A cell that has not been starved of oxygen and has pH balance cannot become infected with cancer. Eating a diet rich in brightly coloured vegetables is the natural way to bring pH levels to a balanced state. An excellent diet to help maintain a normal pH is a low stress diet. This will place the least amount of strain on digestion and metabolism.

Too much protein makes one feel tired, sluggish and is a cause of increased blood pressure.  Urine that foams alot may be an indicator of too much protein.  Urine that is dark yellow may be an indicator of too much sugar in the diet.  Moderation in protein, fat and sugar intake is the answer.

• Meat, chicken, turkey, and fish are better digested if eaten along with salad.
• Dilute frozen fruit juices  with an extra can of water to help lower suger levels of the juice.
• Drink only pure water from a pure source.
• As a person gets healthier through better diet, he may get periodic reactions from destroying and expelling accumulated toxins.

It is helpful when eating a meal not to mix acids and starches.  they should always be eaten at seperate meals. Acids neutralise the alkaline medium for starch digestion and the result is fermentation, which can result in indigestion.  Examples of acid foods are: nuts, most dairy foods, flesh foods including fish.  Examples of a starch: potatoes, cereals, dried beans and peas.  the list is longer ut you get the idea.

Eat protein and starch foods at seperate meals.  The acid of starch foods inhibit the secretion of the digestive acids required for protein digestion.  undigested protein putrefies in bacterialdecomposition and produces some potent poisons.  for more information on proper food combining go to www.feelgoodfood.com

Cigarette smoke is a combination od lethal gases- carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide and nitrogen and sulphar oxides- and tars, which contain an estimated 4,000 chemicals.

An alkaline diet is even more important during the cigarette withdrawel and detoxification periods.  the increased blood alkalinity that results from a diet high in fruits and vegetables, even mainly raw food consumption, helps reduce the craving for and the interest in smoking. 

Smokers simple nutrient plan

Vitamin c                                    1,000 - 2,000 mg

Beta-carotene                            15,000 - 25,000 IUs

Vitamin A                                   5,000 - 10,000 IUs

Zinc                                            15 - 30 mg

Selenium                                    200 mcg

Vitamin E                                   400 IUs

Stop smoking diet

Increase Alkaline Foods

Fruits, vegetables, greens, lima beans, millet, figs, raisins, carrots, celery, almonds

Reduce Acid Foods

Meats, sugar, wheat, bread, baked goods, beef, chicken, eggs, milk, cheese

Stopping smoking may require a major change in your whole relationship to ourselves and our health. We need to decide to love, support and nature ourselves in the best possible way.  Often, changing our attitude first makes it easier for us to give up to our health--denying habits, such as smoking.  If we want to be optimally healthy, we just cannot smoke.

During withdrawel, I suggest taking vitamin C (as a mineral ascorbate to reduce acidity) in amounts of about 1 gram every one or two hours.  This may help reduce nicotine cravings.  Other nutrients and dietry plans discussed earlier may also be used.

Suggestions for smoking cessation

• cut down on aother addictive substances, such as caffine, sugar, and alcohol, all of which can increase the desire to smoke.
• get a partner, another smoker, to stop with you, or even better, get an ex-smoker to support you while you stop
• tell friends and family and ask for their support- that is, go public with your plan to stop. Also let them know you may wish to use them during your transition
• stay busy to prevent bordem and to keep your mind off smoking.
• exercise regulary to decrease withdrawel, increase motivation, and increase relaxation.
• create a reward or goal for being successful, such as betting with a friend (bet on yourself, of course), or save cigarette money for a new outfit or trip, this money you will collect only after a certain time of not smoking.
• get plenty of rest
• drink fluids and use water for therapy by taking showers, baths, hot tubs, or going swimming.
• change daily patterns to avoid stimulating old smoking conditioning. this may inlude staying away from bars and alcohol or coffee, avoiding friends who smoke, not recieving or making phone calls at specific locations in which you usually smoked, and getting up and doing something right after a meal.
• learn relaxation and breathing techniques and do them.
• practice visulaisation
• keep a positive attitude toward health and life
• get positive health treatments, such as massage, teeth cleaning to remove cigarrette stains, yoga class, and so on.
• find temporary oral substitues to deal with psychological ties to smoking- be careful not to over eat or choke on any of the following nonedibles.  Oral fixation subsitutes could inclue munchies such as vegetable sticks (carrot, celery, zucchini) apples, nuts, popcorn, sunflower seeds (unsalted) in shells, sugarless hard candies or gum, or chewing or sucking on ice cubes, toothpicks, licorice sticks, or drinking straws.
• if cravings arise, find wats to deal with them.  examples could include short relaxation exercises, such as rubbing a stone or crystal, or bedning a paperclip.