THE Vital Life Nutrients PLAN The "Vital Life Nutrients" Health & Weight Management Plan can be as simple as just taking 2 Vital Life Nutrients Servings, in fruit juice or purified water 15 to 30 minutes before meals OR as a meal replacement. Also, drink 6 additional glasses of water and/or herb teas throughout the day, and you will be amazed at how good you will feel and look . -AND- Try to incorporate as much of the following information into your life as you possibly can and begin to experience the most dramatic changes of your life. You can literally look and feel like a "million dollars"! Important Facts About Food, the Body and Health The human body is primarily comprised of muscles, tissues, blood and bone, which are predominantly proteins. Over 95% of human blood consists of red blood cells and plasma. Red blood protein, called hemoglobin, is basically sugar-stuffs, like glucose or grape sugar, and iron oxide, which gives blood its rusty red color. Plasma contains mineral salts and antibodies. You have been taught that because of these facts, it is necessary for you to consume sufficient quantities of protein rich foods in order to be healthy and to build strong muscles, tissues, blood and bones. So, you eat all of the "right" foods, like milk, eggs, cheese, meat, beans, nuts, and cereals, in order to get your necessary protein, to replenish the body and to stay healthy, right? --- Wrong! Nature teaches us just the opposite! As a perfect example to this absurdity, let's use the cow. Do you feed a cow protein, milk, meat or fats in order to produce the finest milk, butter, cheese and beef products? NO! Yet, a cow builds perfect flesh, tissues, rich blood, bones, hair, milk, energy and body heat ... exclusively from grass ! All of the cow's nourishment is provided from one primary source of food, grass, and it lives quite well and healthy. A fundamental fact and truth of why an adult does not require the protein rich foods, claimed by dieticians, is to be found in the composition of mothers' milk. It only contains 2 1/2 to 3% protein, yet with this small amount of protein nature builds up the foundation of a new body. Everyone knows that this is the most critical stage of life, growth and development for humans, as well as for all animals. So, where is the protein that we "so desperately need" in our food for our formative development? Also, your blood is the essence of life, its what nourishes you and builds your body and you can't live without it. Interestingly, its like the sugary, vitamin and mineral rich juice of grapes and other fruits and vegetables. In summary, you don't eat protein to provide protein to build muscle, tissues, bones and blood. Protein rich foods don't digest efficiently and actually form excess mucous. Fruits and green leaf plants provide all of the primary components of the blood. The body produces all of the necessary usable proteins to build and maintain life from these blood nutrients. Humankind was designed to be a fruit and green leaf vegetarian eater (we're like apes, not lions). These foods provide ALL of the necessary nutrients for your body to perform its life functions in the most efficient and healthy manner. All other foods produce congestive and toxic wastes, decay and disease within the body. Your body can only handle these high levels of wastes for so long, and if one continues consuming the wrong foods, the consequences will eventually catch up with you ! The Acid-Binding, Waste Eliminating, Life Building Diet The Body and Disease: The body is an elastic pipe system. Specifically, the circulatory (blood) and digestive systems. All processes and functions are conducted and flow through a massive series of capillaries, veins, arteries, tubes and valves. Our, so called, "civilized" diet is never fully digested and the waste properly or thoroughly eliminated. This pipe system is slowly congested, especially at the place of a symptom of illness and within the digestive tract. This is the basis of ALL disease! Therefore, the waste must be loosened and intelligently and carefully eliminated, in order to regain and maintain good health and long life. TEST: The tongue is the mirror to the internal condition of the body. If there is an off white, pasty film on it, the body is congested with mucus, toxins and decayed food. Try this test after you wake up in the morning. Take a dry cloth, wrap it around your finger, then press it down on the middle and back of your tongue and rub. The residue that you will see on the cloth is toxic mucous that is being eliminated from your body through your tongue. ** Remember, you are what you eat ! The Perfect Food For Mankind: "Raw fruits, green leaf vegetables and herbs; eating only one item per meal, two main meals per day." These foods not only provide the body with all of the nutrition necessary for maintaining a fit body, high energy, great health and a long happy life but, they also act as natural body detoxifiers, waste eliminators and they build the body's immune system, and assist in fighting off all manner of attacking disease. NOTE: Although this is the most perfect and healthiest way for humans to eat, if you are not accustomed to it, it would not be wise for you to follow this diet exactly. Too rapid of a diet change could be dangerous. The detoxification process would be too drastic for your body to handle, releasing high levels of toxins into your bowels and blood, which could cause you to become very ill. You MUST begin slowly with a Transitional Diet and frequent short fasts. And even if you don't always eat the "perfect" foods in the "perfect" way, the closer you come to it, the better off you will be. The Transitional Diet and Healing System: Added to the "perfect diet" above: Eat raw, rough, starchless vegetables, for their digestive system scrubbing and cleansing qualities. Cooked ones are to be used as food. Fruits that are baked and stewed are less aggressive in their action to dissolve poisons, mucous and to bind and neutralize harmful acids. IMPORTANT NOTE: Raw fruits and vegetables speed up detoxification, cooked ones are slower acting. You must learn to balance between raw and cooked ones, according to your body's response, don't go too fast. If you feel ill, from too rapid of a detox, slow it down by eating cooked ones! It took you many years to get your body into its present condition so, allow yourself the necessary time to cleanse and heal ! A Guide To Better Health * The worst and most unhealthy meal is breakfast. No foods should be eaten until you have been awake for at least 3 hours. (If you need to, since liquids pass through the stomach quickly, you could drink one glass of water, herb tea, weak coffee, apple cider or other non or sub-acid fruit juice. ) Reason: In the 10 to 12 hours after eating your last meal, along with sleeping, your stomach is now free from food and your body begins the detoxification/eliminating process of a fast (a fast is the time when there is no food in your stomach being digested). This morning fast time is extremely important to deeply cleanse the body. Eating too early breaks the fast (breakfast = break-fast = break the fast), and stops the process. The cleansing process of a fast never feels good, so whenever you eat, you stop the process and therefore, "feel better". But, just because you now "feel better" doesn't mean that its better for you. All you have done is pushed the toxins deeper into your system, to be ignored for a while. Therefore, the more wastes you accumulate, the hungrier you will get, for more food more often, to stop the deep cleansing process and so you can feel better and satisfied. This eating habit cycle, so you can "feel better", builds up congested mucous, toxins, fats and bacterium, which diminish your body's resistance to colds, flu and disease and may actually bread them. You also don't give your body the necessary time to break down fats into energy and to eliminate the excess fats. Eventually you become a walking cesspool full of congested mucous, poisons and fat. * Two large meals a day are best. Lunch around 10 or 11 AM and dinner around 5 or 6 PM. The fewer number of items you eat for your meal the better. Don't eat solid foods within 4 hours of going to sleep; they decay in your stomach as you sleep and you will retain more fats and toxins. Reason: Eating several small meals a day or snacks between meals doesn't allow your body the necessary time after digestion to deeply cleanse itself. (see above reason) The more items you mix and eat during a meal, complicates and prolongs their digestion. The more complex the meal, the more time you need between meals. * Eat as much fresh, cooked or dried fruits and vegetables as you desire for your meal. On a day when you have a great meat craving, eat only vegetables and NO fruit. Reason: If you eat, as described above, it doesn't matter how much you eat at a meal. Your body will have the necessary time to properly utilize the food and eliminate the waste. A strong meat craving indicates a heavy detox coming on. If you eat fruits during this time, the detox will be much too intense; vegetables slow it down. * When you eat, chew each bite thoroughly, from 30 to 45 times. Always eat fruits first, wait 15 minutes, then eat the vegetables, and eat your entire meal within one hour. Reason: The longer you chew, the sooner you will feel full and not eat as much. The better you chew your food, into very small pieces, and the more salivary digestive juices there are in the chewed food, the more complete the digestion and utilization of the nutrients. Foods that digest the fastest should be eaten first to prepare the stomach. Fruits digest faster than starchless vegetables which are faster than starchy ones or proteins. * Never drink anything during your meal ! Drink 20 minutes before you eat and wait at least 30 minutes until after you have eaten to drink again. If you have soup with a meal, eat it 15 minutes before the main course. In order to lose weight and detoxify effectively, you should only drink sweet beverages at times as stated above. Reason: Liquids during a meal dilute digestive enzymes and inhibits nutrient breakdown and absorption. Water, bottle quality, with lemon or herb tea, at least 8 to 12 glasses per day, is necessary for good health; its a natural cleanser and it curbs the appetite and you may drink it throughout the day. The water in sodas, beer, coffee, etc. is NOT an acceptable substitute for the water you require. The water in these beverages is used by the body to wash away the unusable components within the beverage itself. Sweet drinks between meals, sets up the digestive process which, stops detoxification and the conversion of fats into energy. You're now using the sugars from the beverage to provide energy instead of using the fasting process conversion of fats into energy for your energy and to lose weight. Unsweetened coffee or tea will stimulate your metabolism to help burn fat. * If you do not experience a regular bowel movement before going to sleep, always assist with an gentle enema and/or an herbal intestinal cleanser. After each detoxifying fecal elimination, do a water enema wash. Reason: During detoxification, it is necessary to eliminate as much undigested foods, wastes and toxins as quickly as possible. A water enema also helps wash away the sticky toxic mucous residue in the rectum, after elimination, that reabsorbs, causing ill feelings during detoxification. You will feel fresher and cleaner. * Short 1 to 3 day fasts, liquids only- every 3 to 4 hours, are extremely beneficial and therapeutic for deeply detoxifying the body & blood. The fast-est way to good health and weight loss. (No more than once a week.) * Therapeutic activities: exercise, massage, singing, dancing, laughter, deep breathing fresh air, nude sun baths, classical music. These stimulate better digestion, metabolization of fats, elimination and good health. Avoid the Bad Foods! Avoid all meats, especially beef, eggs, cheese, and whole milk. Also, avoid bleached white flours, breads, raw cereals, oatmeal, white rice, pasta, dried beans and peas, nuts, margarine, butter, fried foods, animal and vegetable fats and oils, chocolates, excessive salt and all packaged foods made with partially hydrogenated oils, preservatives and food color. *These foods clog your system, causing toxic mucus, obesity and disease. Less Harmful Forms of Certain Bad Foods If necessary, during the Transitional Diet, use only in moderation. The following list of foods digest better and/or faster thereby, producing less toxic acid mucous than the other foods in the above list. 1. Bread - First pumpernickel, then whole wheat and toasted is always best; These breads have less of the gummy gluten that keeps bread soft but, clogs your system like paste. Toasting breaks down the gluten. 2. Meat - Broiled or baked white fish with lemon is the better of all meats and digests the fastest; Extra lean smoked ham, then pork are next. (Beef is 80% worst than all other meats, including shell fish.) 3. Dairy - Skim or 1/2 % milk, low fat yogurt, low fat cottage cheese, low fat sour cream, buttermilk; other milk and cheese products produce entirely too much mucous; Butter Buds or Fleishman's Fat Free liquid spread are the best butter / margarine substitutes; Cooked egg whites, hard boiled or firmly cooked eggs (uncooked eggs can be as bad for you as meat; the yoke is high in fat and the whites make a perfect glue) 4. Cereals & Grains - well toasted or baked or you'll have the same gluten problem as bread; boil wild rice, and/or brown rice--poor off the starchy water ; if you must use white rice, use Uncle Ben's (surface starch removed); for any starchy vegetables, bake them longer which, breaks down the starch and reduces their harm. 5. Pastas - whole wheat is best but, if you must use regular pasta, rinse well and top with generous amounts of tomato and/or vegetable sauces to help offset the clogging effect of the pasty pasta 6. Cooking and Salad Oils - 1st-Virgin Olive Oil, then Canola Oil; NEVER use lard or partially hydrogenated oils, like margarine or solid Crisco; these oils do not digest and cause the greatest cholesterol & weight problem 7. Nuts - coconut, hazelnuts, almonds; best eaten sparingly in winter with dried, sweet fruits; nuts alone are too high in protein and fats; the dried fruit helps to neutralize the harmful effects of the protein and fats 8. Sweeteners - Use honey or cane sugar, unrefined is best, NOT Nutrasweet, it converts in the body into poisonous methanol which, causes brain damage; also avoid Sweet n' Low, Splenda and corn syrup 9. Candy - hard candy and sweets made with cane sugar are better but, not in between meals because, the sugar will be utilized for energy instead of stored fats 10. Alcohol - red wine is the preferred choice, then other wines, in moderation; 2nd choice, a pale ale 11. Salads - Use any lettuce except iceberg, it is not a true lettuce and actually strips the body of nutrients through its digestion; use lemon juice, it converts to sugar through digestion, not vinegar, it puts too much acid into your system; avoid bottled salad dressings that use partially hydrogenated oils and preservatives 12. Salt - use Sea Salt or Morton's salt substitute (potassium chloride), and you will not retain water, as with salt 13. Pepper - Use red or white pepper, they digest better than black pepper and stimulate better digestion 14. Cooking - Bake, broil, steaming or waterless cooking is always better than greasy frying or boiling. HOW TO COUNTERACT A BAD MEAL For Those Who Insist On Eating Unhealthy Foods and Meats! Following a strict Transitional diet and then the fruitarian / vegetarian lifestyle is most critical for those who have latent disease or especially those with obvious disease conditions or illness. Don't expect your body to be able to efficiently and effectively heal itself if you don't completely stop the source of irritation and give your body the nutritional support that it needs to fight with. Everything that your body has become is a result of what you have ingested, your diet is what made or gave you the condition of the body that you now have. Change will only happen when a change in diet and lifestyle occurs. Don't expect a change in health to come about when nothing changes in your lifestyle! Depending on the severity of your condition, how quickly you want to be healed and how important your health and life is to you, will determine how far you will go with this new lifestyle. If you always do what you've always done, you'll always have what you've always had.....and it will probably get worse! It is understandable that there are many people in our American culture that feel it is impossible for them to be a strict fruitarian / vegetarian, as I have outlined in this paper. They may even feel that my list of "less harmful forms of bad foods" is also too restrictive of a diet guideline. Some people have said that they would never become a strict fruitarian / vegetarian, but they would seriously consider abiding by the transitional diet. But, even if one would live in accordance with the transitional diet, they would receive significant health benefits. But, what about the "bad food" and meat eaters and the cheaters! What do you do during those times at Thanksgiving, Christmas, business banquets and dinner dates, when everyone's' eating all those tasty dishes and meats? What would happen if I ate a little or even allot? Isn't there some way to counteract the bad effects or make there effects less harmful? YES! In addition to following the guidelines that I have listed under the headings "A Guide To Better Health" and "Less Harmful Forms Of Bad Foods", there are a few other suggestions to help counteract the harmful effects of an unhealthy meal. 1. First review the list of "Bad Foods To Avoid" which have very harmful effects that must be counteracted. You must remember what these food groups and types are, so that you know how and when to counteract their effects. Also, don't eat too much of the bad foods or too often! 2. Mixing certain foods creates even bigger problems! Try not to combined different bad foods during the same meal. Mixing any type of dairy with any type of meat, even in small amounts, produces incomplete digestion and the meat rots in the stomach, creating acids and mucous. Watery foods and oily foods don't mix or digest well, so you will absorb the oil as fat. 3. Let 3/4 of your meal consist of fruits and vegetables , which you should eat first. They help break down the bad foods and push them through the system. 4. Take 1/2 serving of Vital Life Nutrients before and after a compromising meal, it will help to quickly digest and move out the harmful properties, with minimal fat absorption. If you only take Vital Life Nutrients with meals for weight control, take 1/4 cup before and after your meals. 5. For better cleansing and elimination make a Vital Life Nutrients enema, which will quickly stimulate elimination and then follow with a clear water enema after elimination.