Ten Bad Foods
Below are recommendations from Dr. Joel Wallach that everybody should limit or ELIMINATE from their diet.
- Wheat
- Barley
- Rye
- Oats, Oatmeal – even if it says that it’s gluten free.
- Buckwheat – yes it is gluten free but, cross contamination from the plant to the seed of fagopyrin can cause damage to the gastrointestinal tract.
- Fried Food – nothing fried! You should boil, broil or bake and never more than medium rare for red meat.
- Oils – Oils oxidize when they come into contact with the air (become rancid). Since almost all oil is continually exposed to some air from the time it is produced, the process of oxidation has begun in even the freshest oil. These oxidized oils cause inflammation and cell damage. (Youngevity's essential oils are injected into the gel caps surrounded by nitrogen to prevent oxidation.)
- Well done red meat (IE No burned fats) – (rare or medium-rare is ok!) If you grill your food, try to have something between the food and the fire (like aluminium foil) so the juice doesn’t drip onto the flame and deposit dangerous things on the meat.
- Any nitrates added to meat – (ie: deli meats) tell your butcher NO NITRATES or NITRITES!
- No carbonated drinks of any kind within one hour before, during or one hour after meals.
- Skin of a baked potato (or yam, or sweet potato). If you boil a potato, you can eat the skins.
Good Foods
Dr. Joel Wallach is an EXPERT in medical nutrition and recommends the Good Food/Bad Food list to everyone. There are exceptions for diabetics regarding fruit/sugar. You must clean up your diet for good health and to absorb nutrients.
As a bonus, here are the foods that are GOOD for you, as recommended by Dr. Joel Wallach and Dr. Peter Glidden:
Proteins
- Eggs
TO COOK EGGS YOU MAY:- Poach; This is his number one choice because the water never reaches a temperature greater than 212 degrees.
- Scramble with butter over very low heat and only until they are just setting up. If you can hear them cooking it’s too hot.
- Soft boil with the yolk still runny. Some call them “2 minute eggs”. (Hard-boiled egg yolks with a greenish coating have had their cholesterol degraded.)
- Raw Eggs are good BUT you must increase your Biotin.
- Fish
- Chicken
- Pork
- Lamb
- Beef—rare/medium rare
- Mixed, Salted Nuts—no peanuts
- Beans
Grain Carbohydrates
Any carbohydrate (except oatmeal) that is “Gluten Free” is OK.
- Rice
- Millet
- Couscous (made from pearl millet only).
- Quinoa
- Corn (GMO Free)
Vegetables & Fruits
- Veggies
- Fruit
Dairy
- Dairy
Oils Fats and Sugars
- Salt - Salt your food to taste. To properly digest your food you need stomach acid and salt helps in the creation of stomach acid.
- Nut Butters—no extra sugar
- Lard (yes, lard!)
- Use Butter – Margarine is simply oil in a solid state. If you cook with butter, make sure the heat is low enough that the butter doesn’t turn brown in the pan.
Beverages
- 4-8, 8oz glasses of filtered water each day. Avoid soft plastic bottles.
- Coffee
- Tea
- Green tea
- Red wine
ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity)
20,000 ORAC points of anti-oxidants daily.
Foods high in ORAC – Blue berries, cinnamon, walnuts, curry, dark skinned fruits, unprocessed cocoa powder, acai berry, green tea, red wine (research for more foods high in ORAC).
Phytates
A note of caution to those using Youngevity products.
Phytates bind to minerals in the Beyond Tangy Tangerine, Plant Derived minerals, and other Youngevity products containing minerals. The phytates interfere with the absorption of minerals and wastes them. If you eat phytates, take your minerals at least two hours before, or two hours after you consume the phytates.
Examples of phytates:
Nuts, seeds, rice, beans, spinach, peas, lentils, legumes. Do an internet search to find more foods that contain phytates.
