Most people nowadays eat lots of the kinds of food that contain chemicals your body will have difficulty getting rid of. These include pesticides and other agricultural chemicals in fresh items like vegetables and fruit, meat and cheese, as well as chemical additives in manufactured, processed and refined products such as confectionery, biscuits, bread, sugar, packet soups and desserts. For the average person in Britain today the E-coded chemicals and artificial flavourings alone add up to the equivalent of 18 tablets of soluble aspirin every day (Leaflet F14)!
We know that many food chemicals are poisonous in any quantity and we can assume that even small amounts of each chemical, acting along with the 3000 or so other chemicals we consume daily, are together irritant enough to nag at our bodies and make them more prone to disease. This seems to be so, because some forms of disease also behave in an accumulative way: rheumatism and arthritis (Leaflet P20) and heart disease (S10) are good and very common examples.
When victims of these accumulative diseases makes the effort to cut down on their chemical pollution by improving their diets, they often benefit far more than from medicines they may be offered. Incidentally they often discover a much higher level of energy and efficiency that they hadn’t realised they’d lost.
All this is particularly important if you want to get fit again to enjoy an active sport. A lot of people now realise how important it is to get reasonably fit before they start to play a sport vigorously, but far fewer would-be sportsmen understand that they should clean up their bodies carefully first, even before they try to get fit. Increased activity in a chemically dirty body puts it under much greater stress, and may threaten its health. The only safe thing to do is get your body clean first, before you set about getting fit.
The diet that follows is designed to achieve this for you, whether for sport or for overcoming accumulative disease. Read through the whole scheme before you attempt it. If you have doubts relating to your particular condition, check with your doctor before beginning.
What to do
1. Prepare by cutting out:-
2. If you really mean business, begin with a two-day fast on home-made barley water (Leaflet F16) or fresh diluted fruit juice (mineral or filtered tap-water). Do not be put off if it makes you feel ill, but take time off work if necessary; you have \"’flu’(Leaflet P57). An illness like this does not usually take more than a week, and shows how urgently you need cleansing. But it takes nerve; support from a doctor or friend is very valuable.
3. After two days start eating one or two pieces of fresh fruit at mealtimes. You can add or substitute any raw vegetable for variety.
4. When you feel well and hungry, commence two meals a day — a late breakfast or lunch, and an evening meal. Drink juice or barley water between meals as desired, but not during or for an hour after eating. There is no need to go hungry.
5. Breakfast: Start if you wish with a cup of juniper berry tea prepared overnight, or freshly brewed broom or parsley piert. Proceed to a generous fresh fruit course, as many pieces as you wish in any variety; try some exotic ones. Pause for a few minutes, and if you are still genuinely hungry eat dry wholemeal toast, or mixed nuts and raisins, until you are satisfied.
6. Main Meal: Start with a generous fresh coleslaw including cabbage, onion and carrot. Pause, then have one baked vegetable of your choice: potatoes, a root variety, beans (not from a tin), broccoli or cauliflower. Cook them gently and slowly in a closed dish, in their own juice.
7. After three weeks you should be ready for a more normal diet, avoiding routinely the items you now realise are unwholesome. You can then afford to take part in occasional celebrations and restaurant outings without expecting mishap.
8. In arthritis your cure will take several months longer. Continue to avoid all meat, fish, shellfish, tinned food, eggs, salt spices, coffee, Indian tea, alcohol, and tobacco. You may have a little butter and cottage cheese, otherwise avoid all dairy products too.