Taoist Diet: Diet whose principles stem from: (a) the Chinese theory of the Five Elements, and (b) the Yin/Yang energy balance of food. The Taoist Diet balances bodily energies.

(See also: Taoist Diet, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Cayce diet: Diet that stems from the readings of psychic Edgar Cayce (see The Cayce Approach to Health and Healing). One of its concepts is that emphasizing in one's diet fruits and vegetables that are locally-grown promotes acclimation and helps to align bodily energies with environmental energies.

(See also: Cayce diet, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Macrobiotic diet:

low-fat, high-fiber diet of whole grains, vegetables, sea algae, and seeds, that are prepared in accordance with specific principles; said to synchronize eating habits with the cycles of nature.

(See also: Macrobiotic diet, Alternative Medicine, Body Mind and Soul)

diet #7 (Diet No. 7): Healing regimen recommended by George Ohsawa (see macrobiotics) in Zen Macrobiotics: The Art of Rejuvenation and Longevity (1965). It principally involves restricting dietary intake (including water) to brown rice and particular kinds of tea (as little as possible) for a period of one week to an indefinite number of months. The objective of diet #7 and the nine other diets of Zen Macrobiotics is to maintain balance of yin and yang.

(See also: Diet #7, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Beyond Dieting: Subject of the book Beyond Dieting: An Edgar Cayce Program for Permanent Weight Control (out of print in 1995). It is a way to lose weight that involves some of the key ideas in the readings of clairvoyant Edgar Cayce (see The Cayce Approach to Health and Healing).

(See also: Beyond Dieting, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

magical diet (magical diets): System of food magic devised by Scott Cunningham (1956-1993), author of more than a dozen books on magic and/or witchcraft. Its principle is that different foods harbor different magical energies. For example, Cunningham recommended canned chili, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and iced tea for magical and physical energy, and Seven-Up and fast-food fish sandwiches for psychic awareness. He advised: Avoid all fad diets.

(See also: Magical diet, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Zone Diet (Zone-favorable diet): access to the Zone,a mysterious state in which one is indefatigable and weight loss is almost automatic. Its originator is Barry Sears, Ph.D., coauthor of the bestseller The Zone: A Revolutionary Life Plan to Put Your Body in Total Balance for Permanent Weight Loss (also subtitled A Dietary Road Map) and its sequel Mastering the Zone (1997). Carbohydrate restriction characterizes the diet.

(See also: Zone Diet, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

mucusless diet: Centerpiece of Ehretism. The mucusless diet consists of all green vegetables and all fruit. In an essay titled My Mucusless Diet and Naturopathy, Ehret held that internal impurity (mucus) was the only disease, and that unusable food elements, mainly from mucus-forming foods, caused it.

Mucus-forming foods, according to one of Ehret's articles, include dairy products, eggs, fats, meat, and all starchy foods. In one of the 25 lessons that constitute the text of Mucusless Diet Healing System, Ehret, citing Genesis, called fruits and starchless greenleaf vegetables the natural food of man (see: Bentonite Clay)

(See also: Mucusless diet, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Numbers Diet (Jean Simpson's Numbers Diet): Numerological diet for weight loss developed over 23 years by Jean Simpson, author of Hot Numbers: How to Use Numerology to Discover What Makes Your Lover, Boss, Friends, Family, and You Really Tick! (Grammercy, 1998) and Hot Lotto Numbers. The principle of the Numbers Diet is that, with a number based on the month, day, and year of one's last birthday, one can learn what dietary pitfalls are likely on any particular day.

(See also: Numbers Diet, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Diet Planning

Since diet, along with daily habits, is crucial to the health of an individual, it must be made clear at the outset that there is no standard ideal diet for all people in general. The various factors that need to be kept in mind while working out the ideal diet for each person, which will be distinctly different based on the person’s specific constitutional characteristics, are as listed below:

·      The natural qualities of each food.

·      How those natural qualities can get altered.

·      The effects of combining foods – proper and unacceptable combinations.

·      The quantity of food intake.

·      Individual differences in food intake.

·      The places & climate where the food is grown, prepared and consumed.

·      The effects of the seasons and time of day.

·      Avoidance of artificial flavors, chemicals, preservatives and colours.

Diet Composition

One other factor that has remained a matter of great debate worldwide over the ages has been the vegetarianism vs. non-vegetarianism controversy. Initially it was common belief that non-vegetarian diet is superior in that it is full of energetic ingredients and thus provides more strength and stamina. But now it has been scientifically established that vegetarian diet is more natural and useful to human nature.

Non-vegetarian diet contains cholesterol saturated fatty acids that are the root cause of diseases as coronary heart problems, cerebro-vascular accidents (strokes), eye disorders & high blood pressure. With only about 60% of its contents useful for human body, the rest 40% contains harmful toxins. In addition, such diet is usually heavy for the stomach and produces acidity, which in turn can cause problems in the gastrointestinal system.

Another significantly important difference between the two is that fruits & vegetables (cereals & grains, legumes, seedy fruits, citrus fruits, carrot, cabbage, celery, green leafy vegetables, apples, melons, peaches, pears etc.) are rich in dietary fibers that reduces incidence of coronary heart diseases, cancer of intestinal tract, piles, obesity, diabetes, constipation, hiatus hernia, diverticulitis, irritable bowel syndrome, dental caries and gallstones.

Also many disease causing organisms are transmitted through and thrive in animal protein – serious ailments as Encephalopathy and Mad Cow diseases are caused by Bovine Spongi. Similarly the Salmonella Typhimurium bacteria can be passed on through consumed eggs, causing diseases like pneumonia, bronchitis and typhoid.

Given that the body of non-vegetarian animals contains 10 times more amount of hydrochloric acid than that of vegetarian ones, and that the human body should not be having such a high concentration of hydrochloric acid, it is reasonable to assume that the fact human body is basically meant for a vegetarian diet.

(See also: Diet Planning, Ayurveda, Ayurvedic Dictionary, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

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Rainbow Diet: A theistic form of vegetarianism, chakra healing, and color therapy advanced by Gabriel Cousens, M.D., a practitioner of auricular acupuncture, crystal healing, and homeopathy. Cousens is the author of Conscious Eating, Sevenfold Peace, and Spiritual Nutrition and The Rainbow Diet (1986).

The Rainbow Diet's principle is that every colored food - except flesh, fast food, junk food, frozen food, and irradiated food - builds, cleanses, energizes, heals, and rebalances those glands, organs, and nerve centers associated with whichever major chakra is related to the food's surface color.

(See also: Rainbow Diet, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Hallelujah Diet: Theistic vegetarian diet developed by Rev. Dr. George H. Malkmus, the author of Why Christians Get Sick (Treasure House, 1995) and Y2K: The Hallelujah Acres Way (Hallelujah Acres, 1998) and the coauthor of God's Way to Ultimate Health: A Common Sense Guide for Elimination of Sickness Through Nutrition (Hallelujah Acres, 1996).

According the diet's theory, the only substances that nourish the human body are pure air, pure water, raw food, and moderate amounts of sunlight, and anything else is a contaminant to the body.

(See also: Hallelujah Diet, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Those who follow this way of eating generally believe that: Raw foods contain enzymes which act as catalysts to regulate the digestive process in the body. Heating (or freezing) food degrades or destroys these enzymes in food. Food without enzymes is thought to lead in the longer term to toxicity in the body, to excess consumption of food, and therefore to obesity. Living and raw foods are thought to usually have much higher nut ...

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Leading proponents of the raw food movement currently include Doug Graham, Nora Lenz, Victoria Boutenko, Jinjee and Storm Talifero, Gabriel Cousens, Shazzie and Alissa Cohen. They have led thousands of people to become more aware of raw foodism through their lectures, books and web sites. Latter day proponents include Ann Wigmore (founder of the Hippocrates Health Institute, Arnold Ehret (author and authority on fasting), A Hovannessian and Norman Walker (who advocated the consumption of juices). It's reporte ...

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Most foods in raw food diets are simple in preparation, and can be eaten immediately. These include fruit and salads. Other foods can require considerable advanced planning to prepare for eating. Rice and some other grains, for example, require sprouting or overnight soaking to become edible. Preparation of gourmet raw food recipes usually call for a blender, food processor, juicer, and dehydrator. Depending on the recipe, some food (such as cakes) may need to be dehydrated. These processes, which emulate cooked food, are lengthy: some adherents of the diet consequently dispense with these foods, feeling that t ...

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lemonade diet (lemon cleansing, master cleanser): One of the three major components of a theistic system of self-healing developed by Stanley Burroughs and expounded by him in Healing for the Age of Enlightenment (1976).

Lemon cleansing is a mono-diet variation wherein one ingests daily, for ten to 40 or more days, nothing except 60 to 120 ounces of a drink that consists of lemon (or lime) juice, maple syrup, cayenne pepper (red pepper), and water.

Its main principle is that lemons and ripe limes have unique anionic properties to create the energy necessary for health maintenance. Another of its principles is that Nature creates infections to assist in burning one's surplus wastes.

(See also: Lemonade diet, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Daniel's Diet: medical panacea and higher way of eating promoted by microbiologist Robert O. Young, Ph.D., D.Sc., author of Colloids of Light & Life, Profiles of Microscopy, Sick & Tired, and One Sickness - One Disease - One Treatment (1995). In the latter book, Young holds that mycosis, or fungal infection, or over-acidification of the body (or blood), is the only disease. He further holds that an inverted way of living and eating, especially excessive consumption of sugars and animal protein, causes such over-acidification.

Daniel's Diet excludes all foods except avocados, lemons, limes, tomatoes, vegetables (e.g., buckwheat and soybeans), dark-green vegetable juice, tofu (bean curd), millet, sprouted or soaked seeds and nuts, oils, sea salt, herbal teas, specific dietary supplements (e.g., Pycnogenol ), and LiquidLightning Oxygen-O3 (a formula beneficial for oxygen deprivation).

The diet is the namesake of a Jewish prophet and fortuneteller of the sixth century B.C.E. According to the Book of Daniel, in the Old Testament, Daniel refused to consume meat and wine assigned to him by a Babylonian king, requested vegetables and water, and, after eating only vegetables for ten days, appeared healthier and stronger. In the aforementioned 1995 book, Young states: In all of Gods' [sic] creations there is order and purpose.

(See also: Daniel's Diet, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Although food sensitivites have been known about for decades they are rarely given consideration in diagnosis, therapy and recovery efforts. The specifics of the GFCF diet were introduced to the general public through the combined publications of two women who researched interventions and crusaded for autism recovery. Information about the GFCF diet has since spread around the world and has helped thousands of families cope with this puzzling disorder. The GFCF diet has been supplemented with a number of new innovations. These include incorporation of the Feingold diet, the Specific Carbohyd ...

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The molecular structure of the partially undigested proteins, known as peptides, resemble opiates. It is thought that such peptides have an effect much like opiates in the brain and nervous system. From this premise it follows that long term exposure to these opiate peptides can have many damaging effects on the developing brain and also affects behavior, just as any narcotic would. The opioid peptides involved are identified as casomorphines from cas ...

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Standard Macrobiotic Diet (Standard Macrobiotic Dietary Practice): general-purpose way of eating expounded by Michio Kushi (see macrobiotics). It is a relatively nonmystical form of macrobiotic dietary philosophy that involves eating in a spirit of appreciation for all people, society, nature, and the universe.

(See also: Standard Macrobiotic Diet, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)