| Health depends on your body's ability to resist | | | | and, if eaten at all, large amounts of |
| disease. Resistance depends to a great extent on | | | | alkaline-forming foods should be eaten with them. |
| nutrition and varies with changing nutritional states. | | | | You can enjoy large healthful desserts at every |
| So, to preserve or promote health, you must | | | | meal when made of alkaline fruits with very little |
| know what vital elements are needed and where | | | | or no sugar. |
| to find them in foods. | | | | Tip 3: Do not eat more than one starch food at a |
| Foods are intended to supply the body with | | | | meal. You can choose non-starch vegetables as |
| materials that can be converted into heat and | | | | the main fillers at each meal. If you use sugar and |
| energy and facilitate tissue formation and repair. | | | | sweets eat it only for desserts - just something |
| All natural foods supply these materials in varying | | | | small at the end of your meal to satisfy your |
| amounts. | | | | craving. Make it a habit to satisfy your appetite |
| Just as a fire can be smothered by too much | | | | completely with the salad and main course dishes, |
| fuel, so the body fires can be dampened by too | | | | and then smaller portions of dessert will suffice. |
| much bad food. | | | | Large healthful desserts may be enjoyed at |
| Though foods are intended to create energy in | | | | every meal when made of alkaline fruits with |
| the body, the over - consumption of bad food | | | | very little or no sugar. |
| produces the opposite effect. The result is a | | | | Tip 4: Drinking abundant water tends to relieve |
| greatly reduced amount of healthy energy. | | | | constipation, flushes out the kidneys, removes |
| A reduction in energy is just part of the problem. | | | | waste matter and keeps the million of you body |
| When your body is unable to convert foods into | | | | cells in better working condition. Did you know |
| the necessary vitamins and nutrients, the unused | | | | that water is one of the best regulators and |
| foods may create waste products within the | | | | eliminators we have? |
| body. Serious chronic ailments may develop as a | | | | It is always best to drink between meals, but if |
| result. | | | | you must drink water during meals, avoid using |
| Thus, healthful eating results from wise selection, | | | | water to moisten or wash down your foods. This |
| proper preparation of alkaline foods in the right | | | | is a bad habit that we have since early years. |
| combinations and quantities. If you will pay | | | | Eating food dry is one effective way of eating |
| attention to each of these important elements, | | | | less. |
| your body will be able to burn foods properly to | | | | A good rule to follow is to drink eight (8 oz.) |
| create the right balance of energy and nutrition. | | | | glasses a day. More water is required during hot |
| Tip 1: Raw fresh fruits (without sugar) or raw | | | | weather or if you do a lot of physical exercise. |
| vegetable salads or raw fruit juices or raw | | | | Tip 5: All foods originally come from the plant |
| vegetable juices should be eaten at every meal. If | | | | kingdom. Animals cannot originate foods. Plants |
| your breakfast is so small that you ordinarily eat | | | | are food producers. |
| only toast and a vegetable, stop eating the toast | | | | The little chlorophyll cells (the part that makes |
| and take fruits or fresh juices instead. | | | | plants green) are the mystic laboratories that |
| If your lunches are usually light ones, eliminate the | | | | make foods out of the lifeless, inorganic elements. |
| sandwich or pie that you may have been filling up | | | | In these little green plant factories, by means of |
| on, and substitute a raw drink or raw salad in its | | | | the sun's rays, nitrogen, oxygen, carbon, calcium |
| place. Have a large salad and raw juice before | | | | and other elements are converted into living |
| you eat a heavy entree at dinner. This way, you | | | | organic substances. Chlorophyll cells function as a |
| will be sure to eat all of the salad instead of | | | | sort of trap that captures sunshine and stores it |
| finding yourself too full to finish it. | | | | in the form of carbohydrates, proteins, fats, |
| Tip 2: Limit proteins in your diet because they are | | | | vitamins, and other food elements. |
| acid-forming. Flesh foods and eggs are highly toxic | | | | |