According to Phyllis A. Balch, CNC and James F. Balch, M.D
A diet high in nutrients is the key to good health. Use the following table as a guide when deciding which types of food to include in your diet and which ones to avoid in order to maintain good health.
| Type of food |
Foods to Avoid
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Acceptable Foods
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| Fruits |
Canned, bottled, or frozen fruits with sweeteners added.
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All fresh, frozen, stewed, or dried fruits without sweeteners, unsulfured fruits, home-canned fruits.
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| Vegetables |
All canned or frozen with salt or additives.
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All raw, fresh, frozen (no additives), or home-canned without salt (undercook vegetables slightly).
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| Nuts |
All salted or roasted nuts; peanuts.
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All fresh raw nuts (peanuts in moderation only).
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| Sprouts and seeds |
All seeds cooked in oil or salt.
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All slightly cooked sprouts (except alfalfa, which should be raw and washed thoroughly), wheatgrass, all raw seeds.
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| Grains |
All white flour products, white rice, pasta, crackers, cold cereals, instant types of oatmeal and other hot cereals.
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All whole grains and products containing whole grains: cereals, breads, muffins, wholegrain crackers, cream of wheat or rye cereal, buckwheat, millet, amaranth, oats, brown rice, wild rice. (Limit yeast breads to three servings per week.)
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| Beans |
Canned pork and beans, canned beans with salt or preservatives, frozen beans.
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All beans (especially soy), cooked without animal fat or salt.
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| Soups |
Canned soups made with salt, preservatives, MSG, or fat stock; all creamed soups.
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Homemade (salt- and fat-free) bean, lentil, pea, vegetable, barley, brown rice, onion.
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| Dairy products |
All soft cheeses, all pasteurized or artificially colored cheese products, milk, dry milk, dry cream, ice cream.
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Raw goat cheese, nonfat cottage cheese, kefir, unsweetened yogurt, goat’s milk, buttermilk.
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| Eggs |
Fried or pickled.
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Boiled or poached (limit of four weekly).
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| Fish |
All fried fish, all shellfish, salted fish, anchovies, fish canned in oil.
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All freshwater white fish, salmon, broiled or baked fish, water-packed tuna.
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| Meats |
Beef; all forms of pork; hot dogs; luncheon meats; smoked, pickled, and processed meats; corned beef; duck; goose; spare ribs; gravies; organ meats.
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Skinless turkey and chicken, lamb. (Limit meat to 3-oz servings per week.)
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| Oils (fats) |
All saturated fats, hydrogenated margarine, refined processed oils, shortenings, hardened oils.
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All cold-pressed, unrefined oils: flaxseed, rapeseed (canola oils), olive, soybean, walnut, pumpkin seed, sesame, sunflower, corn, safflower, eggless mayonnaise.
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| Beverages |
Alcoholic drinks, coffee, cocoa, pasteurized and/or sweetened juices and fruit drinks, sodas, tea (except herbal tea).
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Herbal teas, fresh vegetable and fruit juices, cereal grain beverages (often sold as coffee substitutes), distilled or mineral water.
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| Sweets |
White sugar, corn syrups, chocolate, sugar candy, fructose (except that in fresh whole fruit), all syrups (except pure mapple syrup) all sugar substitutes, jams and jellies made with sugar.
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Small amounts of natural, pure (organic), raw (not heated) bee honey, barley malt or rice syrup, pure mapple syrup, unsulfured blackstrap molasses, stevia.
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| Seasonings |
Black or white pepper, salt, hot red peppers, all types of vinegar except pure natural apple cider vinegar.
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Garlic, onions, red pepper, all herbs, dried vegetables, apple cider vinegar, tamari, miso, seaweed, dulse.
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