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Here’s a quick overview of what constitutes
a healthy diet, what to eat and what to avoid. Regardless of your
preferences these principles will help keep you on the right course.
Note: This is a general overview of what you
want to incorporate into a healing, disease preventing diet. This
overview does not take specific conditions into consideration.
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Eat fresh vegetables and fruits,
preferably organic, in salads and soups, or lightly steamed. The
American Cancer and Heart Associations now recommend 9 to 13
servings of fruits and veggies per day. If you cannot or do not eat
that many each day, go to Juice Plus.
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Consume whole grains
like brown rice, quinoa, and barley. Also, choose whole grain breads
and pastas. These foods are nutrient-rich and provide a good source
of dietary fiber. (Preparation Tips)
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Drink pure, filtered water.
It’s is your best beverage and necessary for optimal body function.
Herbal teas can be healthful. There are also some cleaner, more
natural sodas on the market that are good to substitute when the
soda urge arises.
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Eliminate refined “whites”
which include refined sugar, white flour, and white rice, etc. This
includes foods like white bread, pasta, white tortillas, and baked
foods. White, processed flour works in the body in the same way as
white sugar.
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Eliminate Refined and Artificial
Sweeteners, which includes white sugar, brown sugar,
pasteurized honey, corn syrup, or foods or drinks containing them.
Sugar slows healing, accelerates tissue breakdown, aggravates
symptoms, and deteriorates overall health. (78 Ways Sugar Can Ruin
Your Health)
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Eliminate Damaged Fats.
This includes heated polyunsaturated oils, margarine, hydrogenated
oils (i.e., vegetable shortening) or foods containing them.
Deep-fried foods are off-limits because the high heat destroys the
fat's health properties and they are usually made with vegetable
oils or hydrogenated oils. (more)
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Use traditional “hard-to-damage”
fats and oils in cooking and baking including butter and/or
ghee (organic from grass-fed cows) extra virgin olive oil,
expeller-pressed nut oils (walnut, sesame) and the tropical oils
coconut and palm.
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Eat clean, naturally raised
meats and animal products grown without hormones,
antibiotics, and chemical-filled feed. This includes fish, seafood,
poultry, eggs, and grass-fed beef, lamb, game.
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Eat whole, naturally-produced
milk products from pasture-fed cows, preferably raw and/or
fermented, such as whole yogurt, cultured butter, and whole (raw)
cheeses. Choose full-fat varieties over low- or non-fat. Butterfat
is in milk for a reason. In fact, without it, the body cannot absorb
and utilize the vitamins and minerals found in this food.
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Eliminate or Minimize Unhealthy
Beverages. This includes soda, coffee, processed teas,
alcohol, and untreated water. Also fruit juice, which is a
concentrated source of sugar.
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Eat "super foods" like
cod liver oil, Brewer’s yeast, spirulina, bee pollen, raw wheat
germ, and kelp.
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Consume fermented foods
like tempeh, sauerkraut, raw vinegar, fermented vegetables, full-fat
plain yogurt.
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Use sea salt and other natural
seasonings and assorted (non-irradiated) herbs and spices.
And finally....
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Personalize your diet to fit
your unique biochemistry and lifestyle.What is YOUR best
diet? There is no one diet suitable for everybody. The concept of
biochemical uniqueness and personalized nutrition has been around
for centuries. Taking the above principle factors into consideration
can help in your healing process as well as in overall health and
disease prevention. But ULTIMATELY - your body is still your best
nutrition guide. You will need to pay attention to your own moods,
feelings, and sensations when you eat different foods. Keeping a
food diary may be a good idea
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