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 EAT A VARIETY OF FOODS
This will help insure that you get all the vitamins and minerals you need. Try to vary the juices you have each morning. Eliminate the habit of having the same vegetables in all your salads. There are so many fruits and vegetables to choose from, so why limit yourself? Let variety be your spice!  EDIBLE FOOD IS NATURAL, PURE AND WHOLE
The less food is natural pure, and whole, the more "foodless" it becomes. Refined grains are impoverished. Canned foods are de-mineralized. Pickled foods, soft drinks and preservatives do not build health. A good rule of thumb is: "if it doesn't spoil it's not worth eating."  RAW FOODS BUILD HEALTH
Try to have a least 50% of your foods raw. This sounds much more difficult than it really is. The following section on MEALS will help show you that by including vegetable salads or fruits with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, you will be easily eating half of your diet raw, or juicing them.  WHEN YOU MUST COOK: BAKE, BROIL, ROAST, OR STEAM FOODS, BUT DO NOT FRY THEM.
Fried foods not only lose much of their food value, but frying renders them very difficult for our bodies to digest. It is not only what you eat that is important but what you digest as well. In addition, authorities agree that fried foods may actually be damaging to health Oils which have been heated to high temperatures change to "hard" fats, which in turn can become deposited in our blood vessels. Atherosclerosis and high blood pressure are often the consequence of a prolonged diet of fried foods. Remember, we live and die by our knowledge of what is good or bad for us.  STEAMING VEGETABLES SAVES NUTRIENTS
As we have already said, you should try to have a rich assortment of raw vegetables daily. But when you must cook a vegetable, how should it be done? Most people boil their vegetables to death, not realizing that air and water rob food of many of its most important life-giving elements. Instead, steam those vegetables in a container with a tight fitting lid. The nutrients you have saved will help to preserve your health.  CHOOSE THE SAFEST COOKWARE POSSIBLE
Did you know that aluminum is a very toxic substance' in the human body? Authorities say that if consumed in excessive amounts, it will weaken the living tissue of the alimentary canal. Why not choose a safer cookware such as pyres, Coming ware, cast iron, or stainless steel? There are many harmful substances in the air we breathe which are almost impossible for us to avoid. Why add to this list by cooking with a metal that can injure our health?  CORRECT FOOD COMBINATIONS AID DIGESTION
Steak and a baked potato ? They taste good going in, but play havoc with your digestion. Steak is a protein and potato is a starch. Mixing the two at a meal is like mixing oil and water. They simply do not go together. Each is digested separately by the body, and eating them together not only produces gas but interferes with the digestion of both. An occasional steak and potato at the same meal will not upset the whole apple cart, but making a habit of this surely will. As a general rule, have your starches and proteins at different meals.  PROPER PROPORTION AND PREVENTION OF DISEASE GO HAND IN HAND
It is often a temptation to fill up on potatoes, rice, or corn, and meat, chicken, or fish when a meal is served. We mince at the salad as if it were an appetizer, not realizing that vegetables act to neutralize many of the waste acids we produce daily. We of course need the proper balance between acids and bases or alkaline substances in our bodies. If each day, 70% of our foods could be alkaline and 30% acid, the correct balance would result. Vegetables and fruits are largely alkaline try to have 5 different vegetables and 2 different fruits each day. Remember, it's important to have most of them raw and in salads. Have 1 starch and 2 protein meals or 1 protein and 2 starch meals daily. Starches and proteins are acid producing, If you follow this plan, you will end up having had 30% of your daily intake of food acid forming, and the other 70% alkaline - proportion and prevention are partners!  OVEREATING IS OVER DOING
The burro is a very strong little animal. For its size, it is able to carry very heavy burdens. Even when it is overloaded, it will struggle on and on. The body is much the same. If it is fed excessive amounts, it will store this burden in the form of fat, and will continue to store the extra portion that it can't use or eliminate This fat is often stored in places we don't always see, such as around the heart or within the blood vessels, the work the body could perform would surely be greater and its life expectancy longer if we weren't always burdening it with extra baggage. Extra baggage is not needed. Do yourself a favor and leave it behind.  CERTAIN FOODS DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD
Have you ever heard that cigarettes, coffee, tea, soft drinks, white sugar and white flour products are filled with vital nutrients which build strong bodies? Or that we should try to purchase stale instead of fresh foods whenever possible? Or that insecticide covered vegetables and fruits are a must for health? Of course not' It's foolish to even suggest such things, find if so, why should we be foolish and make them a regular part of our diet? In addition, there are certain other foods that we should learn to cut down on so that we might be able to better follow Guideline number and eat a variety of foods. It seems that many of us think that citrus fruits (lemons, limes, grapefruit, and especially oranges) are the only fruits in the world. There are many fuits to pick from, so let's start picking. Cow's milk and dairy products made from it tend to product a lot phlegm and mucus in certain people. Goat's milk does not or brown rice milk. Did you know that head lettuce is irritating to the bowel? Most people do not. It also has very little food value, whereas leafy and romain lettuces are filled with alkalinizing minerals. What cereals do you make it a habit of eating? Wheat, wheat, and wheat, with an occasional oat thrown in for good measure? Wheat builds fat and oats often create mucous congestion in allergy sufferers. Brown rice, ryes millet, and yellow corn meal are excellent cereal; and are available in every health food store. And what about bread? Did you know that bread becomes very doughy in the colon, often lodging in bowel pockets and irritating them? Try ea ting less bread and more heal th food crackers such as rye crisp. Is there another protein besides meat? The way some of us eat we may never learn the answer to that. Learn some of the other protein foods and try to substitute them occasionally for meat. In fact, you should try more than 3 to 4 times a week. And what about pork? Pigs have never been known for their cleanliness. They will eat anything. Will you? The key here is to prevent illness rather than cure disease. Support whatever treatments and additional supplement you are given in this office by following these simple guidelines. They are your stepping stones to better health.
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