Sources: The Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health; Diet and Health Report by the National Academy of Sciences; Benefits of Nutritional Supplements by the Council for Responsible Nutrition; Paleolithic Nutrition and Trans Fatty Acids both in the New England Journal of Medicine; and additional sources.

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"I have observed that diet and lifestyle are the most important factors in promoting health and preventing disease. Yet many Americans eat and drink their way into sickness and premature death."
- Louis Sullivan, M.D., Secretary of Health & Human Services, 1992.

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1. DRINK PURE WATER

Drink bottled or filtered water. Avoid tap water, which contains chlorine (which hardens the arteries), viruses, and sometimes bacteria, heavy metals (aluminum, etc.) and environmental pollutants.

2. EAT REAL FOODS

Eat real foods, fresh foods, uncontaminated foods, which have not been retexturized or modified by enzymes or heating. Examples include retexturized chicken nuggets, high fructose corn syrup, and margarine. Read labels carefully.

Eat 5 or more servings of fruits and vegetables daily, especially green and yellow vegetables and citrus fruits. Many contain high amounts of vitamin C, carotene, and fiber. Fruits and vegetables reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, diverticulosis, hypertension, and gallstones. Soluble fiber reduces blood cholesterol and glucose levels. Starches improve irregular blood sugar and diabetes. Vitamin C prevents stomach cancer. And carotenoids reduce several cancers (lung, skin, breast, bladder, esophagus, pancreas, and colon).

3. AVOID ADDITIVES

Humans evolved as hunter-gatherers who took their food directly from Nature. Today however, artificial fertilizers, animal feed, and soil erosion contribute to trace mineral deficiencies, and increased antibiotics and hormones in foods. Pesticides and herbicides are associated with cancer. Processing, freezing, canning and drying destroy vitamins, and add harmful preservatives, dyes, waxes, stabilizers, etc., which contribute to allergies and degenerative diseases.

4. AVOID STIMULANTS

Gradually reduce all stimulants until you consume none. Stimulants such as coffee, tea, colas, salt, alcohol, cigarettes, and social drugs cause your body to release adrenalin or insulin; blood sugar then rises and crashes in a roller-coaster fashion to create hypoglycemia or diabetes, adrenal exhaustion, and malnutrition. Coffee is associated with higher blood cholesterol, and breast cysts in women. Colas contain high phosphorus, which unbalances calcium metabolism, and can contribute to osteoporosis. Salt is associated with high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke-related deaths, gastritis and gastric cancer (limit = 6 g/day). Sugar is associated with diabetes, hypoglycemia, obesity, high triglycerides, and dental carries. Alcohol is associated with high blood pressure, heart disease, liver disease, cancer, osteoporosis, birth defects, accidental deaths, and suicide. Pregnant women should avoid alcohol completely. Cigarettes are associated with lung and bladder cancer, and premature aging. Social drugs are associated with brain damage and birth defects.

5. TIME MEALS EARLY

Eat most of your calories in the early part of the day, and fewer calories in the later part of the day and at night. This will help control your weight. Research has shown that early eaters lose weight, while late eaters gain weight (on identical diets with matched controls).

6. COMBINE FOODS CAREFULLY

Separate your foods. Eat your proteins first, then vegetables, then your starches last. Proteins are first digested in the acid stomach at pH 1-4, then in the intestine. Fats and carbohydrates are digested in the alkaline intestine at pH 6-9. If you mix these together, foods will not digest properly. Then bacteria will ferment the sugars, and putrefy the proteins, causing gas and bloating, and sometimes nausea and cramps.

7. PAMPER DIGESTION & FLORA

Avoid foods you can not digest, such as milk lactose, wheat gluten, certain sugars or fats. They can cause: local allergies in the gut, damage to the celia, and intestinal permeability ("Leaky Gut Syndrome").

Make sure you have a good flora in your gut. Culture with beneficial bacteria: lactobacillus, acidophilus, bifidus, etc. Exterminate parasites, bad bacteria, virus, and yeast overgrowth. Bad flora can cause gas, bloating, cramps, diarrhea, and foul smells.

8. AVOID ALLERGIC FOODS

There are both immediate and delayed allergies. They cause many chronic unexplained symptoms, autoimmune conditions, and degenerative diseases. Most people have some allergies, usually hidden. Find out which allergies you have -- and avoid them. Find out your blood type, and eat the diet for your Biotype.

9. DETOXIFY LIVER & MAINTAIN pH

If you eat too much junk food or allergic foods, you will put stress on your liver, cause immune reactions, and increase the acidity of your blood, liver & tissues. This can cause nausea, headache, etc. To alkalinize eat potassium and sodium rich foods like squash, fruits and vegetables.

10. MAXIMIZE NUTRIENTS

Eat a varied diet to maximize nutrient intake. Take a good multi-vitamin-mineral every day for insurance (2-6 / day). This means one that is hypoallergenic, is high potency, has minerals bound to organic acids (citrate, malate, aspartate, picolinate). If you have metabolic defects, you will also need pre-metabolized vitamins.

Nutrients are the basis for the function, building blocks and fuel in every cell. Most diets do not provide the Recommended Dietary Allowance of nutrients. In addition, many factors increase nutrient needs. These include: dieting, alcohol, coffee, sugar, junk foods, drugs, smoking, stress, poor digestion, allergies, chronic disease, surgery, injury, medication, pregnancy, nursing, rapid growth, old age, pollution, and soil deficiencies. In addition, everyone inherits unique nutrient needs.

Nutrient deficiencies can lead to the following disorders: mood swings, poor concentration and memory, cardiovascular disease, cancer, osteoporosis, arthritis, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, liver and gall bladder disease, diabetes, hypoglycemia, glandular disorders, poor immunity, poor wound healing, chronic fatigue, dermatitis, PMS, and infertility. And in children and teenagers: birth defects, poor growth, eating disorders, acne, hyperactivity, mood swings, and learning disorders.

11. MANAGE CALORIES & WEIGHT

Maintain your weight by controlling calories and fat intake. Never eat more calories than you need. Women should eat about 2000 Calories daily, men about 2700 Calories daily to maintain weight. Avoid excess Calories. Obesity (more than 20% overweight) is associated with high blood cholesterol and blood sugar, diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, gall bladder disease, endometrial cancer, osteoarthritis, and postmenopausal breast cancer. Diet sensibly. Avoid frequent fluctuations in body weight; this alters the metabolism to run on fewer calories. Avoid extreme or restrictive diets; they are dangerous. Extreme leanness is associated with malnutrition and increased mortality. Anthropologists have found that blood type A's have traditionally eaten a little more fat, B's more carbohydrates, and O's more protein.

12. EAT 20% - 30% PROTEINS

Eat 20% of your calories as protein (minimum 50-60 grams/day). Eat natural lightly-cooked proteins: meats, poultry, seafood, some eggs, soya, grain-bean combinations, or dairy products for those who are not allergic. Avoid highly processed or overcooked proteins, because this causes the proteins to be denatured, lowering their bio-availability.

13. EAT 45% - 60% CARBOHYDRATES

Eat 45% - 60% of your calories as carbohydrates, from the starches and sugars below.

STARCHES: Eat several servings of starches daily: yams, beans, vegetables, whole grains or cereals (wheat, barley, rye, rice, oats, corn). Avoid white bread, white rice, white noodles, cakes, pastries, cookies, and donuts. They have been refined, and lead to vitamin and trace-mineral deficiencies. "Enriched flour" means that 30 nutrients have been removed, and nine replaced!

SUGARS: Eat natural fruits, honey, or maple syrup. Strictly limit intake of processed sugar, corn syrup, cakes, pastries, cookies, donuts, candy and candy bars. Sugar leads to B-vitamin and trace-mineral deficiencies. In addition, it is associated with hypoglycemia, diabetes, chronic fatigue syndrome, obesity, high triglycerides, heart disease, and dental carries. Saccharin may contribute to cancer. Excess aspartame ("Nutri-Sweet") is associated with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and may not be taken by persons with phenylketonuria.

14. EAT 20% - 30% FATS

Limit total fats to 30% of your calories. Eat natural fats, such as: cold-pressed unsaturated vegetable oils, nuts, seeds, avocado, some butter, and limited animal fats (eggs, meat fat). High total fat in the diet is associated with obesity, gallbladder disease, and cancer (colon, prostate, and breast). Dietary unsaturated fatty acids are associated with low blood cholesterol (& low LDL), hence less heart disease.

SATURATED FATS: Avoid shortening, coconut, chocolate, fried foods, and most dairy products, which are high in saturated fats. Limit to 10% of calories. High dietary saturated fats are associated with high blood cholesterol (& high LDL), hence atherosclerosis and heart disease.

CHOLESTEROL: Limit ice cream, milk, cream, butter, cheese, pizza, egg and meat fat, which are high in cholesterol and saturated fats. Excess dietary cholesterol may be associated with atherosclerosis and heart disease. However, a certain amount of cholesterol is needed to make adrenal and sex hormones, vitamin D, bile acids, and nerve insulation. If you don't eat enough, your liver will manufacture it.

TRANS FATTY ACIDS: Avoid margarine, hydrogenated vegetable oils and shortening, which are high in trans fatty acids. Dietary trans fatty acids are produced by hydrogenation or hardening of oils, are unnatural, and are associated with atherosclerosis and heart disease.

 

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"Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food."
- Hippocrates, "The Father of Western Medicine," 460 BC.

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Proper Food Combinations

DIGESTION

Proteins are first digested in the acid stomach at pH 1-4, then in the intestine. Fats and carbohydrates are digested in the alkaline intestine at pH 6-9. If you mix these together, foods will not digest properly. Then bacteria will ferment the sugars, and putrify the proteins, causing gas and bloating, and sometimes nausea and cramps.