The question I hear most often regarding eating a healthy diet is where to start. There are so many different dietary fads out there and much information to sort through. This is a short step-by-step guide to changing your diet from SAD (Standard American Diet) to a good diet for a good health.

Depending on how intense your desire is for health, you can proceed along the number of steps that are appropriate for you. Even just following one principle will make a huge difference. If you want to go further in your health-changes, then proceed through the steps listed below.

STEP 1
Stop filling up on toxic poisons and junk
- Eat organic - Avoid Bad Fats - Switch to a Vegetable Based Diet

STEP 2
Don't Eat Late
- No meals after 7pm

STEP 3
Step up the Nutrition
- Start an Herbal Nutrition Program - Eat Super-Foods - Favor Living Foods

STEP 4
Detoxification and Rejuvenation
- Panchakarma, Deepest Detoxification and Rejuvenation
- Home Detoxification Therapies
- Free Your Teeth and the Rest Will Follow

STEP ONE
STOP FILLING UP ON TOXIC POISONS & JUNK FOODS

1. Switch to Organic foods

Pesticides, insecticides and fungicides are
the very top of the list of cancer-causing agents.

-PR Labs           

Pesticides have been linked to many diseases including Cancer, Obesity, Alzheimer's and Birth Defects.  Organic food is said to be at least 50% more nutritious, richer in anti-oxidants, minerals and vitamins. Organic food is food that is free of dangerous chemical fertilizers, insecticides, herbicides, hormones, synthetic materials, pesticides, irradiation and antibiotics. Organic foods are not genetically modified, altered or cloned.

Did you know that if you consumed an average apple
you would be eating over 30 pesticides,
even after you have washed it?

- organicfoodinfo.net

Organic foods are also kinder. The meat, dairy and eggs that organic farmers produce are fed organic feed and allowed living conditions that accommodate the animals natural behavior, like access to the outdoors and sanitary living conditions.

2. Get off Bad-Fats

Many people try to have a low-fat diet or a no-fat diet in order to lose weight. Ironically, the body will hold onto weight as a response to this approach. The real issue with oils and fats is not whether to have them or not, it is which fats to eat or not. Eating good fat is crucial for mental health, physical energy, absorption of vitamins, critical for the nervous system, organ resilience, digestion, proper cell functioning and detoxification, hormonal balance… our bodies need fat! Good fats actually help us lose weight.

Fats to avoid: canola oil, fried oils and fried foods and any trans-fats, also known as hydrogenated oils (now illegal in New York city restaurants!). These fats can be found in margarines, vegetable shortening, processed and packaged foods.

Fats to Favor: Olive Oil, Sesame Oil, Ghee, Flax oil, Borage Oil, Virgin Coconut Oil, Sunflower oil, Fish Oil from mercury-free fish, Pumpkin Seed Oil (so yummy). We carry a great product called EFA Oil blend, which is finally a tasty solution for how to get the essential fatty acids (Omega 3, 6 and 9's) we need every day.

3. Switch to a Vegetable Based Diet

Meat-eating has been linked with cancer, heart disease, strokes, diabetes, hypertension, osteoporosis, kidney stones and many other devastating diseases. The amino acids in meat are much more acidic, which means they favor inflammation, heat, infection (and aggravation!). Reduce meat products in your diet or eliminate them altogether. If remaining a carnivore - then eat small amounts of meat, no red-meat and eat the meat primarily during the lunch meal when digestive capacity is more powerful.

STEP TWO DON'T EAT LATE

1. Stop Eating Late

As the saying goes - whatever you eat after 7pm goes directly on your thighs and belly and clogs your arteries! Of course, what we get from eating late is much worse than just simple weight gain. At night our body's natural rhythm is to detoxify itself. When we eat during the detoxification period - those toxins remain in our body. Even worse, our digestive capacity is impaired. Our digest fire is on during the day - it is highest when the sun is highest - at noon. That is the ideal time for the biggest meal. At night, when we feel digestive fire in our gut, this is the self-cleaning-oven function in our system; this fire turns on to digest toxins and eliminates waste, not to digest a meal. Meals eaten after 7pm are poorly digested and sit in the body all night, giving a heavy, tired feeling in the morning (why so many feel depressed or need coffee in the morning). We never really digest that food completely and it's toxic sludge hangs around in the body, further impairing digesting the next day.

STEP THREE STEP UP THE NUTRITION

1. Herbal Nutrition

Herbal Nutrition is a critical part of our health and well-being. Herbal nutrients expedite removal of toxins and enhance our organ and system functions. Our quality (and quantity) of life depends on nourishment to all our tissues, organs, channels and cells. It depends upon proper waste removal and remediation of chronic imbalances and issues provided by Herbal nutrition. Herbal nutrition enhances the body's intelligence and brings balance to our body-ecology (doshas). Herbal nutrition advances our detoxification and rejuvenation by leaps and bounds.

We meet many people who spend hundreds and even thousands of dollars on Herbal Supplements. The cost of herbal nutrition will always be cheaper than paying medical bills for issues that could have been resolved before they were full-blown.

It is important to understand that Herbal Nutrition is a precise science, it is worth it to start an Herbal Nutrition program that is tailored just for us at this specific juncture in our lives. Every body is unique and requires specific amounts of specific formulas at specific times. What is helpful at one time, but may be provoking at another. Whatever herbs are useful for one condition for a specific person may exacerbate that condition in another person. Luckily we don't have to figure all this out - this is why we rely on our Ayurvedic Practitioner - an experienced professional who can recommend the appropriate Herbal Nutrition for us. When wielded with precision, Herbal Nutrition can be the pivotal factor in our health.

2. Super-Foods

Infection is the leading cause of disease and degeneration. Infection cannot happen in our bodies, without lack of nutrition. There first has to be a lack of cellular integrity based on nutritional weakness. Just eating organic means that we will not eat poisons, but because of soil depletion, organic foods do not guarantee complete nutrition. Super-Foods provide quality protein, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, complete amino acids, immunoglobulin, phosphatides… We must supplement with nutrient-rich foods such as: algae, seaweeds, chlorella and cereal grasses. The source for these products is everything because we may purchase a brand that is devoid of minerals, has toxic solvents, pesticides, artificial sweeteners, or toxic-bulking agents in it, or has been damaged by excess heating…. It is worth it to go for a well-researched brand like PR LABS where we get five times the nutrients that we pay for. My personal favorite product for this is: Quantum Greens Mix, the Superfoods Green Formula that we carry from PR LABS, it has EVERY KNOWN VITAMIN, MINERAL AND ENZYME NECESSARY FOR LIFE! Oh my! I put some of this in my water bottle and sip it all day long. Keeps the body alkaline (anti-pitta, anti-inflammation, anti-infection… cancer can only live in an acidic environment so this is imperative). We also carry some other Super-Foods, Tocotriene Complex (so tasty - rice bran protein), Quantum Nutritional Flakes (I have heard these are the most tasty things on the planet) and we have a whole list of these Super-Foods. Call our clinic to find out more or order your supply.

3. Favor Living Foods

Over heated, over-processed foods are a waste of our precious meal-times! Food that has been over-heated and over-processed are devoid of nutrition and are more likely to leave sticky, toxic residue in our bodies that act as blockages to our health.

Avoid: Refined Foods like White Flour, White Sugar, Fried Foods, Carbonated Beverages, Hydrogenated Oil, Margarine (plastic fat), MSG, Aspartame, Artificial Colorings, Flavorings; Cured, Salted and Cooked Meats.

Minimize baked goods, breads, muffins, cakes etc…

Favor: Foods cooked at boiling temperatures or less, Foods baked at lower temperatures (200 degrees or less), boiled steamed and raw foods. Also - cultured foods! Our favorite at the Trigug - Raw Sauerkraut (so tasty but make sure it has not been pasteurized that kills the beneficial bacteria).

STEP FOUR DETOX AND REJUVENATION

Years of poor diet, low nutrition, eating late, eat junk foods loaded with pesticides etc… leave the internal body full of undigested residue and toxic sludge. It is no wonder that the World Health Organization has predicted that global cancer raters could increase at an alarming rate, an increase of 50% by 2020. The two main causes of cancer they site - tobacco and diet.  Cancer is not the only issue; energy level, mental and emotional health and well-being depend on having clean insides. Detoxification has become more popular in recent times but how detoxification is done is just as important as if it is done. We must take care to detoxify without agitating the body, without throwing the body-ecology off and without mobilizing toxic materials that we do not remove completely and may get stuck in pockets of organs and channels. Detoxification is a precise art - engage in Detoxing with the help of a professional. Detoxification is not the only matter - if we clean out the body but then don't rejuvenate the tissues we can create issues and imbalances. In our clinic we recommend:

1. Panchakarma: detoxification and rejuvenation

This is a deep cleaning and nourishment that will change your life. It is luxurious, through cleansing. Many of our clients are told they look up to ten year's younger afterwards. Their friends and family are amazed at the change - and they feel great. We recommend receiving a full 5 week Panchakarma or 4 Panchakarma's a year for people with serious imbalances and issues, or one five-day Panchakarma session per year for people with good health.

2. Home Detox Therapies specifically tailored for you.

We also recommend powerful home detox remedies to target specific sites of toxic accumulation and to maintain and support the body in eliminating wastes.

3. Free Your Teeth and the Rest Will Follow

Old tooth decay, dead teeth, rotting teeth, old root-canals, toxic dentures and silver fillings can cause chronic conditions elsewhere in the body. Silver fillings contain toxic metals and are 50% mercury. Scientific studies have shown that mercury leaks out of the teeth into the organs and glands.  This can lead to inflammation, infection, weakness, anxiety, neurological disorders, depression, seizures, arthritis, joint pain, low immunity, allergies, cognition and memory impairment, dehydration, gastro-intestinal disorders… the list goes on and on. Mercury fillings are banned in other countries (Sweden, Germany, Japan) because of world-wide research on the subject. Find a Biological Dentist who has cutting-edge information and technology about how to care for and clean up your teeth.

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