All fruits contain acids which are necessary for the proper elimination of various toxins, poisonous acids, and other impurities.

Natural acids are highly alkaline.

The value of a fruit diet cannot be over-estimated, especially in sickness, ill health, or whenever the body is filled with poisons.

Germs cannot grow and live in fruit juices. Typhoid fever and cholera germs cannot resist the action of fruit juices such as lemon, orange, pineapple, strawberry, apple and grapefruit. A fruit diet will disinfect the stomach and alimentary canal. Fresh fruits are more effective for this purpose than stewed fruits.

Citric, malic, tartaric acids are powerful germicides found in fruits.

Malic Acid is found in pineapples, apples, quinces, pears, apricots, plums, peaches, cherries, currants, gooseberries, strawberries, rasperries, blackberries, elderberries, grapes and tomatoes.

Citric Acid is found in strawberries, red rasperries, cherries, red currants, cranberries, lemons, grapefruit and oranges.

Tartaric Acid is obtained from grapes and pineapples. Tartaric acid is important in treating all diseases of hyper-acidity, such as lung diseases, sore throat, indigestion, etc.

Oxalic Acid is found in plums, tomatoes, rhubarb, sorrel, yellow dock, spinach, and is especially good for constipation and an inactive liver.

Lactic Acid is found in buttermilk and clabber (curdled) milk, also soybean buttermilk. It is good in the treatment of fermentation, and especially for treating hardening of the arteries and putrefaction [??].

It is better to eat fruits uncooked. Never sweeten them with sugar.

A fruit diet is an excellent cure for chronic constipation, and for reducing [??]. Fruits are solvents, and should always be abundantly used in an eliminating diet. It is such an ideal food, because it develops more slowly than other products, and therefore, for a longer time receives the beneficial effects of sunlight and air, making those two part of how the human body can be healthy.

Dates, raisins, figs and many other dried fruits have become staple foods. Dates and raisins are high in natural sugar which is very easily assimilated. Figs both fresh and dried, are rich in bone-building elements.

Meat Eating

Meats of all kinds are unnatural foods. Flesh, fish, fowl, and sea foods are very likely to contain numbers of germs. Meat contains bacteria which may infect the intestines causing colitis and many other diseases. They always cause putrefaction.

Research has shown beyond all doubt that a meat diet produces cancer in some cases. Excessive uric acid is caused by meat-eating. Excessive uric acid causes rheumatism, Bright's disease [??], kidney stones, gout, gallstones. Some patients with longterm, severe headaches obtained good results by excluding meat from their diet.

Uric Acid excreted from the urine comes from two sources:

1. Uric acid taken into the body in meat, meat extracts, tea, coffee, etc.
   
2. Uric acid formed in the body out of nitrogenous foods.

The argument that flesh must be eaten in order to supply the body sufficient protein is unreasonable; it is found in abundance in beans, peas, lentils, and all kinds of nuts.

The nutrient value of meat broths are practically nothing. They always contain uric acid and other poisons.

Nuts perfectly take the place of meat. With the exception of peanut, and chestnut, the average nutritive value of nuts is about 200 calories per ounce. This is double the value of an equal quantity of sugar or starch.

Almonds: 1/5 of the weight of almond consists of protein, and it is of the very finest quality. Almonds afford a most delicious oil, which is highly digestible. Almond butter can be made into delicious milk or cream, which, with the addition of a little sweetening, resembles cow's milk in appearance and nutritive properties.

Hickory-Nut: A pound of hickory nut meats is equal in nutritive value to more than 4 lbs of average meat. 2/3 of the weight of the hickory nut is easily digested oil.

Pecan: The pecan is a valuable nut, high in nutrition.

Walnut: A pound of walnuts contains almost 50% more protein than the same quantity of beef. The English walnut differs slightly from the black walnut, in that it contains core fat and less protein.

Butternut: The butternut (Juglans cincrea) also contains more fat than the black walnut, but has the same amount of protein. The butternut contains about 3% carbohydrates and is therefore valuable for persons suffering diabetes.

Peanuts: When thoroughly dried the peanut contains 50% more protein than the best beefsteak. Further, half its weight is an excellent oil, however some people are very allergic to it. Emphasis must be placed on the fact that the salted, roasted peanuts, as sold widely, are over-roasted and indigestible. Unroasted peanut butter is easily digested and highly nutritious. The protein of the peanut is equal to the protein of milk and eggs as a tissue-building element. A very find milk can be made from unroasted peanut butter. Peanuts are also used extensively in malted nuts and vegetable meats.

Coconuts: A good substitute for butter can be made: Cut coconut meat in strips, grate or grind it through a meat grinder. Soak it several times in as much water as you have coconut meat, using warm water, let it set for 2-3 hours. A rich cream will rise to the top. Skim off and work it into butter with an ordinary butter ladle.

Food and Additives

Starchless Vegetables: Carrots, young beets, celery, cucumbers, tomatoes, soybeans, squash, turnips, rutabagas [??]

Common Salt: Salt should be used sparingly. It contains chloride of Sodium, which is an inorganic mineral and cannot be used by any cell structure of the body. It irritates the stomach and blood stream, is indigestible, and hinders the digestion of foods. It is one of the causes of rheumatism, dizziness, cancer, scurvy, and putting harmful minerals into the system.

Sodium salts are plentifully found in fruits and vegetables, such as tomatoes, asparagus, celery, spinach, kale (cabbage type), radishes, turnips, carrots, lettuce, strawberries, and many others.

When salt is omitted, a person soon enjoys the flavor of the food more, as the main taste of people who use any quantity of salt is a salty one. Without salt more food flavors may be enjoyed. Salt must not be used in dropsy [??], hyperacidity, Bright's disease, gastric ulcer, obesity, and epilepsy.

More Starchless Vegetables: Onions, okra [??], Brussel sprouts, artichokes, furnish bulk.

Starchless and Sugarless Vegetables: Lettuce, spinach, and all greens, tomatoes, celery, radishes, string beans, cabbage, cauliflower, eggplant, endive, asparagus, furnish bulk.

Foods which supply minerals

Iron: Spinach, egg yolks, dried peas, dried beans, whole wheat, prunes, watercress, celery, milk, cabbage, oats; lettuce, raisins, apples, English walnuts, lentils, and all greens.

Phosphorous: Legumes, egg yolks, milk, prunes, baked potatoes, nuts, whole cereals, cottage cheese, especially soybean cottage cheese.

Calcium: Milk, whole cereals, eggs, cabbage, parsnips, citrus fruits, nuts, legumes, and soybean milk.

Magnesium: Cherries, apples, nuts, figs, raisins, turnips, prunes, milk, legumes, spinach, whole cereals, soybeans, natural brown rice.

Potassium: Cherries, potatoes, parsnips, turnips, apples, plums, red cabbage, eggplant, cucumbers, soybeans.

Sulphur: Spinach, cabbage, cauliflower, onions, egg yolks.

Lime: Cottage cheese, egg yolk, milk, greens of all kinds, legumes, soybeans.

Fluorine: Cauliflower, cabbage, asparagus, potatoes.

Silica: Barley, oats, cabbage, onions and oatmeal.

Iodine: Agar-agar, all garden vegetables, beans, peas, fish.

List of Laxative Foods

Healthy Diets

Plant based diet: Should include whole grains like in whole grain bread, vegetables, fruits, beans, and limited amounts of nuts and seeds [a healthy serving is about 1 ounce, or a small, cupped handful; approximately 20 almonds = 1 ounce].

Limit these foods: (1) Intake of saturated fats, many times energy mixes will state that they contain amounts of saturated fat. (2) Avoid ingesting trans-fat by eliminating animal products like meat and dairy foods, fast food, and all products containing hydrogenated oil, partially hydrogenated oil, interesterified fat, shortening, or margarine. (3) Limit your consumption of total fat and use instead monounsaturated fats like from olives and olive oil, canola oil, avocado, nuts and seeds. But even these use sparingly. (4) Increase your consumption of legumes like pinto and black beans, soybeans, lentils, black-eyed peas, peas, split peas, garbanzo beans (chickpeas). (5) Increase your diet by using more: dark green leafy vegetables like spinach, kale, collards, turnip greens, Swiss chard, mustard greens, beet greens, sweet potato greens and vegetables that grow above ground like broccoli, cabbage, green beans, squash, cauliflower and onions. (6) Increase your intake of fiber foods like fruits, vegetables, whole grains, beans, and limited nuts and seeds. There is no fiber in animal products. (7) Avoid drinking caffeinated sodas, coffee, and tea. Caffeine not only can raise stress and blood pressure but it can also raise cholesterol and arterial inflammation related to arteriosclerosis, which can exacerbate diabetes in several ways. Caffeine also increases the circulating amount of fat in the blood, making more fat available to plug up cells. (8) Avoid eating refined, processed (white) flour products. (9) Avoid eating sweets (soda pops, fruit juices, candy). This includes products that are sweetened artificially. Limit desserts to one small serving (think 1/16 of a pie) once or twice per week. Better yet, eat three or four servings of northern-hemisphere grown fruits daily like apples, pears, berries, cherries, apricots, peaches, plums, nectarines, and let them satisfy your sweet tooth. (10) Avoid drinking alcohol which can raise tryglyceride levels significantly as well as serum cholesterol. (11) If you smoke, quit smoking too for it is linked to higher cholesterol and blood pressure not to mention many other conditions.

Bright's disease = Any of several forms of disease of the kidney attended with albumin in urine.
Cholera Caused by the toxins of Vibrio cholerae.
Dropsy: The abnormal accumulation of serous fluid in the body, edema.
mercaptans = mercury; Any of a series of compounds of the general formula RSH, analogous to the alcohols and phenols, but containing sulphur in place of oxygen.
putrefaction = The decomposition (rotting) of organic matter, especially the typical anaerobic process of the splitting of proteins, by the agency of bacteria and fungi, with formation of foul-smelling, incompletely oxidized products, as mercaptans and alkaloids.
reducing, To deoxidize, combine with hydrogen.
Rutabaga: A kind of turnip with a long yellowish root, Brassica napobrassica.
Typhoid Fever Caused by Salmonella typhi.
Okra: Okra pods, (Abelmoschus esculentus).