THE PERFECT DIET

An inspiration

[ THIS IS A HEALTH.IT ... NOT A

DI.ET]

GAIN BETTER HEALTH

"Arthritis is a symptom, not a

disease"
"Cholesterol is a symptom, not a
disease"
by Kevin Trudeau

page offered by Dee Finney

1-10-2001
Food Combining Chart added 1-12-2001
Excellent Health Products added 6-8-08

DISCLAIMER

I am not a doctor
I am not a nutritionist
I am not a diagnostician

This page is not meant to cure you of a specific disease

... but to educate you to possibilities ...

If you are ill, please see a physician!

If you are diabetic, print out this page and discuss it

with your doctor!

Just so you know, There is no such thing as a perfect

diet.
There is no single diet that is "best" for all.
Diet and health are not "one size fits all" approaches.
Diet should serve the individual.
You should not be a slave to dietary dogma.
Your health is more important than dogma!

"The wheels of the Gods move slowly but surely."

"It takes from two to three years to reach the high point of
internal perfection"
.

1-1-2000 - VISION -

I was going to take a nap and was laying in

bed thinking about a little book I found at a
rummage sale that promised to cure Arthritis
and Rheumatism.

I have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and have

had it since an epidemic of Eppstein Barr hit
the West Coast in 1985. I was nearly
paralyzed for 3 months, so am grateful to be
alive even though in pain most of the time. In
the last two months we gave up red meat in
our diet because we had to cut down on
cholesterol, but then I started to have painful
knocking sensations of the bones in my knees
even though my muscle pain was less. A big
red light came on in my head. Something
more serious was happening. I don't want to
take pills either. I hate pills.

I was thinking about all this, and I decided I

would do a diet page on the internet and do
some research and publish a little paper about
a cure for Arthritis and Rheumatism pain from
this little book I picked up at a rummage sale
last year.

I suddenly had a vision of being at the

computer and the page in front of me was
done I thought. I took the mouse to save the
page. Suddenly in front of me appeared a blue
book with the pictures of Harvey and Marilyn
Diamond and I stepped on the book to stop it
from getting away from me. The book flipped
over and on the back, the first sentence was ,
"Share it with your neighbors!"

After I got up, I went to my bookcase to find

my books by Harvey and Marilyn Diamond,
and found dozens of other books, all on the
similar topics of gaining health by diet. I'm
going to share the names of these with you. I
read some of these books when I got them,
tried some of the diets for a few days, but
wasn't motivated enough to give up my potato
chips, ice cream and chocolate. And, of
course, we all like chili, hamburgers, french
fries and other great fattening foods.

I know now that this has to stop. The pain in

my knees shows me that I'll end up in a
wheelchair if I don't change. I'm going to go
through this in front of the world. The world
will be my witness.

The book I found at the rummage sale is the

key to this diet. I'm going to share it with you
below. I hope this page will help someone else
too.
Don't give up before you start because there
is a LOT of information. Just start with one
thing at a time. Do a day at a time. They say
it takes two years to make all these changes.
I'm doing them too. If we can help each other
do this, write to me at Dee777@aol.com

Note from a reader:

In 1999 i learned that if your body is not toxic,

no virus will grow in it.

War prisoners in Japanese POW camps were

subjected to multiple doses of very toxic
germs. But very few of them came down with
anything. Why? Because they were almost
starving and had lost any toxins due their
almost fasting states. Kind of funny. The
results the Japanese were attempting to
achieve were ruined because of how they
treated their intended victims.

I know this from one first hand guy. My father-

in-law was one of those POWs.

Now look at us today. The average American

is full of toxins and is just ripe for the kill. And
the powers that be are more than willing to do
the killing.
I knew that if you have cancer you had better
detoxify. Now it may be a matter of life and
death soon for many.

I have changed my diet drastically. No longer

any coffee or tea. Forget any carbonated
drink. The beer is gone and even the wine. I
try to drink Kagen water most of the time
maybe with a squeezed lemon therein. I am
off all dairy. Wow dairy sure clogs up your
system and causes allergies and the retention
of toxins in my body. Now it is no added sugar
except for a little honey and maple syrup.

I am not saying my body is toxic free. But

maybe i will get to where a virus does not
come along and kill me. The more toxic you
are the more susceptable you are.

Clint
.

THE DO NOT EAT LIST !!!!

Do not purchase irradiated fresh foods!

Why would you want food that is treated with nuclear
waste?

..

preserve marmala
white sugar jam jelly
s de

ice cream sherberts jello cake candy

chewing
Cookies soft drinks pies pastries
gum

tapioca fruit juice fruit in sugar

catsup mustard
pudding w/sugar syrup

Worcesters green salted potato salted

pickles
hire sauce olives chips nuts

salted white pearled

Pretzels sauerkraut
crackers rice barley

other dry saturate hydrogen

cornflakes fried foods
cereals d fats ated oils

brewers vinegar
 yeast

oleo/marger coffee/includ
alcoholic
cottonseed ine ing tea with
beverage
oil check the decaffeinate cafeine
s
labels d

peanut fresh pork or

smoked smoked
butter with tobacco pork
fish meats
salt products

any product
ham, bacon, with sodium
lunch meat salami balogna
sausage nitrate or
nitrite

corned beef pastrami biscuits, chicken canned

buns, gravy, injected soups
noodles, with with
dumplings, drugs white
spaghetti, flour, or
pizza pie, starch
ravoli, sago,
pies,
pastries,
cakes,
cookies,
prepared
puddings,
ready mix
bakery
 products

wheat
flour
that is
white flour mixed
products, with
benzoate of cream of bleached or anything
hot dogs
soda tartar unbleached else - it
wheat flour must be
products only
whole
wheat
flour

do not
take self-
prescribe
d drugs
self
day old pre-mixed warmed over over the
-druggin
vegetables salads potatoes counter.
g
If you
are ill, go
to a
doctor.

citrus
beef milk after
dried fruits foods
injected being
with sulphur that are
with drugs weaned as
dioxide not fully
of any kind an infant
ripe
The Greatest Threat to Your Health is Processed Foods.
If you can't pronounce the additives, you shouldn't eat
them either!
If you want a to have a living body, eat only living foods!

FRUIT IS THE ONLY FOOD THAT WILL GIVE YOU ENERGY

WITHOUT TAKING ENERGY

Human Fuel is built from carbohydrates.

Meat has virtually no carbohydrates.
Fats may supply energy but only after they go through a
longer
and less efficient digestive process and your energy
reserves are depleted
by lack of sugar, fruits, ice cream, cake, donuts, soda pop,
etc.
The body always uses the free and easy fuel first.
So the fat deposits get put on the hips until needed by the
body at a later time.
Oops! Did we say 'diet'... Ack!!!!

FAST FOOD FACTS

ORGANIC GRASS FED BEEF VS OTHER FOOD MEAT

ANIMALS

MYSTERY FAT LADY PAGE

I remember these days so well. :-(

OTHER DON'TS!!!!!

Do not eat a heavy breakfast

Do not eat meat every day

Do not eat more than one kind of protein in the same

meal

Eat fruit at the beginning of a meal, not at the end

Do not eat acid fruit in the same meal as protein

Do not eat fats with proteins

Do not eat sugar in the same meal with protein

Do not eat sweet fruits in the same meal with protein

Do not eat bread, potatoes, pie, stuffing with protein

i.e. no meat sandwiches .Eat fruits, preferably alone
especially bananas
Cholesterol!
The Body Makes It's Own! You Don't Need to Eat Any!
High Fat Protein Causes Gallstones, Gout, Arthritis,
Diabetes, Heart Disease, Strokes
and other maladies of the body!

Would you eat a dead puppy? Then don't eat a dead baby
cow - Veal!
This is one of the most inhumane things we do to animals
to eat them!

Proteins are built from Amino Acids - From Plant Life!

Ever see an elephant eat a cow at a Fast Food Restauant?

Did you know that people in America eat over 33 million

cows a year?
People are starving in India but they don't eat their
cows... hmmmm!!!!

Cow milk is for Baby Cows!

All dairy products except butter are acid-forming. Butter is

a fat and therefore neutral.
Osteoporosis!
What is the cause of Osteoporosis?
Tobacco, Alcohol, Caffeine, Soft Drinks, Table Salt,
Antacids, Insufficient Excercise,
Lack of Sunshine, Dairy Products, Eating meat!
The more protein you consume, the more calcium you
lose!
Calcium supplements! A warning!
Calcium that isn't in your bones go into the blood vessels
along with excess cholesterol,
skin, eyes, joints and internal organs.
It forms cataracts!
It forms kidney stones!
It causes wrinkling of the skin.
It causes arthritis deposits!

CAFFEINE FAQS

Caffeine is not listed as a drug, but is

addictive. Whether you get it in coffee, teas,
or soft drinks, it has withdrawal symptoms
like a drug. It induces both psychological and
physical dependence like a drug. Caffeine is a
stimulant to the central nervous system like
cocaine. Caffeine causes increased heart rate,
increased blood pressure, birth defects,
diabetes, kidney failure, gastric ulcers, cancer
of the pancreas, ringing in the ears, trembling
of muscles, restlessness, disturbed sleep, and
gastrointestinal irritation. It upsets the blood
sugar level, and forces the pancreas to
secrete insulin.
 Decaffeinated coffee? The process uses highly
caustic chemicals which are solvents to
permeate the bean which you then ingest.

It takes 24 hours for one cup of coffee to pass

through the kidneys and urinary tract. (For
those who drink 7 or 8 or more cups a day,
you might want to invest in your own dialysis
machine ... or at least invest in the company
which makes them.)

Coffee is also acid forming.

WHY DO WE WORRY WHETHER A FOOD IS ACID

FORMING?

The body has a PH balance ... just like you

have to balance the water in your fish tank or
your fish die. Anyone whoever had a fish tank
knows that the water has to be kept at 7 PH.
or you lose your fish.

0 PH is absolute acid - 14 PH is absolute

alkaline - 7 PH is neutral

The blood in the body is actually 7.35 to 7.40

PH.
 Coffee and tea are pure acid. So, the body
retains water in the body to counteract the
acidity ... which makes you gain weight.

Soda drinks are sweet with sugar or even

worse with the chemicals that taste like fake
sugar. Sodas contain phosphoric acid, malic
acid, carbonic acid, and erythorbic acid. Not to
mention that a lot of sodas have caffeine.

White sugar ferments in the body and form

acetic acid, carbonic acid and alcohol.

The key to good health is to keep the body PH

at neutral or as close as possible.

CALCIUM

Meat actually causes calcium loss from the body

Caffeine causes calcium loss from the body
Alcohol inhibits calcium absorption
Boron causes calcium loss from the body

CALCIUM IN FOODS
(content in milligrams)

1200 mg RDA needed

Grains
Brown rice (1 cup,
20
cooked)

Corn bread (1 2-oz.

133
piece)

Corn tortilla 42

English muffin 92

Pita bread (1 piece) 18

Wheat bread (1 slice) 18

Wheat flour, all-purpose

22
(1 cup)

Wheat flour, Pillsbury’s

238
Best (1 cup)

Whole wheat flour (1

40
cup)

Fruits

Apple (1 medium) 10

Banana (1 medium) 7

Dried figs (10 figs; 187 269

grams)

Naval orange (1 medium) 56

Orange juice, calcium-

300*
fortified (8 oz.)

Pear (1 medium) 19

Raisins (2/3 cup) 53

Vegetables

Broccoli (1 cup, boiled,

94
frozen)

Brussels sprouts (1 cup,

56
boiled, 8 sprouts)

Butternut squash (1 cup,

84
boiled)

Carrots (2 medium, raw) 38

Cauliflower (1 cup,
34
boiled)

Celery (1 cup, boiled) 64

Collards (1 cup, boiled, 357

frozen)

Kale (1 cup, boiled) 94

Onions (1 cup, boiled) 46

Potato (1 medium,
20
baked)

Romaine lettuce (1 cup) 20

spinach - not a good

source as it binds with
oxalic acid and prevents
absorption

bok choy 158

mustard greens 152

lambsquarters 309

green amaranth 267

turnip greens 249

Sweet potato (1 cup,

70
boiled)

Legumes
Black turtle beans (1
103
cup, boiled)

Chick peas (1 cup,

78
canned)

Great Northern beans (1

121
cup, boiled)

Green beans (1 cup,

58
boiled)

Green peas (1 cup,

44
boiled)

Kidney beans (1 cup,

50
boiled)

Lentils (1 cup, boiled) 37

Lima beans (1 cup,

32
boiled)

Navy beans (1 cup,

128
boiled)

Pinto beans (1 cup,

82
boiled)

Soybeans (1 cup, boiled) 175

soy milk 80

Tofu (1/2 cup, raw, firm) 258

Vegetarian baked beans

128
(1 cup)

Wax beans (1 cup,

174
canned)

1404
1 cup raw sesame seeds
mg

All raw nuts

20 - 25 almonds 70 mg

White beans (1 cup,

161
boiled)

3 3/4 ounce can of 300+

sardines mg

168
kelp seaweed
mg

200 -
1 cup oysters - 299
mg
 100 -
3 oz salmon with bones 199
mg

3 ounces of shrimp, crab 100

meat, or clams mg

Several acids present in food can contribute to

lower calcium absorption. Oxalic acid in the
digestive tract combines with calcium to form
an insoluble compound, calcium oxalate, so
the calcium cannot be absorbed. Oxalic acid is
present in appreciable amounts in rhubarb,
spinach, chard and beet greens. A high intake
of protein causes a greater amount of calcium
to be absorbed than with a low intake of
protein. The percentage goes down if they are
cooked in a small amount of water for a short
time and drained. More water and longer
cooking further reduce the calcium content.
Saving the water for cabbage soup or some
other inventive dish would be a good idea if
the calcium is leached into the water.

VITAMIN AND MINERAL SUPPLEMENTS

 All the nutrients you need can be obtained
from the plant kingdom!
Pharmaceutical Laboratories or dead animals
are not better sources for nutrients
than your own garden or a local farmer!
Next best source is the produce department of
your grocery store!

THE REASONS WHY WE NEED TO CHANGE THE WAY WE

EAT

DIGESTION

The saliva in the mouth may or may not have

ptyalin (to digest starch)

The stomach may or may not produce gastric

juices to digest protein, fats, non-starch
vegetables, protein fats, and protein starch
foods. Each digestive juice is sent to the
stomach at precise times after you swallow
the food.

Pepsin is poured into the stomach to digest

flesh foods in the first hour.

Bread is digested in the third hour of

digestion.

Milk is digested last.

Acid fruit inhibits the flow of protein

digestives.

Different proteins eaten at the same time

confuse the glands as to when to send the
proper digestive juices.

Fat inhibits the flow of proetin digestives.

Sugar inhibits the flow of protein digestives.

Sweet fruit inhibit the flow of protein

digestives.

Protein digestives stop the digestion of

starch.

Fruits are digested in the small intestine, not

in the stomach, but they can't get there if you
eat protein first. So the fruit ferments and
becomes alcohol.

Vinegar is not a food. That includes all

vinegar, whether apple, wine, cider, or
balsamic. It stops all digestion. Substitute
lemon, tomato, or grapefruit juice.
Brewer's Yeast! Harvey and Marilyn Diamond
say that the best time to eat Brewer's Yeast is
right after the sun turns to ice! (page 303 of
'Living Health')

If you eat more food after a big meal, you just

add to the problem of digestion.

The digestion time of various foods is

determined by how easy they are to digest
and assimilate in the body. Foods that take
less time do not require a lot of work and
energy to digest.

Digesting Time for Some Common Foods

Green Vegetables (non-starch) - 5 hours Raw
Juices-15 minutes

Fat-12 hours Protein (meat)-12 hours

Protein (starch)-12 hours Protein (fat)-12

hours

Starch-5 hours Mild Starch-5 hours

Fruit, Sweet/Dried-3 hours Fruit (Acid)-2 hours

Fruit (Sub-Acid)-2 hours Fruit, Sweet/Fresh-3

hours
 Melon-2 hours Syrup, Sugar-2 hours

Milk-12 hours

WHAT TO DO AND NOT DO

Always eat sitting down at the table

If not entirely comfortable in mind and body from the

previous mealtime, you should skip the next meal.

Do not eat unless you have a keen desire for the plainest
food.

Do not eat beyond your needs.

Be sure to throughly masticate your food.

Skip meals if in pain - emotionally upset - not hungry -

chilled - over heated - or during acute illness.

50 to 75% of the foods eaten should be raw.

Don't eat late at night before bed.

Don't try to change your whole way of eating all at once.

Your willpower will rebel. Make little changes over time.

Adjust your ways of eating gradually, so that the body gets

used to it.

You DON'T need to count calories.

You DON'T need to weigh yourself.

The body knows what it should weigh.

All you have to do is feed it the proper food to do it's job.
"NOT MORE THAN IT NEEDS!"

If your body is already thin, you still need to lose 'WASTE'

THE TRUTH ABOUT SODIUM (NOT TABLE SALT)

Excerpted from: Nutrition Almanac - (2nd

edition) McGraw Hill - 1984 - pg 88

SODIUM

Description:

Sodium is an essential mineral found

predominantly in the extracellular fluids, the
vasular fluids within the blood vessels,
arteries, veins, and capillaries; and the
intestinal fluids surrounding the cells. About
50 percent of the body's sodium is found in
these fluids and the remaining amount is
found within the bones.

Sodium functions with potassium to equalize

the acid-alkali factor in the blood along with
potassium, it helps regulate water balance
within the body; that is, it helps regulate the
distribution of fluids on either side of the
cellw alls. Sodium and potassium are also
involved in muscle contraction and expansion
and in nerve stimulation.

Another imortant function of sodium is

keeping the other blood minerals soluble, so
that they will not build up in deposits in the
bloodstream. It acts with chlorine to improve
blood and lymph health, helps purge carbon
dioxide from the body and aids digestion.
Sodium is also necessary for hydrochloric acid
production in the stomach.

Sodium is found in virtually all foods,

especially sodium chloride, or salt. High
concentrations are contained in seafoods,
poultry, and meat. Kelp is an excellent
supplemental source of sodium.

Absorption and Storage

Sodium is readily absorbed in the small

intestine and the stomach and is carried by
the blood to the kidneys, where it is filtered
out and returned to the blood in amounts
needed to maintain blood level required by
the body. The absorption of sodium requires
energy. Any excess, which usually amounts to
90 to 95 percent of ingested sodium, is
excreted in the urine.

The adrenal hormone aldosterone is an

important regulator of sodium metabloism.
Excessive salt in food interferes with
absorption and utilization, especially in the
case of protein foods. Vomiting, diarrhea, or
excessive perspiration may result in a
depletion of sodium. Sodium supplements to
prevent sodium deficiency may be needed in
such cases. The levels of sodium in the urine
reflect the dietary intake, therefore when
there is a high intake of sodium the rate of
excretion is high, and if the intake is low the
exretion rate is low.

Dosage and Toxicity

There is no established dietary requirement

for sodium, but it is general observed that the
usual intake far exceeds the need. The
average American ingests 3 to 7 grams of
sodium and 6 to 18 grams of sodium chloride
each day. The National Research Council
recommends a daily sodium chloride intake of
1 gram per kilogram of water consumed.
An excess of sodium in the diet may cause
potassium to be lost in the urine. Abnormal
fluid retention accompanied by dizziness and
swelling of such areas as legs and face can
also occur. An intake of 4 to 28 grams of salt
(sodium chloride0 daily is considered
excessive.

Diets containing excessive amounts of sodium

contribute to the increasing incidences of high
blood pressure. The simplest way to reduce
sodium intake is to eliminate the use of table
salt.

Deficiency Effects and Symptoms

Deficiencies are very uncommon because

nearly all foods contain some sodium, with
meats containing especially high amounts. A
sodium deficiency cause intestinal gas, weight
loss, vomiting, and muscle shrinkage. The
converson of carbohydrates into the fat for
digestion is impaired when sodium is absent.
Arthritis, rheumatism, and neuralgia, a sharp
pain along a nerve, may be caused by acids
that accumulate in the absence of sodium.

Beneficial Effect on Ailments

As individual suffering from high blood

pressure is advised to maintain a low-sodium
diet, since sodium may aggravate this
ailment. Resistance to heat cramps and heat
strokes my be increased by moderate sodium
intake. Sodium helps keep calcium in a
solution that is necessary for nerve strength.
Clinical studies indicate that low-sodium diets
are effective in preventing or relieving the
symptoms of toxemia (bacterial poisoning),
edema (swelling), proteinuria (albumin in the
urine), and blurred vision.

Sodium may be beneficial for the following

ailments:

Diarrhea, Adrenal exhaustion, Cystic fibrosis,

Leg cramp, Tooth and gum disorders,
dehydration, fever, polio.

ESTIMATED SAFE RANGES OF SODIUM FOR

HEALTHY PEOPLE

AGE SODIUM AGE SODIUM

0-6 115 - 7 - 10 600- 1800

months 350 mg years mg

6-1 250 - 11 - 18 900 -

year 750 mg years 2700 mg

1-3 325 - 19 - and 1100-

 years 975 mg over 3300 mg

4-6 450-
years 1350 mg

FOODS RICH IN NATURAL SODIUM

pinea caulif sprin

carr
celery pple lower g orang
ots -
- 100 - onio es -
40
mg -10 30 ns - 5 10 mg
mg
mg mg mg

whey whey
tomato Swiss brocc
onio - chee
es chard oli
ns - 137 - se
- 5 - 16 - 313 - 55
5 mg 217 - 137
mg mg mg
mg mg

bruss Savo
red
articho el y rutab
cabb
ke spro cabb aga peas -
age -
- 70 uts - age - 34 5 mg
30
mg 25 - 20 mg
mg
mg mg

swe okra - brow egg waln turnip

et 8 mg n white uts s
almo rice - -3 - 78
nds - - 10 56 mg mg
3 mg mg mg
 whol
white
e egg
rice
-
-2
63
mg
mg

swee
collard yello cucu
t
lenti greens w papa mber
potat
ls - 2 corn ya - 4 s
oes
mg - 17 -8 mg -4
- 17
mg mg mg
mg

skim
milk -
126 Ched
gree mg lima dar
pota
n bean chees
to - raisins
pepp s e
10 - 5 mg milk - 52
ers - (1
mg (8
3 mg mg oz.) =
oz.) 176
=
145

V-8 V-8 Amer

Vege Vegeta ican
tabl ble chee
e juice se
Juice - Low (1 oz.
- 750 Sodiu proce
mg m ssed)
 - 95 =
mg 490

drie
d horse
tamari kohl beec Dand
ches radis
n rabi hnuts elion
tnut h
s

Dani
coconu sh
rye cherv parsl
t bleu
meal il ey
whey chee
se

Norw reque
goat' Swiss
egia fort
s Chees
n chees
milk e
whey e

canne
chic turke mack d
beef
ken - duck - y - erel - salmo
- 57
63 89 mg 48 56 n-
mg
mg mg mg 270
mg

Pork Bacon Ham, canne

loin (3 roast d
(3.5 pieces, ed tuna -
oz) or 1/2 (3.5 250
 oz.) =
= 59 oz) =
303 mg
mg 1500
mg

TABLE SALT

Salt is sodium chloride. About 40 percent of

salt is sodium and 60 percent chloride.

One level teaspoon of salt = 5.5 g = 2,132 mg

of sodium.

Soy sauce (1 tbs.) = 920 mg

Note: if you have cooked or sprinkled any of

the above unsalted food with salt add:

50 mg sodium for a light sprinkle of salt per

food
100 mg sodium for a heavy sprinkle of salt per
food
500 mg sodium for 1/4 scant tsp salt added in
cooking

Sodium is also found in many other

ingredients used in food processing.
Examples of sodium-containing ingredients
and their uses in foods are:

Baking powder--leavening agent

Baking soda--leavening agent
Monosodium glutamate--flavor enhancer
Sodium benzoate--preservative
Sodium caseinate--thickener and binder
Sodium citrate--butter, used to control acidity
in soft drinks and fruit drinks
Sodium nitrite--curing agent in meat, provides
color, prevents botulism (a food poisoning)
Sodium phosphate--emulsifier, stabilizer,
buffer
Sodium propionate--mold inhibitor
Sodium saccharin--artificial sweetener

WHY IS POTASSIUM IMPORTANT?

Potassium is necessary for many body

functions. Every time we use a muscle, that
muscle needs potassium to make it move.
Without potassium, the heart muscle couldn't
beat! Potassium is also needed to help
regulate blood pressure. Loss of potassium
can increase your risk for heart
disease.Potassium is abundant in both plant
and animal products, but processing often
adds sodium and removes potassium. Eating
lots of convenience foods and other processed
foods can leave you short in potassium.

Sodium Facts on Other Foods Not Listed

Above

Whole Health Food Information

.

IRON DEFICIENT?

If you have a lack of energy, go to the doctor

and have your blood tested and especially
check the level of red blood cells you have in
your body. If your red blood cells are low
normal that is why you have a lack of energy.
If your red blood cells are below normal, your
doctor will probably prescribe iron tablets for
you.

You may also want to eat foods that have iron

in them.

If you have a high cholesterol problem, you

may want to choose from the second list
below, rather than the animal foods. Same
thing if you are a vegetarian.

IRON RICH FOODS CONTAINING HEME IRON

EXCELLE
NT GOOD SOURCES
SOURCES

CLAMS BEEF

PORK
SHRIMP
LIVER
 OYSTERS SARDINES

CHICKEN
TURKEY
LIVER

MUSSELS

BEEF
LIVER

IRON RICH FOODS CONTAINING NON HEME

IRON

GOOD
EXCELLENT SOURCES
SOURCES

ENRICHED BREAKFAST CANNED

CEREALS BEANS

BACKED
COOKED BEANS AND POTATO
LENTILS WITH
SKIN

ENRICHED
PUMPKIN SEEDS
PASTA

CANNED
BLACKSTRAP MOLASSES ASPARAG
US
WHAT ABOUT AGE?

Excerpt from: Overcoming Arthritis and

Rheumatism by Dr. Bernard Jensen D.C. (year
unknown)

The average person has an idea and many

doctors have so told patients, that they have
rheumatism and arthritis - and that it is
inevitable - because they are growing old.
When the joints get stiff and hard, when they
become painful or immovable, when an X-Ray
shows a lipping or a calcium deposit - spurs -
on the joints of the spine or elsewhere, many
have the idea that it is a "natural process"
that develops as we grow older. Many time i
hvae heard a patient say, "Doctor has told me
that my stiffness is just a natural consequence
and it is due to the fact that I am just getting
old."

This is the one thing that this kind of work can

promise you. This is the thing that can come
to you through right living. This work can help
you to be a better person - - it is worth getting
acquainted with.
Yes! it's a matter of a chemical change. It's
not a part of age. There are some people who
think that age goes along with this hardening
of the tissues. I realize that as we get older,
it's easier to lose control of the chemical
balance; our circulation is not as good, it's a
little slower. That's not a disease, but we have
to readjust our habits as we grow older.

Besides all the strain of life and living, most

persons are the victims of devitalized foods
which are acid-producing and require alkaline
elements to neutralize them. The waste acids
produced in the body are irritating to the
tissues and so seriously intefere with proper
functioning that the digestive juices may no
longer have the proper consistency and the
acid-alkaline balance "may be disturbed". The
alkaline element most heavily drawn upon to
neutralize these acids is Sodium.

Not all problems of digestion are because of

the food eaten, but because of mental strain
while eating - jealousy, hate, worry, fretting,
stewing, resentment, can also add more to
our production of mental acids, along with an
upset chemical balance than anything else.
These types of things use up all of the soft
chemical block structure of the bloodstream,
namely, the chemical element called Sodium.

Each organ of the body needs it's own balance

of chemicals which can only be given to it by
good digestion of good foods.

Whenever we have joint trouble, calcium is

out of soution. Calcium is the heaviest of all
the elements in the body and when it is out of
solution, it will settle in the feet and hands,
especially the feet, because they are farthest
from the heart. It is out of the bloodstream. It
is being deposited because of the chemical
bloodstream in combination with so much of
the other chemical elements. We cannot have
just calcium in the bloodstream, we have to
have a proportion of calium as compared to a
proportion of other chemical elements. When
there is an over-balance of calium, there is
usually a lack of some other chemical
element. When there is an over-supply of the
calcium, a lack of some other chemical
element exists. So, you see, there is another
point in our healing, we have to balance the
bloodstream chemically. When we balance the
bloodstream chemically we will balance the
joint chemistry, we will balance the bone
structure. So, now we have a bodily condition
to take care of, not just a joint problem.

We find that this chemistry produces in the

body an imbalance in the sodium-calcium
structure, so that we have a joint
malformation. We find that the calcium that
has settled in between the joints actually
looks the same as the bone itself. It's actually
bone and to dissolve this bone material takes
time. It's a constant blood bathing process
that is needed. It's a constant circulation of
the sodium over this hard calcium to bring it
back to the limber stage again. Calcium
develops and make bone structure and when
you deposit enough calcium you have a good
bone structure. When we have this settled in
our spine, in our joints, its' called calcification.
Calcifying this joint structure makes it
immobile. You cannot move that joint
structure. Sodium keep shte joints active,
young limber, and movable.

Sodium helps us to have elasticity,

limberness, youthfulness in our tissues. It is
necessary to a normal chemical balance not
only to the wall of the stomach, but also to
the walls of the intestines. It is necessary to
regulate the fluid content and to normalize
the flora in the bowel. Sodium greatly effects
the fluid balance throughout the body.

Sodium is the great acid neutralizer in the

body. The sodium element is one of the blocks
that produces youth; it gives us a limberness
and the activity of the joint structures. It is
stored in the stomach. We must take care of
the stomach before we take care of arthritis.
We must have a store house of sodium to
neutralize the acids in the body, and for that
 reason we have to know what the sodium
foods are, and we have to know how to keep
from breaking down the sodium content of the
body.

Natural sodium found in zucchini, celery,

carrots, beets, and seaweed helps to prevent
water from getting into the cells, which
otherwise would result in stuffy nose, watery
eyes and swollen tissues.

PROPER FOOD COMBINING

Proper food combining is not a '"diet"' diet.

Proper food combining is the proper way of
eaaating for which the body was originally
designed. It is like returning to 'nature'.

The body is designed to digest complex

food ... not complex meals. The glands that
produce digestive juices know when to
produce it, how much to produce, and how
long to produce it.

Even if you 'think' about eating a particular

food, your glands will produce the proper
digestive juice to digest that food.

Does your mouth water when you put a button

in it? No! The body knows what is food and
what is not.

Remember the last big Thanksgiving dinner

you ate ... think about all the different kinds
of food you ate all at once, followed by several
kinds of dessert. How did you feel
afterwards? Did you have lots of energy? No
doubt you felt tired, ill at ease, stomach
distended, forget wearing a girdle after a
meal like that ... forget wearing a tight belt
and looking nice for a photograph ... You
probably felt like laying down and taking a
long nap ... your stomach needed all your
energy to try to digest all that food at the
same time. That is something the body can't
do. No chance ... no way.

Do you have stomach trouble? Do you belch

after a heavy meal or feel full? Does food
stays in your stomach for hours and hours? Do
you taste the food you ate 4 hours later?

You can change that:

It takes about 4 hours to digest fats and

proteins (meat, eggs, dairy), 2 hours to digest
starches (rice, potatoes, pasta), 1 hour to
digest vegetables (salad, cooked or raw
vegetables), and 1/2 hour to digest fruit.
Butter vs Margerine. Choose butter -
Margerine is plastic fat! Cook with Olive Oil!

Here are some combinations that go good

together:

Proteins - nuts, seeds, dried beans, dried

peas, peanuts, lentils, milk, eggs, cheese,
flesh foods

Starches - potatoes, lima beans, mature corn,

winter squash, artichokes, chestnuts, yams,
pumpkins, grains, carrots, beets, coconuts

Good combinations:

1. Proteins with green and/or low starch

vegetables

2. Starches with green and/or low starch

vegetables

Acid fruits - orange, grapefruit, pomegranite,

strawberry, pineapple, tangerine, lemon, lime,
kumquat, kiwi

Sub-Acid fruits - mango, apricot, peach,

nectarine, most grapes, apple, pear, cherry,
berries, plum
Sweet fruits - banana, dates, raisins, sapote,
papaya, fresh fig, Thompson grapes, Muscat
grapes, persimmon, dried fruits

Poor food mixture at same meal: Acid fruits

and Sweet fruits

Fair food mixture at same meal: Acid fruits

with Sub-acid fruits, or Sub-acid fruits with
Sweet fruits

Poor food mixture at same meal: Proteins and

Starches -Example: Don't eat fish with rice.
Don't eat meat with potatoes. OR bread.

Eat acids and starches at separate meals.

Eat protein foods and carbohydrate foods

(grains, bread, pasta) at separate meals.

Eat but one concentrated protein food at a

meal.

Eat proteins and acids at separate meals.

A good rule of thumb is to combine vegetables

and protein together at one meal or starch
and vegetables together without protein. It is
especially good to follow this rule while trying
to heal the digestive tract.
COMMON COMBINE BADLY
FOODS COMBIN WITH
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BEST
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Acid Fruits
Sweet fruits
(sub-and non- Sour Milk Starches (Cereals,
acid) Bread, Potatoes)
Proteins, Milk

Other
Acid
Fruits Sweets (all kinds)

Acid Fruits Fair with Starches (cereals,

Nuts bread, potatoes)
Proteins (except nuts)
Fair with
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proteins
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Milk
Vegetables
All
starches
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Fats and
Oils Acids, Sugars

Milk, Starches,
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Butter, Cream, Oils,

Lard

Starches, Sweets

Other proteins
Green
Cheese Vegetable
s Acid Foods

Butter, Cream, Oils,

Lard

Best
taken
All proteins
alone

Milk Green Vegetables

Fair with

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Acid
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(Butter, starches
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Best
Melons
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All proteins

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All Sweets, Milk
Green
Beans and Peas Vegetable
s Fruits (all kinds)
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beans)
Butter, Cream, Oils,
Lard

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Food combining simplified chart C

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SOME OTHER RULES ...

IF YOU BREAK THESE RULES ... YOUR STOMACH WILL LET

YOU KNOW YOU DID

Drink a glass of water when you wake up - before you eat

or drink anything else!

Start the day out with fruit - or juice - as much as you

want all morning

Eat only fruits in the morning - do not add any other food
to it or following it!

Drink a glass of water before every meal!

Tap water is not recommended! Get distilled water!
You don't want anything added to your water for any
reason!
Floride is toxic to the body. A deadly poison. It is corrosive
to everything it touches, especially the skin.

Don't drink water with meals ... drink water an hour

before a meal or two hours after the meal

Don't drink milk at the same meal you eat meat. Have one
or the other .. not both

Never cook anything you can possibly eat raw

Never eat dessert after a meal ... have fruit before the
meal - preferably raw

Have a nice big salad every day - preferably at lunch

Any time you have an acid stomach - eat a stick of celery

If you eat melon ... eat it for a snack between meals

If the food is on the 'DON'T' list above, don't eat it

Avoid artificial sweeteners, such as saccharine and

"Nutrasweet."
BHT, AND Monosodium glutamate (MSG)
Steevia extract, an herb which is a natural sweetener,
is an excellent substitute, and is healing to the pancreas.

When you consume meat make sure it is range free and

has not been fed hormones, antibiotics, or other
chemicals.
Drink six to eight glasses of filtered or bottled water daily.

At birth we are 97% water, and as adults we are 70%

water.
Premature aging is associated with a further loss of total
body water (i.e., 60% water).
Don't drink water with your meals, as this dilutes the
digestive juices necessary to digest your food.
The best drinking water available on the market today is
"Canadian Glacier Water,"
which is very vital, energized water.
Filtered water is very clean, but not energized;
you can energize it by leaving it in the sun for a short
period of time.

A NOTE ABOUT TOXINS - THE FOOD KIND

What are the symptoms caused by toxicity?

There are two groups of illness caused by

toxicity:

Non-specific illness: this includes ill-defined

symptoms such as fatigue, headaches,
insomnia, bad breath, muscle stiffness,
depression, allergies, etc. This group is very
difficult to categorize, with many
combinations possible. Many of these
symptoms are also labeled as hypoglycemia,
candidiasis, food allergies, and stress.
Specific illness: this includes better-defined
syndromes having a characteristic set of
symptoms. Some examples are migraine,
arthritis, psoriasis, Epstein-Barr virus,
sinusitis, immune deficiencies, and tumors.

Essential fatty acids in your diet should be

increased by consuming cold water fish three
times a week. Examples include salmon, cod,
mackerel, sardines, and water-packed tuna
(preferably without salt added). Warm ocean
fish such as snapper, flounder, and perch are
second best. Fresh water fish (catfish, trout)
contain the smallest amount of essential fatty
acids. Try to eat one tablespoon of virgin (not
pure) olive oil daily on salads. Keep the bottle
refrigerated after opening. As a snack food,
walnuts are high in essential fatty acids. Fish
oils (EPA), evening primrose oil, and flaxseed
oil are supplements rich in essential fatty
acids.

A blood purifying and cleansing diet is

recommended while healing. Digestion of food
must be complete. The bowels must be kept
clean. If one is not hypoglycemic, a short juice
fast is recommended followed by a vegetable
and protein diet. Some grains may be included
in small amounts such as millet, wild rice,
quinoa, and amaranth.

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DETOXIFICATION - A HEALING CRISIS

If your body is detoxifying, you don't need to do anything
but rest.

Drink a little water . Don't eat!

When you feel more like eating, have a dish of warm

vegetable soup!

Your throat is full of mucous?

It is a sign that your body is trying to cleanse itself.
Leave it alone!
Drink more pure water!

While your body is detoxifying, stick with a light fruit and

vegetable diet,
drink fruit juices and vegetable juices every few hours as
your tummy feels like it.

Drink more pure water!

Part of detoxing can appear as gas, flatulence, and

bloating
and make you run to the bathroom more often than you
did before.
The fresh fruit you are eating will loosen all the toxins that
are
accumulated in your stomach and intestines and clean
them out.
This is your body's way of getting rid of the toxins.

If you have been eating incorrectly for twenty, thirty, or

more years,
all that toxic waste has to be removed from your body.
This is not going to happen overnight! You will be
detoxifying
a little every day for several years!
If you don't feel well, just rest and sip some water.
If you don't have a fever, and have been eating properly,
you are probably not sick!
If you think you are sick, call your doctor!

RAW FOOD DIETS

Cooking changes the nature, the molecular structure, of

foods and makes
them unidentifiable, and therefore undigestible, to the
human body. The
body then simply stores these "food" substances as fat
because it can't
process them. Hence, it is the cooking of the starches,
mainly, that causes
the conversion and storage of them as fat.

The solution isn't a "diet". The solution is a life long eating

style of living
raw food. Fruits, nuts, fruit like vegetable, and leafy
greens. All uncooked
and readily assimilable by the body.
The raw food eating style also monumentally reduces the
amount of work
the body has to do in digesting food, especially cooked
food. When raw
foods are eaten, the body spends less energy attempting
to process these
denatured, cooked, foods and can then "cleanse" the body
of these long-
stored, unassimilable toxic fats.

Weight, then, is lost very quickly with a high percentage

raw food eating style.
The great perk about eating only rawfoods is that you can
eat as much of them
as you wish with negligable weight gain, depending on
what type of rawfood is
eaten (though I don't recommend stressing the body this
way).

Finally, eating just rawfoods, or at least a high percentage

of rawfoods is a life
long eating style, not a quick fix "diet". This then prevents
the cyclical problem
of weight loss-weight gain and all the self recrimination
that goes with it.

There is another, greater, facet to the jewel of

understanding with a rawfood
eating style. The more people there are eating this way,
the more of a demand
there is for fruit, nut, and leafy green produce. This
demand would literally
"green" the environment with the planting of more fruit
trees, etc.

Raw foods. More than just a "diet"; we are designed for

this kind of food.
The top of the food chain is in the trees.

NEWS

By Dr. Roy Walford

The maximum life span of humans is about

110 years; of mice, about 39 months. Thus far,
mice over 39 months of age have not been
produced by anything except selective
restriction of calories in the diet. Calorie
restriction (CR) has extended the 39-month
maximum life span of mice to an impressive
56 months, which would correspond
proportionally to a 158 year-old human. And
the long-lived mice stay youthful in
appearance, in mental and physical abilities,
and show enhanced resistance to disease.
These well-established facts are why the CR
diet is now one of the principal areas of
research in gerontology, and is receiving
major emphasis from the National Institute on
Aging.
So let's run briefly through the history of this
remarkable CR phenomenon, and discuss what
precisely it is, how and why it works to retard
aging (to the extent that this is known), and
whether it will work as dramatically in humans
as it does in rodents. Historically, the field's
development can be divided into five phases:

(1) The demonstration that mean and

maximum life spans are greatly extended in
rodents by a CR diet. This was first shown at
Cornell University as long ago as 1935, and
has been confirmed dozens of times
elsewhere, right up to the present time. Also,
the frequencies of a wide variety of diseases --
including virtually all types of cancer,
cardiovascular disease, diabetes, kidney
disease, autoimmune disease, ocular
degeneration, plus others -- have been
documented as being greatly reduced in CR
animals. The reduction ranges from twofold to
as much as tenfold. (For example, 50 percent
of female control mice of a particular genetic
strain develop breast cancer, but only 5
percent of the same strain if on a CR diet.)

(2) CR's effect on life span has been dramatic

in every species so far tested, from
invertebrates (spiders, worms, etc) up
through fish and rodents. One may cautiously
presume that it may be a "general" effect, and
not simply a rodent phenomenon.
(3) How CR animals look, how they respond in
tests of mental and physical abilities, their
levels of blood sugar, insulin, blood lipids,
blood pressure, and essentially all their
physiologic parameters correspond to those of
chronologically much, much younger animals.
This area of research, namely the effect of CR
on physiologic systems, was first opened in
my laboratory in the early 1970s, with the
immune system as representative yard stick.
Over the past twenty years, we've continued
this research for biochemical, endocrine,
molecular genetic, and behavioral markers in
a number of university laboratories.

(4) The search for the mechanism whereby a

selective restriction of calories exerts such
global effects upon so many systems; and
finally

(5) The question whether those same effects

would obtain in primates including humans.
Can human aging be slowed and life span
extended by a CR diet, and by how much?

What precisely is the CR diet? Giving animals

fewer calories than they would consume by
choice makes them live longer, with enhanced
faculties, and with fewer diseases, but these
fewer calories cannot come from the mouse
counterpart of the typical junky American diet.
While reduced in calories, the quality of the
diet must be increased so that essential
nutrients like vitamins, minerals, and amino
acids are not reduced. The reason the semi-
starved populations in parts of Africa or the
Orient don't live longer is that they are not
only calorie restricted, they are malnourished.
The "adequate nutrition" side of CR is
essential. Given that, then the fewer the
calories, the longer the life, down to about 50
percent restriction in rodents, and the other
beneficial effects noted above follow along
proportionately. In other words, CR is not an
all or none phenomenon. Even 10 percent
restriction has a measurable beneficial effect.
Of course, there is a lower limit. Below 50
percent takes you into actual calorie
starvation, and the death rate increases. Fifty
percent restriction is not recommended for
humans. That's too close to being too few in
the way of calories!

What is the mechanism behind CR's marvelous

effects? If we knew the mechanism, perhaps
we could achieve the same results by an
easier method than restricting food intake.
One thing is certain. The effect is only related
to calories. As long as essential nutrients are
present, the relative amounts of protein,
carbohydrate, and fat make no difference. Life
is extended and health is enhanced. Beyond
that simple fact, we have an embarrassment
of possibilities. The mechanism of CR can be
interpreted according to most of the current
theories of aging:

• CR increases the ability of the body to repair

damaged DNA,

• Definitely decreases oxidative (free radical)

damage in the body,

• Increases the levels of certain

protective/repair proteins that respond to
stress,

• Improves glucose-insulin metabolism,

• Delays age-related immunological decline as

shown by virtually all immune functional tests.

CR is the strongest cancer-preventive

technique known, although it's important to
point out that disease prevention is a side
effect of CR, and not the primary reason for
the age-retardation or life span increase.

Dr. Richard Weindruch and I postulated some

years ago that the mechanism is related to an
increase in "metabolic efficiency." This can be
thought of as leading to less "friction" in the
body's generation of energy. Others have
referred to this concept as "improved glucose
fuel use." From the standpoint of evolutionary
theory -- another approach to understanding
the mechanism -- it has been proposed that CR
kicks into play an "adaptive response." This
response allows animals, faced by episodic
periods of food shortage in the wild, to shift
more of their metabolic energy into
maintenance and repair, and so outlive or
survive the period of deprivation.

In the one closely monitored human study

(inside Biosphere 2 for two years), CR sharply
lowered blood cholesterol (by up to 35
percent), blood sugar and blood insulin (by 15
to 20 percent), blood pressure (20 percent or
more), and induced other changes paralleling
those seen in CR rodents and (more recently)
monkeys.

Human Application

Will CR retard aging (and do all the other

wonderful things it does in lower animals) in
primates, including humans? My answer is, "It
almost certainly will." I say "almost" because
it has not been applied in either monkey or
human studies long enough to allow the
demonstration of a change in maximum life
span. Monkey studies will answer this first,
and they are ongoing in three different
laboratories (University of Wisconsin,
University of Maryland, and the National
Institute on Aging). It may be 10 to 12 years
before we have unequivocal results. (Monkeys
 live a long time, although not as long as
humans.)

So much for the "almost." The "certainly" in

my answer is because (a) as so far tested, CR
works across the whole animal kingdom, so it
would indeed be surprising if it did not work in
humans, and (b) studies on monkeys in the
above three laboratories, and by me on the
humans secluded for two years inside
Biosphere 2, show quite clearly that the
extensive physiologic and biochemical
changes seen in CR rodents are also found in
CR primates, including humans.

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