Include healthy organic vegetables and ocean vegetables into your diet (remember the rule of 80/20...80% of your meal should be vegetables).

Know which vegetables to cook and which to eat raw for optimal nutrition.

Like organic pasture fed meat and poultry and wild fish. The article Good Meats vs. Bad Meats: Your Definitive Guide to How to Choose the Healthiest Meat shows you how to be sure you eat meat that supports your health. Nuts and seeds are great sources of protein, just be sure to soak them first. For more, read: How to Eat - and NOT Eat - Almonds.

Are a must for your healthy diet. Organic unrefined fats and oils provide essential fatty acids that improve your skin, your brain power and your mood. They also provide energy, satiety and help boost immunity. For more, read: Why The Processing of Consumable Oils Has Devastated America’s Health.

Eliminate sugar slowly from your diet so that you are not eating sugar, honey, corn syrup, brown rice syrup, molasses or other sweeteners. You can include healthy natural alternatives that don’t feed candida or spike your blood sugar, like Lakanto or Stevia. For more reasons NOT to eat sugar, read: The 25 Key Reasons You Want to Dramatically Reduce or Avoid Sugar in Your Diet.

WHAT ABOUT FRUIT? Most fruit is too sweet and feeds candida, upsetting the balance of your healthy inner ecosystem. Instead, DO include these sour fruits, eaten alone on an empty stomach (you can use lemon or lime squeezed over fish, however): unsweetened lemons, limes, black currants and cranberries.

SEA SALT is not the poisonous white table salt you may have grown up with. Learn more about why to avoid common table salt and how to include the healing benefits of sea salt in your diet by reading: Salt: What You Don’t Know Can Harm You - and What You Should Do Instead.

These amazing probiotic-rich foods and drinks improve digestion, stop sugar cravings, provide essential vitamins and minerals and boost your immunity. Fermented foods and drinks populate your gut with the beneficial bacteria and yeast (microflora, also called probiotics) that keep you healthy. In fact, they kept our ancestors (in almost every culture) healthy years ago and now you can discover the benefits for yourself!

CULTURED VEGETABLES are one of the healthiest fast food snacks and makes the perfect accompaniment to your meals.

PROBIOTIC LIQUIDS are an easy, delicious way to repopulate your gut with healthy probiotics and enhance your appearance. Young Coconut Kefir is a great example that you can make at home. If you don’t want to search out and crack those coconuts, we have convenient CocoBiotic, a delicious probiotic liquid with all the benefits of Young Coconut Kefir and more! Learn more about probiotic liquids by reading: Which Type of Probiotic Liquid Should You Choose?

Including quinoa, buckwheat, amaranth, and millet. When you follow the Body Ecology program, including our recommended grain-like seeds, you can be sure you’re obtaining the fiber you need for excellent health and cleansing. For more, read: The Risks of Consuming Typical Grains & the Healthy Grains to Choose Instead.

Especially first thing in the morning. Our Vitality SuperGreen is the perfect green drink for healing your gut, while boosting your energy. Vitality SuperGreen can play an important role in bringing your blood back to its desired alkaline state. For more information on green drinks, read: Are You at Peak “Vitality?” Answer these Three Key Questions.

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DO HEALTHY PROTEINS

DO A RANGE OF HEALTHY FATS AND OILS

DO HEALTHY NATURAL SWEETS AND MEDICINAL CONDIMENTS

DO BODY ECOLOGY GRAIN-LIKE SEEDS AND FIBER

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Such as refined sugar, organic sugar, sweet fruits, and juices made from fruits. But sour fruits such as fresh and frozen berries, and juices made from lemons, limes, pomegranate, noni, acai, mangosteen, seabuckthorn and cranberry juice concentrate are fine. Use stevia or Lakanto as a sweetener.

Found in all dairy products including milk, cheese, milk kefir and yogurt. This includes raw, fermented, or pasteurized dairy products.

Boxed foods, prepared mixes, hydrogenated oils, etc.

Including canola, soybean oil, margarine, sunflower, safflower, and peanut oils. High-oleic sunflower oil is acceptable in smaller amounts

Found in wheat, spelt, kamut, rye, barley, and oats. (These also feed yeast.)

Such as rice, beans, dried peas, white potatoes, sweet potatoes, etc. Red-skinned potatoes are allowed, but best to include a fermented food or liquid at that meal to consume the sugar.

Because it suppresses the immune system unless properly fermented. (Soy needs a longer fermentation time with stronger cultures to break it down.) Soy is also estrogenic and you will want to remove foods that add more estrogen to your child’s body.

REMOVE OFFENDING FOODS AND STOP FEEDING SYSTEMIC INFECTION Healing begins in the digestive tract. Removing foods that weaken the immune system

and make you an easy “host” to infections is a vital first step. The goal is to starve the bad microorganisms that are creating inflammation and feeding the systemic infection.

FOODS TO AVOID

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