Plain water should be your main beverage. Finding healthful water to drink is extremely important, in our experience. Spring water that is bought in plastic bottles or delivered to your home is fine. An alternative is to go toWWW.FINDASPRING.COM to perhaps find a spring near you where you can fill up your own water jugs. Spring water provides many minerals the body needs and it is untampered with.
If you cannot afford spring water, the next best water is usually carbon-filtered tap water. Do not use fancy multi-stage water filters. Use a carbon filter only. The others may clean up the water, but they appear to damage it as well.
Besides pure water, only mild teas hydrate the body perfectly. These include black or green tea, chamomile, hibiscus, mint, strawberry leaf and other mild herbal blends. Please do not add sweeteners to them, if at all possible.
Almost all adults need to drink three (3) quarts of water each and every day. An excellent habit is to drink up to 1 quart of healthful spring water upon arising in the morning.
Avoid all reverse osmosis water, such as “purified water”, “drinking waters”, and others. RO does not hydrate the body as well, and is devoid of minerals and very yin. Avoid water machines such as alkaline water machines. Read Water For Drinking on this website for much more on water.
Also avoid alkaline water, and almost all “designer” or fancy waters sold in health food stores and elsewhere. Too often, these are made with reverse osmosis water or other types of water that do not hydrate the body as well.
Avoid adding minerals to your water. In all cases, so far, this detracts from the overall quality of the water because water is a type of living food. Randomly adding minerals to it damages the quality of the water, which is extremely complex.
OTHER BEVERAGES
Water should be your main beverage. A cup or two of a mild tea daily is fine. One cup of coffee daily is fair, but okay if desired. Do not drink kombucha tea. A little coconut water is okay, but it is quite yin.
Avoid all fruit juice. Do not add fruit to carrot juice unless a child, perhaps, demands a little to accept the taste of carrot juice. Also, avoid drinking more than 12 ounces of juice, as this is not needed or helpful.
Avoid all soda pop, “energy drinks” and strong sweetened teas. Also avoid kombucha tea and alcohol in all forms, as much as possible. A small glass of wine or beer is okay once in a while, if desired, but not good for one’s health. Wine is often the most contaminated alcoholic beverage, as many pesticides are used on grapes.
Herbs and condiments. Use sea salt with your cooking. However, do not drink water with sea salt in it. Strictly avoid table salt, a very poor quality product.
Some nutritional yeast and rice polishings are excellent additions to any diet. Mustard is an excellent spice that can be added to many dishes.
Other good spices are cumin, turmeric, garlic, dill, rosemary, thyme, oregano, curry powder and other mild herbs.
Avoid or use sparingly all medicinal herbs, especially those imported from Asia or Latin America. Sadly, today we find that all the Ayurvedic and Chinese herbs usually contain toxic metals in excessive amounts. Most herbal programs are not compatible with nutritional balancing science. We will suggest herbs that are safe if you embark on a complete nutritional balancing program.
Other foods and restaurants to avoid. Avoid most prepared and processed foods. Instead, make your own simple dishes. Also avoid most frozen prepared meals, as most contain many chemical ingredients. Read labels if you are not sure. Some frozen meals are okay, but not many.
Restaurants are a problem, unless you know the food is made freshly and not laced with hundreds of chemicals. Look for ethnic restaurants such as Chinese, Thai, and East Indian that use a lot of cooked vegetables. Chain restaurants are often the worst, in terms of cutting corners. Avoid the common fast food restaurants, as their food is generally of lower quality.
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