The Food Mantra: Fresh Fruits and Vegetables, Whole and Unprocessed Grains and Beans, all Organic, all Fiber

Grains
(soak overnight)
Vegetables
(Fresh is best!)
Beans
(Fresh is best!)
Fruit Fish
(optional/treat)
Cause weight gain/stop weight loss:
NO breads, cereals, pasta, and potatoes.
Fill up on
(Organic, frozen is OK, no butter/margarine)
Replace meat
(Organic, frozen, canned)
4-8 oz/day, 4-5 days/week
Dessert and
Breakfast
Frozen OK
Wild, NOT farm-raised.
You must ask.
Barley (muscle development)


Millet (low fat/digestion/no gluten)
Collard greens, broccoli (I-3-C and DIM), cauliflower, carrots, winter squash, onions, mushrooms.

Boy choy, daikon, kale
Lentils, mung, aduki, split peas & black-eyed peas = Less Gas especially if soaked with probiotic capsules

Cook soft and warm
Any berry,
...or plums in 1 inch of apple/peach/pear juice, Rice Dream Vanilla Enriched, or a soy creamer



cantaloupe, honeydew, watermelon


(apples, pears, peaches, grapes slow weight loss)
4-6-8 ounces 2-3 times a week or occasionally the organic pasture-fed meats below
Quinoa (low fat/quickest, for the heart, no gluten)

Amaranth (highest protein, no gluten) or Teff (quickest, also no gluten)

Cabbage, leeks, scallions, celery, cucumbers, green beans, mustard greens, burdock

Lima, navy, great northern beans, and chick peas cause more gas
Low mercury:
white fish, fresh water trout, sardines, wild Alaskan salmon, pacific oysters, orange roughy, shrimp, scallops

Brown rice (promotes stability, stops weight loss, no gluten)
Arthritis causing vegetables: potatotes, sweet potatoes, yams, plantain, egg plant, zucchini, tomato, peppers, spinach Tempeh. Flavorings: Balsamic (Modena) vinegar, mirin sweet rice cooking wine, oregano, garlic, cilantro, Mrs. Dash, Spike  

Wheat berries-? cause allergies and has gluten
 
Gas:
"Vitase Digestion Formula" or other digestive enzymes, or soak beans with probiotic capsules
Medium mercury:
saltwater trout, flounder, lobster, halibut, snapper, Atlantic cod & haddock, ocean & fresh water perch, sole, shrimp, bluefish

Rye berries-?
cause allergies
and has gluten
Simply watch the urge go by:
  count 1...,2....
  not tropical fruits such as bananas, oranges, pineapples: we don´t live in the tropics  
Oats groats (whole):
oats/oatmeal (whole oats are called "groats") - are high fat and stop weight loss
  Eat "Foods as they come from the field" = unprocessed (not breads, pastas, etc.)   High mercury:
Chilean sea bass, grouper, halibut, swordfish, tuna, amberjack

Buckwheat (kasha, high in calcuim)
Frozen veggie mixes without cheese   nuts, seeds, sea vegetables, miso, and tamari - as discussed 4-8 oz. of bison or free range chicken as fish alternatives

This is a very high fiber, whole and unprocessed foods, low cholesterol, low sodium, low fat Liv-it, not a die-t.
All grains cook alike. Soaking overnight reduces cooking time by ½. Grains cooks 2:1. Measure one cup of water and bring to a boil. When the water boils, add ½ the amount of grain (1 cup water, ½ cup grain). Cover with lid, bring back to a slow boil and cook for the right amount of time. Brown rice, oat groats, barley = 60 minutes unsoaked/30 minutes soaked, millet = 45/20 minutes. Quinoa, teff, and amaranth 14/7 minutes.

H. Robert Silverstein, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Hartford, CT