The Page Fundamental Food Plan:
Today there is much confusion about diet plans and diets. Dr. Page's food plan is not a diet, but a food
plan as the name implies. It was created at the famous Page Clinic in Florida. Blood chemistry panels were taken every three to four days on all patients. He based his food plan from the early research of Drs. Weston Price and Francis Pottenger. Their research showed how the quality of the foods you ate affected your health, both physical and emotional. Dr. Page called it a food plan because he found that certain foods upset the body chemistry. It made no difference as to your genetic
disposition, the same foods upset the body chemistry for most individuals. Certain genetic dispositions were able to handle those foods better than others, but after thousands of blood chemistry panels his food plan proved true by normalizing the patient's blood chemistry without any other intervention.
Many of today's popular diets are based on Dr. Page's work. Dr. Page emphasized
removing absolutely all refined carbohydrates (such as sugar and processed flour) and pasteurized cow's milk from the diet.
Liquids: Water is the best! A minimum of 8 glasses a day, herbal tea can be partially substituted. No sodas. Avoid coffee until you are fully recovered, and then only in moderation if you have the metabolism for it. Fruit juices are forbidden
because of their high fructose content and dumping of sugar into the blood stream. An occasional small glass of vegetable juice with a meal is probably okay.
You might think we're being harsh, but the most important life-giving substance in the body is water. The daily routine of the body depends on a turnover of about 40,000 glasses of water a day. In the process, your body loses
at a minimum, 6 glasses a day even if you don't do anything. With movement, exercise, and sugar intake (that's right) etc. you can require up to 15 glasses of water a day.
Consider this -- the concentration of water in your brain has been estimated to be 85% and the water content of your tissues like your liver, the kidneys, muscle, heart, intestines, etc. are 75% water. The
concentration of water outside of the cells is about 94%. That means that water wants to move from outside of the cell (where it is diluted) into the cell (where it is more concentrated) to balance things out. The urge water has to move is called hydroelectric power. That's the same electrical power generated at hydroelectric dams (like Hoover Dam). The energy made in your body is part hydroelectric.
If you enjoy wine or beer and still insist, there are some guidelines. First, drink red wine only with meals. It has less sugar and more of the beneficial polyphenols than white wines. Most of the good foreign beer is actually brewed and contains far more nutrients than the pasteurized chemicals called beer made by the large commercial breweries in the United States. Trader Joe's usually has a good selection of these specialty beers. With beer and wine,
occasional intake is best. Because coffee and alcohol force you to lose water, you'll have to drink more water to compensate.
