I went to work at the Golden Carrot in 1999 just to study

for one year under Delores and Jesse Marler because they are licensed Naturopathic Doctors. They don’t ‘advertise’ that..because the medical field looks down on that type of thing..and they have lived in fear for years they would be shut down.

The medical field looks down on it..beCAUSE..if a person finds they can heal their bodies by doing a simple diet change for pennies and possibly juice and add some exercise and deep breathing, why in the world would they go to a doctor and spend thousands. :-/ People can say all they want to say about healing the body naturally..but when you’ve seen it happen in miraculous case after case, and especially if you’re as strong willed as “I” am..you believe what you ‘see’..NOT what you ‘hear’.
My first day at Golden Carrot, I had 3 customers right after the store opened. And they were all in there to buy books, videos, just different things pertaining to the Hallelujah Acres program. I liked the name right off the bat, HALLELUJAH ACRES, but had never heard of it. They all 3 explained to me how it works and the miracles it had brought about it their own lives and the lives of family members. 
So that day, on my first day of work I SPENT $80 and Delores had given me a huge discount for buying so much and I took home the books and videos. I spend late nights devouring the books and Billy watched the videos with me. It sounded too good to be true..people healing their bodies of terminal cancer, of heart disease and arthritis, fibromyalgia, etc with simple things like carrot/spinach juice…WHAT?????
WE have been taught if we have cancer..we have to have Chemo and or radiation! And in spite of dealing with the cancer, we then are supposed to deal with the effects of toxins the doctors are voluntarily putting into our bodies. :-/ Why didn’t someone tell us about carrots and spinach…they’re much healthier…much more healing if taken into the body in the right way…and SO SO SO CHEAP!!!
We watched the videos and I read and studied the books, highlighting and making notes in the margins as I went along and I told Billy I’d like us to go on the program for a month and see what happened. He agreed we could do it…he wasn’t elated…but willing..so we were off on our miraculous healing journey..
I took out all the sugar, salt, white flour from our diet…the meat (that was the hardest part)…and we lived on raw foods…we juiced the veggies like the book said (we already had a juicer and had had it for years. We snacked on seeds, nuts, a little fruit. It was fun at first…kind of like living in a nice cave. 🙂  Aaaaahhh life in Round Knob Canyon…caveman style!!!
Within days we noticed more energy, much clearer thinking, and then I realized I was leaving the house without my glasses all the time…which I wear when I’m driving. I’d be almost to town and realize I could see so clearly I had forgotten my glasses..I was amazed.
But then after about 3 weeks, Billy said…”You know…we see this is a good thing…but we’re not battling any diseases or health issues and I’d really like to have my steak and ice cream back.” So after 3 weeks we went back to our regular diet..the SAD diet, which stands for Standard American Diet.
We immediately…I mean the first day…noticed a slump in our energy…my eyes got blurry within a couple of days again…we just went back to feeling the way most people feel every day…hyper but tired…foggy thinking…had to wear our glasses, etc. So I was sold on the program 100% and began teaching others about it at Golden Carrot…I was a missionary on a mission.
Delores wasn’t really thrilled about that…because she was there to sell ‘supplements’…but I was doing what I believed in and I wasn’t there to get rich!


When I first started at G. Carrot…Delores would have me guess the ages of some of her oldest customers. And they all looked so good, I’d guess 65 or 70 or even younger and they always turned out to be 80 or 85…some beyond that. I called them my ‘cartoon people’…because they all had the rosiest cheeks and were so alert…but they were all on this carrot juicing program. One lady, when I guessed her at about 68-70…turned out to be 86 and proceeded to lay down in the floor right in front of the register and do the
‘bicycle’. She was an aerobics instructor at a senior citizens assisted living….and she was EIGHTY SIX!!! But these people juiced carrots like their life depended on it….they didn’t come in and buy a little bag of carrots…they always bought the 25 pound bag.

Because I had studied for years before even going there…Delores immediately put me on the floor to advise and help customers. We would even often take them into the office for private consultations if they had serious health issues and even work with them and follow up, etc.

One day I answered the phone and it was a preacher from Wingo, Ky. He said he had suffered from acid reflux for 2 years and couldn’t sleep laying down and he had been to several doctors and got no help and he was just hoping we might have something to help him. I told him about the Hallelujah Acres program and what causes reflux, etc…and spent about 40 minutes on the phone with him that day. I was so enthusiastic…he said he’d try whatever I suggested…which was immediate diet change..starting right that minute.  I told him exactly what to eat and do for the next week.
As he was hanging up…he said if that didn’t work…he’d come in the next week to try supplements.
When I got off the phone, Delores chewed me out royally…said she couldn’t keep the store open selling ‘carrots’ and we had supplements that would help that man….(supplements would be a band aid…not a cure).
But I knew what I told the man was right & I wasn’t budging and wasn’t worried about my job or anything else..I was there to help and if we didn’t ‘click’ I could go home. The preacher had called on Friday morning….so on Tuesday..I was working in the back of the store and heard this big booming voice say, “I’m looking for Kay Comer”…I gasped and ran to the front of the store because I thought it was a police officer and something had happened to someone in the family. When I got to the front and said I was Kay…he started for me and said, “Honey, I drove all the way from Wingo just to give you a hug…I’ve just slept laying down the last 4 nights and that hasn’t happened in 2 years. We talked a bit and he said he’d be sending others in to talk to me.

Our kids have all been raised with this stuff. One day Kim had a girlfriend over and we were having Brussel Sprouts…and Heather didn’t ‘like’ brussel sprouts….so Kim said, “They prevent breast cancer!” So Heather said, “Ok, I’ll take one!” She took one and ate it…made a face then said, “Wait…I have 2 breasts…maybe I’d better eat TWO!” 🙂  Kim ‘still’ to this day..will call me and say “Mom…So and So is suffering from so and so and I told them to call you” 
One night my sister called and they had been at the Carbondale Mall and she had run into a woman in the women’s restroom and this woman had a medical problem she couldn’t find help with and shared her story with Sue and I can’t remember now what it was…but my sister told her she thought “I” could help her and gave her my phone number…so Sue called when they got home to tell me this woman may be calling and sure enough..the next morning..the woman called…

Raw foods are what we need in quantity…Our diets need to be 80% raw…and ‘we’ don’t do it that way either. But that’s best for good health. Raw foods are live foods…cooked foods are dead foods. To prove that…take a carrot out of the frig and plant it in potting soil…after a bit…that carrot will sprout if watered lightly. Now take a carrot out of a can..that’s been cooked and plant ‘it’ in potting soil…that carrot’s going to lay in there and rott.
That’s what happens in our tummies. Raw foods have enzymes and help us digest ‘all’ other foods.

Now SEE??? There is no stopping place with this subject…I could talk or write for DAYS!!!

But if you want to be healthy…back off on sugar, salt, white flour, meats….eat more salads..invest in a juicer and we have a Champion Juicer (about $220 at G. Carrot)…take time to be outdoors at least 15 minutes a day…breathe deeply…and into the tummy……..most people breathe wrong…they lift their shoulders when they breathe…and we need to be breathing deep into our tummies and then breathing out.

Next week we’ll be back on track with a different subject each day and we’ll be talking about all kinds of things….I hope you’ll check back….

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