Lunch, Dinner may be repeated, omitting bread; and for a change, fruit may be eaten when the vegetables arc omitted, but proteins may be included with either. The first six mentioned combine well with fruit and vegetables; the others with vegetables only. Not one mouthful should be taken between the regular meals, but a glass of fresh fruit or vegetable juice an hour before either meal is an aid in the inclusion of a larger amount of vitamins and minerals. One tablespoonful of wheat germ with each meal aids digestion and increases weight through aiding digestion and utilization of carbohydrates. It also increases immunity to infection, and nourishes nerve tissue. Our Aloe Vera Gel Flakes present the nutrient-rich benefits of this superfood in a simple, scrumptious drink mix that’s superior to aloe vera juice. Milk and eggs: We feel that some consideration should be given to the discussion of this diet as we have been taught in the past that milk and eggs were ideal foods for tubercular cases.
Sweet milk, though a good source of calcium, lacks iron as it is intended only for the young who have stored in the liver an excess of iron to furnish the growing body for the first eight or ten months of life, or until old enough to obtain this mineral by use of other foods. Milk is not only deficient in this quality but is lacking in vitamin C, so essential for people of all ages. This vitamin is largely lost by the necessary sterilization of milk from dairy cows now so liable to disease, which process tends to encourage bowel stasis often present in chronic disease. Further, sweet milk furnishes a good medium for the culture of tubercular germs already swarming in the system. Copper, an essential accompaniment of iron, is also lacking. Eggs, according to Sherman, are acid forming to the extent of 7.5 and with the system already in a condition of lowered alkalinity, this type of food adds no advantage. Forever Freedom drink is also obtainable as a dietary drink to be taken internally. And again, both milk and eggs in excessive amounts tend to clog the liver, causing sluggishness of that organ when it is already laboring under difficulty because of the tuberculosis poisons.
The liver and kidneys are the organs that need assistance in such cases, instead of offering foods that prove a hindrance. Quoting from the United States Department of Agriculture Year Book for 1939, we read: “Considerable evidence also exists indicating that exceptionally large amounts of vitamin C are needed in certain clinical conditions—for example, gingivitis (bleeding gums) and pyorrhea, stomach ulcers, wounds, rheumatic fever, pulmonary tuberculosis, diphtheria, and pneumonia. Does vitamin C play a part in preventing as well as curing some of the infectious diseases? There is growing evidence that it does, though just how no one knows.”