Bringing Up Healthy Children in Today's Flawed Food World

This will shake some of you to your toes, and I hope it does! Just read this excerpt from an article in the Back to the Garden newsletter published by Hallelujah Acres in North Carolina:

"If diet makes a difference in our health, why is it that my grandfather, who ate everything wrong, lives to be 90 years of age and his great grandson, age 2, has cancer?"

If it's diet that makes a difference, it would seem like grandpa would be the one with the trouble. Back in the 40's there was a dentist by the name of Francis Pottenger who had that same question. His real question was, "What does processed food do to our bodies?" Now he was not a nutrition nut, and he financed his own research. So no one told him what results to come up with.

He used cats. He divided these cats into five groups. The first two groups he fed unprocessed food. Those cats remained healthy throughout the experiment, so let's put them aside.

It's the other three groups we're interested in. He fed them processed foods, junk foods in other words, and here's what he found.

The first generation junk-food cats developed diseases much like we humans acquire—arthritis, cancers, diabetes, allergies, and so forth. They got these diseases toward the end of their lifespans.

The second generation junk-food cats developed those same diseases in the middle of their lifespans. The third generation cats developed those diseases at the beginning of their lives.

There was no fourth generation. Either the third generation parents could not conceive, or if they did, they aborted.

Right now in America, 25% of young adults cannot conceive. It's the worst we've ever seen. The incidence of spontaneous abortion or miscarriage is on the rise. It's the worst this country has ever seen.

The rest of the article is much too long to include here, as it was taken from a tape of a speech given by Dr. Joel Robbins that received a standing ovation back in April of 1998. You can get the entire tape online at http://hacres.com, or by sending $9.95 and specifying #232, "Children and the Hallelujah Diet," to Hallelujah Acres, P.O. Box 2388, Shelby, North Carolina 28151