1. Never drink iced water, especially not with meals. This interferes with
flow of digestive juices and impairs digestion.
2. Drink a glass of fresh pure water, at room temperature, the first thing
in the morning and last thing at night. It should be taken hot only when
one is troubled by constipation. In that case, a little lemon may be added.
3. Drink five to eight glasses of water every day. (Approx one glass for
every 14 pounds of body weight). Drink pure water to be on safe side.
4. Don't drink water with your meals, but take it half hour before or two
to three hours after meals so as not to disturb the process of digestion by
diluting the digestive juices.
5. Sip the water slowly, never gulp it down at once.
6. In order to restore life elements of the water lost in
boiling/processing, pass it through the air, pouring it from one glass to
another. You will soon notice that this give a slightly invigorating and
stimulating effect, which is absent in lifeless and evitalized water.
7. It is better to eat fruit than to drink fruit juices.
8. Don't keep juices standing, as they will lose their precious enzymes.
9. Orange Juice for instance loses one third of them after half hour and
all of them after two hours.
10. Alcohol, tea, coffee and chocolate are not recommended because tannic
acid, theine, caffeine and theobromine are stimulants.
11. Milk is a food, not a drink. It should be taken in small sips,
otherwise it is likely to produce indigestion.
12. It is not the amount of food you eat that nourishes your body, but
only the amount the body itself can assimilate.
13. Choose carefully the foods that suit your system, choose them just as
carefully as you choose a dress, a hat or a tie. YOU HAVE TO TRY VARIOUS
FOOD COMBINATIONS UNTIL YOU FIND OUT WHICH SUIT BEST.
14. Avoid all devitalised foods like canned food, polished rice, white
flour and refined sugar. Use unpolished rice, whole wheat flour and brown
sugar/honey.
15. Chew your food carefully, especially if it is the starchy kind, so
that it may be properly mixed with saliva, otherwise starches will lie waiting
for digestion for several hours.
16. Toasted bread is better than fresh. Do not eat it with liquid. Drink
before eating the bread, as starch should be converted into glucose by
saliva.
17. Eat only one starch to a meal. For instance, if you take rice then
omits bread, potatoes, macaroni starchy pudding and so on.
18. If you suffer from gas, it is advisable to plan your meals so that you
do not eat starch and protein together; and specially not with cooked
sulphur foods like peas, cabbage, cauliflower, eggs, turnips and so on
because gas is produced by sulphur working on the starch.
19. Don't throw away the water in which vegetables have been boiled but
use it for soup, gravies or for drinking. Potato water is very good as it
alkalizes the body.
20. Fried foods as well as rich dishes should be avoided altogether,
because these digest more slowly than fat itself. Fat is the last to leave the
stomach, carbohydrates come first and then proteins.
21. All saturated fats, like lard, margarine, eggs, butter and dairy
products tend to increase the blood cholesterol level and can be
classified as unessential fats.
22. Any diet, which is high in saturated fat, is dangerous. So eat
balanced meals, a high fat and low protein diet inhibits the function of enzymes.
23. Remember, it is not only the calories and amount of fat that
determines the nutrition and health, but the quality of fat. Bacon for instance has
caloric fat value only. It contains nothing else, neither vitamins, nor
minerals.
24. Six glasses of fresh raw cabbage juice a day keep peptic ulcers away.
25. The richest source of protein is soya bean. Two pounds of soya been
flour contain as much protein as four pounds of cheese, five pounds of
boneless meat or six dozen eggs or fifteen quarts of milk. Soya bean is
the only non-acid forming protein.
26. The most essential rule about food, however, has nothing to do with
quantity, quality or preparation, but with your mental attitude at the
time you are eating it.
