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.

Organic Calcium: In some herbs, lemons, limes, oranges, cabbage, cauliflower, celery, lettuce, string beans, onions, red clover, wheat bran, rhubarb, yellow dock, watercress, blue vervain, motherwort, cactus, hawthorn berries, comfrey root, marshmellow, etc.

Calcium chloride: In green and leafy vegetables, berries, herbs.

Calcium: Milk, whole cereals, eggs, cabbage, parsnips, citrus fruits, nuts, legumes, potatoes, and soybean milk. - Refined sugar leaches, that is, it destroys calcium.

Coral Calcium: About the following info I was not able to find a bit more scientific verified affirmation. Some state that Coral Calcium contains about 70 trace minerals and that people in Indonesia who drink water containing it do not get prostate cancer. It is supposed to hold prostate cancer in remission together with a diet of plenty of fruits, vegetables such as Barley Greens, Saw Palmetto, whole grains, get enough rest, leave out sweets, exercise, lifting weights, jumping rope, fresh air when sleeping.

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

Potassium: Cherries, potatoes, parsnips [100], 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.

The chemical makeup of alcohol is treated by the human body not as food but as a toxic substance. It is absorbed into the stomach and transported by the bloodstream to the brain, lungs, kidneys, and the heart in just a few minutes. The liver especially is taxed in order to process a substance that takes hours of hard work to break down. When the presence of alcohol is chronic and prolonged significantly, the organs deteriorate, and the person suffers from one or more illnesses.
Unfortunately, the effects of alcohol transcend the drinker. Alcohol use comes with a terrible social cost. Half of all automobile and workplace accidents are alcohol related. Many crimes are committed under the effect of alcohol. Public and private funds are depleted to provide health care to cure maladies caused directly by alcohol. And, closer to home, the spouse and children of the addict often are victims of verbal and physical abuse.
Alcohol, as well as any other psychoactive substances, will affect our ability to make the correct moral choices; under the influence, folk are likely to slip deeper and deeper into sin.
Those trapped in any kind of substance abuse need to realize their problem and their need of help from a power greater than themselves - and that includes God's grace, the support of family or a caring church community, and the treatment prescribed by qualified professionals (if possible).
Linseed oil is supposed to help in some wild growing tissue cases.

Diet and Health Reform is so important because it is given a large plan in God's plan on how we can prepare for His kingdom where there will be no Pharmacies and no meat stores.

`Well,' people may say, `isn't God going to give me a new body and take all of those desires from me?'

What is the answer to that?

People must advance in this area. God's people are not prepared for the loud cry of the third angel that is to go into all the world to ready those willing to meet the Lord. They have a work to do for themselves which they should not leave for God to do for them. Lustful appetite makes slaves of men and women, and beclouds their intellects and stupefies their moral sensibilities to such a degree that the sacred elevated truths of God's word are not appreciated. We see that all around us.

The controlling power of appetite will prove the ruin of thousands, when, if they had conquered on this point, they would have had moral power to gain victory over every other temptation of Satan. But those who are slaves to appetite will fail in perfecting Christian character. As we near the close of time Satan's temptation to indulge appetite will be more powerful and more difficult to overcome. That is why Jesus fasted 40 days at the beginning of His ministry; that is why we should look at His example to recognize and see the lessons in that for it is impossible for those indulging in appetite to attain to Christian perfection.

God demands that the appetites be cleansed, and that self-denial be practiced in regard to those things which are not good. This is the work that will have to be done before His people can stand before Him a perfected people.

The rejection of the place of obedience to health reform has in the Christian experience, coupled with the desire for the power of the "gifts" to get victory, naturally produces a desire to secure health by miraculous means instead of by obedience.

And so there is among us as a people a desire for miraculous healing not after God's order, and which is already proving a snare to some of us.

Many are looking to miracles as a result or evidence of the latter rain, and so as a confirmation that our message and movement are inspired of God. All such are on dangerous ground, and have already opened the door to the enemy to present to them one of the most insidious and disastrous deceptions in store for this people.

In this age when the work of God is to be finished and a people made ready to meet Him, God has not ordained that the rank and file of His people shall receive miraculous physical healing in time of sickness. While He does not today desire to exclude miraculous healing, yet in this matter He has put a difference between these and apostolic days.

What is that difference?

"The way in which Christ worked was to preach the word, and to relieve suffering by miraculous works of healing. But I am instructed that we cannot now work in this way; for Satan will exercise his power by working miracles. God's servants today could not work by means of miracles, because spurious works of healing, claiming to be divine, will be wrought.
For this reason the Lord has marked out a way in which His people are to carry forward a work of physical healing combined with the teaching of the word. Sanitariums are to be established, and with these institutions are to be connected workers who will carry forward genuine medical missionary work. Thus a guarding influence is thrown around those who come to the sanitariums for treatment." {MM 14.2,3}

Christ is no longer in this world in person, to go through our cities and towns and villages, healing the sick; but He has commissioned us to carry forward the medical missionary work that He began. In this work we are to do our very best. We are not to set these up as for profit only to enrich its owners. We are to set them up to minister to the needy. Those who seek profit have no calling from the Lord.

One reason why God does not now make miraculous healing the main dependence is that it does not give the necessary aid in perfecting character, and character is the only thing that prepares us for the latter rain or translation.

Obedience is the character trait that develops character, and to make perfect character the obedience must include both the spiritual and physical life and habits. And if God should heal us miraculously of sickness caused by our own transgression and in the midst of our transgression, He would thereby set His seal to our sins, and as a result we would be confirmed in our sins rather than led away from them, and the preparation for the latter rain and for translation hindered rather than furthered.

If we could cure through the "gift of healing" every sick person who comes to us and who is in our midst, that would not assists God in His great task of getting characters ready for translation. Rather it would hinder Him in doing so. It would cause the people to look lightly upon obedience to physical laws, and upon their physical sins, and would prevent their putting them away, and thus prevent the development of character.

If we were only living in obedience as evangelical workers and as medical workers and people, then God could add the miraculous healing without compromising Himself; but because of our continual transgression - living in sin - He cannot bestow the miraculous without thereby approving of our sins. Our obedience must come first. On this point note the following quotation:

"After Christ's baptism He preacher the gospel to the cities that were round about. He was working and healing - the medical missionary work was bound up with the preaching of the gospel. . . . You may say, `Why not, then, take hold of the work and heal the sick as Christ did?' I answer, `You are not ready.' Some have believed, some have been healed, but there are many who make themselves sick by intemperate eating or indulging in other wrong habits. When they get sick, shall we pray for them to be raised up, that they may carry on the very same work again? There must be a reformation throughout our ranks; the people must reach a higher standard before we expect the power of God to be manifested in a marked manner for the healing of the sick. . . . Let me tell you that the sick will be healed when you have faith to come to God in the right way." {GCB, 1901, pp. 25,26.}

Since we know that today, the battle is for our mind, we ought to look at some largely unsuspected dangers all around us. Our text is right from the same chapter we find the messages of the three angels in:

"And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe. And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God." Rev. 14:18,19.

What does it mean to say, "her grapse are fully ripe"? We also know that in the last days, God's people will be "in close (spiritual) combat" with evil powers. How close is close? How about all those things people treat themselves with, all those legalized, pasturized, tenderized, vaporized, homogenized things? How about all those once outlawed, now legalized smokes and drugs, crashing lifes and causing strange laws under a "plea of goodness" to be made? Cannabis (6-24% THC) we can avoid, how about another, lesser (0.3%) form of THC in hemp - used in rope, canvas, clothing, foods like breakfast cereal, flour, non-dairy milk, herb teas, waffles, tofu, nut butters, hemp seed oil, cakes, protein powder and ice cream - things that you feel `desire' or a `drug pull' for caused by THC, alcohol, caffeine and nicotine? Sea silver salt's attraction was a small amount of alcohol in it. It says about Babylon, "... by her sorceries were all nations divided." Rev. 18:23. We ought to look at this and understand it better for these are issue rampant today, which can be known by all, but only God's people will listen. It means that most people on earth will be under these influences because of the "pharmacia". That is why we read, "As the angels of God cease to hold in check the fierce winds of human passion, all the elements of strife will be let loose." {GC 614.1} This "strife", what is it? Is it these uncontrolled apetites and desires? This `letting lose' is that the same as "her grapes are fully ripe"? Big Babylonian corporations are behind all these concoctions designed to fill their coffers while keeping all on earth on their leash. So, dear reader, we want to separate from such. But there is another group in great danger. Time Magazine said:

1. Science and religion agree on one thing: spirituality is good for your health.
   
2. people who attend religious services have a lower risk of dying in one year than people who do not attend.
   
3. people who believe in a loving God have better health than people who believe in a punitive God.
   
4. even the killer called AIDs will back off a bit when it is hit with belief.
   
5. our brains and bodies contain an awful lot of spiritual wiring.
   
6. `The way the brain works' is very compatible `with religion and spirituality.'
   
7. religion is `enmeshed in the brain.'
   
8. Dr. Andrew Newberg . . . different parts of the brain light up during various religious experiences.
   
9. When praying, the frontal lobe lights up.(This is in harmony with what Ellen White wrote, `The brain is the capital of the body, the seat of all the nervous forces and of mental action. The nerves proceeding from the brain control the body. By the brain nerves, mental impressions are conveyed to all the nerves of the body as by telegraph wires, and they control).

TIME Magazine then reveals the shocking fact that the frontal lobes go quiet "when worshippers are involved in the singular activity of speaking in tongues." !!!!!!

Wow, the frontal lobe which is the center through which God appeals to a human being, goes quiet, it is short circuited, and that is not good - it is not of God.

On that we read, "It is only by exercising principle in small transactions of ordinary life that we are tested and our characters formed. In the varied circumstances of life we are tested and proved, and thereby we acquire a power to stand the greater and more important tests that we are called to endure, and are qualified to fill still more important positions. The mind must be trained through daily tests to habits of fidelity, to a sense of the claims of right and duty above inclination and pleasure. Minds thus trained do not waver between right and wrong, as the reed trembles in the wind; but as soon as matters come before them, they discern at once that principle is involved, and they instinctively choose the right without long debating the matter. They are loyal because they have trained themselves in habits of faithfulness and truth." {3T 22}

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).

[100] Parsnips (Pastinaca sactiva) are a European biennial herb with large pinnate (featherlike, like spinach) leaves and yellow flowers; its long tapered root is poisonous in the wild state, but through cultivation made palatable and nutritious.