From the website of Delhi-based energy healer, Navin Nirula:
- Eat a whole plant food based diet, with an emphasis on starchy vegetables. Drink plenty of plain water.
- Eliminate all processed foods, added oils and fats, milk and dairy, all non-vegetarian items and their derivatives in foods either at home, at restaurants, at functions, or store-bought foods. Avoid excessive coffee and tea which create acidity. (2 to 3 cups a day of green tea/herbal teas are fine.)
- Eliminate all high sugar foods and drinks, chocolates.
- Your whole foods plant based diet should be 50-60% starchy food (cereals and tubers like potato, sweet potato), 30-40% green and yellow and orange vegetables, and 10% fruits.
- Follow this diet strictly until you clinically reverse all signs of your disease ; on this plan you don’t have to count calories, nor is there a restriction on quantities of food and frequency of eating within the specified food groups.
- Eat every 3 hours or sooner if hungry.
- Take a 10 -15 minute walk anytime, or go up and down stairs a few times at your own comfortable pace. If at you work at a desk, get up and walk around every 45 minutes.
- Don’t over-exercise or stress your body if you are obese or unfit. As you get fitter and healthier, gradually add some stretching exercises and some safe exercises like stationary biking.
- Swimming and water exercises can be done at any stage of fitness, as this places the least stress on your joints, and exercises your entire body in a reduced weight state.
- Expose bare skin to the sunlight at a UV Index of greater than 3 for a sufficient time to generate adequate vitamin D to maintain good cellular and hormonal health. See the guidelines on the Weather page.
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- For more on the UV Index and sun exposure time–go to the Weather page–If you are unable to get sunshine then take a vitamin D capsule (1000 to 2000 IU) per day until your 25(OH)D3 level in the blood test comes to a little more than 25 mg/dL, ( or more than 65 nmol/L).
- Take a vitamin B12 tablet once a day if blood levels of B12 are low–methylcobalamin 10 mcg. (Adults actually only need 5 micrograms a day). If taking a larger dosage of B12 (500-1500mcg), take it once or twice a week. If you have been taking non-vegetarian food or B12 supplementation prior to this, and where your B12 levels are in the normal range, you may not need B12 supplementation for up to 3 years, except if you are pregnant where you would need B12 supplementation on a vegetarian diet. (Note: milk is not ‘vegetarian’, it is liquid meat with indigestible sugars and hormones that are poisonous to human beings over the age of 2 years. See the information in downloadable PDF book – ‘Reversing Chronic Degenerative Disease without Modern Medicine’.)
- Sleep 7-8 hours a day, take a short nap in the day.
- Reduce stress by cleaning your room, workplace. Seeing clutter keeps the brain guessing as what might be under the clutter and where something you need to locate might be—even if you don’t need it right now, and this creates ongoing stress.
- Get some social time, off time from your regular routine.
- Indulge in your creative instincts and take up a craft or hobby that will engage you pleasurably.
- Meditate for 10-15 minutes a day if you like.
- For karmic healers–take 15-20 minutes a day minimum to run through a brief cycle of healing, bathing your mind and focused consciousness in the blissful healing energy stream.
- Take a touch body healing periodically from a healer and be cradled in the healing energy flow, regenerating and refreshing yourself (even if you are a healer).
- Life is not all a serious matter! If you follow these guidelines you will find your daily life most rewarding and fulfilling. This will also permit you to deal smoothly with any rough patches you come across.
I liked the point about the clutter. And hard to find much to object to in this . . . except for the recommendation of starchy vegetables–corn, potatoes, rice, yams, etc. I love sweet potatoes, but I associate this food group with diabetes or conditions that lead to metabolic syndrome. Starchy vegetables tend to have a high glycemic index. Don’t know if this of any concern in the “Eating Cure.” Not sure of the context he used to work out this “cure.” Would like to hear his rationales that support his recommendations. Not sure what his audience is eating that might lead to disease.
The point about indigestible sugars in milk I’d heard before, and it may be one of the reasons why milk is not a real health food, even raw milk. But dairy is a low-glycemic carbohyrate and this is beneficial. I like dairy–cheese and plain yogurt. But these do have their own digestion problems, namely constipation. Do the benefits outweigh the cost? If someone is straining all the time and causing small ruptures in the intestinal and stomach walls, seems to me that he is losing some strength in his core. I don’t know. Not sure on that. But that seems to make sense.
It’s really important to strengthen the core, the abdomen, the mucles that support and surround the stomach and the intestines. Was reading about hernias today and how problems with one’s mid-section causes problems that radiate down the legs to the feet and toes as well as up toward the diaphragm and lungs. So finding foods and exercises that strengthen the core is vital for strength and health and function.
Thanks for letting me go on.
Hi Mike,
No, I quite agree with you on those points. Usually people say to avoid too many of the starchy vegetables. I think a lot of rice in the diet and a lot of oils is a problem and may be the cause of diabetes in India.
Because of the extreme heat and crowding, it’s not that easy to walk or bike anymore so people cannot be as active outdoors and that’s a negative too.
I’ve never been fond of milk and when I stopped drinking it, I noticed I had far fewer sinus problems and my digestion was much better. Have never looked back since then. Yoghurt and cheese (cottage and aged) are both different from dairy and generally a good thing. Yoghurt and buttermilk (whey) are among the best things you can take. Yoghurt increases the good bacteria and you should have it as often as you can if you have any kind of digestive problem. Whey as well. You’d have to experiment to find out which worked better for you. Nut cheeses are good too.
I must say I don’t follow any of these nowadays simply because I have other things going on, and the difference in how I feel is huge. I feel lethargic, down, and blue. When I’m eating right, I am perky and energetic.
Doing lower abdominals is good for the core or even tai-chi or any of these martial arts. Yoga as well.
Or just focusing on them and tightening them – calisthenics.
As I sip my green smoothie which includes coconut, organic dandelion, OG papaya, OG apple, ginger, garlic onion, B12, C, and other ingredients, I have to agree plant-BASED is best. I do look askance at the people who say “starch-based” however. Perhaps for those with highly tuned sugar metabolism, that works. For others, it makes them sluggish and makes them gain weight. Different groups have adapted to various kinds of diet. So, I also included a hamburger patty in my meal; I have roast chicken in the fridge, I had delicious tuna salad this morning on gluten-free bread, and I just finished off an expensive but really-worth-it quart of goat milk which I take much better than cow milk.
I’m sorry to have been gone so long. I know you asked me questions way back when about health stuff. I just got bogged down. It’ s not you – I have been avoiding every one. Again, I apologize. More comments later …
Oh…slurp!
Coconut, apple, ginger, papaya, onion…
Mike, Lila:
I’m working on an attempt to explain “Health In One Page.”
It would give the basic elements of what the human being needs, allowing for variations and still-open questions.
I’m no nutritionist, just a guy trying to learn as much and muddle along as best I can.
Even the experts who are real and not on some industry payroll, differ on diet (although most seem to agree that whole,nontoxic, and plant-based is best).
I went through a literally religious, raw vegan phase (religious because I was evangelized into it by fellow Christians who said it was commanded in Genesis 1:29) and for a while, I thought that every human on the planet needed to do that all the time.
However, I had to face the facts that reality is more complicated. For one thing, we’re not living in the Garden of Eden — it’s a really different world. And even the “Genesis 1:29” diet folks had to have B12 supplements and green drinks and fancy vegan essential oil blends to supplement their diet.
(The vegans may win on one point: it does see that we *could* get enough B12 from our intestinal bacteria *if* we feed them correctly, don’t use antibiotics, etc.)
Another thing: we all come from different tribes that adapted to radically different environments and climates and diets.
Further, the Standard American Diet and lifestyle damage both our food and our bodies in ways that can make otherwise healthy foods unhealthy, until we repair the damage. If your digestion is impaired, even the highest-quality foods may be hard for you to take.
Evidently, some traditional cultures did well with corn, potatoes, rice and yams — at least, with their “heirloom” varieties. But those have been replaced by hybrids engineered for industrial and not nutritional considerations.
In some cases, this leads to problems like higher sugar and lower nutrients, which are key to metabolism. Or, it changes the proteins. Reportedly, the wheat hybrids since the ’50s have harder-to-digest glutens.
Traditional cultures also weren’t completely trashing their sugar metabolism with refined sugars and starches like we do.
And, they were moving and working all day.
WRT grains in particular, I’m leaning paleo: although we can make them sorta-work, grains are not optimally suited for us — a problem that has worsened in recent decades with the abovementioned wheat hybrid problem (not sure if the same was done to barley, rye, etc.) and the widespread destruction of our digestive systems with generally terrible diet.
The smoothie was delicious. Coconut is a bit hard to blend well, even in a Nutrabullet, but some avocado really helps smooth it out and emulsify it,
More on grains …. i don’t know.
Rice seems the most innocuous but “Brain Allergies” said that “overeating” anything does tend to induce allergy. That would help explain asians having rice allergy.
Ironically, for the really sensitive, brown rice will be a bigger problem (seemingly contra to all the advice that brown is better). Organic, heirloom briwn rices were a big problem fir me earlier this ear. I have calmed my system down a lot, but I’m still eating white rice!
Speaking of tai chi: Not long ago I found a book about Master Chen Manching, titled “There Are No Secrets” on sale for 50 cents. Back in college (a century ago) I did a one-semester tai chi course, but never got around to going further.
Well this book has re-sparked my interest.
Soon after I started the book, I spent half a night watching Youtube vids of tai chi and other kung fu masters, including some grainy old films of Chen.
The next day, I was out driving to go buy some new clothes, after a rather random (you could say “lucky”) series of events which brought me unexpected money.
At one point, I noticed that the license plate of the car in front of me said:
TAICHE 2
I know, right??