Why Christians Get Sick [Paperback]

George H. Malkmus (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 1995

With a diagnosis of colon cancer, Rev. Malkmus launched an intensive biblical and scientific search to find out why he, a Christian, got sick--and to possibly find an alternative treatment to the medical profession's usually unsuccessful ones. What he discovered not only brought healing to his own body, but also answered Why Christians Get Sick.

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Book Description

With a diagnosis of colon cancer, Dr. Malkmus launched an intensive biblical and scientific search to find out why he, a Christian, got sick -- and to possibly find an alternative treatment to the medical profession's usually unsuccessful ones. What he discovered not only brought healing to his own body, but also answered why Christians get sick.

About the Author

Dr. George H. Malkmus has pastored churches in New York, North Carolina, Florida, and Tennessee, and founded both a Christian school and a Bible Institute. His radio broadcast, "America Needs Christ," aired for more than 15 years. The author of two books, he currently publishes a health magazine that has a circulation exceeding 100,000. Dr Malkmus appears regularly on television and radio stations, and conducts health seminars throughout the country.

Product Details

• Paperback: 136 pages
• Publisher: Treasure House; Treasure H edition (July 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1560438495
• ISBN-13: 978-1560438496
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #258,514 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

George H. Malkmus has pastored churches in New York, North Carolina, Florida, and Tennessee, and founded both a Christian school and a Bible Institute. His radio broadcast, "America Needs Christ," aired for more than 15 years. He is author of three books, publishes a bi-monthly health magazine read by over a half million people, and writes a weekly newsletter, "The Hallelujah Health Tip", received by more than 60,000 subscribers.

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69 of 71 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A bombshell of health and nutrition truth., February 27, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Why Christians Get Sick (Paperback)

The five white dangers listed in this book are a revolution. If every American avoided these foods (which most Americans make as eighty percent of their diet) and applied the simple principles of this book, the nation's average life expectancy would jump to 90-100 years.

The arguments on this page are respectable, and there are a number of things meat eaters must consider when they attempt to justify their meat eating with the argument that "they ate meat in the Bible."

When God created the earth, everything was perfect. The plants, animals, soil-everything! Now how could anyone who believes in Creation say that the diet given to perfect humans in a perfect Creation was NOT perfect? According to the Bible, humans didn't eat meat or dairy until after the fall, when the world and God's Creation were no longer perfect. Thus, the diet degenerated into imperfection. Now, in the less-than-perfect world after the fall into sin, all creatures ate whatever they could get-food wasn't perfect anymore. Jesus ate what He could get in the imperfect world conditions just like everyone else. So do most Americans, unknowingly, living in ignorance. They have the means and the resources that Bible people and Jesus didn't have.

And now science is finally uncovering that the original diet God gave in His perfect Creation was the one ideal for man. And the great economy and bounty of these present times make obtaining this prefect diet from a perfect Creation more obtainable, unlike in Bible times. According to the Bible, this meatless, dairy-less diet is the one God originally gave man and the one by which God intended His creation to be sustained!

This book tells you how to obtain this nearly perfect diet (hey, nothing is absolutely perfect after the fall). By simply following the principles of this book, I've witnessed my energy soar. I need 2-3 hours LESS sleep than I did eating the average American diet. Everyone should try eating by this book's principals-for at least a couple weeks. They will show you what true health really is.

(Note: Some of the following information was gathered from various sources.)

Still think humans are designed to eat meat, even though when God designed us, we didn't eat meat? Well, read this information from the author of this book in an article he wrote about the subject:

"Often in my seminars, Christians will challenge me by stating that people ate meat in the Bible. "That may be true," I answer, "but the meat in Bible days and the meat our forefathers ate was a totally different animal!" The meat in Bible days and the meat our forefathers ate was only about 3 percent fat. Beef, the way it is grown today is 20 to 30 percent fat...while pork is 40 to 60 percent fat! Nor was the meat our forefathers ate full of antibiotics, growth hormones, preservatives, toxins and cancer! Nor did they pasteurize and homogenize their milk or produce eggs in wire cages without benefit of daylight, green food, insects, et cetera!

Often people will say: "Oh, I don't eat red meat any more...I only eat chicken and fish." Somehow the American public has the misconception that chicken and fish are healthy. NOT SO! Chicken has the same amount of cholesterol as beef and is loaded with growth hormones. A chicken that used to take 15 weeks to mature is now ready for market in just six weeks. Sixty percent of all chicken is contaminated with salmonella. Then there are the antibiotics and other drugs. And when we look at fish, we find that in terms of calories consumed, fish has twice the cholesterol of pork or beef; has no fiber (as is the case with all other animal products), which promotes problems connected with lack of fiber, ranging from constipation to colon cancer; not to mention the risks associated with eating contaminated fish from polluted waters..."

The meat nowadays just isn't safe anymore. The Bible doesn't forbid meat. Does that mean meat is NOW safe? It was reasonably safe then, but not now! Meat and dairy now can hurt you readily from a lifetime of eating. The Bible doesn't outright condemn many things like cigarettes and such (of course it couldn't), and is it sin to smoke? If you know it harms your body, I believe it is. Now you know that certain eating habits can harm you, too. God wants us to take care of our bodies.

From the author of this book: "Meat eating and the use of dairy products have not a single redeeming feature! There is no assimilable protein in meat or eggs, and no usable calcium in dairy! Why? Because the heating (cooking) of the protein deranges the molecular structure of the protein, making it unassimilable by the body. The pasteurizing of dairy products changes the organic calcium to an inorganic, unusable form. If we look to nature, there is not a single meat-eating animal in the wild that cooks the flesh it eats, nor is there an animal in the wild that pasteurizes the milk it feeds its young. Nor is there even an animal in the wild that drinks the milk of another animal, or drinks milk after the age of weaning."

Humans were not perfectly designed to get cancer and heart disease at epidemic proportions (in America, 8 out of 10 people will have some degree of heart disease before they die and fifty percent of all people will have a heart attack). What is causing this atrocity? Mostly, it's the standard American diet-what most of us eat. Following the principals in this book will virtually eliminate your risk. Case closed.

"And God said: Behold, I have given you every herb (vegetable) bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a treat yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat." (Genesis 1:29)

28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wake-up call to Christians, January 14, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Why Christians Get Sick (Paperback)

People who condemn this book on a biblical basis are missing a couple of very important points. First, the foods which comprise our contemporary diets are a far cry from the foods of biblical times, what with the modern use of pesticides, hormones, preservatives, etc. Second, St. Paul very clearly states "All things are lawful, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful, but not all things edify." (1 Cor. 10:23 NAS) Malkmus does not maintain that eating certain foods will send you to hell or sever your relationship with God, only that they will cause additional burdens of sickness and premature death. He accurately points out that Christianity has devoted itself almost entirely to the spiritual side of man while ignoring the physical side. Remember it was God who created the physical body and declared that His creation was good (Gen 1:31). All that being said, my most compelling reason for giving this book a favorable review is the fact I have personally used the Malkmus program which has resulted in a level of personal health I never thought possible...as a man in my mid-forties I have regained the vigor of my twenties!

25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Thought provoking, November 9, 1998

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Robert Brunner ([e-mail]) (Malibu California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Why Christians Get Sick (Paperback)

It is a good introduction into the issue of health for Christians. Some Christians seem very fatalistic about their health, this book shows why that is wrong. Stresses the importance of exercise and watching what you eat. The book stresses the importance of eating "raw". This means eating an orange not drinking orange juice. It is a very short book, but it has provoked me to be much more watchful of what I eat.