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People often ask me, “What do you eat?” Here is my answer:
Breakfast: One tablespoon of Barleygreen* powder. I
let it dissolve in my mouth, or mix it in a couple of ounces of distilled
water at room temperature. That is usually all I have until noon! If I
do get hungry, then I eat a piece of fresh juicy fruit later in the morning.
Cooked food is an absolute no-no as my body is in a cleansing mode until
about noon each day. It is important to me that the Barleygreen powder
comes from American Image Marketing (AIM) and that it contains kelp. Other
companies have tried to imitate this product, but their products are not
processed the same way. I have tried other products, but they do not give
the same results, nor do the Barleygreen caplets if swallowed. The caplets,
however, can be dissolved in the mouth like a lozenge, however. I enjoy
them in this form, especially while traveling.
Lunch: One tablespoon of Barleygreen* powder, as at
breakfast. Sometimes I stir my Barleygreen into eight ounces of freshly
extracted carrot juice,** which I find especially delicious and extremely
nutritious. At least thirty minutes after consuming the Barleygreen, I
prefer an all-raw fruit lunch: bananas, apples, dates, etc. Organic is
always best when available. (Sometimes instead of fruit I have a vegetable
salad for lunch.) It is important that this be an all raw meal!
Supper: One tablespoon of Barleygreen* powder either
dry or stirred in a couple ounces of distilled water or carrot juice.
Carrot juice must be freshly extracted, never canned, bottled or frozen.
At least thirty minutes after consuming the Barleygreen, I eat a large
green vegetable salad of leaf lettuce (never head lettuce), broccoli,
cauliflower, celery, carrots, etc. The salad is usually followed by some
cooked food (baked potato, baked sweet potato, brown rice, steamed vegetables,
whole grain pasta, whole grain bread, and so on). Later in the evening
I often have a glass or two of organic apple juice or a piece of juicy
fruit. (My diet consists of approximately 85 percent raw food and 15 percent
cooked food.)
To ensure that I get the essential fatty acids my body needs, I also
have one tablespoon of Udo's Choice Perfected Oil Blend. I either have
this on my evening salad or straight out of the bottle.
Exercise is also an essential part of my program. I
do at least one hour of vigorous exercise daily. Additionally, I try to
get some sunshine on as much of my body as possible every day.
*The reason I supplement my diet with Barleygreen is that our food today
is being grown for the most part on very deficient soils that often lack
all the nutrients my body needs for building new, strong, healthy, vital,
vibrant cells. Barleygreen is grown organically and contains the widest
spectrum of nutrients available today from a single source that I am aware
of. It is also loaded with enzymes. I consider it the single most important
food I put in my body each day and always consume at least 3 tablespoons
of it a day. Another AIM product we find very beneficial is Herbal Fiberblend,
for added fiber, preventative maintenance of the colon and insurance against
parasitic infestations.
The second-most important thing I put into my body each day is freshly
extracted carrot juice made from large California juicing carrots in a
Green Power juicer. I try to drink at least 16 to 24 ounces each day.
When I had my colon cancer 20 years ago, I consumed 32 to 64 ounces of
carrot juice each day. If I had a serious physical problem today I would
consume up to eight 8-ounce glasses of carrot juice each day in addition
to my three to four tablespoons of Barleygreen. The reason Barleygreen
and carrot juice is so important to me is:
- Cooked food has practically no nutritional value.
- A large percentage of the nutrients in raw food are lost in the digestion
process, with only 1 to 35 % of nutrients reaching cell level, depending
on the health of the digestive system.
- When vegetable juices or Barleygreen is consumed, up to 92% of the
nutrients reach cell level. This is because the pulp has been removed
and thus no digestion is necessary.
Raw vegetable juices are the fastest way to nourish the cells and rebuild
the immune system and essential body organs.
In 1962, Dr. Frank Logsdon, former pastor of the famous
Moody Memorial Church in Chicago, was a dinner guest in my home. Over
the dinner table, he told a fascinating story of how he had had cancer
and - rather than going the medical route - had gone to the Page Institute
in Tampa, Florida.
At this Institute, he was told to remove five white foods from his diet,
and to switch to a raw vegetarian / fruitarian diet. He had done this
and his cancer disappeared! Dr. Logsdon was about 60 years old at the
time he was in my home. Several years ago, I learned he was still preaching...
which would put his age close to 90 now!
Interestingly, the five white foods he was told had caused his cancer
are the same foods my research has shown to be causing most of our physical
problems.
What are the five white foods causing our physical problems? I will list
them, starting with the most dangerous substance we put into our body
. . . MEAT!
MEAT contains white fat! The average American meat eater
puts over 50 pounds of fat (cholesterol) into their body per year! This
fat clogs the arteries, ultimately causing the heart attacks and strokes
that will kill approximately 50 percent of our population.
Meat is also the culprit in causing colon cancer, breast
cancer, prostate cancer and other forms of cancer. Cancer is responsible
for 33 percent of American deaths.
And meat is the primary cause of adult-onset diabetes, which kills 9
percent of our population. Meat also causes gout and arthritis and a host
of other physical problems.
We are told that we need meat for protein and strength, but we are not
told that the cooking of meat changes the molecular structure of the protein
and renders the protein in meat unusable by the body. If we look to nature,
we will find that there is not a single animal in the wild that cooks
the flesh it eats! Seventeen years of research has revealed meat as it
is produced today to be the single most dangerous food that we put into
our body. I have not eaten any meat in 17 years.
DAIRY is the second most dangerous substance we can
put into our bodies for many of the same reasons. We are told milk is
the perfect food, and needed for calcium. But we are not told that the
pasteurizing of milk (heating it to temperatures of 160 degrees or higher)
changes the calcium to an inorganic form, which cannot be assimilated
by the body.
In nature, no animal pasteurizes its milk... and no animal drinks the
milk of another species, nor does it ever drink milk after the age of
weaning. The only source of bad cholesterol (LDL) is animal products!
ANIMAL PRODUCTS ARE NOT GOOD FOOD!!!
SALT is another white substance that creates untold
physical problems and suffering. The body needs sodium, but it must be
in an organic form in order to be usable by the body. Table salt, sodium
chloride, is an inorganic sodium compound formed by the union of sodium
and chlorine that is extremely toxic to the body, causing it to retain
fluid in an effort to keep this protoplasmic poison in suspension and
out of the cells.
SUGAR is the fourth white substance creating our physical
problems. Sugar is so changed and concentrated from its original plant
form... that it is actually a drug! Just 10 teaspoons (approximately the
amount found in one soft drink) will immobilize the immune system by about
33 percent. Approximately 30 teaspoons of sugar will shut down the immune
system for a whole day.
WHITE FLOUR has had all the good substances (bran and
germ) removed during processing. Then it is bleached, sometimes with a
bleaching agent similar to Clorox. Finally, they add some coal-tar-derived
(carcinogenic) vitamins and it is sold to the unsuspecting public as "enriched."
WHITE FLOUR IS NOT GOOD FOOD... IN FACT IT IS HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH!
(These five white substances are covered in detail in my book, Why Christians
Get Sick.)
In addition to these five white substances, we must also consider the
impact of drugs on our bodies. Most people are aware of how dangerous
alcohol and nicotine are to the body, but fail to realize that the caffeine
in coffee, tea and soft drinks is also an extremely dangerous substance!
Caffeine is called a stimulant because it excites all of the nerve endings
in an effort to rid the body of this poisonous substance. If a person
drinks over two or three cups of coffee a day on a regular basis, they
will usually develop severe drug withdrawal headaches if they suddenly
stop drinking it. Alcohol, nicotine and caffeine are dangerous drugs!
Now that we have briefly covered the substances that are creating most
of our physical problems, let us look at the foods that nourish and heal
our body.
In the May 1993 issue of Back to the Garden, in an article titled God's
Original Diet, I emphasized that the ideal diet for man is raw fruits
and vegetables. This opinion is based on more than twenty years of my
scientific and nutritional research, biblical study, and the personal
experiences of myself and others who have tried this diet. Much of what
I say may sound radical to some, but why should any Christian be surprised
to find that modern science and personal experience have confirmed that
"God's Original Diet" of raw fruits and vegetables (see Genesis
1:29) is the ideal diet for mankind?
It has now been more than twenty years since I switched from a diet that
was predominately made up of the five white substances previously listed,
which caused me to have serious teeth and gum problems, hemorrhoids, hypoglycemia,
high blood pressure, severe sinus and allergy problems, frequent colds,
headaches, pimples, body odor, dandruff, low energy . . . and colon cancer
at age 42! In 1976, at age 42, I switched to a totally raw vegetarian
/ fruitarian diet with large amounts of freshly extracted vegetable juices.
In fact, for one year I never ate a piece of cooked food. During that
year, not only did my colon cancer go away, but so did every other physical
problem I had!
After that first year, I added some cooked food to my diet. Presently,
my diet consists of approximately 85 percent raw foods, with the balance
made up of freshly prepared cooked vegetarian food.
I eat no meat, no dairy, no sugar and no white flour products, and haven't
for over twenty years! My diet is usually raw until the conclusion of
the day, with my only cooked food - if any at all - coming at the end
of the evening meal.
The reason one should maintain at least a 75- to 85-percent ratio of
raw foods is that when food is cooked, almost all its nutritional value
is destroyed. All enzymes are destroyed by cooking. Approximately 83 percent
of all vitamins are destroyed by cooking and the heat changes protein
into a form that cannot be assimilated. Cooking also reduces the organic
minerals our body needs into an inorganic, unusable form.
In addition to diet, a lifestyle that includes exercise is an essential
element to healthy living. I almost always do stretching exercises, deep
breathing exercise and at least an hour of aerobic exercise each day.
This diet and lifestyle has sustained me in perfect health with high energy
for more than twenty years now!
The Bible says: "Bless the Lord... Who healeth
all thy diseases; who redeemeth thy life from destruction... Who satisfieth
thy mouth with good things, so that thy youth is renewed like the eagles."
(Psalm 103:1-5)
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