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Now that you’ve learned the basics about food mixing and optimal combinations, read on to find a ready-made diet plan that you can start today. This is no bland, uninspiring diet, either. The foods I’ve included (if prepared properly) are so loaded with energy and flavor, you won’t ever want to return to eating the high-fat, processed foods to which we’ve become so accustomed. Eating five balanced meals at the recommended times each day can help restore the health of your body, reduce the carbon footprints on the environment and, consequently, restore and enhance your overall well-being.

Meal #1 of the day: BREAKFAST Have breakfast between 4 a.m. and 9 a.m. Eat organic fresh fruit or drink 75 C hapter 5 freshly squeezed fruit juice. Eat or drink only fruit. Try to mix up the fruits during the week. For example, do not eat bananas every morning. Try melons now and then, as they are one of the easiest foods to digest. Melons actually proceed directly to the intestines when consumed. If they are held up in the stomach by other foods, they will decompose quickly and ferment. A melon is a great way to start the day. You can eat a different variety of fruits throughout the whole morning, but never mix sweet fruits with acid fruits. It’s okay to mix sweet with subacid or acid with subacid (see below). Eat as much as you want until you are full. Remember, you are supporting your body’s Elimination Cycle. Acid Fruits (These fruits have the greatest detoxification power): Lemons, oranges, pineapples, strawberries, grapefruit, kumquats, tomatoes, tangerines, lime, sour grapes, and sour apples Subacid Fruits: Apricots, apples, pears, nectarines, sweet plums, cherries, mangoes,* raspberries, kiwi, blackberries, blueberries, and cranberries Sweet Fruits: Bananas, papaya, dates, prunes, sweet grapes, cantaloupe, coconuts, mangoes,* peaches, pears, watermelon, dates, figs, pomegranates, honeydew melon, and persimmons *Mangos are both sweet and subacidic. MEAL #2 of the day: MID-MORNING SNACK (Should be eaten halfway between breakfast and lunch) For a nice brunch, you can snack on one of the following items: Choose A, B, C, or D. (For example, you might eat A on Mondays, B on Tuesdays, C on Wednesdays, and so on.) Remember to chew your food well before swallowing. A—Raw Nuts or Seeds: My favorite! It’s said that a handful of seeds will provide the body with twelve to fourteen hours of energy. Many people have reported that after eating seeds for their mid-morning T H E G R E E N B O D Y C L E A N S E 76 snack for three months, they noticed a three hundred to four hundred percent increase in their energy levels. Make sure your seeds or nuts are raw—roasted seeds have lost their life force. For more flavor, you can mix in some hempseed oil, garlic juice, balsamic vinegar, or organic apple cider vinegar. Choose: Almonds, cashews, pumpkin seeds, Brazil nuts, pistachios, sunflower seeds, flax seeds, hemp seeds, chia seeds, wheat berries, grape seeds, hazelnuts, pine nuts, squash seeds, sesame seeds, macadamia nuts, and walnuts. Siberian cedar nuts have one of the highest life-force energies and are the most nutritious and medicinally valuable pine nuts in the world.35 B—Organic Super Green Food Supplement: Supplement your morning snack with a high-quality green powder mix (wheat grass or a chlorella supplement), or organic blue green algae (I use one ounce of the product E3Live) in a twenty-ounce glass of purified water and add one teaspoon of organic Apple Cider Vinegar. This is fast and easy and provides your body with the nutritional value of five full salads. C—Organic Goji Berries: If you’re not familiar with the remarkable health benefits of Tibetan goji berries, do yourself a favor and try them. They pack more nutritional value into each bite than just about any other food. D—Organic Avocado: Cut your avocado and sprinkle with fresh ground black or white pepper and squeeze fresh lime juice over it before eating. The pepper will help speed up your metabolism and the avocado contains the enzyme lipase. Foods containing lipase are the ones with naturally occurring “good fat.” New research from UCLA indicates organic avocados are the highest fruit source of lutein (a carotenoid that helps prevent eye disease) among the twenty most frequently eaten fruits.36 In addition, researchers found that avocados have nearly twice as much vitamin E as previously reported, making them the highest fruit source of this powerful antioxidant. Avocados also contain four times more beta-sitosterol than any other fruit, and 77 C hapter 5 that, combined with their monounsaturated fat content, studies have shown, helps to lower cholesterol levels. MEAL #3 of the day: LUNCH Vegetables + Starches Have lunch between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Choose two to three alkaline vegetables (no acidic ones) and combine with a salad of fresh spinach, mixed lettuce, and greens (such as arugula, beet greens, or kale). Organic salad dressing or a mixture of oil (Organic Hempseed or Olive oil) and organic apple cider vinegar are excellent complements. Select only the red or dark-green leafy types of lettuce. Iceberg-type lettuces are usually hybrids and contain virtually zero nutritional value. Spinach (and baby spinach) is an excellent source of nutrients, and besides that, it tastes great in salads. Mix some raw seeds or nuts into the salad for taste. Choose two to three starchy foods from below to accompany your salad: Potatoes (red, baked), cooked barley, beans, pumpkin, squash, Ezekiel bread, sprout bread, seven grain bread, whole grain pasta, lentils, millet, oatmeal, sweet potatoes, rice (brown or wild), rye, chick peas, beets, or cauliflower. It’s best to eat your food of choice raw, otherwise lightly steam, boil quickly, or bake. The more you cook food the less healthy it becomes. MEAL #4 of the day: MID–AFTERNOON SNACK (Should be eaten halfway between lunch and dinner) These options will be the same as your mid-morning snack. Choose A, B, C, or D (see the Meal #2). (For example, you might eat A on Mondays, B on Tuesdays, C on Wednesdays, and so forth). MEAL #5 of the day: DINNER Vegetable + protein + fat It’s best to have dinner between 6 and 8 p.m. As with lunch, eat a large, DEFINITION Ezekiel Bread: Refers to a Biblical edict (Ezekiel 4:9) to bake bread with ingredients such as wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and fitches, and without artificial ingredients. T H E G R E E N B O D Y C L E A N S E 78 fresh vegetable salad (with only alkaline vegetables) before anything else. Mix two tablespoons of organic flaxseed oil, cold-pressed olive oil, hempseed oil, or grape seed oil into your salad. This dressing will provide more flavor as well as the essential fatty acids your body needs. Although you need to pick one protein source for dinner, I strongly recommend you avoid meat. If you absolutely must have meat on occasion, limit it to one serving per week and make sure it’s organic. Meat should come from animals raised without harmful antibiotics and hormones.

If two different types of high proteins are eaten together, the amount of digestive secretions for each might stop the action of the other. In other words, your body can not modify the digestive process to accommodate each food. Suppose milk–or milk products–are consumed with meat: this would initiate a highly acidic reaction and upset the proportions of pepsin and lipase acting on the meat. The body cannot fully digest both proteins, which leads to the development of toxins.

For optimal health, all recommended foods should be certified organic, locally or home grown. This will help ensure their purity and nutritional content hasn’t been compromised by toxins such as pesticides, antibiotics, hormones, and other chemicals. Raw organic fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts, nut and seed milks, natural oils and sprouted grains provide the most nutrition to the body. Because they are not processed or treated (just gathered and cleaned), they provide the natural enzymes necessary for healthy digestion. If you were not raised on raw organic vegetables or foods, it may be difficult for you to make the transition from cooked, fried, and processed foods. Take it slowly and start by eating fresh fruit for breakfast every morning. After you’ve done that for a week or so, start eliminating one toxic food plus one toxic beverage every week until you have accomplished the goal of reducing your daily “toxic threshold.” This process might take you three to six months, depending on how strict you are in following the plan. Later in the book, I explain how to eliminate toxins from the foods you eat and the beverages you drink and give you natural replacements. Drinking water or beverages with meals dilutes the digestive juices, which slows down the digestion process. Try to drink water between meals. If this doesn’t suit your lifestyle, limit your water intake during a meal to fewer than eight ounces. Drink only water with meals instead of milk, juice, soda, etc. Eating five small meals daily helps regulate your metabolism. This might sound difficult, but when you think about it, it takes just a minute to peel and enjoy a banana or eat a handful of seeds or nuts. Eat slowly and chew your food until it is a liquid-pulp before swallowing. This will allow your stomach to signal your brain, “Hey, I’m full now,” so you avoid taking in excessive calories. You produce up to thirtytwo ounces of saliva every day. Chewing your food will help your body T H E G R E E N B O D Y C L E A N S E 70 absorb vital nutrients more thoroughly and rapidly due to the enzymes secreted in your saliva. After food is liquefied in the mouth, the tongue will recognize the various flavors of each food and then send messages to the brain (which in turn orders production of the corresponding digestive juices needed to break down that food). Chewing your food well ultimately leads to more effective digestion, better taste, and—one of the best-kept secrets—quicker weight loss

It’s important to really know your body before a treatment plan can begin. The following test can provide you with valuable information about the health of your colon as well as your risk of developing serious intestinal problems. Simply answer Yes or No to the list of questions. Remember—be honest! If you find some of the questions difficult to answer off the top of your head, you may first want to keep a journal of your bowel habits and general health for a week or so. Base your answers on the last 30 days. 1) Do you run out of energy in the afternoon? 2) Do you suffer from occasional (one to two per week) headaches? 3) Are you having fewer than two to three normal bowel movements daily? 4) Do you have problems concentrating from time to time? 5) Do you experience gas or bloating one or more times weekly? 6) Do you get irritable from time to time? 7) Do you have difficulty getting a good night’s rest? 8) Do you have muscle aches and/or stiffness? 9) Do you eat red meat more than twice per week? 10) Do you eat fried foods more than twice per week? 11) Do you drink less than ½ gallon of purified water daily? T H E G R E E N B O D Y C L E A N S E 66 12) Do you have problems controlling your weight? 13) Do you exercise fewer than three times weekly? 14) Do you suffer from allergies or sinus problems? 15) Do you have bad breath or body odor? 16) Are you unhappy with your current health? 17) Are you currently suffering from any health problems? 18) Do you have hemorrhoids? 19) Is your skin dry, broken, spotted, or blemished in any way? 20) Do you have occasional abdominal pain? 21) Do you have to strain to have a bowel movement? 22) Do your bowel movements have a foul odor? 23) Do you have hard, small, or dry stools one to two times weekly? 24) Do you notice bright red blood on the toilet paper one or more times per month? 25) Do you have painful bowel movements? 26) Do you use a microwave to cook more than two meals per week? 27) Do you drink coffee, soft drinks, alcohol, or milk more than two times per week? 28) Are you currently taking any prescription medications?