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The Five Basics: #3 - Diet Changes
Refer to the easy chart below:
| Food Categories |
Foods to Include |
Foods to Exclude
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| Fruits (preferably Organic) |
Fresh, unsweetened, dried, frozen, freshly juiced |
Oranges or canned fruit |
| Vegetables (preferably Organic) |
All fresh raw, steamed, sauteed, juiced or roasted |
Corn or any creamed or canned |
| Starch |
Rice, oats, millet, quinoa, Teff, amaranth, tapioca, buckwheat, potatoes |
All gluten products, wheat, corn, barley, spelt, kamut, rye |
| Bread/Cereal |
Products made from rice, oats, millet, potato, flour, tapioca |
Wheat, spelt, kamut, barley, rye |
| Legumes (vegetable protein) |
All legumes including peas and lentils (except soybeans) |
Tofu, tempeh, all soy products |
| Nuts and Seeds |
Almonds, cashews, walnuts, sesame (tahini), sunflower, pumpkin, nut butters (except peanut) |
Peanuts |
| Meat/Fish/Animal protein |
All fresh frozen fish, turkey, chicken, wild game, lamb, canned water-packed fish, eggs |
Beef, pork |
| Dairy products, milk substitutes |
Rice milk, almond milk, oat milk, coconut milk, other nut milks, goat milk, goat cheese, rice cheese |
Milk, cheese, cream, cottage cheese, yogurt, butter, ice cream, non-dairy creamers |
| Fats |
Oils, cold pressed olive, flaxseed, safflower, sunflower, sesame, walnut, pumpkin or almond |
Margarine, butter, shortening, processed or hydrogenated oils, mayonnaise |
| Beverages |
Filtered or distilled water, naturally decaffeinated herbal tea, seltzer or mineral water |
Pop, soft drinks, alcohol, coffee, tea, any caffeine |
| Spices/Condiments |
Vinegar,
all spices without sugar, i.e. salt, pepper, cinnamon, cumin, dill,
garlic, ginger, carob, oregano, parsley, tarragon, thyme, tumeric |
Chocolate, ketchup, relish, chutney, soy sauce, BBQ sauce |
| Sweeteners |
Brown rice syrup, fruit sweeteners, black strap molasses, Stevia |
White or brown refined sugars, honey, maple syrup, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup |
Phyto-Greens from L.E.A.P. Healing Natural Health Center
is the next best thing to Juicing. If you cannot juice, ask your
practitioner about Phyto-Greens. Phyto-Greens is basically organic
power nutrients in one product. Phyto-Greens is like an Organic salad
in a bottle!
Avoid all artificial sweeteners: Aspartame,
Nutra-Sweet, Equal, Splenda, and Saccharin. Most processed foods that
say "SUGAR FREE" have one of these harmful sweeteners in them. These
are VERY toxic to our bodies
Be aware of chemicals that you are using as well as all plastic products. Plastic is a petroleum (gas) product and leaves hormone-mimicking toxins in food.
Avoid microwaving your food. Microwaves kills100% of the nutrients.
Read "ALL" labels. If you cannot pronounce it, DO NOT eat it!
Preservatives and some food additives are designed to make you hungry , to crave these foods, and to eat more.
To Summarize:
Fried foods, caffeine, alcohol, and sugar should be kept to a minimum.
As
much as possible, drink only filtered water, eat only hormone free
organic meats, organic vegetables, and limit dairy and wheat.
A note on ORGANIC foods.
It would be optimal to buy all organic foods.
Especially buy your meats, vegetables, eggs, and fruits organic.
The Environmental Working Group (EWG), based in
Washington, D.C., released a study called Forbidden Fruit in which
samples from the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) own records were
analyzed. Not only were there major discrepancies in the FDA's reported
contamination figures, but also nearly half of the registered
contaminates were ILLEGAL pesticides that have been banned due to their
carcinogen/toxic properties.
According to the report, the 10 most contaminated non-organic foods (in order)
- Strawberries
- Red and Green Bell peppers
- Spinach
- Cherries
- Peaches
- Cantaloupe
- Celery
- Apples
- Blackberries
- Green peas
( http://recipestoday.com/resources/articles/organic.htm )
Commercial vegetables are grown in the same soil year after year. Only ONE mineral is put back in...Nitrogen. Soil should have over 60 micro minerals to infuse into the vegetable.
Organic vegetables can have up to 400% more vitamins and nutrients.
Anytime you cook, can, or freeze vegetables you loose 85% of the nutrients. So make the most of your organic vegetables and fruits by eating them raw or lightly steamed.
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