Natural diet

Golden rules for a healthy diet and for maintaining good health:

1. Food has to be tasty and easily digestible, i.e. as raw as possible in order to maintain the correct acid/base and blood sugar balance.
2. Chew food slowly and with good insalivation.
3. Do not drink with meals or take small sips, one glass of water at most. Drink a glass of lukewarm water in the morning and in the evening. Drink at least a litre of water between meals.
4. Eat food in suitable quantities; leave the table still feeling a little hungry.
5. Eat food containing liquids and few solids, following the indications of the Peter D'Adamo (Blood group) diet. Food should be as biodynamic or organic as possible, as fresh and raw as possible, whole meal and/or semi-wholemeal and above all, NOT genetically modified (GMO).
6. Eat fruit and vegetables which are in season before meals or just have fruit and/or vegetable only meals. Do not combine acid with base fruits.
7. Combine food correctly, according to the Blood Group diet.
8. Do not combine too many foods during the same meal, to avoid incompatibility, which causes indigestion.
9. Eat meals in pleasant, ventilated environment with non stressful company.
10. Eat food on an empty stomach in order to enhance the taste.

In the USA, most doctors and health practitioners now believe that there is an evident association between a high fruit and vegetable content diet and a low risk of chronic diseases.

Natural phytonutrients, coming from plants, particularly antioxidants, help optimise human health.

Therefore, learning to eat correctly has to be the principal goal of a meal. A meal should be remedy-dynamic and only one dish.

We fall ill as we slowly but inevitably become poisoned (through toxins in our body cells), with unsuitable diet, unhealthy water, vaccines, medicines, drugs, chronic stress and unsolved spiritual conflicts: unethical behaviour contrary to the laws of nature.

The Eubiotic diet (a natural health philosophy that has been taught by Professor Luciano Pecchiai in Italy for decades), demonstrates that a healthy and natural diet, not only liberates us from the illnesses of civilization but it also increases our defenses, and represents a real preventive and curative medicine, above all against environmental pathologies; it is based on the following principles.

The first rule to remember is that raw food is good for your digestion, therefore for your health; raw food is rich in enzymes necessary for this important process, whilst cooked food contains no enzymes and produces only dead ashes.

Raw food should represent 70% of our ideal diet. Eating simply and healthy is the best way to maintain or find our optimal health. The origin of food is also important.

Buy products coming mostly from organic or biodynamic farming; use fewer products coming from far away as they contain additives and preservatives necessary for transportation and preservation.

Usually this type of food is only a temporary fad and producers over crop with intensive cultivations to meet demand.

For Europeans, the best diet is the already well known "Mediterranean Diet", which was the basis of our ancestors' diet and we can improve on it with more suitable combinations. Eating correctly does not mean a first course, second course, side-dish, fruit and bread (sometimes also dessert); this is absolutely wrong as every type of food needs different enzymes to be digested and absorbed; eat (as you can see hereafter in the examples of the menu) only one type of food regularly combined with vegetables.

Every day we witness the destructive effects from the chemical-food industry; moreover, non-organic farming uses chemical additives, which are forced on producers by the multinational chemical industry; products look good but they contain subtle and very strong poisons which, over the years, contribute to the overall degradation of our health and the onset of different pathologies (neurological degenerative diseases, tumoural diseases, cardiovascular diseases, etc).

Now follows some information and advice regarding the most commonly eaten food in western society:

• Meat: since ancient times, people knew it was better to eat meat deriving from small sized animals, poultry or small birds, rather than meat coming from big and fat animals such as cattle, which in the past were used primarily by nobles who were the only people who suffered from fatness and gout; a meat-based diet worsens digestion.
  Eat meat twice per month maximum, grilling and removing the fatty and burnt parts as they are toxic.
  Do not eat meat in the evening, because at night the physiological functions and the passage through gastrointestinal tract slows down. This can easily cause intestinal putrefaction and the pH value of the intestine becomes acid, forming toxic factors (putrescence, cadaverine, etc.) which the blood then transports to the cells, generating strong thermal/nutritional alterations and consequently severe intoxications. An excessive consumption of animal proteins, such as meat and fish produce and excess of uric acid and hypertension. In this case there is no problem of partial and total lack of the following nutrients.
• Fish: preferably eat small fish and "fish- shaped" fish rather than shellfish; fish is a meat product; therefore, do not eat it more than twice a week.
• Milk and by-products: cow's milk is absolutely inappropriate for a human diet, even if considered as a complete food. If calves drink pasteurised milk, they die and if mice drink it they do not reproduce any more.
  Non-pasteurised cow's milk is suitable for calves, which at birth weigh 60 kg and after one month 110 kg; a one-month calf can stand up and move by itself. This fast growth needs a significant development and a rapid bone formation, to satisfy the needs required of the continually increasing activity and weight. For this reason cow's milk contains more calcium than the human mother's milk; moreover mother's milk is alkaline while the other is acid.
• Cheese: take one spoon of honey in order to digest cheese more easily. Use cheese made from goat's milk, as it has less fat; therefore it is more digestible than that from cow's milk. For the same reason, eat milk by-products only once a week (cheese, yoghurts, etc.) and choose light and unfermented cheese. Parmesan is allowed more often, but in limited quantities.
• Eggs: eat once/twice a week and preferably freshly-laid, cooked or raw; after some days they lose most of their energetic and nutritional properties. Some animal proteins (cheese, eggs, milk, seafood) if introduced in excess, cause uricaemia and hypertension in people with a robust structure.
  The shortage of these substances instead causes decalcification, demineralisation, protein, vitamin deficiencies, deficiencies in the binomial phosphorus-calcium, muscle hypotonia and adrenal failure, even more if the person is thin and fragile.
• Legumes (chickpeas, lentils, beans, peas): eat them (if well digested). Twice a week vegetable soups are excellent; soak legumes the previous evening.
• Bread and farinaceous food: white bread and white-flour based starchy foods (including pizza) have low vitamin and mineral concentrations, which are completely lost when the flour is refined. Furthermore when raised (bakers and pizza makers usually use chemical yeast and GMO grain, durum wheat) which make them not really suitable for our diet (they often cause abdominal swelling and gas formation). It is recommended to reduce the consumption of starchy foods, preferring instead those containing wholemeal or semi-wholemeal flour and unyeasted, e.g. unleavened bread which is very tasty. Choose brown rice or semi-wholemeal (do not use white refined rice) instead of pasta and wheat bread. Eliminate bread from your diet if you can.
• Vegetable meat: From certain types of cereals and legumes you can prepare vegetable meat, also called vegetable muscle.
• Rice, the ideal food: for millennia rice has been considered the perfect cereal food for the human diet; eat brown and/or semi-wholemeal rice. Rice has different varieties each with particular features.
• Pasta: eat at most once a week (better if brown or semi-wholemeal and NOT durum wheat), as it is a starchy based food. Nowadays people prefer refined pasta, which is poor in vital elements, causing fermentation and troublesome phenomena in the intestine. Use instead brown rice or semi wholemeal which can be eaten whenever you want. Soak it the previous evening.
  Do not use cooked tomato (fundamental concept even if rarely followed), to dress pasta and rice; it acidifies digestion. Use fresh and raw tomatoes in small quantities for dressing. Remove the skin, as it is not suitable for a human diet.
• Vegetables: a very important group. Eat at every meal an abundant portion of raw vegetables combined with other food. Do not separate them from the other ingredients. Do not eat crudités after the first or second course. Eat vegetables before or combined with other food; this helps the preparation of the cud in the intestine, assimilation and later elimination without overloading and irritating the intestinal mucosa.
  Eat preferably raw vegetables; in the evening you can sometimes eat them cooked, better if steamed or only seared (leave them in very hot water for a few minutes). In case of severe diseases, blend them (raw and/or cooked) to prepare pastes, which are more digestible.
  An excess of vegetables can cause a dilatation of the digestive organs, swelling of the belly and possible constipation or dysentery, even gastroenterocolitis. On the other hand, the insufficient intake of vegetables can cause constipation due to fibre failure.
  An excess of cereals (such as in macrobiotics) causes blood hyper viscosity and intestinal fermentations, therefore possible dermatosis and excessive mucus. Cereal deficiency instead causes slimming, weakness and difficulty to assimilate proteins and is more severe if the subject is thin and fragile.
• Fruits: another very important group. There are many different varieties of fruit with very different characteristics. Do not eat fruit after meals, it causes abnormal fermentations; moreover, the assimilation of vital food products would not be optimal (we rarely suggest to eat acid fruits after meals). Eat them as a snack in the morning or afternoon; sometimes you can eat only raw fruit as a meal (as for vegetables, use almost exclusively raw fruit). Apples are very suitable.
  Eating fresh fruit for breakfast (e.g., three-four days per week have breakfast with fresh fruit in season) would be good habit.
  In case of severe diseases, blend them (raw and/or cooked) to prepare a paste, which is more digestible.
• Oleaginous (oil) seeds: eat daily as a snack, far from mealtimes, seven-eight almonds or walnuts (also crushed in a salad). Blend them (raw and/or cooked); they are more digestible.
• Sugar: absolutely eliminate white sugar. Today cane sugar is used a lot; use it in small quantities. It would be better to take fructose and/or honey in very limited quantities or tree syrup, molasses or malt.
• Sweets and bakery products: eat exclusively and always in limited quantities, homemade sweet products, prepared with very little butter, without white sugar and with semi-wholemeal or wholemeal flour and NOT durum wheat, or wholemeal biscuits (rice biscuits are better) for breakfast and always without sugar. Do not eat packed snack foods, which besides being nutritionally null, contain harmful substances, among which are colourings, preservatives, additives and hydrogenous fats.
• Oils and dressing fats: do not use vegetable fats like margarine, use butter in very limited quantities (do not use when sick). Add fats only at the end of cooking (animal and vegetable fats change their chemical composition if heated at more than 42°); when you dress vegetables, use alternatively or mix them together, extra-virgin olive oil, sunflower, linseed oil, sesame or cold squeezed (buy at the herbalist's shop); in this way you will not have a vitamin E deficiency, which is low in extra-virgin olive oil. Do not use too much spice or dressing; taste food as naturally as possible. If you need to heavily season food with spices, it means your intestine is irregular.
• Salt: eat exclusively and in limited quantities pure sea salt. Do not salt cooking water, add pure sea salt after cooking; you will use less salt and the food will be tastier.
• Beverages: drink tea and coffee once a day without sugar. Eliminate strong drinks. Drink wine in very small quantities, red wine is better, preferably diluted with ¾ water and ¼ red wine. Eliminate sparkling and sweet beverages (coca cola, orange, etc.); drink home-made fruit, vegetable juices infusions and tea, particularly in the morning.
  Drink herbal teas or flower or herb infusions for breakfast or before going to bed (the valerian infusion to aid relaxed sleep is excellent).
  Water is very important. It represents from 60 to 80% of our weight according to your age. Moreover, most of our bodily reactions take place in water. Consequently, we must ensure that we drink the right quantity and quality of water.
  Drink 1-2 litres of water daily, preferably on an empty stomach (drink a little during meals); there are two parameters when buying mineral water: the fixed residual part at 180°, which has to be lower than 50 mg per litre and the pH value (between 6.4 and 6.8).

Everybody has to find their own diet which changes with age; find the most suitable diet by experimenting on your own body. Here below are some suggestions which are probably quite different from your current eating habits but can be useful as starting points in building up new dietary habits.

• Breakfast: fresh fruit in season, herb infusions and some wholemeal biscuits. Barley coffee, rice crackers, flax seeds (soaked in a glass the previous evening).
  Tea or coffee with some honey, wholemeal toasted bread with organic marmalade, freshly squeezed fruit juice, wholemeal biscuits, some honey.
• Snack: Fresh fruit in season, or seven, eight almonds or walnuts.
• Lunch: One of the following suggestions: Brown rice, (three times per week minimum, better if more often) with vegetable sauce or dressing of fresh vegetables, an abundant portion of raw vegetables. Pasta (twice a week maximum) with raw oil and Parmesan cheese or with a dressing of vegetables or vegetable sauce, an abundant portion of raw vegetables. Legumes soup. And an abundant portion of raw vegetables. Polenta with a sprinkling of oil and Parmesan, an abundant portion of raw vegetables. Barley, or millet, or oats (very energetic), couscous, plus an abundant portion of raw vegetables.
  Grilled small-size animal meat (twice a week maximum), an abundant portion of raw vegetables. Grilled or baked small fish, raw or parboiled vegetables. When you have carbohydrates, avoid starchy bread; if you eat vegetables together with the dish, you will not feel the need. If you like, you can drink some coffee without sugar. Soya stew with raw or parboiled vegetables.
• Dinner: One of the following suggestions: Baked or grilled fish (twice a week maximum), grilled or parboiled vegetables, a little unyeasted bread. Poached, soft-boiled, hardboiled or fried eggs (once, twice a week maximum), parboiled or raw vegetables, a little unleavened bread.
  Low-fat and unfermented cheese or Parmesan (once a week maximum) with parboiled, grilled or raw vegetables, some unleavened bread. Potato Pie, Erbazzone (quiche with boiled chard), or other vegetable pies, parboiled vegetables. Polenta with a sprinkle of oil and Parmesan parboiled or grilled vegetables.

If you have meat for lunch then have semi-wholemeal rice with vegetable sauce or slightly boiled vegetables. If you have over-eaten then for the next few days just have fresh fruit.

Editors comments: Even when one is following a correct diet it is necessary to supplement one's intake with lactic ferments and...
Occasionally it may be necessary to include other natural products depending on the recommendations of your medical specialist. Before sleeping it is often beneficial to drink a relaxing herbal tea for example based on valerian.
If your current eating habits are very different from those we have recommended then you should approach the new diet gradually. You may notice some slight ailments at the start; this is quite normal since your organism has to adapt to this new regime.
Everybody should make sure that they follow the rules of food combining. Never eat a first and second course during the same meal to avoid a difficult digestion and consequent acid increase in the intestine.
Remember the following motto that we as natural doctors have at heart:

The intestine is like the roots of a tree for a man and is the source of almost all illnesses.