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" snip " Here is one key I have found to a healthier body,Mark

P.S. this was written by retired health care worker who had nothing

to lose by disclosing this info. Personally I eat a very limited

diet that includes no grains!

A way to determine

healthy foods

We have devised a way to remember if a food is good for you. It is

called

the EAT test. EAT stands for Enzyme, Alkaline, and Total. If you

are

interested in eating a food, check the food against this measure to

determine if the food is healthy for you. The food MUST pass all

three

letters of the eat test to be healthy. This is what EAT stands for:

E - Enzymes are still in the food for digestion, meaning the food was

not

heated above 110 degrees.

A - Alkaline forming foods (has the 5 alkalizing minerals)

T - Total foods. This means the food does not get processed or

altered.

It does not mean, for example, a total apple, core and all. It means

that

the best foods to eat are the total edible portions. For example,

say we

juice something. And there are many arguments for juicing. But the

best

health comes from the whole edible part of the food, as juicing

eliminates

important fiber from the diet. If you are juicing, and you know what

you

are doing and why, then go ahead. Juicing can be considered

healthy. But

it is usually best to use a blender to get the total edible food, and

not a

pulp ejecting juicer. The blender keeps the fiber in the food where

juicing does not.

Checking foods against the EAT test

In this section, we are going to look at foods, and see if they pass

the

EAT test. And then we will give you some practice.

Remember, there are 2 diets. The maintenance and the healing diets.

There

is a lot of food to eat on these diets.

After testing your foods, it is always VERY SCARY trying to figure

out what

to eat as you find foods that do not pass the test. On the diet,

there is

a lot to eat. It is just learning how to make recipes again just

like you

learned your current cooking methods. And this is not covered in

this

book. This really takes someone showing you how, which usually saves

you a

lot of time and money trying to figure out how to do the diet. You

can

order a video on how to do this from the order form in the back of

this

book. Or you can check into on the health centers listed at the end

of

this book.

Cooked foods won't pass the EAT test

This section can be pretty tragic for a lot of people. There is no

easy

way to introduce this section, so I just come right out and gave it

to you

straight. Remember, there are a lot of foods to eat, but you now,

this can

be a very scary topic.

Cooking foods kills the enzymes

Remember, enzymes are destroyed at 110 degrees. This means if you

cook the

foods, you have killed all the enzymes. Cooked foods will not pass

the E

for enzymes on the EAT test.

Cooking foods cooks out or destroys vitamins and minerals

Cooking foods drains or destroys up to 80% of the vitamins and

minerals.

So even if the food was alkaline forming before we started, cooking

or

destroying the minerals makes the food acid forming. Also, cooking

foods

means we have to get into vitamin and mineral discussions to replace

what

we cooked out.

Cooking also does not pass the A of the EAT test

Cooked foods are altered and not total

Cooking food drains out the vitamins and minerals of the food,

altering the

food. Cooking can change the chemical structure of fats in the food.

Cooked foods are not tastey

When this is first mentioned, most people would say this is not

true. But,

bear with us a minute. And then you can decide. Lets look at what

really

is happening. When you eat a watermelon, you usually don't put

anything

on the watermelon. The watermelon, which is very juicy, tastes good

on

its own.

The next time you make some pancakes, cook one of the pancakes

without

butter or anything else on the pan. Just the pancake in one of those

non-stick pans. After the pancake is done, put on a plate. Let it

cool,

and take a bite. You will notice two major things. First, it is

very dry

compared to the watermelon. Second, it does not taste good unless we

add

something to sweeten, usually syrup or jam.

If we have to add sugar to get something to taste good, maybe the

food is

not that good for you? At least examine the possibility. I would

argue

you could add enough sugar to almost anything, and it would taste

good.

So what is really going on, is the cooked foods taste bad, so we add

sugar,

fat, and/or spices to taste food. Lets look at a hamburger. Most

of

you, not all, will load the hamburger with ketchup (sugar) and

mustard

(spices). Or another example, cooked beans usually have fat and

spices

added. Spaghetti: Tomato sauce (sugar) and cheese (fat). Oatmeal:

Dried Apples (Sugar), Cinnamon (spices), and sometimes butter (fat)

and

brown sugar.

It is important to note that fruits like apples and grapes get

converted

and re-classified from sub-acid fruit to a sweet fruit when dried.

And you

usually can taste the sugar in dried fruit.

You may not agree with this theory 100%, and that is all right. At

least

think about it.

Eating cooked food may drain the immune system

If you remember enzymes, the workers of the body, cooked foods

deplete the

enzymes of the body. If you eat food that has no enzymes, the body

must

make enzymes to digest the food. One place it gets material to make

digestive enzymes is your immune system. So instead of fighting off

disease, part of your immune system is used for digestion. Your body

responds by making extra white blood cells. The theory goes that

this can

lead to an over-active immune system.

Canned foods won't pass the EAT test

Most canned foods have are heated at high temperatures before

canning. The

purpose is to kill bacteria. Unfortunately, the enzymes are also

killed.

Also, when cooked, a lot of the minerals are cooked out or destroyed,

making the food acid based. No enzymes in the food and the food does

not

have enough of the alkalizing enzymes. This flunks the E and A of

the EAT

test. Note that the canned food usually has a lot of sugar or fat,

and

spices. The sugar is usually described under a chemical name like

fructose, sucrose.

The candy bar won't pass the EAT test

Candy is usually cooked, has few alkalizing minerals, the cocoa is

not

tasty without sugar, and it is a highly refined food. The candy bar

flunks

the whole EAT test.

List of Foods that will pass the EAT test

The types of foods that are EAT approved are all non-cooked, raw

foods,

sprouts, sprouted greens, raw fermented foods, and raw or sprouted

dehydrated foods. All dehydration must take place at less then 110

degrees.

The list of EAT alkaline forming, raw foods are on the next page.

Practicing the EAT test

We are going to take a little tour down a what I hope is a typical

soup-n-salad line. As we go down the line, we will be picking foods

and

testing against the EAT test. So lets grab a plate and head on down

the

salad line.

Getting into the line, the first thing we come to is the lettuce with

chicken.

Since there are two items here, chicken and lettuce, lets do each

separately. Starting with the lettuce. The lettuce has Enzymes.

From the

alkaline food chart, lettuce is an Alkaline forming food. The

lettuce is

unprocessed and Total. The lettuce passes the EAT test.

Now, what about the Chicken? The chicken is cooked so does not have

Enzymes. The chicken lacks the Alkalizing minerals. The chicken

flunks

the EAT test.

So, to answer the question if the chicken salad is healthy, the

answer is

NO.

Moving down the line to the pasta. Pasta is cooked (no Enzymes), a

grain

that is acid forming (not Alkaline forming), has the vitamins cooked

out,

and is not Total in that the wheat was processed into noddles. All

the

pasta's flunk the EAT test.

Moving our tray on down to green pea's. Green Pea's are on the

alkaline

forming food list, so they seem OK. So we ask the clerk if they

have been

cooked. The answer is yes, they have. This means the green pea's

flunk

the EAT test: no Enzymes, vitamins and minerals cooked out, so they

are

not Alkaline forming. The food has been cooked, so altered. So the

cooked

green peas flunk the EAT test.

And after a going through some other items, we come to the breads and

soups. With breads being baked and soups being cooked, no

enzymes. The

bread is made from wheat grain, which is not on the alkalizing

list. The

bread is made from flour, which is not considered a total food.

Breads

flunk.

The dessert island contains all kinds of sugar based, acid forming

(lack of

mineral food), and enzyme deficient food. No need to go into this.

In summary, where ever you go, you are going to have to watch what

you are

eating. Most folks consider unhealthy foods as healthy.