Cooking. Preferably steam your food to cook it. Other good methods are stir-frying, crock pots, and occasionally baking vegetables or meats or cooking over a barbeque. Do not overcook meats, in particular. Cook eggs lightly so the yolks are still runny. For example, soft boil eggs only 3-4 minutes, poach, loosely scramble, or fry them, but not so much that the yolks are hard. Only dairy products should be eaten raw.
Many doctors recommend raw salads. We do not, however. The reasons are 1) raw food is often contaminated with bacteria and parasites, 2) our bodies have difficulty extracting all the minerals from raw food, 3) raw foods are often cold and take more energy to digest, and 4) cooking concentrates many foods, allowing one to eat more vegetables. The exception is dairy products, which are best eaten raw, when you can find them. This is generally safe. Especially when dining out, avoid all raw food for reasons of cleanliness.
Eating Habits. Do not skip meals. Preferably, eat a meal every few hours if you have hypoglycemia. However, do not eat or snack all the time. Rest a few minutes before eating. Then sit down in a quiet place to eat. Eat slowly and chew thoroughly. Relax at least 10 minutes after eating before leaving the table or returning to your activities. Rotate your diet, eating the same food no more than every other day, if possible.
Avoid eating while driving, when upset, or in noisy places. Do not to drink a lot of liquid with meals. Drink up to 15 minutes before a meal or an hour or more afterwards. This prevents diluting your stomach’s digestive juices with too much liquid.
Simplicity. The simplest food combinations are easiest on your digestion. If you can, be satisfied with a single food or two at a meal, as this is best. It also simplifies food preparation and cleanup.
Also, if possible, refrain from putting a lot of dressings, sauces, relishes, sweeteners and spices on your food. These, too, can upset a stressed digestive system. Human beings used to eat much simpler meals in earlier times, and their digestion was far better.
Several food supplements are excellent for everyone today. These are all the supplements that I suggest until you decide to send in a hair sample to begin a complete nutritional balancing program:
1. Megapan or a similar multi-mineral/multi-vitamin product. Megapan is from Endomet Laboratories. If you are trying to match it, it has no copper and no iron in it. It also has about 10 mg of each of the B-complex, and a little selenium, zinc, and chromium. These are the main ingredients to match.
2. Kelp capsules. For adults: about 3 to 6 660 mg capsules of kelp daily, but only from Nature’s Way or Solaray. You may also take about a tablespoon of kelp granules from Frontier Herbs or Monterrey Bay Herbs.
3. Omega-3 fatty acids. These are critical as most people are very low in them. Adults need about 1000 mg daily of omega-3 fatty acids found in fish oil,preferably, or other source of omega-3 fatty acids. Cod liver oil does not work as well. Krill oil is somewhat toxic and not recommended.
4. Vitamin D3, 5000 iu daily.
5. Calcium, magnesium and zinc. Most people need about 750 mg of a quality calcium product, 450 mg of a quality magnesium product, and about 20-30 mg of a good zinc product. The minerals should be chelates, lactates, citrates or other high quality minerals.
6. A powerful digestive aid. It should ideally contain ox bile and pancreatin. This is the most yang and usually the most powerful, as well.
7. If you can afford it, take several dried vegetable capsules daily. This is usually much better than a green superfood powder, as the powders oxidize and go rancid quickly.
Supplement notes:
- The kind of supplement, the brand, and the dosage are all critical. Please do not alter any of theses three factors.
- Children should take less, depending upon their size and weight.
- A good and very inexpensive brand of supplements in the supermarket or drugstore is NatureMade. They are not quite as good as some professional brands, but they usually work very well. Stay away from most other brands in stores because we find that some do not work as well, no matter how expensive they are.
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