Most of this page is from Wanda Boone’s classes on nutrition and wellness. Check her website www.wandasinfo.com to learn more. To get motivated to shift, I encourage you to have a ‘live blood analysis’ with her to see how your current lifestyle and dietary habits are affecting your blood…your life.
If you look at the human body as a furnace and food as the fuel, you will gain a better understanding of the following guidelines. The main concern is the ash (or waste) that is left in the body once the food is burned for fuel. The more alkaline the ash, the more life enhancing the fuel—the more acidic the ash the more disease is created. If your body’s Ph level is too acidic for more than 3-4 hours you will die. In order to survive, your body is forced to leach calcium from your bones to neutralize the Ph level. The key to a vibrant life is to avoid acid forming foods and flood your body with nutrient dense whole foods.
With this information in mind please look over these guidelines and start making small forward steps toward healthier habits. As you intend to be healthier, your body will guide you and support your choices. Over the next few years expect to continually improve your dietary choices. Make the best choices you can, energetically though don’t beat yourself up when you don’t. If you are going to have junk food at least enjoy it without guilt—just get back on track as soon as possible.
I recommend affirming that your “body is only absorbing healthy substances and excreting the rest” AND I recommend striving for ideal nutrition to support you as raise your body’s vibrations and consciousness.
Try to eat your foods as close to the way they grow in nature as possible. Choose foods
(fresh vegetable, whole fruits, whole grains, legume, nuts* & seeds) to eat in order of preference:
- Fresh, whole and raw.
- Dried beans, peas, and fruit if it is not processed. Sprouted lentils are exceptionally nutritious
- Frozen, flash frozen is best.
*nuts & seeds should be bought raw & soaked in distilled water or placed in a 350 degree oven for 5-8 minutes to activate the dormant enzymes before eating. Best: walnuts, pecans, almond; seeds: pumpkin, sesame, sunflower
*nuts & seeds should be bought raw & soaked in distilled water or placed in a 350 degree oven for 5-8 minutes to activate the dormant enzymes before eating. Best: walnuts, pecans, almond; seeds: pumpkin, sesame, sunflower
Most foods above this line leave an alkaline ash in the body,
the foods listed below leave an acidic ash in the body.
4. Canned is NOT recommended, but if you must, home canned is preferred to commercial.
Certain substances are not compatible to good health and should be eliminated from any diet designed to promote good health. Look at the following list—if you are consuming these on a regular basis, you may want to consider replacing them with health enhancing, whole food alternatives.
- All carbonated beverages including sparkling water. It takes 32 oz of water to neutralize the acid in one soda or calcium will be leached out of bones to do so. Also kills friendly bacteria
- Coffee-one cup of organic decaf a day is acceptable unless your condition is critical
- Refined, white flour—look for stone ground, whole grain, or sprouted grain (Ezekial brand)
- Refined sugar-consider Turbinado; honey; raw, organic Agave nectar; or Stevia
- Alcohol, even red wine. It turns to sugar, all sugar feeds Candida which totally weakens our immune system
- Black teas—causes you to lose water, most herbal teas are fine
- Avoiding all dairy, ice cream. Consider Rice products. It takes more calcium out of the bones to neutralize dairy products than we gain from them. Our body’s do not digest dairy after age 2. Yogurt’s friendly bacteria is even destroyed thru pasteurization
- Chocolate. Instead order organic, raw cacao powder for recipes and use agave sugar
- Black pepper. Use cayenne or other chili peppers
- Table salt. Order Himalayan salt –has over 72 minerals in it—it becomes a mineral supplement 1-877-769-3795 www.krystalsalt.com
- Transfatty acids & hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils & saturated fats
- Artificial sweeteners
If you feel you must eat meat, eat only ‘clean’ meats (those without drugs and hormones) and NEVER eat meat fried. Eat small portions (no more than 3-5 oz at a time) and not out of a can. Eating 5 x the amt of meat in greens/vegetables helps offset the acidic ash. Eating ‘white foods’ with meat (bread, pasta, white rice, white potatoes etc) creates a ‘glue’ like effect and diminishes proper digestion. Eat them separately.
- Fish—fresh salmon (not farm raised) or other cold water fish
- Fowl—fresh pheasant, free range chicken or turkey, quail
- Red Meat—that is NOT commercially raised
- Avoid Pork, Shrimp, Crab, Lobster, Oysters and other scavenger or carnivorous animals.