Post by WalksInSpirit on Aug 3, 2007 22:38:43 GMT -5
No Soul Left Behind: 07-30-07
Chapter V Part 1 of 2 – The Cayce Diet – No Soul Left Behind
Long before dieting for weight control or even for the nutritional boost to good health preoccupied many Americans, Cayce prescribed a diet that was heavy in fruits and vegetables and light on meats that he said offered our bodies what they most needed to enjoy vitality and avoid illness.
Q: When people say they follow your diet recommendations, they seem to have broad objectives in mind such as overall good health rather than weight loss. What are the main features of the Cayce diet?
A: “Whole grain cereals, plenty of citrus fruits, plenty of fresh fruits and fresh vegetables. Plenty of sea foods in their proper season and their proper relation one to another. These we find in the main are the better conditions [for good health].” 257-252
Q: You didn’t mention meat ~~ is meat acceptable?
A: “Of course, [but} as the body has learned, be mindful of not eating heavy meats when under stress or strain.” 696-2
Q: What would an average person on your diet eat each day?
A: “Those [foods] that are naturally easily assimilated and that make for increase in the lymph and the blood flow ~~ as we would find in this character of an outline, though this may be changed or altered ~~ it is only given as a basis.
“Of mornings, have citrus fruits often, with hot cakes, eggs bacon or the like, or alter to cereals ~~ both dry and cooked; but do not take these the same day that the citrus fruits are taken.
“At least three mornings each week we would have the rolled or crushed or cracked whole wheat [hot cereal], that is not cooked too long so as to destroy the whole vitamin force in same, but this will add to the body the proper proportions of iron, silicon, and the vitamins necessary to build up the blood supply that makes for resistance in the system. At other periods have citrus fruits, citrus fruit juices, the yolk of eggs (preferably soft-boiled or coddled ~~ not the white portions of same), browned bread with butter, Ovaltine or milk; or coffee, provided there is no milk or cream put in the coffee. Occasionally stewed fruits, as baked apples with cream, stewed figs, stewed raisins, stewed prunes, or stewed apricots. But do not each citrus fruits at the same meal with cereals or gruels or any of the breakfast foods.” 840-1
Q: What about lunch?
A: “If practical, either soups, green vegetables or the like.” 1467-11
Q: Do you mean cooked vegetables?
A: “Preferably raw fresh vegetables; none cooked at this meal. These would consist of tomatoes, lettuce, celery, spinach, carrots, beet tops, mustard, onions or the like (not cucumbers) that make for purifying of the humor {fluid} in the lymph blood as this is absorbed by the lacteal ducts as it is digested. 840-1 There should be at least one meal a day of only raw fresh vegetables, whether in the middle of the day or whether in the evening; preferably in the noonday time would this meal be taken. 1276-1
”This is for creating a balance [in nutritional values benefiting the system]. At first it will tend to appear to create gas, but keep on using.” 404-7
Q: Vegetables dominate your diet, don’t they?
A: “Plenty of the fresh raw vegetables ~~ such as carrots, celery, lettuce, radish ~~ if these all agree with the body. Not in large quantities, but some of either or all of these each day. 2831-3
“Have at least two leafy vegetables to one grown under the ground or of the pod nature. 3229-1
“Often use the raw vegetables which are prepared with gelatin. Use these at least three times each week. Those which grow more above the ground than those which grow below the ground. Do include, when these are prepared, carrots ;with that portion especially close to the top. It may appear the harder and the less desirable, but it carries the vital energies, stimulating the optic reactions between kidneys and the optics. 3051-6
“Keep to those things that heal within and without. A great deal of celery, lettuce, tomatoes, and especially use the garden blueberry. (This is a property which someone, some day, will use in its proper plane). Footnote: Nutritional values abound in blueberries: a cupful offers a fat-free, cholesterol-free, sodium-free tasty treat providing vitamin C 15 percent of your daily requirement0, plus a high source of dietary fiber with 5 grams, or 20 percent, of your daily value, and only 80 calories. These should be stewed, but with their own juices, little sugar but in their own juices. Also use plenty of watercress, beets, and especially beet tops. These, or course, are to used in sufficient quantity to satisfy the appetite but not to make any of them become something disliked. So prepare them in many different forms.” 3118-1
Q: You’d be encouraged by the popularity of salad bars in restaurants and food markets today, which indicates that many people are not satisfied with a fast-food burger for lunch.
A: “Vegetables that are green and raw, and fruits and nuts, are much preferable to meats or any greases of any kind; for these tend to make ~~ for in the activity of the blood supply ~~ a humor that irritates the nerve forces of the system. 162-2
“We would also in the middle period have dried milk, preferable to raw milk, in which there would be carried such as egg.” 642-1
Q: That leaves dinner as the main meal. What can you have?
A: “Evenings, plenty of cooked vegetables, more of the leafy than the pod or tuberous ~~ these are preferable. Fish, fowl, and lamb are preferable for meats, but occasionally a good, thick steak ~~ but cook it well. Very seldom have hot meat, though liver, the pigs/ feet, the ear, and of those portions that are the digestive foods, that are palatable for the body, are very good ~~ if prepared properly.” 1467-11
Q: Many people have adopted a diet that recommends lots of meat for protein. What do you think of that?
A: “Meats ~~ only occasionally; preferably, when taken ~~ if taken ~ fowl, fish or lamb. 1468-5
“Then we would have the beef juice occasionally; not broth, but the pure beef juice; and fish, or those that will supply more of iodine in an absorbent manner.” 2831-3
Q: What is the best meat substitute?
A: “Soy beans.” 257-252
Q: Is there anything other than soy beans that take the place of meat?
A: “Any of those combinations that carry a great amount of the vital forces are good [such as fish and fowl] but there is no substitute for meats for a body that has become accustomed to it.” 257-252.
Q: Are there other foods or combinations we should avoid?
A: “No fried foods at all. 1276-1 Do not combine potations with rice, or spaghetti or white bread, or if either or any of these is taken do not eat meat at that meal! Do not combine great quantities of starches with large quantities of sweets, or fats; but [small] portions of these are well to be taken. 1468-5 In keeping these, then, we will find that we will also aid in keeping a balance through eliminations. 1276-1
“Make at times a meal upon fruits only. At others of vegetable only. At others practically of meats only, with only sufficient of the others to make a balanced meal. 877-3
“Very light foods while traveling. No heavy foods at all.” 257-247.
Q: Many people carry water bottles with them all day long. Are they over-doing it?
A: “Drink plenty of water at all times.” 1206-11
Q: Does soda water count?
A: “Refrain from carbonated waters or any drinks made with same.” 2585-1
Q: And what do you think about alcoholic beverages?
A: “Can you stop when you want to? Some can, some can’t! Be always in control of what may be of the most beneficent effects to the human body.” 440-15
Q: Do you agree with those who recommend drinking in moderation as beneficial to the health of those who can control it?
A: “A glass of wine a day is helpful; that is, not too big a glass. 365-4 Wine taken in excess ~~ of course ~~ is harmful; wine taken with bread alone is body, blood and nerve and brain building.” 821-1
Q: Would a drink before bedtime help as a relaxant?
A: “Not when retiring; but about two ounces of red wine in the late afternoon~~ with black or brown bread ~~ would be very, very well. 340-31 A little red wine as a food, but not as a stimulant, is alright occasionally; that is, taken in the late afternoon or evening with black or brown bread. 454-8 or with Ry-Krip or the like . . . About a jigger or half a jigger at a time. 528-6 Hard drinks are not so well. These disturb the equilibrium though the activity of the liver itself.” 877-8
Q: What kind of wine?
A: “That which is well fermented, or grape juices or the like; these are the better, not to much of the sour nor too sweet a wine. Tokay, Port, Sauterne. 821-1 The lighter wines or champagne should be sipped, as to make for a settling of the stomach and to strengthen the body.” 325-60
Q: Speaking of stimulants, what about coffee and tea?
A: “Coffee is better than tea, though the body may prefer the tea. Coffee without milk and without sugar is preferable; but coffee without cream or milk is a food value. There is very little food value in tea, though it is a stimulant. Coffee is preferable.” 462-6
Q: How important are vitamins?
A: “Have a regular well-balance diet, with plenty especially of vitamins A, B-1, and G; these from reinforced grains or flour, or any of the yellow foods, or especially fowl ~~ the bony pieces [wings and legs], fish, and liver, pigs’ feet or pigs’ ears, but not the rest of the hog.” 1523-4
Q: What do you mean by a ‘well-balanced’ diet?
A: “That is, let the food values be 80 percent alkaline to 20 percent acid-producing for the system. Do not give white breads or too much starches; as corn or beans, nor too much of raw milk ~~ though dry milk or Dryco or malted milk may be used, those brands that are desiccated or that are particularly body, blood and nerve building as to the activity of vitamins added to same. These we find are preferable for the body. Fruits, and nuts in moderation.
“But keep for a normal balance of the alkaline [Footnote: Cayce recommended a diet of 80 percent alkaline-forming foods, such as fruits and vegetables that leave alkaline-forming mineral elements in the body. Meats, grains, most fats, and dairy products produce an acid residue reaction. A chart of the acid and alkaline-producing foods is available from the Association for Research and Enlightenment, 215 67th Street, Virginia Beach, VA 23451.] Not that no meats should ever be taken; for fowl, fish mutton or lamb are well. But other types are not so well. Wild game in its regular season is well. Keep a well-balanced vegetable diet, making for the correct balance; that is, not that it becomes rote, but watch self. If too great a combination of such as peas, lentils, beans, carrots, becomes a hardship or produces ~~ as from the natural coloring, the natural manner in which are prepared ~~ irritation through the creating of an effluvium in the blood stream, it is not that the food value itself is wrong; possibly it’s the preparation! These should be noted and watched by the body. For all of these especially as indicated are well for the body, though they do make disturbances in their preparation. There is a vast difference in the effect they create upon the body itself when prepared differently! For carrots, both raw and cooked, are helpful ~~ and helpful elements of a special nature that are especially good for the body. But there should be almost as many eaten raw as there are cooked! And when cooked, not with a lot of others, but in their own juices! For these are the better.” 1000-12 [Footnote: For suggestions on how to prepare foods and retain their nutritional value, see ‘How to Cook It Right’ by Adelle Davis.
Q: Some studies show that the quantity of food one eats affects our health, notably our weight. Some Europeans, especially the French, seem to benefit by eating smaller portions. Do you have any thoughts on this?
A: “Be mindful that there are not excesses at any time, either in extraordinary dieting (that is, refraining from this or that or the other, from conditions to produce reactions) or in overeating in any direction; but keep rather a nominal, normal balance in the diet ~~ not excesses. Not excesses of those that produce then a form of alcohol in the system, as excesses of sugars, with starches or excesses of meats. Beware of too much seafood, but it is well to occasionally have those effects of glandular cleansing as from iodine reaction in the system.
“Those things that will work then with the digestive forces, those that work with the nerve energies, those that make for keeping a balance in these physical ways, as we find would be the more preferable and helpful to the body ~~ with the precautions mentally and physically in its exercise” 694-3
Q: What do you suggest for those who are overweight and would like to lose a few pounds?
A: “Four times each day, about half an hour before each meal and at bedtime, drink two ounces of grape juice (Welch’s, preferably) in one ounce of plain water (not carbonated water). This will make for better assimilation, better elimination, and better conditions throughout the system.” 2067-3
Q: What does grape juice do?
A: “[It] creates a better metabolism and katabolism [breaking down in living organisms of complex substances into simpler ones with the release of energy]. We will make for the better eliminations. We will find better conditions through the whole of the reactions in the physical forces of the body” 2067-3
Q: Any other suggestions for weight loss?
A: “If the body will use the RyKrisp or such mostly as the bread, and take before the evening meal at least half to an hour before . . . this would materially reduce the desire for foods that tend to produce flesh. Keep away, of course, from the high starches.” 420-71
Q: Your food suggestions are generally designed to maintain good health, but are there other considerations to keep in mind when planning meals?
A: “In the physical body, be mindful to keep proper eliminations. As in the experience of most individuals during the elderly portion of the life, the lagging of this or that phase of the eliminating activity finds its reaction in the body forces. 257-252
“The system always, as life itself, attempts to use the best it has to do the best it can with what it has to do with. Hence create a balance in the vitamins and in the amount of the necessary foods for creating a sufficient quantity of heat [calories], but also sufficient quantity of eliminating forces [such as fiber], see?” 642-1
Start here next week, August 6th .. . . . . . . . . . ..
Q: What foods do you suggest for improving regularity in elimination?
A: “Prunes or eggplant, or pie plant stewed [rhubarb pie] to be sure will assist. These should be taken about once a week, and . . . will work well together if they are taken about this often. 560-25
“Raw foods often [are] the foods which tend towards better eliminations; figs; pie plan prepare this in the different forms; senna leaves, senna pods, all of these may be parts of the diet at various periods. We will find as the ideals are set, what are your ideal eliminations? Once a day, twice a day or the activities of the liver, activities of kidneys, the activities of digestion and assimilation and the drosses which should be eliminated. Do not lay such a great stress on these that you mind applying self as, ‘I can’t do this and I can’t do that or I can’t do the other’, but being rational and normal in keeping with conditions which develop.
“The diet should be wholesome but not too rich foods at any time; that is, not the fats of meats. 3195-1
“To keep the kidneys in better activity, about every Wednesday take watermelon seed tea. Crush the seed, about a half an ounce of same, put in a pint of water. Let this brew as tea. This may be strained and set aside, but do not keep longer, even in the ice box than two or three days; for this becomes then retroactive, of course, by the action of air and of properties that would be in the same location throwing of their emanations. It is better that it be put in a bottle and corked, even in the ice box, when kept at all; but warmed to be taken. It would be taken once a week for several weeks, not to overflow but to make more of an activity in these eliminations.
“Do these as we find for the better conditions of this body.” 569-25
Q: Are desserts a no-no, or are some sweets acceptable?
A: “Never very much of any confection or pastry or cake. 3195-1 When sweets are taken, we find that honey or maple sugar, or candies made with beet sugar, are preferable to cane sugar.
“Eat honey in the honeycomb as a sweet, and be sure there is the comb in most of that eaten; for this, with other conditions, will assist in better purifying through the alimentary canal, for it acts as an aid to better conditions, and will not disturb the pancreas and the kidneys; but works better with corn bread or whole wheat bread, that are better as breads than the white bread.” 569-25
Q: Your diet suggestions, unless one likes lots of red meat and French fries, seem less restrictive than some other diets that are quite strict.
A: “Do not become so diet-conscious as for the diet to become master, rather than the self being master of the diet.” 2454-1
Q: You allow for flexibility, even an occasional indulgence, I take it?
A: “In the matter of diet itself, we would have this as an outline, though ~~ to be sure ~~ this may be altered from time to time to suit the tastes of the Body: 840-1
Q: What do you say to people who east sensibly and don’t need to lose weight?
A: “Eat what the appetite calls for ~~ and whatever it calls for; but don’t overload, of course.” 696-2
Long before dieting for weight control or even for the nutritional boost to good health preoccupied many Americans, Cayce prescribed a diet that was heavy in fruits and vegetables and light on meats that he said offered our bodies what they most needed to enjoy vitality and avoid illness.
Q: When people say they follow your diet recommendations, they seem to have broad objectives in mind such as overall good health rather than weight loss. What are the main features of the Cayce diet?
A: “Whole grain cereals, plenty of citrus fruits, plenty of fresh fruits and fresh vegetables. Plenty of sea foods in their proper season and their proper relation one to another. These we find in the main are the better conditions [for good health].” 257-252
Q: You didn’t mention meat ~~ is meat acceptable?
A: “Of course, [but} as the body has learned, be mindful of not eating heavy meats when under stress or strain.” 696-2
Q: What would an average person on your diet eat each day?
A: “Those [foods] that are naturally easily assimilated and that make for increase in the lymph and the blood flow ~~ as we would find in this character of an outline, though this may be changed or altered ~~ it is only given as a basis.
“Of mornings, have citrus fruits often, with hot cakes, eggs bacon or the like, or alter to cereals ~~ both dry and cooked; but do not take these the same day that the citrus fruits are taken.
“At least three mornings each week we would have the rolled or crushed or cracked whole wheat [hot cereal], that is not cooked too long so as to destroy the whole vitamin force in same, but this will add to the body the proper proportions of iron, silicon, and the vitamins necessary to build up the blood supply that makes for resistance in the system. At other periods have citrus fruits, citrus fruit juices, the yolk of eggs (preferably soft-boiled or coddled ~~ not the white portions of same), browned bread with butter, Ovaltine or milk; or coffee, provided there is no milk or cream put in the coffee. Occasionally stewed fruits, as baked apples with cream, stewed figs, stewed raisins, stewed prunes, or stewed apricots. But do not each citrus fruits at the same meal with cereals or gruels or any of the breakfast foods.” 840-1
Q: What about lunch?
A: “If practical, either soups, green vegetables or the like.” 1467-11
Q: Do you mean cooked vegetables?
A: “Preferably raw fresh vegetables; none cooked at this meal. These would consist of tomatoes, lettuce, celery, spinach, carrots, beet tops, mustard, onions or the like (not cucumbers) that make for purifying of the humor {fluid} in the lymph blood as this is absorbed by the lacteal ducts as it is digested. 840-1 There should be at least one meal a day of only raw fresh vegetables, whether in the middle of the day or whether in the evening; preferably in the noonday time would this meal be taken. 1276-1
”This is for creating a balance [in nutritional values benefiting the system]. At first it will tend to appear to create gas, but keep on using.” 404-7
Q: Vegetables dominate your diet, don’t they?
A: “Plenty of the fresh raw vegetables ~~ such as carrots, celery, lettuce, radish ~~ if these all agree with the body. Not in large quantities, but some of either or all of these each day. 2831-3
“Have at least two leafy vegetables to one grown under the ground or of the pod nature. 3229-1
“Often use the raw vegetables which are prepared with gelatin. Use these at least three times each week. Those which grow more above the ground than those which grow below the ground. Do include, when these are prepared, carrots ;with that portion especially close to the top. It may appear the harder and the less desirable, but it carries the vital energies, stimulating the optic reactions between kidneys and the optics. 3051-6
“Keep to those things that heal within and without. A great deal of celery, lettuce, tomatoes, and especially use the garden blueberry. (This is a property which someone, some day, will use in its proper plane). Footnote: Nutritional values abound in blueberries: a cupful offers a fat-free, cholesterol-free, sodium-free tasty treat providing vitamin C 15 percent of your daily requirement0, plus a high source of dietary fiber with 5 grams, or 20 percent, of your daily value, and only 80 calories. These should be stewed, but with their own juices, little sugar but in their own juices. Also use plenty of watercress, beets, and especially beet tops. These, or course, are to used in sufficient quantity to satisfy the appetite but not to make any of them become something disliked. So prepare them in many different forms.” 3118-1
Q: You’d be encouraged by the popularity of salad bars in restaurants and food markets today, which indicates that many people are not satisfied with a fast-food burger for lunch.
A: “Vegetables that are green and raw, and fruits and nuts, are much preferable to meats or any greases of any kind; for these tend to make ~~ for in the activity of the blood supply ~~ a humor that irritates the nerve forces of the system. 162-2
“We would also in the middle period have dried milk, preferable to raw milk, in which there would be carried such as egg.” 642-1
Q: That leaves dinner as the main meal. What can you have?
A: “Evenings, plenty of cooked vegetables, more of the leafy than the pod or tuberous ~~ these are preferable. Fish, fowl, and lamb are preferable for meats, but occasionally a good, thick steak ~~ but cook it well. Very seldom have hot meat, though liver, the pigs/ feet, the ear, and of those portions that are the digestive foods, that are palatable for the body, are very good ~~ if prepared properly.” 1467-11
Q: Many people have adopted a diet that recommends lots of meat for protein. What do you think of that?
A: “Meats ~~ only occasionally; preferably, when taken ~~ if taken ~ fowl, fish or lamb. 1468-5
“Then we would have the beef juice occasionally; not broth, but the pure beef juice; and fish, or those that will supply more of iodine in an absorbent manner.” 2831-3
Q: What is the best meat substitute?
A: “Soy beans.” 257-252
Q: Is there anything other than soy beans that take the place of meat?
A: “Any of those combinations that carry a great amount of the vital forces are good [such as fish and fowl] but there is no substitute for meats for a body that has become accustomed to it.” 257-252.
Q: Are there other foods or combinations we should avoid?
A: “No fried foods at all. 1276-1 Do not combine potations with rice, or spaghetti or white bread, or if either or any of these is taken do not eat meat at that meal! Do not combine great quantities of starches with large quantities of sweets, or fats; but [small] portions of these are well to be taken. 1468-5 In keeping these, then, we will find that we will also aid in keeping a balance through eliminations. 1276-1
“Make at times a meal upon fruits only. At others of vegetable only. At others practically of meats only, with only sufficient of the others to make a balanced meal. 877-3
“Very light foods while traveling. No heavy foods at all.” 257-247.
Q: Many people carry water bottles with them all day long. Are they over-doing it?
A: “Drink plenty of water at all times.” 1206-11
Q: Does soda water count?
A: “Refrain from carbonated waters or any drinks made with same.” 2585-1
Q: And what do you think about alcoholic beverages?
A: “Can you stop when you want to? Some can, some can’t! Be always in control of what may be of the most beneficent effects to the human body.” 440-15
Q: Do you agree with those who recommend drinking in moderation as beneficial to the health of those who can control it?
A: “A glass of wine a day is helpful; that is, not too big a glass. 365-4 Wine taken in excess ~~ of course ~~ is harmful; wine taken with bread alone is body, blood and nerve and brain building.” 821-1
Q: Would a drink before bedtime help as a relaxant?
A: “Not when retiring; but about two ounces of red wine in the late afternoon~~ with black or brown bread ~~ would be very, very well. 340-31 A little red wine as a food, but not as a stimulant, is alright occasionally; that is, taken in the late afternoon or evening with black or brown bread. 454-8 or with Ry-Krip or the like . . . About a jigger or half a jigger at a time. 528-6 Hard drinks are not so well. These disturb the equilibrium though the activity of the liver itself.” 877-8
Q: What kind of wine?
A: “That which is well fermented, or grape juices or the like; these are the better, not to much of the sour nor too sweet a wine. Tokay, Port, Sauterne. 821-1 The lighter wines or champagne should be sipped, as to make for a settling of the stomach and to strengthen the body.” 325-60
Q: Speaking of stimulants, what about coffee and tea?
A: “Coffee is better than tea, though the body may prefer the tea. Coffee without milk and without sugar is preferable; but coffee without cream or milk is a food value. There is very little food value in tea, though it is a stimulant. Coffee is preferable.” 462-6
Q: How important are vitamins?
A: “Have a regular well-balance diet, with plenty especially of vitamins A, B-1, and G; these from reinforced grains or flour, or any of the yellow foods, or especially fowl ~~ the bony pieces [wings and legs], fish, and liver, pigs’ feet or pigs’ ears, but not the rest of the hog.” 1523-4
Q: What do you mean by a ‘well-balanced’ diet?
A: “That is, let the food values be 80 percent alkaline to 20 percent acid-producing for the system. Do not give white breads or too much starches; as corn or beans, nor too much of raw milk ~~ though dry milk or Dryco or malted milk may be used, those brands that are desiccated or that are particularly body, blood and nerve building as to the activity of vitamins added to same. These we find are preferable for the body. Fruits, and nuts in moderation.
“But keep for a normal balance of the alkaline [Footnote: Cayce recommended a diet of 80 percent alkaline-forming foods, such as fruits and vegetables that leave alkaline-forming mineral elements in the body. Meats, grains, most fats, and dairy products produce an acid residue reaction. A chart of the acid and alkaline-producing foods is available from the Association for Research and Enlightenment, 215 67th Street, Virginia Beach, VA 23451.] Not that no meats should ever be taken; for fowl, fish mutton or lamb are well. But other types are not so well. Wild game in its regular season is well. Keep a well-balanced vegetable diet, making for the correct balance; that is, not that it becomes rote, but watch self. If too great a combination of such as peas, lentils, beans, carrots, becomes a hardship or produces ~~ as from the natural coloring, the natural manner in which are prepared ~~ irritation through the creating of an effluvium in the blood stream, it is not that the food value itself is wrong; possibly it’s the preparation! These should be noted and watched by the body. For all of these especially as indicated are well for the body, though they do make disturbances in their preparation. There is a vast difference in the effect they create upon the body itself when prepared differently! For carrots, both raw and cooked, are helpful ~~ and helpful elements of a special nature that are especially good for the body. But there should be almost as many eaten raw as there are cooked! And when cooked, not with a lot of others, but in their own juices! For these are the better.” 1000-12 [Footnote: For suggestions on how to prepare foods and retain their nutritional value, see ‘How to Cook It Right’ by Adelle Davis.
Q: Some studies show that the quantity of food one eats affects our health, notably our weight. Some Europeans, especially the French, seem to benefit by eating smaller portions. Do you have any thoughts on this?
A: “Be mindful that there are not excesses at any time, either in extraordinary dieting (that is, refraining from this or that or the other, from conditions to produce reactions) or in overeating in any direction; but keep rather a nominal, normal balance in the diet ~~ not excesses. Not excesses of those that produce then a form of alcohol in the system, as excesses of sugars, with starches or excesses of meats. Beware of too much seafood, but it is well to occasionally have those effects of glandular cleansing as from iodine reaction in the system.
“Those things that will work then with the digestive forces, those that work with the nerve energies, those that make for keeping a balance in these physical ways, as we find would be the more preferable and helpful to the body ~~ with the precautions mentally and physically in its exercise” 694-3
Q: What do you suggest for those who are overweight and would like to lose a few pounds?
A: “Four times each day, about half an hour before each meal and at bedtime, drink two ounces of grape juice (Welch’s, preferably) in one ounce of plain water (not carbonated water). This will make for better assimilation, better elimination, and better conditions throughout the system.” 2067-3
Q: What does grape juice do?
A: “[It] creates a better metabolism and katabolism [breaking down in living organisms of complex substances into simpler ones with the release of energy]. We will make for the better eliminations. We will find better conditions through the whole of the reactions in the physical forces of the body” 2067-3
Q: Any other suggestions for weight loss?
A: “If the body will use the RyKrisp or such mostly as the bread, and take before the evening meal at least half to an hour before . . . this would materially reduce the desire for foods that tend to produce flesh. Keep away, of course, from the high starches.” 420-71
Q: Your food suggestions are generally designed to maintain good health, but are there other considerations to keep in mind when planning meals?
A: “In the physical body, be mindful to keep proper eliminations. As in the experience of most individuals during the elderly portion of the life, the lagging of this or that phase of the eliminating activity finds its reaction in the body forces. 257-252
“The system always, as life itself, attempts to use the best it has to do the best it can with what it has to do with. Hence create a balance in the vitamins and in the amount of the necessary foods for creating a sufficient quantity of heat [calories], but also sufficient quantity of eliminating forces [such as fiber], see?” 642-1
Start here next week, August 6th .. . . . . . . . . . ..
Q: What foods do you suggest for improving regularity in elimination?
A: “Prunes or eggplant, or pie plant stewed [rhubarb pie] to be sure will assist. These should be taken about once a week, and . . . will work well together if they are taken about this often. 560-25
“Raw foods often [are] the foods which tend towards better eliminations; figs; pie plan prepare this in the different forms; senna leaves, senna pods, all of these may be parts of the diet at various periods. We will find as the ideals are set, what are your ideal eliminations? Once a day, twice a day or the activities of the liver, activities of kidneys, the activities of digestion and assimilation and the drosses which should be eliminated. Do not lay such a great stress on these that you mind applying self as, ‘I can’t do this and I can’t do that or I can’t do the other’, but being rational and normal in keeping with conditions which develop.
“The diet should be wholesome but not too rich foods at any time; that is, not the fats of meats. 3195-1
“To keep the kidneys in better activity, about every Wednesday take watermelon seed tea. Crush the seed, about a half an ounce of same, put in a pint of water. Let this brew as tea. This may be strained and set aside, but do not keep longer, even in the ice box than two or three days; for this becomes then retroactive, of course, by the action of air and of properties that would be in the same location throwing of their emanations. It is better that it be put in a bottle and corked, even in the ice box, when kept at all; but warmed to be taken. It would be taken once a week for several weeks, not to overflow but to make more of an activity in these eliminations.
“Do these as we find for the better conditions of this body.” 569-25
Q: Are desserts a no-no, or are some sweets acceptable?
A: “Never very much of any confection or pastry or cake. 3195-1 When sweets are taken, we find that honey or maple sugar, or candies made with beet sugar, are preferable to cane sugar.
“Eat honey in the honeycomb as a sweet, and be sure there is the comb in most of that eaten; for this, with other conditions, will assist in better purifying through the alimentary canal, for it acts as an aid to better conditions, and will not disturb the pancreas and the kidneys; but works better with corn bread or whole wheat bread, that are better as breads than the white bread.” 569-25
Q: Your diet suggestions, unless one likes lots of red meat and French fries, seem less restrictive than some other diets that are quite strict.
A: “Do not become so diet-conscious as for the diet to become master, rather than the self being master of the diet.” 2454-1
Q: You allow for flexibility, even an occasional indulgence, I take it?
A: “In the matter of diet itself, we would have this as an outline, though ~~ to be sure ~~ this may be altered from time to time to suit the tastes of the Body: 840-1
Q: What do you say to people who east sensibly and don’t need to lose weight?
A: “Eat what the appetite calls for ~~ and whatever it calls for; but don’t overload, of course.” 696-2
