Learn how to lose weight on the Hallelujah Diet with the diet tips in this video. Expert: Carolyn DeanVideo transcript: Hello, my name is Carolyn Dean, drcarolyndean. com. I’m a medical doctor and a naturopathic doctor and I live in beautiful Maui. I’ve finished my 22nd health book, I have a free newsletter and I also have an online wellness program that you can join. And today in this series I’ll be talking about dieting. I really like the Hallelujah Diet. It’s more about the mission than the diet that I like. The story behind this raw food diet- and it is 85% raw and 15% cooked. The story behind is that a baptist minister was diagnosed with colon cancer back in the 70′s. Instead of going for chemo and radiation, a friend told him about a raw diet and he began to drink carrot juice and eat everything raw and he cured himself and the cancer was gone on the X-ray. And he encouraged everyone to eat everything raw and one of the people he encouraged was his future wife, who lost about 80 pounds on the diet. So they’re married and together in 1992 they incorporated Hallelujah Acres, which was a small farm and a restaurant and they began to spread the “gospel” of this diet. The reason I love it is because, I grew up a Baptist. Everyone was overweight and most of the service was praying for people in the hospital or having a bypass. And then afterwards they would have their fellowship and eat the donuts and the cakes and everything that I believed was causing their problems. I . . .

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