and seed oils, vegan margarine, avocados.

Foods to Avoid:

Beef, pork, fish, chicken, eggs, turkey, hamburgers, hot dogs, bacon, sausage, bologna, etc. Carbonated beverages and soft drinks, Alcohol, sport drinks, and all drinks and juices containing preservatives, refined salt, sugar, and artificial sweeteners, sulfured dried fruits, All milk, cheese, ice cream, whipped toppings, and non-dairy creamers Refined, bleached flour products, most cold breakfast cereals, and white rice, All lard, margarine, shortenings, and anything containing hydrogenated oils or trans fats, Candy, gum, cookies, donuts, cakes, pies, or other products containing refined sugars or artificial sweeteners, All refined white or brown sugar (brown sugar is simply refined white sugar with some molasses added for color),

Acceptable sweeteners include raw unfiltered honey, stevia, agave nectar, and pure maple syrup

Egg and Dairy Replacements (to convert a favorite recipe)

As a binder, substitute for each egg:

1/4 cup (2 ounces) soft tofu blended with the liquid ingredients of the recipe, or

1 small banana, mashed, or

1/4 cup applesauce, or

2 tablespoons cornstarch or arrowroot starch, or Ener-G Egg Replacer or another commercial mix found in health food stores.

The following substitutions can be made for dairy products:

Soy milk, rice milk, potato milk, nut milk, or water (in some recipes) may be used.

Buttermilk can be replaced with soured soy or rice milk. For each Cup of buttermilk, use 1 cup soymilk plus 1 tablespoon of vinegar.

Soy cheese available in health food stores. (Be aware that many soy cheeses contain casein, which is a dairy product.)

Crumbled tofu can be substituted for cottage cheese or ricotta cheese in lasagna and similar dishes.

Several brands of nondairy cream cheese are available in some supermarkets and health food stores

Here are some websites with excellent vegan recipes to try:

www.hacres.com ,www.vegweb.com ,www.veganchef.com, www.chooseveg.com