NO-Grain, Lemon
Juice Diet!
by Tessa Jupp RN Polio Clinic WA
I find myself having to
recommend to more and more people, the old-fashioned basic unprocessed food
diet we grew up on as kids of the 1920s – 1950s.
For many
of the problems we have today, getting our foods right is the answer. It solves high cholesterol, diabetes, gut
disturbance, reflux, irritable bowel, arthritis, obesity and many more common
problems.
The problem is processed foods and particularly foods made from grains ie our convenience foods!
By grains
I mean things like bread, cakes, biscuits, cereals and toast for breakfast,
pies, pizza, pasta, anything made with flour and particularly wheat.
All of
these foods have been “made” or “processed” which
decreases the amount of energy and nutrition we get from them. If foods are broken down in the body too
quickly we end up with a “glut” of energy too soon and the
body’s response is to store it as fat.
So with
all this excess carbohydrate food, the blood sugar rises too high and insulin
resistance results. The liver then converts
the excess carbs to cholesterol to be stored as fat and your doctor wants to
put you on statins. Without enough
carnitine, the body cannot re-use these fat stores so we just get fatter and
more unhealthy. It becomes a vicious
circle.
It is even
recorded as part of a news article in the “West” on 21 March 2009
on the “fat gene” where researchers at the Uni of California state “Normally
carbohydrate is turned into glucose by digestion. Glucose that is not burned for energy turns
into fatty acids, which then circulate to other parts of the body primarily as
fat.” ie as cholesterol!!
So what
should we eat?
Basically
our staple diet should be the 2 fruit and 5 veg recommendation we see from the
Health Dept, plus some protein. Protein
takes longer to break down so the energy we get from it lasts longer and no
glut! Vegetables give us initial
energy, meats prolong it. Grain foods
should be rare treats!
So forget
the cereal and toast for brekkie. We
need a cooked breakfast - the boiled / scrambled eggs, fish, chops,
lambs fry, bubble and squeak etc of our youth.
Lunch can be a meat and vegetable
soup or salad with fish, chicken or some sort of meat. Eggs or cheese is okay. But not cheese if cholesterol high.
Dinner should be our basic
meat and veg meal.
Left over
vegies can be used to make pastry and savoury pancakes for treats.
It does
not take long to prepare a simple basic meal from scratch with fresh vegies and
meat. Cook enough for several meals and
reheat, add curry etc. You can make so many different dishes with just meat and
vegies and various herbs and spices and different ways of cooking. But avoid microwaves.
The
proportions are dictated by our blood groups, usually coincides with personal
preference anyway. We need a mix of
protein (from animals) and carbo-hydrate (from plants) for every meal. This should be half and half for blood types
O, A2 and B. One quarter protein to
three quarters veg for A1 and AB.
Between meal snacks can be fruit, raw
veg, nuts, seeds, soup. We don’t
need sugary foods, or salty nibbles.
Fizzy drinks and fruit juices are full of sugar. Cocoa is good for us as a drink with no or
minimal sugar or as dark chocolate.
Milky foods tend to put on weight and increase cramps and stiffness.
To help us
digest our food correctly many of us need some pure 100% lemon juice or
apple cider vinegar - taken undiluted with every meal! Either at the beginning or middle of the
meal (even afterwards if we forget). The
acid of the lemon juice breaks down the food in the stomach and signals for the
other digestive enzymes, bile, insulin etc to be released to do their job. As part of this process the lemon juice loses
its acidity and becomes alkaline so it does not make you acid! You don’t need antacids.
This is a
simple change back to the foods our parents and grandparents ate. Try it for several months and see if you don’t
feel better and see if your blood levels return to normal. You have nothing to lose.
A word on anaemia
- I often advice people with anaemia to avoid all legumes and lentils
completely for several months and the anaemia goes. This means NO peas, baked beans, broad
beans, bean mixes, split pea soup, peanuts, soya. Even coffee is a bean!
For arthritic
joints, take 1-3 teaspoons daily of pure gelatine dissolved in a hot
drink (tea, coffee, cocoa or soup). A lick
of borax a day works wonders too.
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Beat eggs with a little milk, add salt, pepper, mixed herbs, mashed leftover veg, chopped onion, spoon or so of arrowroot powder. Add as desired, peas, grated carrot, sweet corn, chopped celery. Cook in buttered frypan. Hot or cold. Arrowroot is a root not a grain. |