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Moving away from acid-forming foods helps switch your body into the alkaline, anabolic phase of metabolism where cleansing and repair are most effective.
- Avoid all red meat (including pork, ham, beef, lamb, sausage, salami)
- Avoid all sugar (including products with added sugar)
- Avoid all white flour (in bread, rolls, pasta & many other foods),
- Avoid most dairy products (including milk, butter, cheese, cream, ice cream, milk powder, but you do not have to avoid yoghurt),
- Avoid all alcohol & cigarettes.
- Minimise tea & coffee (max 1 cup coffee, 2 cups tea per day),
- Minimise bread (max 2 slices per day)
- Avoid or at least Minimise all processed foods with chemical additives
This is not meant to be a slimming diet (although people commonly lose some weight on it). The point is that you should not go hungry and you can enjoy the foods that you can eat as much as you like.
The principal foods that make up the cleansing diet are fruit and vegetables. Eating predominantly fruits and vegetables will move your body into an ‘alkaline’ state. Fruit can be dried or fresh. All vegetables should be fresh, either raw or cooked.
Other foods you should eat as freely as you like on the cleansing diet are: nuts and seeds, sprouts, honey, yoghurt and any herbs or spices.
You can eat plenty of fish, chicken, eggs, rice, oats, beans and lentils on the cleansing diet however keep these foods in smaller amounts compared to the fruit and vegetables. They will not interfere with the cleansing process but will shift you away from the alkaline phase if you eat more of them than the fruit and vegetables.
It is essential that you drink plenty of water on the cleansing diet. For most people that will mean about 8 large glasses of fluid each day which could include water, diluted natural fruit juices and herbal teas.
The following menu choices give some examples of how this can be done.
Breakfast
- Bowl of chopped fresh fruit with some mixed nuts, seeds and yoghurt.
- Whole grain bread/toast with nut butters, hummus or egg.
- High quality natural or homemade muesli with ingredients like: oats, rolled barley, rice flakes, rice bran, seeds, coconut, crushed almonds or cashews. Add fresh fruit, goat's milk, soy milk or yoghurt if desired.
- Cooked cereal e.g. oats, rice or buckwheat with optional dried fruit, nuts, seeds and soy or goat's milk. (Goat's milk is much closer to human milk in composition and much easier to digest)
Morning, afternoon or supper snack
- Mixed seeds, nuts and dried fruit.
- Piece of fruit
- Small bowl of yoghurt and chopped fruit.
- Whole grain crackers with nut butters or hoummus.
Lunch
- Mixed vegetable salad
- Salad sandwich
- Vegetable soup with any combination of lentils, beans or grains.
- Any of the dinner choices
Dinner
- Chicken or fish with plenty of vegetables (there are hundreds of ways you can make this work)
- Bean and grain dish: e.g. stir-fry vegetables with rice and tofu, dhal with vegetables and rice, tortilla and beans, buckwheat noodles with vegetables & tempeh, vegetable soup with barley and kidney beans.
- Grain and nut meal: e.g. steamed vegetables with rice and peanut sauce, stir-fry vegetables with cashew nuts
- Use cookbooks or Google but whatever you do make this meal in particular one that you enjoy.
- The red meat can usually come back into the diet after a few weeks. Red meat is not bad for us and the undeniable fact is that we are biologically designed to be omnivores (plant and meat eaters) however meat takes a lot of energy to digest and you want that energy to go into the detoxification process especially when you are beginning the cleansing diet.
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