Diet & Health: A Daily Diet to Regain Health

4. Between Meals: While on the cleansing diet (number 1 & 2), if hungry, take hot water with lemon and honey in it instead of coffee or tea and sugar or other snacks. Sugar is usually used in excess in coffee, tea and the daily diet. This is bad for the liver and pancreas, and leads to diabetes. Use honey instead of sugar wherever possible. You need very little sweets and no sugar.

Any fresh fruit may be taken between meals, whenever one is hungry.

5. Noon Meal: Steamed, boiled or baked vegetables and beans. Sprout them first, then use them. They have the most value when chewed without cooking them (beans, peas, lentils, lima beans, chick peas all belong to this group).

Legumes are rich in protein and are far superior to meat and eggs, as they do not contain the harmful by-products. CHEESE is also rich in protein and can be used with any meal, whether with vegetables or fruit, but it should not be cooked or baked, as it loses value and is hard to digest after it has been subjected to too much heat. Cheese, fruits and vegetables which have not been cooked, pasteurized or subjected to too high a temperature (not over 118 degrees F. [Fahrenheit, 47.8 degrees Celsius]) contain enzymes, which are essential for digestion. Hence, salads of fresh fruits or fresh vegetables and fresh sprouts from the legumes, the grains and foenugreek [fenugreek] are highly recommended and preferable to cooked foods. You get more enzymes and vitamins that way.

6. Evening Meal: Should be light and not too late. Heavy and late meals are bad for health, add to weight and sluggishness, and are responsible for inefficiency the next day.^[1]

Any fresh fruit or combination of fresh fruits and warm milk make a choice evening meal for one who is exhausted, ill, nervous or suffers from digestive trouble and sleeplessness.

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¹ Recent research into the cycles of digestive hormones shows that metabolic hormones peak between dawn and noon, converting food calories directly into energy. After lunch, these hormones decline in favor of hormones that convert calories into body fat. Late eating was also found to increase blood glucose and insulin levels, disrupting the fat-burning process of the overnight fast during sleep.