A nutritional diet is the key to good health. Use the following table as a guide when deciding which types of food to include in the diet and which ones to avoid in order to maintain good health.

Type of Food	Foods to Avoid	Acceptable Foods

Meats	Beef; all forms of pork; hot dogs; luncheon meats; smoked, pickled, and processed meats; corned beef; duck; goose; spare ribs; gravies; organ meats; fried, fatty, greasy meats. Poultry or meat injected with drugs or fed with contaminated drugs. Meats containing nitrates.	Organic skinless turkey and chicken, lamb. (Consume meat only three times per week.)

Dairy Products	All soft cheeses, all pasteurized cheese products with orange coloring, ice cream	Raw goat (light) cheese, nonfat cottage cheese, kefir, unsweetened yogurt, goat milk, raw or skim milk, buttermilk, all soy products.

Beverages	Alcohol, coffee, cocoa, pasteurized and sweetened juices, fruit drinks, sodas, tea (except herb tea)	Herb teas, fresh vegetable and fruit juices, a coffee substitute made from cereal grains instead of coffee beans, mineral or distilled water

Seasonings	Black or white pepper, salt, hot red peppers, white vinegar, all artificial vinegar.	Garlic, onions, dried parsley, Spike, all herbs, chives, cayenne, dried vegetables, apple vinegar, tamari, miso, seaweed, sea salt, dulse.

Eggs	Fried or pickled	Boiled or poached (limit to four weekly).

Fish	All fried fish, all shellfish, salted fish, anchovies, herring, fish canned in oil.	All fresh-water white fish, salmon, broiled or baked fish, water-packed tuna.

Fruits	Canned, bottled, or frozen fruits with sweeteners added.	All fresh, frozen, stewed and dried fruits without sweeteners, unsulfured fruits, home-canned fruits.

Grains	All white flour products, pizza, pastries, white rice, spaghetti and macaroni, crackers, overly processed oatmeal and hot or cold cereals that are commercially processed, i.e., Corn Flakes	All grains and products containing grains, cereals, breads, muffins, whole grain crackers, Cream of Wheat/Rye cereal, buckwheat, millet, oats, brown rice, wild rice. (Limit yeast breads to three times a week.)

Soups	Canned with salt or preservatives (MSG), fat stock, or creamed. Read label for sugar, salt, flour & preservatives.	Homemade (salt and fat free) bean, lentil, pea, vegetable, barley, brown rice, onion.

Sprouts & Seeds	Seeds cooked in oil or salt.	All slightly cooked sprouts (except alfalfa), wheatgrass, and all raw seeds.

Sweets	White, brown, or raw sugar, corn syrups, chocolate, sugar candy, fructose, all syrups except pure maple syrup, all sugar substitutes, jams and jellies with sugar.	Barley malt or rice syrup, small amounts of raw honey, pure maple syrup, unsulfured blackstrap molasses.

Vegetables	All canned and frozen with salt or additives.	All raw, fresh, frozen (no additives), or home-canned (Undercook vegetables slightly.)

Beans	Canned pork and beans, canned beans with salt or preservatives, frozen beans	All beans cooked without animal fat or salt

Oil & Vinegar	Synthetic and distilled white vinegar.	Olive oil or organic raw cider vinegar.