What to Eat: Cleansing Diet vs What Is a Healthy Diet for Me?

It used to be that people just fasted. Juice diets of one kind or another were once considered the norm for cleansing.

When you are feeling the effects of chronic ill health from a modern diet, overloaded with empty calories, chemicals and toxic substances - cleansing can reiieve the burden of toxicity from an overloaded system, but do not overly stress your system either if your health has been compromised. We believe that if you are feeling weak or your immune system is weak, that you have to nourish the body with enough protein, healthy fats, minerals and vital nutrients to withstand the stress detoxification can sometimes cause, and rebuild. Feeding the gut bacteria is also essential to vibrant health.

Long term, there are requirements for good health. For cleansing, getting enough fresh vegetables and fruits and resistant starches for your gut bacteria can aid a constipated system to move the bowels betterand cleanse thoroughly.

Another view of healthy diets:

You may hear people say they experienced improved health and energy from diets that restrict certain foods. Look at what they are leaving out to see what caused the improvement and what is still eaten that is not so healthy:

• Low-Carb Dieters whether keto or paleo or carnivore leave out sugars, white flour and many processed foods which are loaded with synthetic "nutrients". Much better! But what is the quality of the animal foods they eat - factory-farmed and sick? The cheapest and most easily available foods are from antibiotic- and hormone-laden animals, consuming very questionable genetically-modified feeds or feeds containing other animal parts & feathers. Or can you get these grass-fed and raised humanely which is much healthier? Have your bowels slowed down too much?



• Vegans leave out all the unhealthy animal foods loaded with the hormones, antibiotics and disease-ridden "cruelty feeds" (ground up parts from sick animals or the feathers and skins, etc. or just unnatural foods for that animal which make them sick). They avoid all meat from cows, chickens, or even fish raised in overcrowded, industrialized factory-farms. Ethical choices and important for health … but what about the empty, processed or genetically altered soy, corn and wheat products that are often used to substitute for animal foods?



• Vegetarians of various types leave out some industrially-raised and processed animal foods - maybe eating fish or eggs instead meats. Safer, but how are toxic-free are the eggs (from sick chickens?) and fish (mercury and factory fish-farm chemicals). And seed oils (corn, soy, canola, safflower, sunflower) ALL have mega-transfats from their processing, no matter what the label says. Extra-virgin, unadulterated olive and coconut oils are best to eat, but harder to find them pure and those are expensive. And again, vegetarians often eat genetically-modified soy products and canola oil, and also corn and grain products which are processed and empty of vital factors, or spray-extruded (like chips and shaped cereals) and toxic. Health is still a problem.



• Eating organically-grown foods avoids many chemical toxins found in practically everything grown in American or imported by multi-national corporations. But many items sold in health food stores that claim organic ingredients, also have excess 'organic' sugars or fake sweeteners, genetically modified foods and oils (canola), not to mention extruded grain products saturated with transfats, or other processing. Regular grocery stores now arry organic white sugar - anyone falling for that?



• Raw Vegan eaters leave out almost everything bad, and many good things too. When leaders of the raw vegan community called for blood test a few years ago to prove their "superior health" - oops, they were deficient! Long term, hard-to-find healthy animal fats provide necessary nutrients that can't be found in plants-only diets. Great cleansing diet, but still missing the mark for true health.

Since Homo sapiens has lived in so many climates and locales and is able to adapt to whatever is available to eat there, it seems that paying attention to how the foods are raised, stored and prepared has a greater impact on health overall, than adhering to a specific diet.

In fact, it is OVERLY PROCESSED FOODS that are the killers. Empty, unnatual foods loaded with distorted nutrients that can't nourish anymore, and chemicals that pretend to noursh and give synthetic sweetness or flavors but aren't food. (And other chemicals intended to make foods last on the shelf "forever".Then how do you expect to break them down to digest and use them?)

This includes how food is grown or raised - in an unnatural way on depleted, chemicalized soil, or sick animals fed other animals instead of their natural vegetable diet. No wonder everyone is getting sicker and fatter! Starved for real nutrition, people feel the urge to eat more and more with disasterous results - obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer! And they can try special diets, but are still without a proper solution because of the quality of our food supply!

We in the United States are at a particular disadvantage, because our food supply seems to be the most adulerated, unnaturally raised and processed of any. There are countries that have done better.

We would like to educate you about choosing your food.
See Recommendations for a Healthy Diet During or After Cleansing and to Help Eliminate Constipation.