Eating for bodily purity
It’s simple and liberating!
by David Klein, Ph.D.
from Living Nutrition Magazine vol. 4
www.livingnutrition.com
Fresh as a daisy, inside and out. No more waking up
groggy-headed with morning breath, crusty eyes and headaches. No
more foul body odors, indigestion, intestinal wind, skin rashes,
oily and falling hair.
Doesn’t that all sound appealing? By eating properly, you can
achieve a clean, attractive and youthful body, and improve your
mental alertness and self-esteem to boot! Your entire body can
rejuvenate, you can slow down the aging process to a crawl and feel
great all of the time! Here’s how:
The two essentials
There are two essentials for achieving and maintaining a pure
body: 1. exercise vigorously each day, and 2. eat your natural diet
in a manner so that all of the food digests completely. T. C. Fry’s
article on page 11 covers the first essential. I am going to talk
about the second here.
As covered by Roe Gallo in her “Detoxing” article on page 6, if you
have been eating the standard American diet (SAD), your body is
harboring deposits of waste matter, toxic chemical substances and
unhealthy fat which needs to come out. By eating properly you will
naturally detoxify and may be able to solve all of your ills. Many
people, including myself, have overcome serious health problems by
applying these healthful eating guidelines:
Clean out with purified water
Your body is approximately 70 percent water. That water can get
stale and fetid just like a stagnant lake. It needs to be replaced
with fresh water which will push out the wastes. I believe that
distilled water is the best water. Multi-filtered water is good too.
Drink plenty of water in the morning before you eat anything. And
drink water in between meals, but not within one hour after.
Clean out with citrus and other juices
Organic citrus fruit juices are the best and most natural foods
for helping your body clean out and stay pure. Their acids are
naturally purifying (great for breaking up sticky deposits of
mucoid matter), they help the body purge toxins, and they leave
behind no toxic residue. Avoid commercially-grown citrus, and avoid
strong acidic citrus.
Always exercise before eating a meal
Before taking in nourishment, you must create true hunger by
exercising. Even if you wake up hungry, it is important to exercise
before eating, so as to wake up your digestive organs and oxygenate
your blood.
Have whole or juiced fruit for breakfast
In the early morning your body does most of its detoxifying. By
eating fruits, you will not be interfering with the detox process.
By eating heavier foods which require digestive energy, you
automatically suspend the detox process and wastes will build up.
Eat one or two salads per day
Get your minerals and fiber! See Dr. Griselda Blazey’s article
on page 9 on the value of eating mineral-rich vegetables.
Follow food combining to a “t”
Eating foods in combinations compatible with the limitations of
your digestive juices is essential to digestion and inner purity.
Haphazard eating leads to indigestion, whereby food rots in the
gut, making you toxic and ill. Study Dr. Shelton’s books on the
subject. The best meal is a mono meal, i.e., one kind of food -
simplicity is best! The basics of food combining are: 1. Eat
fruit only on an empty stomach and with no other foods except
greens. 2. Do not eat fats/protein foods with starchy foods.
Eat only one heavy food per day
I consider nuts, seeds, coconut, avocado and cooked starches to
be heavy foods. To achieve optimum purity, avoid eating them in any
combination or at different times on the same day with the exception
of these compatibles: nuts and seeds are ok together and on the same
day, and avocado and cooked starches are similarly ok.
Eat a low-fat diet - no animal products
We can only digest protein foods in small amounts, and we only
need small amounts unless you are a body builder. Nothing soils the
bowels and poisons the body like poorly digested protein foods. To
avoid putrefication, eat nuts, seeds and avocado only when you are
energized and hungry.
Eat live, enzyme-rich organic food
Your live body was designed for live food. The biochemistry of
digestion depends upon the enzymes. Cooking destroys the enzymes
and most nutrient values, and makes food clogging and toxic
(anywhere from mildly to grossly). Much of the cooked matter
becomes soil for bacteria, polluting the bowels, blood and cellular
environment.
Avoid eating all-cooked meals
If you are eating cooked food, always eat a bigger portion of
raw food with the cooked.
Chew chew chew your food well
This greatly enhances digestion!
Breathe fully while eating
You need plentiful oxygen to digest food!
Space out your meals
Allow your body to digest the food and utilize the nutrients.
Avoid recreational eating.
Avoid food within 2 hours of bedtime
Food cannot digest properly during sleep. Late night eating
leads to toxemia, as evidenced by morning sickness.
Don’t make food an infatuation
“Eating can be dangerous”, says my fruitarian health writer
friend Morris Krok. He means that you can ruin your body by eating
when there is no need for food and by overeating. Too much food
soils your body and leads to illness, even if it’s raw food! Eat
simply and eat less to create and keep a pure body!
