* WHERE ARE OUR NATURAL INSTINCTS?         * THE GENETIC ENGINEERING DEBATE

* RATIONAL COMMON SENSE PHILOSOPHY     * GENERAL NUTRITIONAL GUIDELINES

* WHAT IS CLEANSING?                                      * WHY DRINK WHEAT GRASS JUICE?

* WHAT ABOUT FASTING?                                   * DOESN’T THIS TAKE A LOT OF TIME?

* FOOD ALLERGIES-FOOD ADDICTIONS?           * CHRONIC ILLNESS STARTS IN CHILDHOOD

* WHY ARE LIVE FOODS SO GOOD?                  * WHAT ABOUT VITAMINS?
 
* AREN'T GRAINS GOOD FOR YOU?                   * WHAT ABOUT WATER?

* ARE DAIRY FOODS HARD TO DIGEST?           * WHAT ABOUT FOOD COMBINING?
 
* SO WHAT IS THE BEST DIET?                          * RECIPES         *SPROUT and live foods  

* HOW MUCH OF EACH FOODS TO EAT?           * FOOD COMBINING CHART

INTRODUCTION

“LET FOOD BE YOUR MEDICINE”
Hippocrates  (460-377 BC)

This is our nutritional philosophy and we would add that with homeopathy we have a marvelous combination of the most natural approach to health.

"A human being is the crown of creation, a masterpiece of the universe. Most agree that we are a product of millions of years of evolution."

 Scientists say we are of the most elegant and highly evolved species on this planet Earth, with the intellectual capacity to control virtually every aspect of our lives. Your environment, your lifestyle, your diet, and even your thoughts affect your state of being every day, and even affect your genetics. By living healthfully you will directly impact your entire being. This can improve your genetics in the process of continuing evolution. Or, by living unconsciously, without regard for the quality of your life, you can weaken your genes, in a sad process of involution, culminating in failing vitality, illness, dementia and early death. We can change our own future, we don’t have to end up like everyone else. These recommendations will help you to slow down the process of degeneration to a minimum adding years of productive and illness free enjoyable years of life.
Indeed, we each have choices to make. Somewhere inside we all really desire to make choices which will give us the highest quality life. Who would not choose to live in excellent health, happy and illness-free. Free of relying on doctors, using medications, staying in hospitals and submitting to surgeries? This can be the normal way of life. But, how can we achieve this? Is everlasting excellent health really possible in this unnatural modern world?   Definitely yes!   It can be quite daunting to wade through the sea of information on nutrition available today. There is almost always a special interest behind the philosophies, like the sale of products or selling of books.                         back

WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO OUR NATURAL INSTINCTS?

 We can find diets of any type, size and shape, for blood types, city names, countries, cultures, body types, personality types, high protein, low protein, high carbs, low carbs, raw foods, vegetarian, etc. etc. .  Who is right? Who is wrong? I have found there is at least a little bit of truth in every “diet”. Lets try to shed some light on a more common sense approach to nutrition. Instead of a particular catchy idea of what to eat for you particularly. Lets look at what everyone should eat, and then you can find your own individual likes and dislikes with different foods and variety to satisfy your tastes.  First, many people have lost contact with their instincts. That feeling of craving for certain foods to keep oneself healthy.  Our modern Standard American diet [SAD] has dulled our outer and inner senses. In addition, our modern sedentary way of life adds to the dulling and devitalization of our minds and bodies.
The television, radio, and print media have given us a body of knowledge tainted with and slanted toward commercial interests and not absolute truth. They appeal to the grosser senses, desires and tastes to sell their packaged, processed foods. They rely on addictive sugars, flours, and fried, fat soaked, spiced foods to stimulate the taste buds and sell their products. These foods become addictive and the person begins to crave these food/drugs, like the need for a stimulant, suppressing the natural instincts.
Once these foods pass the mouth, they cause the delicate metabolism to work overtime to eliminate the toxins, pesticides, preservatives, and unnatural hydrogenated chemicals which the body cannot properly assimilate.
What little nutrition we finally get out of these devitalized foods is hardly worth the effort of digestion. But it is what they leave behind that are the seeds of chronic illness.    back

A RATIONAL COMMON SENSE NUTRITIONAL PHILOSOPHY

"I have tried to look to nature as a guide.  Like my mother always said, Where there is a will there is a way. In nature, survival is the will. This quest for survival has caused the adaptation which dictated structure and form. Of course a look at the anteaters and we see an easy example.  The long snout doesn't need an explanation. Similarly, the digestive tracts of early man and his predecessors developed around the food sources available to them." This is called adaptation.

WHAT WE FEEL IS THE IDEAL DIET IS BASED ON THE FOLLOWING:   

  1. Evidence based on historical, archaeological, anthropological studies of hunter-gatherers, and agrarian societies. As hunter-gatherers over evolutionary time we ate plants, roots, fruits, nuts and seeds we gathered. Also it is theorized that we hunted a portion of our foods as animal products. This teaches us that we evolved over billions of years to eat this way. It also shows that the proportions of plants to animal products were probably very different from the standard American diet (SAD).
2. Studies of the diets of primates in the wild. Gorillas eat leaves, nuts, fruits and seeds. No animal foods. This dispels the myth that we can only have powerful muscular bodies from eating meat.
3. Knowledge of foods known to weaken the immune system and to exacerbate other allergies. Our experience shows that processed foods make allergies worse. Foods such as Dairy, Wheat, Corn, Yeast, and especially refined Sugars. They also contribute significantly to autoimmune disorders. Most of these food allergies are from grains, processed foods, and dairy.
4. Empirical observations of my patients, and their reactions to elimination diets. My own and my patients allergies and their reactions to different foods under different conditions and experiences with food faddism, juicing, mono diets and fasting. Rational thinking with regard to nutrition takes into account all philosophies and weighs the benefits and disadvantages of all.
5. Nutritional scientific studies. We need carbohydrates, proteins, fats, and minerals, vitamins, enzymes vitamins in our diets. Only raw foods contain enzymes for good health, cooking destroys them.
6. We can measure the electrical energy in living, raw, uncooked vegetables and fruits. They are ALIVE.   see (live foods)
7. These conclusions have been proved to me and my patients throughout 20 years of clinical practice.                                                                                                                back

WHAT IS CLEANSING?

CAN FOODS BE ADDICTIVE?

WHY ARE LIVE FOODS SO GOOD FOR YOU?

I THOUGHT WHOLE GRAINS WERE GOOD FOR YOU?

WHY ARE DAIRY PRODUCTS DIFFICULT TO DIGEST?

Again, dairy products have been used as a food for humans even less time than grains. This is too short a time for evolutionary adaptation to be an ideal food. Also in modern society, they are eaten in too great a quantity with too much fat and sodium. The processing (pasteurizing) of these products may be a major factor in adding to the atherosclerotic clogging of the arteries.  Many cultures (like the far east) have 100% lactose intolerance. In pediatric practice, virtually 100% of the chronically ill children are eating too many dairy products. That is especially those with ear infections and upper respiratory problems. I would guess that probably 80 to 90 percent of ear infections and chronic upper respiratory problems in children would be eliminated by stopping dairy and refined sugar as well as a large proportion of baked goods. I                                                         back

SO WHAT IS THE BEST DIET?

One which mimics, as best as we can, the diet of early man, or even of the primates.  This is the ideal, but, as we are living in the modern world, a combination of Raw/Cooked foods can be an excellent balance.                                        back

WHAT PROPORTIONS OF DIFFERENT FOODS ARE BEST?

CHLOROPHYLL: KEY TO VIBRANT HEALTH

THE GENETIC ENGINEERING DEBATE

Our first assumption is that live, natural foods are best. What is natural? Those foods grown or raised without any substances or created in a lab. No artificial fertilizers, no pesticides, no radiating, no preservatives, no hormones, colorings, no canning, freezing, micro waving, stabilizing, genetic alterations, etc. etc. etc, just nature’s food.
The fact is that the poisoning, processing, packaging and preserving of our foods have removed them from their natural state. These “foods” are now dead. No life energy is left.
The genetic engineering of foods is the most alarming of these errors being made by our scientific community. What is the motivation of these scientists? Someone is paying them, probably the food industry to make foods that are more durable, slower to deteriorate, have longer shelf life, to look prettier, shinier, etc.
Are they trying to make the food more nutritious? Is this their priority? The history of the industry suggests not. Many people do no trust their motives. Do they not respect billions of years of evolution and God’s handiwork?
A wise person might think that to genetically alter a food cosmetically (make it look prettier) would decrease the nutritional value of the food. After all the energy of the plant has to go somewhere, if it is in the preserving and beautifying of the vegetable, might it not follow that the nutritional value might suffer for the more fibrous outer skin?
Do they presume to be able to improve on nature? I, for one cannot believe the arrogance of our scientists to alter, maybe forever, the master blueprint, genetic code for the very foods that sustain us. Billions, not millions of years of evolution are behind all these living things. Just because a corporation wants a higher profit margin, does this mean we will risk ruining our most precious commodity, our food supply?
We are living in a technological society. We have come to embrace our conveniences, speed of communication, information, travel, etc. But we are making a large error in judgment by accepting what technology and the geneticists are doing. We cannot generalize to think that all technology is good.
Hasn’t history taught us otherwise?
Nature has shown infinite wisdom in her development of plant species and the sustaining of life. The arrogance of those who feel they can improve on nature are sorely mistaken to the detriment of us all. It is commerce and the greed of men which drives this on and where will it end? Is this not playing God? I challenge any one of them to create life, to create even one flower. Just look at the recent rage of cloning. Is this not insanity? Just because we can do something doesn’t mean it should be done.
We have become brainwashed, foolishly lulled into a complacent state of mind. We simply accept what large food corporations and their scientists say, who are prepared to do anything to make a dollar. If we refuse to accept the unmitigated adultery of our most precious, most intimate relationships with nature, we will continue down a road of chronic illness and suffering. We will suffer for our inactivity and complacency.
The suggestions are based upon an amalgamation of various philosophies. We have found that much natural advice about food is based upon a quite fanatical approach. We try to make it rational. Based on facts.

GENERAL NUTRITIONAL GUIDELINES

1. The simple fact is that natural, organic, non-irradiated, non-genetically engineered, raw vegetables and fruits have the most nutrition, take less energy to digest, leave less waste product to eliminate and have a natural cleansing ability. They have the “life force” still alive in them.
2. Cooked vegetable foods take out the “life force” but are second best to raw.
3. Animal products are much harder to digest and should be limited. Of course seafood is a clear first choice if animal foods are to be used.
4. Processed foods create an imbalance that the body tries to compensate for. (for example, sugar, salt, margarine, white flour, baked goods, pasteurized homogenized milk, pasteurized process cheeses, common breakfast cereals, hydrogenated peanut butter).
5. Foods created in a laboratory or genetically engineered should not be eaten. This engineering is based on cosmetics and longer shelf life and not nutrition. Something has to give somewhere, and a benefit here may create an imbalance there. We just don’t know. Cross pollination is one thing, genetic engineering is another.
6. Raw vegetable juices (and especially wheatgrass juice) are a great way to supplement and boost your nutritional status.
7. Foods adulterated with preservatives, colorings, stabilizers should not be eaten, and animals that have been treated with drugs, hormones and other chemicals or have been fed with these should be avoided as much as possible. These can add to a toxic condition which the body has to eliminate.
8. One should eat according to their age, level of health or sickness, level of stress, activity and location.  
9. “Fun” foods or non-foods should be severely limited. E.g.: coffee, tobacco, alcohol, chocolate, candy, pastry, ice cream, etc. and only used on occasion to enhance the quality of life. NOT ON A DAILY BASIS!
10. We have found that following a more rigorous diet during the work week (Monday to Friday), and if you have to “cheat”, do so on the weekend when there are more parties and celebrations, restaurants, and social gatherings to attend.
11. The simple facts are that what we ingest creates most of the problems we have.
12. Judicious use of vitamins in Non-pharmacological doses is helpful.                                                           back 

WHY DRINK WHEATGRASS JUICE?    (much more) 

We promote WHEATGRASS juice to help compensate for the poor nutrition that we and our children are receiving. The benefits are so numerous that we could not possible list them all. But essentially it is a powerful way to rejuvenate cleanse and energize yourself and your family. Those who are sick and those who are not. We drink it daily. Here's why:

1. To help compensate for years of poor nutrition, with it’s abundance of life sustaining elements and chlorophyll.

2. To help boost the energy of a depleted vital force as an aid to healing. Speeds up healing.

3. To increase the oxygen carrying capacity of the blood.                                                         

4. To cleanse a system full of toxins and showing signs of breakdown of vital organ efficiency.

5. To help reverse the effects of premature aging and devitalization so prevalent in our increasingly unnatural environment.  

            (see recipe)           see juicers                back                            (more on wheat grass juice)

DOESN’T ALL THIS TAKE A LOT OF TIME?

This is the sad excuse given by many of the hard working New York area patients give when they have to put aside time to make fresh juice or even to rest when they are sick!  If quality of life means something to you, and your family. If having vitality, operating at peak performance, and feeling really alive, is important, then this can be for you.  The energy you gain and the time not spent being sick compensates for the extra time.  I am afraid that eventually they may have to spend that time going from doctor to doctor after ill health has befallen them. Or, have to take chronic medications to bolster them up or keep from being depressed. And, if the person is blessed with a good strong constitution from their family, they will be slowly weakening the genetic fiber and passing this down to their children if poor nutritional habits are continued.
     Our children are eating processed foods all day. They are being short changed by the excuse of a fast, convenient, shortcut to proper nutrition. The irony is that most of the healthiest foods are raw, and need little to no preparation. We are doing this to them.
We take a dietary history of all our patients.            back  

WHAT ABOUT VITAMINS?

I certainly would not discourage the rational use of vitamins. I don’t think they should be taken in pharmacological doses, however. I think that too many people take them to compensate for poor nutrition. There is no substitute for good nutrition. We carry vitamins and they certainly help to bolster the energy and immune system to a degree. We will not go into specific vitamins here. People are too often looking for that one pill which will give them the edge they need to get over their fatigue or cope with stress. This is unwise. It would be wiser to look at what needs to be eliminated from the diet first. In the last generation or so, “natural” doctors” are using vitamins in high, concentrated doses. With Homeopathy it is not necessary to use these vitamins as medicines.

WHAT ABOUT WATER?

By this time you should probably guess what we are going to say about water. Pure unadulterated natural water. Well, where do you find such water? You can’t. In most industrialized, civilized areas you can’t trust the water tables and wells to not be polluted. Pretty sorry statement. Pretty sorry state of affairs. To top it off, the water itself has chlorine and most times fluoride added to it. Drink as pure a water as you can find, in most cases it will be bottled, preferably in glass. Many water filters are excellent, we are researching this and a report in future updates will be forthcoming.

WHAT ABOUT FOOD COMBINING?