Diana Lewis Reflexology

Dietary recommendations

70% of your daily recommended intake should be alkaline and 30% acid

Vegetables, vegetable juices, herbal teas

Proteins (poultry, game, fish, eggs, dairy, dried beans & legumes)
Grains and Fruits (picked green)

The emphasis is on whole foods - foods that have nothing added or removed.

Eat slowly and chew well - a meal should take at least 20 minutes to eat.

Fresh vegetables - as much raw as possible
Liquids - approximately 7 cups of quality liquid per day (water, herb teas, vegetable juice)
Wholegrains - e.g. wheat, barley, brown rice, millet, maize, sorgham (vary them)
Seeds and nuts - (not peanuts) e.g. sesame, sunflower, linseeds, almonds
Pulses - cooked or sprouted
Fish and chicken
Unprocessed cheese - e.g. goats, cottage cheese
Eggs - organic/free range - 2 to 3 per week
Fruit - in moderation - 1 to 2 per day (no citrus)
Salt - very sparingly - use sea salt or vegetable salt e.g. Herbamare
Cold pressed oils - e.g. sunflower, sesame
Thickeners - potato flower, rice flour, wholewheat flour
Herbal teas - e.g. honey-bush, red-bush, peppermint, camomile
Substitute coffees - e.g. cappafini, bambu, postum

Refined foods - e.g. white flour products, classified "dead foods". They give minimal amounts of vitamins/minerals and no fibre making one over-fed, but undernourished
Coffee and tea - they are acid forming containing stimulants/poisons which harm various organs and functions
Soft drinks - e.g. Coca Cola, diet drinks, soda stream drinks
Alcohol - an antinutrient - use in moderation
Preservative, colourings, artificial flavouring - e.g. MSG, tartrazine
Sugar - e.g. jams, biscuits, cakes, pastries, soft-drinks, ice-cream. All are acid forming, demanding vitamins and minerals to process them, nutrients better used to run the body protecting it from illness
Sugar substitutes
Red meat
Margarine - use butter in moderation
Smoked/tinned foods
Drinking with meals - drink half an hour before/an hour after meals