| Eating in a manner whereby food does not digest | | | | healthful eating guidelines for promoting optimum |
| completely will ruin our health. Eating in a manner | | | | digestion and gut health. |
| which enables perfect digestion is the pathway to | | | | Food Selection: Choose raw, fresh, ripe, organic, |
| flourishing health! | | | | whole, vegan foods. Base your diet in fruits and |
| Humans are provided with the senses and | | | | vegetables and eat only those foods which are |
| faculties to select and completely digest our most | | | | attractive to your senses, especially your sense |
| nutritious and biologically suitable foods. However, | | | | of taste. Obtain enough calories from fruit to |
| in our modern society we have departed from | | | | maintain sustained peak energy and internal |
| instinctual, simple whole foods and digestive | | | | cleanliness. Avoid animal-derived foods--they are |
| maladies run rampant. Happily, with the help of | | | | poorly digested and toxic when cooked. If you |
| some guidelines, we can correct our harmful | | | | choose grains and legumes/beans (neither are |
| eating habits and establish excellent digestive | | | | recommended, since they also digest poorly), |
| health. | | | | select them in their whole state and either sprout |
| The Joys of Healthful Eating | | | | or cook them lightly. If you choose to cook |
| When we eat in a manner whereby everything | | | | vegetables, light steaming is the least deleterious |
| digests completely, we derive outstanding results! | | | | method; however they won't digest perfectly, |
| When our natural foods digest completely, we can | | | | either. Fashion a diet with close to 80% of the |
| experience these major benefits and more:o a | | | | calories from carbohydrate, 10% from protein |
| clean internal bodily environment,o a silent, | | | | and 10% from fat. Deriving more than 10% of |
| unnoticeable digestive system,o a clear mind and | | | | your calories from fat and/or 10% from protein |
| stable metabolism, unfettered by chemical | | | | will invariably exceed your digestive limitations, |
| imbalances caused by toxemia (a toxic blood | | | | resulting in toxicosis and disease. |
| stream),o pleasant or no body odors,o pleasant or | | | | Food Combining: Follow food combining guidelines |
| no body waste odors,o effortless, pleasant, | | | | to a "t." Eat fruit only on an empty stomach, |
| regular bodily waste evacuation,o freedom from | | | | alone or with leafy greens, celery and/or |
| most illnesses and strong resistance to | | | | cucumber. Eat melons alone. Eat citrus fruits at |
| environmental pathogens,o the promotion of | | | | least one-half hour before non-acidic sweet fruits. |
| excellent, dynamic health, physical beauty and | | | | Starchy foods (squash, potatoes, grains and old |
| longevity. | | | | carrots) combine well with all vegetables and bell |
| The Miseries of Unhealthful Eating | | | | peppers; they do not combine well with tomatoes |
| When we eat unwisely, whether in our choice of | | | | or other acidic or sweet fruits, nuts, seeds and |
| food or in our manner of eating, nutrients | | | | avocados. Fatty, high-protein foods (nuts, seeds |
| decompose in our gut via the action of bacteria. | | | | and avocados) combine well only with non-starchy |
| We do have digestive limitations! Under this | | | | vegetables (greens and celery), cucumbers and |
| scenario, fermentive and putrefactive bacteria | | | | minimal amounts of acidic fruits including |
| decompose the food matter, weakening the | | | | tomatoes; they do not combine well with starchy |
| intestinal tract, impairing nutrient absorption, defiling | | | | or non-acidic sweet foods. |
| our entire body with pathological substances, | | | | Meal Sequencing: The best sequencing is |
| impairing our mental functions and causing fatigue. | | | | fruit-and-greens meals during the day, then, |
| This condition is known as "toxicosis" (general | | | | optionally, a glass of raw vegetable juice followed |
| bodily toxicity or "auto-intoxication") or, less | | | | at least one-half hour later by a dinner of |
| formally, as "food drunkenness"; it impairs our | | | | vegetables with one fatty food, i.e., avocado, nuts |
| health and eventually imperils our life. Indigestion | | | | or seeds. Note: it is not necessary and, in many |
| (flatulence, belching, bloating) and foul bowel and | | | | cases, unhealthful to eat a fatty food every day. |
| body odors are just some of the unpleasant | | | | Furthermore, it is OK to have a dinner of simply |
| warnings signaling the beginning of illness. | | | | more fruit and greens. |
| Undigested protein (chiefly from meat, dairy | | | | Meal Spacing: It is most beneficial to space meals |
| products, beans, nuts and seeds) will readily | | | | as long as is comfortably possible. Assuming you |
| putrefy (rot) in our warm gut, just as milk spoils | | | | are not so fatigued that you need to take a nap |
| at room temperature on a warm day. | | | | to restore your energy, a slightly uncomfortable |
| Putrefactive byproducts are highly toxic and | | | | feeling in the back of the throat and a dip in your |
| carcinogenic. They include: methane, hydrogen | | | | physical and/or mental energies are the signs that |
| sulfide and mercaptans (which yield the rotten egg | | | | it is time to eat again. Sweet, juicy foods, eaten |
| odor when carried out by the methane gas), | | | | in sufficient quantity, will quell hunger, rehydrate |
| cadaverine, putrescine, ammonias, indoles, | | | | you and supply your caloric fuel needs. To put it |
| skatoles, leukomaines and host of other toxic and | | | | simply, eat sufficient quantities of nutritious, simple |
| carcinogenic gases and substances. Just as | | | | carbohydrate-rich, whole foods--primarily fruit--to |
| hydrogen sulfide gas will decompose concrete, iron | | | | keep your blood sugar and hydration at a level |
| and steel sewer pipes, it will irritate and destroy | | | | which assures sustained physical and mental |
| the flesh inside our intestines and colon. | | | | performance. |
| Under haphazard eating conditions, simple | | | | Daytime Diet: Eat one or two types of sweet |
| carbohydrates (from fruit) and complex | | | | fruit for breakfast--preferably the juiciest fruits to |
| carbohydrates (starches from grain products and | | | | start--and, generally, different types of fruits for |
| white potatoes) are readily fermented by fungi | | | | each of the following one to three meals, eaten |
| and bacteria in the gut. The result is the | | | | with or without greens, celery and/or cucumber, |
| production of alcohol and vinegar which is dozens | | | | taking them in sufficient quantity for satiation and |
| of times more toxic than alcohol. These ravage | | | | sustained energy. |
| bowel tissue and can cause painful ulcerations. | | | | Dinner Diet: If desired, drink raw vegetable juice, |
| Furthermore, the overeating of slow-digesting | | | | then at least one-half hour later follow it with a |
| fatty high-protein foods causes the stomach to | | | | simple salad of vegetables and fruit-vegetables |
| secrete and retain copious amounts of acid. When | | | | such as tomato and bell pepper. If you include |
| this hyper-acidic condition occurs chronically, the | | | | carrot in your vegetable juice, avoid having |
| stomach and intestines can become inflamed and | | | | tomato with your dinner. If you desire a fatty |
| ulcerated and the pylorus sphincter, which | | | | food, have one to two ounces of nuts or seeds, |
| normally allows food to enter the duodenum, can | | | | or two to four ounces of avocado. The fatty |
| become swollen shut. This typically leads to | | | | foods can be salad additions in whole or blended |
| fermentation and putrefaction of the stomach's | | | | dressing forms. Caution: it is generally imperative |
| contents, GERD (gastroesophogeal reflux disease), | | | | to avoid fatty foods if you are fatigued and/or |
| vomiting and great pain. Chronic inflammation and | | | | experiencing illness. If you prefer a meal of more |
| ulceration lead to cancer. | | | | fruit and greens instead of vegetable juice and |
| It is imperative to avoid operating our gut as a | | | | salads, that is generally a healthful choice--follow |
| composting bin filled with odoriferous, rotting, | | | | and trust your senses when they call for raw, |
| acidic wastes at all costs! The toxicosis that | | | | delicious foods! |
| results from indiscriminate, haphazard eating | | | | You Can Do It! |
| accelerates aging, causes disease, including | | | | These guidelines may seem tedious in the |
| gastritis, irritable bowel, colitis, Crohn's disease and | | | | beginning, but within a week or two they become |
| ulcers, and is the cause of most deaths! We don't | | | | easy and "first nature." Listening deeply to the |
| really want to endure chronic, incomplete digestion | | | | body's signals and eating simple, whole-food meals |
| and toxic bowels. Sadly, most live this way and | | | | are the keys. As we experience digestive ease |
| accept it as "normal." Happily, there is a way to | | | | and the great revitalizing benefits, this way of |
| create perfect bowel health. | | | | eating becomes simple and most pleasurable. So, |
| The Formula for Perfect Digestion and Superb | | | | dig in! Digestive maladies will soon become a thing |
| Health | | | | of the past. You'll love eating, your tummy will |
| Via the science and fine art of selecting our | | | | love you and glorious health will blossom forth! |
| natural biological foods and eating them | | | | For further insight, study Self Healing Colitis & |
| correctly--i.e., only when we are truly hungry, alert | | | | Crohn's; Raw Revelation; Health Reporter Special |
| and relaxed, in proper sequence and combinations, | | | | Issue on Food Combining; The Raw Food |
| in quantities which do not exceed our digestive | | | | Pearamid and Food Combining Chart; as well as |
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