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Dr. Linda Hadley, N.D., D.Sc., Ph.D.

Nutritional Dietary Guidelines

Based on Page Fundamental Diet Plan

These Nutritional Dietary Guidelines are designed to assist your body in its ability to create and maintain “balanced body chemistry”. Dr. Melvin Page’s Phase 1 and Phase II Food Plans are not only extremely helpful, but in many cases essential to control blood sugar imbalances as well as all other types of imbalanced body chemistry. This dietary plan is based on the research of Drs. Price and Pottenger, who showed the relationship of diet to health, both physical and emotional. This dietary plan was proven true when blood chemistry panels of thousands of patients normalized without any other intervention. It is emphasized here that removing refined carbohydrates (such as sugar and processed flour) and cow’s milk from the diet is extremely important. On the food list sheets, notice the percentage of carbohydrates is indicated. It was not only important to eat quality proteins and fats, but quality carbohydrates as well.

The longer you implement these dietary guidelines and the more closely you follow them, the easier it will be to stick to it. This will result in your feeling and looking so much better than you did on your old way of eating. As you become healthier, your cravings for those foods which are not the best choices for you will actually diminish. Old habits are hard to break though, so take your time in changing your dietary habits so that you don’t slip back into your old way of eating. Nutritional supplements are needed to assist you to get back on track by reducing carvings, etc., and making up for the nutrients not found in our commercial grown foods of today.

  Foods To Eat And Not Eat 

Proteins: Eat small amounts of protein frequently. It is best if you have some protein at each meal. It need not be a large amount at any one time, in fact it is best if you stick to smaller amounts (2-4 ounces of meat, fish, fowl, or eggs at a time). See how to calculate the amount for you below. Both animal and vegetarian sources of protein are beneficial. Choose a variety of meat products and try to find the healthiest options available, i.e., free range, antibiotic free and/or organic, whenever possible. Eggs for most people are an excellent source of protein. Eat the whole egg, the lecithin in the yolk is essential to lower blood fat and improves liver and brain function (soft-boiled or poached are best). With any protein, the way in which you prepare it is critical. The closer to raw or rare the better. Remember, any time meats and vegetables are heated over 110 degrees Fahrenheit, crucial enzymes are damaged and lost. Avoid frying! Steamed, broiled are best for vegetables and meats.

Vegetables: Eat more, more, more!!! This is the one area where most everyone can improve their diet, and it is an especially important area for you. Always look for a variety, but make the green leafy type your preference. This includes spinach, chard, beet greens, kale, broccoli, mustard greens, etc.

As stated above for proteins, the quality of your produce (fresh and organic preferred) and the method of preparation is critical. Raw is preferred with lightly steamed or sautéed as your second choice for all vegetables. Use only butter and extra virgin olive oil to sauté. When eating salads, try not to eat iceberg lettuce, rather use lettuces with a rich green color, sprouts and raw nuts. Don’t make salads your only choice of veggies.

Fruits: Most people wrongly try to drink their fruits. Fruit juice is loaded with the simple sugar fructose, which is shunted into forming triglycerides and ultimately stored as fat. Without the fiber in the fruit, juice sends a rapid burst of fructose into the blood stream. When you do eat fruit, only eat one type of fruit at a time on an empty stomach; second, avoid the sweetest fruits/tropical fruits, except papaya which is very rich in some of the digestive enzymes (fruits from colder climates are preferred); and third, eat only the highest quality, fresh and organic when possible.

Carbohydrates: This is a very tricky area. Most people have one classification for carbohydrates when in reality there are really 3 different types – complex, simple and processed. Unfortunately, for most people suffering with imbalance problems, almost any carbohydrate is a no-no. It is a physiological fact that the more carbohydrates you eat the more you will want. Craving carbohydrates is a symptom of an imbalance, so you can use this craving to monitor your progress. Overall, eat vegetables as your carbohydrate choice and limit refined grains (even complex grains can be trouble if overeaten). When you do eat whole grains, only have them in moderation, and only at dinner. If you start the day with carbohydrates, you are more likely to crave them throughout the day, and then you will eat more and it’s down hill from there. Absolutely stay away from white breads (100% rye bread is the least of the evils), muffins, cookies, candies, crackers, pastas, white rice and most baked goods.

There’s another dark side to processed carbohydrates that isn’t talked about much – the connection to weight gain, elevated cholesterol and triglycerides, heart disease, and cancer. See “low glycemic info” to get further into carbohydrates and their affects in the human body.

Wheat and Grains: There has been a tremendous amount of debate regarding grains. Whole unprocessed grains can be rich sources of vitamins and minerals, but with soil depletion and the special strains (hybrids) of grain that modern agriculture has developed, it isn’t clear what nutrients remain.

Wheat and barley, the predominantly used grains in this country, are now genetically engineered in some strains to have 5 times or more the gluten content and only one-third or less of the amount of protein content of the original grains from which they were derived. This high gluten content is to blame for many allergic reactions we see today. Where scholars have studied disease patterns and the decline of various civilizations, many of the degenerative diseases developed when cultivation of grains became a major practice. Chemicals naturally found in certain grains lack the appropriate enzymes for correct break-down in the human body and the carbohydrate content of the grains may make them a source of trouble for many individuals.

Our opinion at this time is to minimize grains such as wheat and barley. Unprocessed rye, rolled oats, and brown rice (particularly Basmati) can be considered on occasion to give you more variety. Some of the Danish and German brown breads like pumpernickel can be nutritious.

Sweeteners: Use only small amounts of sweetener. Less refined Stevia, raw honey, raw cane sugar, and fructose are your best choices. You should choose to not use Nutra Sweet® and other artificial sweeteners, corn syrup or table sugar (sucrose). If you decide to cheat, be smart and use only small amounts with a meal.

Eating a smaller amount reduces the stress of digestion on your energy supply. Eating small meals conserves energy. Give your energy generator a chance to keep up with digestion by not overwhelming it with a large meal (The average meal time in the United States is 15 minutes - in Europe the average meal time is 1 to 1 1/2 hours. Little wonder Americans suffer such a high rate of digestive disorders!!). When digestion is impaired, yeast overgrowth, gas, inflammation, food reactions, etc. are the result,

Another reason for eating smaller meals is to prevent the ups and downs of your blood level, so you end up craving less sugar. As mentioned earlier, you can overwhelm your digestive capacity. You can also overwhelm your body’s ability to handle sugar in the blood. Since the body will not (or should not) allow the blood sugar level to get too high, insulin and other hormones are secreted to lower the blood sugar. Often times, the insulin response is too strong and within a short period of time insulin has driven the blood sugar level down. As a result of low blood sugar, you get a powerful craving for sugar or other carbohydrates. You then usually overeat, and the cycle of ups and downs, yo-yo blood sugars results (depression and lack of energy are all part of this cycle). Eating a small meal again will virtually stop this cycle.

Eating smaller meals also has advantages for your immune response to ingested food. It turns out that a small amount of food enters the blood without first going through the normal digestive pathway through the liver. As a result, this food is seen by the body not as nourishment but as a threat and you will stimulate the immune reaction. Normally, a small immune reaction is not even noticed, but if a large amount of food is eaten (or if a food is eaten over and over again) the immune reaction can cause symptoms. Over time, disease develops.

By eating smaller amounts, the size of the reaction that occurs is small and inconsequential. A large meal, and thus a large assault of the immune system, could cause many symptoms of an activated immune system including fatigue, joint aches, flu-like symptoms, headaches, etc. This reaction was called the Metabolic Rejective Syndrome by the late nutritional pioneer Arthur L. Kaslow, M.D.

Important Note: When in doubt, don’t eat it. These Nutritional Dietary Guidelines are intended to help you to obtain optimal health just as it has for tens of thousands of Dr. Page’s patients, many of whom in their later years had no signs of degenerative diseases such as heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis, etc. These Nutritional Dietary Guidelines are not intended to make you suffer or sacrifice, in fact quite the opposite, as you will be delighted with the physical and emotional improvements you experience from the food your body was designed to run optimally on. And what you eat or drink at the occasional party or evening out is not going to be significantly harmful to your nutritional balance in the long run, so you can enjoy it.

Lastly, as with all things that are beneficial to your health, it’s hard to start, but the longer you use these guidelines, the greater the benefits you will realize from it. Relax and enjoy the benefits!!!

Each of your meals MUST include SOME protein. The easiest sources are meat, fish, poultry, or eggs. (Count 2 eggs equal to 3 ounces of protein) Vegetarians must combine proteins carefully and consistently using a different calculation! An easy way to calculate the amount of protein you need is to divide your ideal body weight by 15 to get the number of ounces of protein to be consumed each day. This is not a “high protein diet”. Like many people, you already eat this much protein during a day, but you eat it mostly in 1 or 2 meals instead of spreading it out evenly over 3-5 meals. If you are more physically active, eat more protein.

120 pounds IBW* = 8 ounces a day or 1 to 2 3/4 ounces of protein per serving.  5

135 pounds IBW* = 9 ounces a day of 2 1/2 to 3 ounces of protein per serving.  5