Overall, we need to ask how can we make the American diet better so that it will nourish a healthy and long-lived race of people? What can we do with this diet based on quick eating, fast preparation, microwave meals, stop-and-go diets; the diet we can fit between two pieces of white bread; the diet we can eat with one hand while driving our car or working at our desk; this processed, refined, junk food, high-sodium, high-fat diet; this diet that generates death more than life? Generally, we need to reevolve back to the basics, back to nature, back to the garden.

1. Consume less fat via
2. Consuming less red meat, lunch meat, bacon, ham, and so on and
3. Consuming less milk and milk products.
4. Consume less fried foods and
5. Less hydrogenated oils.
6. Eat less refined flour products,
7. Less white sugar and simple sugars, and
8. Less salt and salty foods, such as crackers, pretzels, chips, and pickled foods.
9. Consume fewer calories.
10. Consume less coffee and alcohol.
11. Smoke less or not at all.
12. Eat more fresh fruit and
13. Fresh vegetables.
14. Eat more whole grain cereals, such as rice, whole wheat, oats, and so on.
15. Eat more fiber foods—the fruits, vegetables, and grains.
16. Eat more fresh fish and poultry to replace red meats and
17. More vegetable protein, such as nuts, seeds, and beans and the sprouts of these foods to replace animal proteins.
18. Drink more filtered or spring water.
19. Drink more fruit and vegetable juices and herbal teas to replace coffee, black teas, soda pops, and other stimulating beverages.
20. Get more regular, preferably daily exercise with some aerobics—that is, more vigorous exercise. In other words, let’s get in physical shape.
21. Take better care of our air.
22. 22. Keep our waters free of pollution.

Getting back to the basics means learning to take the time again to shop for, prepare, and sit down to eat wholesome, nourishing meals—to generally be more conscious and conscientious with our diet. This is a tough request for a very busy population always trying to catch up with their bills and credit cards. Believe me, it is worth the price, because we will feel better longer and be more productive.

New Healthy American
The new healthy American diet is basically what I am clarifying in this book. It is what many of us have turned to as we realize the consequences of this refined, processed, and chemicalized American diet. The new “health food” industry and health or natural food stores are providing us with the ingredients needed to create our new diet. Hopefully our own garden will also help. More supermarkets and chain stores are supplying many of the new, more natural, less processed “health foods.” Furthermore, the use of chemical farming (see Chapter 11) brings the term “organic,” grown without chemicals, to national attention. Even animals are considered “chemical” when they are factory farmed, treated with antibiotics or hormones, and fed chemically-treated foods, or “natural”