About Us

Hello, Dean Cantwell here.

I received my Bachelor of Science from the University of Texas in 1988. After my father died of cancer at the age of 58 and one of my best friends dropped dead at the age of 36 from a heart attack, I decided to become proactive in nutrition and exercise.

If my father and friend had only known what I have learned.

The research that has been done in the last 10-20 years on the health benefits of whole foods and supplements is astounding.

There actually is truth to the old saying "an apple a day helps keep the doctor away."

Hippocrates was right when he said "Let food be thy medicine and let medicine be thy food."

After losing my father and friend, I began studying nutrition. Exercise has always been a daily habit of mine, but in the past I wasn’t big into nutrition. I was really a meat and potatoes man, so getting fruits and vegetables into my diet was minimal.

Then one day I was turned on to whole food supplements. Was I skeptical? Yep. Sure was. But, if I could get whole food nutrition from fruits, vegetables and whole grains without actually eating them, I was intrigued.

Don’t get me wrong. After all the research I’ve done, I know that we all need to get as much fruits, vegetables and whole grains into our daily diet as possible.

But, with the fast pace of life my family and I find it difficult to eat properly all the time. So, if we could cheat a little and still get nutrition from whole food supplements, then I wanted to learn more. So, one of my researches led me to the Hallelujah Acres Diet that teaches healthy living from a biblical perspective. You can learn more about this diet at www.hacres.com.

Let's begin by spending a few minutes looking at the different ways physical bodies respond, depending on what foods are provided to that body for fuel and nourishment. The body reacts to DEAD, cooked food, and contrast it with the difference it makes when the body is nourished with LIVING plant foods.

To vividly show the difference between a food that is DEAD and one that is ALIVE, try this little experiment. Go to the market and purchase 5 RAW carrots and bring them home.

At home, cut a half-inch piece off of the stem end of that first RAW carrot, place it in a shallow basin of water, and watch it grow. And it will grow, because it is still in its LIVING form.

Now take the remaining 4 RAW carrots, and cook them. Cook one of them in boiling water. Cook the second carrot in a steamer. Cook the third carrot in a slow 250-degree oven, and the fourth in a microwave.

Now take each of those COOKED carrots out of their heat source, cut off the ends as with the first RAW carrot, place them in a shallow basin of water, and watch them grow.

Will these cooked carrots grow? Of course not! Why? Because the heat of cooking killed the life force (enzymes) within those carrots! When we cook our food, we destroy all enzymatic activity, that is, the LIFE within that carrot has been destroyed, along with a high percentage of its nutrients.

Each one of us is blessed with a body that is comprised of approximately 100 trillion LIVING cells. Every physical aspect of our body is made of LIVING cells!

Our hair and nails are made of LIVING cells - they keep growing don't they? Our skin, muscle, immune system, and even bone structure are comprised of LIVING cells, as is our entire physical body.

These LIVING cells that comprise our physical body are constantly in the process of dying and replacing themselves at the rate of approximately 300 million cells every minute of every day throughout an entire lifetime. In other words, every minute of our day, 24/7, 300 million cells die and are replaced with 300 million new cells.

As these cells die and are replaced, the new cell which is replacing the old cell, is totally dependent on the building materials available within the body at the time of replacement. The quality of this building material determines the quality of the new cell.

If the building materials available are of a poor quality, the new cell will be WEAKER than the cell it is replacing! This is what happens when we eat the Standard American Diet (SAD). Why? Because the SAD is comprised almost totally of DEAD food! DEAD (cooked) food cannot provide the proper building materials with which to build a new, healthy, vital, vibrant, LIVING cell!

If we will simply replace the DEAD plant foods with LIVING plant foods, foods which are still in their natural RAW, LIVING forms, then, because the cells have GOOD building material, the new cell will be EQUAL to the cell it is replacing.

Sadly, most people are on a diet comprised almost totally of the wrong building materials. We call it The Standard American Diet, a DEAD food diet that is loaded with toxins. Thus, physical breakdown (pinging and knocking) progressively gets louder as they go through LIFE!

Maybe it's a little high blood pressure or high triglycerides here. Maybe it's high cholesterol there. Maybe it's a little arthritis or bursitis. Maybe it's hypoglycemia, or acne, or dandruff, or, or, or...! My friend, these physical breakdowns are almost always the result of placing the wrong fuel into our bodies, a predominantly DEAD food diet, loaded with toxins.

When we change the fuel from the basically DEAD, Standard American Diet of this world, to the LIVING plant food based diet with which God designed our physical bodies to be nourished, the body will almost always correct that physical problem! The pinging and knocking will cease, as the body literally rebuilds itself and heals itself, just as God designed. After our body has rebuilt its LIVING CELLS with LIVING FOOD (this takes about a year) and as we continue to consume a basically LIVING FOODS diet.

Juicing a percentage of the vegetables we eat each day, before we place them into our bodies, is the key to the tens-of-thousands of fabulous healing testimonies. When we place these highly concentrated, high quality, incredibly dense nutrients into our body, the body has the building materials needed to produce a cell that is superior to the one it is replacing, as our bodies’ cells die and replace at the rate of approximately 300 million per minute.

As the cells that comprise the immune system and essential organs have the building materials to rebuild stronger cells, the body's own built in, self-healing mechanism, kicks in, seeks out the trouble areas (physical breakdowns), and usually fixes the problem, just as God designed it to do.

For those who do not have a juicer, or for those times when it is impossible to obtain freshly extracted fruit and vegetable juices, whole food supplements is the next best thing in the form of powdered fruit and vegetable juices.

Whole food supplements that we recommend are raw, uncooked, foods that have been compressed into tablet form, poured into capsules or powdered. The word “whole” indicates that the end product — a supplement — does not contain parts of foods, or synthetic or isolated vitamins.

Juice Plus+®, our whole food supplement of choice is the single most important food item Di and I consume each and every day.

What we have learned over the last two decades is being presented to you in this website.

We hope you enjoy the website as much as we do writing it.

To your health.

Dean and Di Cantwell

Source: Biblical Nutrition 101 - Hallelujah Acres Diet

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