Diet Wise Academy

166 Diet Wise

Why are food families important at this stage?

Because, as well as making sure that any single food does not occur too
often, you must also take some care that foods from the same family do not
come close together too frequently.
To help you in this a comprehensive list of food families is provided
in appendix A. You must refer to it when working out your scheme. In
general, we allow members of the same family to be taken at an interval
of two days, even when specific foods are rotated one day in four. This
supposes that no other member of the same group is eaten between the
two. In other words, wheat on Monday, oats on Wednesday is fine; then
wheat again on Friday (or barley or rice but not oats).
So you will see that knowledge of the food families is really quite
essential to the construction of a proper rotation diet. It is, of course,
possible to eat more than one food a day! The simplest regimen allows you
to eat a given food (or food family) several times on the permitted day. To
give you an idea of how this works I have constructed a simple table based
on this principle:

Food Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4

Meat beef pork lamb chicken

Fruit pears or

apples

grapes banana orange

Vegetables peas or

beans

cauliflower

cabbage

celery

carrot

tomato

lettuce

Cereal/starch wheat buckwheat rice potato

Drink apple

juice

grape

juice

pineapple

juice

orange

juice

Miscellaneous milk raisins nuts egg

The left-hand column gives pointers to the kind of food chosen. There is a
meat for each day, a vegetable, a fruit and so on. The table is read vertically:
for example, on Day I you may eat beef, apple, pear, peas, beans, wheat and
drink apple juice or milk. Milk is placed on the same day as beef since it
comes from the same animal; similarly chicken and egg.