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A diet high in nutrients is the key to good health. Use the
following table as a guide when deciding which types of food to include in your diet and
which ones to avoid in order to maintain good health.
| Types
of Food |
Foods to Avoid
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Acceptable Foods
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| Beans |
Canned pork and beans, canned beans with salt or
preservatives, frozen beans. |
All beans cooked without animal fat or salt, |
| Beverages |
Alcoholic drinks, coffee, cocoa, pasteurized and/or
sweetened juices and fruit drinks, sodas, tea (except herbal tea). |
Herbal teas, fresh vegetable and fruit juices, cereal
grain beverages (often sold as coffee substitutes), mineral or distilled water. |
| Dairy products |
All soft cheeses, all pasteurized or artificially colored
cheese products, ice cream. |
Raw goat cheese, nonfat cottage cheese, kefir, unsweetened
yogurt, goat's milk, raw or skim milk, buttermilk, rice milk, all soy products. |
| Eggs |
Fried or pickled. |
Boiled or poached (limit of four weekly). |
| Fish |
All fried fish, all shellfish, salted fish, anchovies,
herring, fish canned in oil. |
All freshwater white fish, salmon, broiled or baked fish,
water-packed tuna. |
| Fruits |
Canned, bottled, or frozen fruits with sweeteners added;
oranges. |
All fresh, frozen, stewed, or dried fruits without
sweeteners (except oranges, which are acidic and highly allergenic),
untreated fruits,
home-canned fruits. |
| Grains |
All white flour products, white rice, pasta, crackers,
cold cereals, instant types of oatmeal and other hot cereals |
All whole grains and products containing whole grains:
cereals, breads, muffins, whole-grain crackers, cream of wheat or rye cereal, buckwheat,
millet, oats, brown rice, wild rice.
(Limit yeast breads to three servings per week.) |
| Meats |
Beef; all forms of pork; hot dogs; luncheon meats; smoked,
pickled, and processed meats; corned beef; duck; goose; spare ribs; gravies; organ meats. |
Skinless turkey and chicken, lamb. (Limit meat to three
3-oz servings per week.) |
| Nuts |
Peanuts; all salted or roasted nuts. |
All fresh raw nuts (except peanuts). |
| Oils (fats) |
All saturated fats, hydrogenated margarine, refined
processed oils, shortenings, hardened oils. |
All cold-pressed oils: corn, safflower, sesame, olive,
flaxseed, soybean, sunflower, and canola oils; margarine made from these oils;
mayonnaise without eggs. |
| Seasonings |
Black or white pepper, salt, hot red peppers, all types of
vinegar except pure natural apple cider |
Garlic, onions, cayenne, Spike, all herbs, dried
vegetables, apple cider vinegar, tamari, miso, vinegar. seaweed, pulse. |
| Soups |
Canned soups made with salt, preservatives, MSG, or fat
stock; all creamed soups. |
Homemade (salt- and fat4ree) bean, lentil, pea, vegetable,
barley, brown rice, onion. |
| Sprouts and seeds |
All seeds cooked in oil or salt. |
All slightly cooked sprouts (except alfalfa, which should
be raw and washed thoroughly), wheat-grass, all raw seeds. |
| Sweets |
White, brown, or raw cane sugar, corn syrups, chocolate,
sugar candy, fructose (except that in fresh whole fruit), all syrups (except pure maple
syrup), all sugar substitutes, jams and jellies made with sugar. |
Barley malt or rice syrup, small amounts of raw honey,
pure maple syrup, untreated blackstrap molasses. |
| Vegetables |
All canned or frozen with salt or additives. |
All raw, fresh, frozen (no additives), or home- canned
without salt (undercook vegetables slightly). |
Source: Prescriptions for Nutritional
Healing, James Balch, MD
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