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Natural Organic Raw Living Foods Nutrition Guide for Recalling Health to the Body
Timing of Food Consumption, Proper Food Combining and Weaning the Diet of Harmful Substances is Essential when Eating for Health and Longevity
Food and nutrients consumed in their natural raw state can be used to create an alkaline environment inside the cells of the body. Optimal health then becomes an obtainable goal when we learn:
- The best time to eat certain foods,
- How to properly combine the foods we eat
- How to best prepare our foods for consumption and
- How to recognize and wean ourselves of the harmful substances and additives that often disguise themselves as foods.
On 14 February, this editor decided that enough was enough, and that it was time to pursue an all-natural vegetarian, raw foodist type of eating lifestyle. (Read initial editorial here.) Knowing that such a journey would not be arrived at easily, I decided to create a roadmap. So I structured a plan—first I would:
- Eliminate meat from my diet: pork, beef and chicken, then
- Eliminate the pastas, rice, breads and floury products, then
- Eliminate fish (ouch!), then
- Stop cooking my foods (eeehhh!), and finally
- Eliminate sugar and honey (therapy and addiction counseling on the horizon!)
This plan makes certain assumptions about the foods I think will give me the most difficulty in eliminating from my diet. Realizing that refined white sugar is in floury products is a major addiction with me, it has already negotiated with me that it should be the last to go. Why am I not surprised? Your plan for such an eating lifestyle change may be structured differently based on your own addictions. Perhaps it would take me a year or more to first get rid of all those things before I would be emotionally ready to go raw with a diet of fruits, grains, vegetables and nuts. Twenty-eight days into the program and I’m ashamed to tell you what I had for dinner tonight. Ok. You twisted my arm: cooked cream corn and seasoned yellow rice, a raw spinach and pea shoots salad and … and … baby back ribs!
The raw spinach salad was added as an afterthought, and I have to say the ribs were a fluke since I stopped eating pork and red meat on a regular basis many years ago—pork being reserved for the November-December holiday gatherings with family and friends, and red meat being consumed only about three or four times a year—fourth of July, and maybe to make chunky beef and vegetable stews during the winter months when the cravings hit. That dinner last night (or supper as we say here in the South) was by far the worst meal (nutritionally) that I have had since I committed to the diet change, and sorry to say it was also the best tasting. But I do have an excuse. My sister and her daughter had come up for a visit and my niece had prepared our meal. How was I supposed not to partake? Would you have me be rude and ungrateful? (cont.)
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