The basic diet includes the following:

Raw Fruit:

Moderate amounts of raw citrus and subacid fruits are allowed, no sweet fruits such as grapes or dried fruits should be consumed. Fruit juices are also forbidden since these are in essence "refined, " being devoid of their pulp and roughage. The only exception is diluted red grape juice taken half hour before all meals. This helps decrease the appetite, allowing the subject to eat less, and does not signal a weight gain. Bananas are also not allowed.

Raw Vegetables:

These are allowed almost without restraint. A raw salad meal should be taken once or twice a day, alone, or with other compatible foods such as protein or other unrefined starch.

Cooked Vegetables:

The only cooked vegetables allowed are fresh and conservatively cooked (steamed, stewed, lightly saute, or baked,but not fried) fresh vegetables. No frozen, fried, or canned vegetables are to be used. The proportion of cooked vegetables consumed should be less than raw. Vegetables properly cooked are still slightly crispy. Potatoes are allowed two or three times a week but only if eaten with the skin.

Protein:

Beans, sprouted beans, sprouted seeds, nuts in moderation, fish, chicken and turkey ( wild, if possible), low fat yogurt, and poached eggs are the major proteins with the vegetarian sources stressed. Absolutely no pork or meat is allowed unless it is from wild game, which has far less fat content.

Carbohydrates:

All refined carbohydrates are absolutely forbidden.

This means sugar, alcohol, white flour and its products, (bread, pastry, macaroni, etc.), quick oats, most packaged cereal, and any other processed starch. Eat only conservatively cooked, unrefined brown rice, millet, barley, rye,buckwheat, wheat berries, bulgur, corn, and any other whole grain. These should be taken in their natural state and not ground into flour for bread or cooked cereal. Let your teeth do the grinding.

Fats:

Cold pressed unsaturated oils are allowed for salad dressings with lemon juice plus herbs, or when needed when cooking in very small amounts. Obviously, one should not overeat, a tendency that may be carried over from days of eating over refined carbohydrates. Until the stomach adjusts to its proper size, some restraint in the diet is obviously required. It is also far better to eat four to five smaller meals than two or three large ones. A useful rule to eliminate habit snacking is to eat only while eating. In other words, when eating, concentrate only on the meal or snack at hand. No talking, reading, listening to the radio, watching T.V., or any other mental distraction is allowed. This eliminates the tendency to munch incessantly and requires the person to be hungry enough to discontinue all other activities to eat. A simple diet might be as follows.

Half hour before breakfast

6oz glass of diluted grape juice, 2 to 1 with water, sipped slowly.

Fresh raw fruit (especially citrus) or fresh raw fruit with low fat yogurt

or

Fresh raw fruit and a small handful of nuts.

or

Poached eggs and fruit

or

Poached eggs and wholegrain such as brown rice or millet.

or

salad

or

salad and nuts

or

salad and low fat yogurt

Mid morning Fresh vegetables such as carrot or celery sticks

Apple plus 8 -12 almonds

Herb tea or Dandelion coffee

Raw or baked tofu

Half hour Before Lunch

Diluted red grape juice

Always have a raw mixed salad composed of at least three vegetables that grow above the ground for each that grows below, in addition, choose from: Beans, fish,turkey or chicken (twice a week only) Wild game meat, Tofu, Wholegrain, Baked Potato with skin (two to three times per week only, in any meal), Nuts or seeds, pumpkin, sunflower, etc.)

Mid Afternoon As mid morning

Half hour before supper

Diluted red grape juice

Raw salad or cooked vegetables

Protein and wholegrain (one cup cooked)

individually cooked and served as a casserole dish.

In addition to the basic diet, take one tablespoonful raw bran with one to two glasses of water 10 to 15 minutes prior to each meal.

This tends to reduce appetite.

Water should be taken regularly to total 6 to 8 large glasses per day.

This helps the bulking agent swell adequately and helps dilute the many toxins provided by the breakdown of protein and fats for energy; also toxins stored within the fat stores are liberated as the fat stores melt away. One small salad meal per day is eaten with no dressing. A good multi-vitamin, multi-mineral supplement should be taken on this diet. It would also be advisable to drink 3 cups of warm potassium broth per day, and eat as much celery as desired.

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David Hunt M.F.Phys M.P.H.T. M.P.H.C. I.T.E.C. N.C.F.Dip.