What to Eat

A few general rules:

·        Vegetables are your best foods - eat more of them.

·        Refined foods (especially carbohydrates) are your worst foods - get them out of your life.

Refined foods:

Refined foods (processed foods) - I define this as each step that converts a food from a living thing into a lifeless mass that can sit on the shelf for years without changing.  This includes cooking, drying, heating, grinding, storing, etc.

Each step of the refining process does two things:

1. Reduces the nutritional value - contributes to deficiency diseases.
2. Increases the sugar availability - contributes to diabetes, heart disease, etc.

The modern world may require us to do some processing - to kill germs, to make foods more palatable.  Remember, the closer the food is to a living organism, the better it can nourish you.

Refined Carbohydrates:

• Breads and pastas - white bread is the same as white sugar; brown breads are only slightly better.
• Sugar is a poison - get it out of your life.

Things to remember:

"The more life in your food, the more life you get out of your food." - Eat things that can live and grow or have been recently living and growing.

"It's not just what you eat, it's what you eat ate." - It is important to know what the cow ate that provides you with your meat.  It is important to know the quality of the soil where your vegetables grew.

Specifics:

·        Eat more vegetables.  These have the most nutrients.  Get the best you can.  Buy organic.

·        Fruits.  These are your deserts.  They have less nutritional value than vegetables and more sugar.  Don't process your fruits - fruit juices do about the same damage as soda pop.  Eat whole, organic fruits and eat them sparingly.

·        Sweets.  Eating sweets is more damaging to your body than smoking.  It hurts your body in so many ways contributing to virtually all degenerative diseases.

·        Oils.  Avoid the bad fats - all the cooking oils in your grocery store and all trans-fats - the hydrogenated fats - fake fats.  Use olive oil, the best you can get, for cooking.  For adding like in salad dressings or on your foods, use flax oil and flax oil blends.

·        Meats.  Eat sparingly.  Get from a healthy animal, organic and free-ranged.  The organ meats are best.

·        Dairy products.  If you have your own cow, it may be OK.  Otherwise, avoid.

·        Eggs.  Again, good if it comes from a well cared-for chicken.