| For lunch eat plain cooked or steamed vegetables with white rice (preferably basmati rice) and flavor it with a little unrefined sea or rock salt. To repeat, do not eat any protein foods, butter, or oil, or you might feel ill during the actual cleanse. Do not eat or drink anything (except water) after 1:30 p.m., otherwise you may have difficulties passing stones! Follow the exact schedule below.
The Actual Cleanse
Evening
6:00 p.m. Add 4 tablespoons of Epsom salts (magnesium sulfate) to a total of 24 ounces (three 8-oz. glasses) of filtered water in ajar. This makes four 6-oz servings. |
| You can greatly reduce the risk of developing gallstones by adding more vegetables, salads, fruit, and complex carbohydrates to your diet. Drinking 2 to 3 ounces of fresh carrot juice daily before lunch prevents stones from being formed. Aged cheese, commercial yogurt, and highly processed and refined foods create an imbal-anced constitution of bile. Moreover, try to avoid fried and deep-fried foods. Consuming the heated oils (packed with harmful trans fats) used by fast food restaurants are an especially quick way to produce gallstones. |
| For salt to be useful to the body, it needs to penetrate foods—that is, the moisture of the fruits, vegetables, grains, and legumes must be allowed to dissolve the salt. If salt is used in its dry state, it enters the body in a nonionized form and creates thirst (a sign of being poisoned) . It causes further harm because it is not being properly assimilated and utilized. (See Chapter 3.)
You may dissolve a pinch of salt in a small amount of water and add that to fruit or other foods that are not usually cooked. This will aid in the digestion of those items while helping to deacidify the body. |
| Children rarely produce gallstones if they eat a balanced, vegetarian diet that is rich in vegetables, fruits, and complex carbohydrates.
Effects of Refined and Unrefined Salt
Natural sea salt contains ninety-two essential minerals, whereas refined adulterated salt (a byproduct of the chemical industry) contains only two elements, sodium (Na) and chlorine (CI). When cells suffer from a dietary deficiency of trace elements, they lose their ability to control their ions. This has dire consequences on the human body. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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 David Winston's Revitalizing Ginseng Soup
The soup can be made with any number of vegetables or meats. Winston prefers chicken, but beef, pork, or salmon can be used. This soup is especially useful during the transition from autumn to winter and during the flu season to prevent getting sick.
1 large onion, diced
4-6 cloves garlic, minced
2 large carrots, peeled and sliced into rounds
2-3 boneless chicken breasts cut into Vi inch chunks olive or sesame oil
8 cups water or stock
1 large sweet potato, peeled and cubed
12-16 dried shiitake mushrooms (black mushroom). |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 Both historical and anthropological evidence seems to bear out that the average adult height was substantially higher—nearly six inches—in hunter-gatherer populations (in which the staple foods were lean meats, fruits, and vegetables) than in agricultural societies (in which cereals and starches emerged as the staple foods).
?Among recent hunter-gatherer populations there is an almost total absence of the diseases that afflict so many citizens in developed Western countries. |
| In essence, our brains are replenished by the essential n-3 fatty acids we acquire primarily through our consumption of fish, vegetables, nuts, and other foods.
Fish are considered a prime source of n-3 fatty acids because they ingest high levels of algae in their diets, and retain high levels of fatty acids in their skin, which are then appropriated by humans when we ingest fish. |
Jack Challem
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 If you keep the cover on, the vegetables will continue steaming and will turn mushy.
Cauliflower and Almond Slices (Serves 2-3)
1 head of cauliflower, cut into very small florets 1-2 tablespoons melted butter 1 tablespoon coconut oil Va cup almond slices
Steam the cauliflower for about 8 minutes. Transfer the cauliflower to a large bowl with a tight-fitting lid. Add the butter, coconut oil, and almond slices; cover the bowl and shake it to mix the ingredients.
Optional: While steaming the cauliflower, toast the almonds in a hot but dry frying pan. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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| In a study conducted by researchers in Japan who analyzed the food consumption habits of sixty-four Japanese AD patients and eighty age-matched healthy subjects, researchers found that AD patients tended to consume less fish and green-yellow vegetables (containing vitamin C and carotene) while taking in more red meats than controls. The lesson: The weight of most major studies on the dietary aspects of AD seems to suggest that less saturated fats from red meat and greater intake of fish may reduce your risk for cognitive decline. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 Add to the vegetables. Stir in the cheese and add the bread crumbs. Refrigerate for 1 hour.
Shape into four burgers. Cook 3 minutes on each side on a grill lightly brushed with olive oil. Serve as is or on n hamburger bun; top with tomato and onion if desired. Makes 4 servings.
NUTRITION FACTS
Amount Per Serving: Calories 290 - Calories from Fat 1 20 - Total Fat 1 3 g Saturated Fat 4. |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Coenzyme Qio is naturally found in foods, with the most significant dietary sources coming from vegetables such as broccoli, Chinese cabbage, and spinach; nuts; ocean fish and shellfish; and meats, notably pork, chicken, and beef. Although it is widely available in the foods we eat, only about 2-5 mg per day are consumed, an insufficient amount to produce any substantial clinical benefit.
Coenzyme Qio is also synthesized in all the tissues in the body. Cellular biosynthesis is the dominant source of coenzyme Qio in humans. |
| The L-carnitine concentration in vegetables is approximately 90 percent less than it is in meats, and in cereals it's less than 5 percent (of that in meat). When I encounter vegetarians in my practice, I insist that they consider not only vitamin B12 and coenzyme Q10 supplementation, but L-carnitine as well.
There are documented cases of people following strict macrobiotic diets that develop weakness, weight loss, and severe nutritional deficiencies, that evolve into disease states. |
| Those of you who are environmentally conscious may already know that our soils are becoming depleted of magnesium, which eliminates the natural opportunity to receive magnesium from fruits, vegetables, and water. The widespread use of portable water in plastic bottles can be another problem. Unless the label sites that magnesium is present in that water, you cannot be sure that it is.
Emotional and physical stress also deplete the body's magnesium stores. The more vigilant, time urgent, overly concerned, and fearful we become, the more Cortisol is secreted from our adrenals. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 Remember, though, that protein contributes to the production of acid—and vegetables and fruits that are high in potassium and magnesium act as antacids and buffer the acid created by dietary protein.
If you're shooting for the best bone production, consume more protein and fresh produce than most North Americans eat. Furthermore, maintain a 3:1 produce-to-protein ratio to keep the right acid-base balance for tamping down bone turnover. |
| I regularly add green, leafy vegetables and baby carrots to my morning smoothie, and I skip the dairy. Experiment with breakfast, and you'll figure out what you like. You don't have to buy into the options the food industry relentlessly promotes.
Q: How can we become more "immuno-competent" after age forty?
A: You can make your immune system work better by following the Vitamin D Cure. Immuno-competent is just a fancy term for a healthy immune system. |
| That's why you are better off with lean protein and vegetables. Unsalted natural nut butter is a better choice than cheese—it has just as much protein but healthier fat and no salt.
Feed fish and chicken to children one and older. Remember that your child's metabolism is still trying to find its set point in the first few years of life—and he's developing tastes, so you don't want to send the wrong signals to his metabolism and taste buds.
Remember, too, that most recommendations for children's milk intake are faulty. |
| You should bank extra vegetables and fruits and protein; that way even if you abandon the food plan 20 percent of the time by eating grain, cheese, and salt, it won't be hard to bring yourself back to acid-base balance. But remember those bacteria in your gut—they may not respond as quickly to these swings in your diet. Exercise and supplementation also can buy you some diet leeway.
Q: What if I do all the things you recommend in your program except exercise?
A: Many people do well without the exercise component, but they would do even better with it. |
| You wouldn't need dairy at all if you normalized your vitamin D levels and ate more vegetables and fruit.
Q: What about the kinds of cheese made from 2 percent milk and the low-fat versions?
A: The problems with cheese are that it's high in salt, saturated fat, and acid, and that it contains lactose. When you compare cheese to lean meat, it's just a bad source of protein. But the biggest problem with cheese is that you get burned by its acid production. |
| Canned vegetables are often blanched in boiling water before canning, and manufacturers add salt to increase shelf life. Most manufacturers of canned fruits add sugar for preservation.
Frozen produce is often blanched before freezing, and a significant number of nutrients are destroyed in the blanching process. Think of it like this:
?Fresh is best.
?Frozen is okay when you're in a bind.
?Canned is okay if you're stranded on a desert island.
If you do use canned produce or meat, rinse it to get rid of the added salt and sugar. |
Byron J. Richards
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 The flavonoids in deep-colored pigments in fruits, and the carotenes in vegetables, are examples of isoprenoids. Inside cells they perform a rather interesting function, they can deactivate oncogenes (common mutant genes in human cancers), thus reducing the risk for cancer. There is a reason cultures with diets containing fresh fruit, vegetables, and whole grains have lower cancer rates. If you don't eat these foods then you will run low on isoprenoids. This increases the likelihood that mutant cells which cause cancer can get out of control. |
Jack Challem
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| In a study of eight thousand teenagers at nine juvenile-correction facilities, sociologists arranged to have snack foods that were high in sugar and refined carbohydrates replaced with fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. The change was attributed to budget cuts, so the juveniles didn't realize they were part of an experiment. During the year in which the juveniles' diets were improved, violent and antisocial incidents decreased by almost half. Imagine the benefit to society if at-risk juveniles had enjoyed a nutritious diet all of their lives. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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| Thinking like a hunter-gatherer
To understand why such foods as fish, fruits, and vegetables are good for our brains, we need to visualize ourselves along the continuum of human evolution. With the birth of agriculture approximately ten thousand years ago, and the rise of global agribusiness in the last two centuries, contemporary diets have become progressively more divergent from the diets of our hunter-gatherer ancestors who foraged freely for their food. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You are also using organic vegetables that weren't acceptable for human consumption. Think of a head of spinach. It tastes great and the leaves are crisp. Let that head of spinach sit in the refrigerator for three weeks. It will turn brown and slimy. It has lost some of its nutrition, but it is still organic. And those are the organic vegetables that go into organic pet food. The meats are often trim pieces, not the whole muscle meat, because you can't afford it. |
Joseph Campbell
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| He planted one hundred varieties of grain, vegetables, and trees; favored the development of birds, quadrupeds, reptiles, and insects; taught the uses of water, fire, wood, and earth; and regulated the movements of the tides. Before his death at the age of one hundred and eleven, the phoenix and the unicorn appeared in the gardens of the Empire, in attestation to the perfection of his reign.3
2.
Childhood of the Human Hero
The earlier culture hero of the snake body and bull head carried within him from birth the spontaneous creative power of the
3 Giles, op. cit., p. 338; MacGowan, op. cit. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 An appropriate portion of whole-grain bread or pasta, potatoes, yams, or other starchy vegetables would be about the size of your fist. Boiled whole grains, such as brown rice, wild rice, barley, or oatmeal are higher in volume and viscosity because they are rich in fiber and high in water, so it is always preferable to choose these starchy foods over less volumetric starchy foods such as white-flour pasta, white bread, and other white-flour products.
Figure 5.2. Starchy foods = fist-size portion. |
| Salads with minimal or low-calorie dressings; roasted or grilled vegetables; hearty vegetable or legume-based soups; boiled whole grains; legume dishes; high-protein, low-calorie smoothies; and fresh, nontropical fruits are all examples of foods that can be enjoyed liberally because they promote satiety while adding abundant nutrients and minimal calories. The key to keeping these foods high in volume and yet low in their caloric density is to avoid adding more than a small amount of fat or other high-calorie embellishments. |
| Those who are successful in losing weight and keeping it off have learned to drink plenty of water or other non-caloric beverages, but they also consume significant amounts of water in the form of low-fat, high-fiber soups, vegetables, fruits, boiled whole grains, and other volumetric foods. The fiber in these foods holds on to the water and makes these foods more volumetric.
BEWARE OF SWEETENED DRINKS
Sugary drinks like soda pop, sweetened iced tea, and fruit juice are probably the worst ways to provide your body with calories if you want to lose weight. |
| There are also hundreds of ways to thoroughly enjoy vegetables roasted, grilled, steamed, stir-fried, and cooked into soups and stews.
If you want to improve your diet radically and make your weight-loss efforts easy and enjoyable, invest the time and effort in discovering foods and recipes that you can enjoy and still stick with your weight-loss goals. With just a few good recipes and snacks, such as those provided in chapter 10, you are well on your way to changing your diet without feeling deprivation. |
| On the opposite end of the spectrum, if you take the time at the beginning of your meal to eat a large salad with minimal dressing (we tell our patients to have the dressing on the side and dip their fork into the dressing each time before they pick up the vegetables), by the time you finish the salad, your appetite has diminished considerably and you will find it easy to eat small portions of the higher caloric density foods in your meal.
You might be accustomed to eating, for example, a large baked potato with all the fixings, a 12-ounce steak, small salad, and a piece of pie for dessert. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 The easy answer ties in with the previous recommendation: eat carbohydrates in the form of whole foods: whole grains, whole-grain products, vegetables, and fruits.
To understand why choosing the right carbohydrates can help keep blood sugar levels more even, let's take a step back and look at carbohydrates as a whole. There are two different types of carbohydrates. Simple carbohydrates are made up of single sugar molecules or two sugar molecules joined together. Complex carbohydrates are also made up of sugars, but the sugar molecules are strung together to form longer, more complex chains. |
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