The Optimum Diet

2000-3-20 11:41:00

Question:
"Many diets are put forward as the optimum or the best possible God-given program. What do you suppose is the best possible overall diet for maximum health benefits?"

We've had several answers on this, but the answers seem to be directed at what diet is best for an individual at the moment. For instance, having some meat in my diet is a wise choice at present, but I will readily admit I am not on the optimum diet for maximum health of my body. Everything in life is a trade off. For one as busy as me the wise eating of regularly available foods is much more convenient. Also, I find that a regular diet grounds me for what I want to accomplish at the moment. Nevertheless, there are better diets for health than the one I am on.

Let me present to you what I consider to be the best diet for health ever presented. It was originated by Professor Arnold Ehret and called The Mucousless Diet Healing System. His diet consists entirely of living, uncooked foods with emphasis on fruit.

You can read a sort sketch on him and buy his book at: http://www.rawfood.com/ehret.html

Or go to Amazon.com at: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0879040041/o/qid=953408927/sr=8-1/102-8375973-1104057

After reading his book a number of years ago, I decided to try it out and started out on fruit only. This took tremendous discipline for one like me who grew up on meat and potatoes. After a couple months I began to develop canker sores and concluded that I was getting too many acids, and added sprouts and vegetables with emphasis on those growing above the ground. For salad dressing I used apple cider vinegar. Along with the diet I ran every day for about twenty minutes.

I ate nothing until noon at which time I ate a large salad that tasted as good as a steak. Then I finished off the day with fruit. I was on this diet for about a year and had the best vitality of my life. Unfortunately my first wife complained daily about me not eating her food and for the sake of the marriage I went back on a regular diet. In many ways I wish I would have held my ground; it took almost a year for the diet to get comfortable, and now if I go on it again I will have to start all over with the discipline.

From this experience I have concluded the optimum diet does consist in eating living uncooked foods, sprouts with a handful of raw nuts thrown it. This diet is not for everyone. If you have a history of enjoying meat as I did, it will require a major decision followed by discipline. If you think you can do it, it will pay off. Actually giving up bread was the most difficult part of the diet for me.

The worst part of this diet is when you go out to eat with friends. There is often little or nothing on the menu that you can order - a good dinner salad if you are lucky.

Questions:

(1) What is the best water to drink? (a) Distilled or reverse osmosis (b) Filtered with the minerals left in. (c) Spring water (d) Tap water

Explain the reason for your answer.

(2) How can fasting be used to improve health?

(3) If you are going to eat fruit, vegetables and meat how should you go about consuming them? Should you eat them together or in some type of order or sequence?

Explain your answer.