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What threatens your immunity? What is it your immune system protects you from? Antigens. Antigens are viruses, bacteria, cancer cells, fungi, protozoa (microscopic animals), particles, and anything else that challenges your immune system.

Antigens are the reason the immune system exists. If there were no antigens, to worry about, there would be no need for an immune system.

Not every antigen will excite the immune system into action. Some cancers for example, may disguise themselves in such a way that they remain in the body, undetected by the immune system, until it’s too late.

Of course, antigens don’t take being attacked lying down. They have their own weapons, strategies and tricks. Some antigens try to fool the immune system by changing their surface configuration, so they won’t be recognized. Others battle the immune system, hoping to overwhelm it. As the microscopic battle rages, millions of our immune soldiers die. The AIDS virus seems particularly adept at crippling the immune system’s ability to mount a defense.

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If you’re a stress seeker, it doesn’t take much to trigger your stress response. An angry thought, a glance at a clock, a look at the freeway traffic and the chemical fireworks begin. Highly charged chemicals get your heart beating faster and more vigorously, raise your blood pressure and increase the number of circulating blood cells. Muscle tension and strength increase; pupils dilate for better vision. Blood sugar rises, making more energy available.

These changes occur almost instantaneously as the stress seeker prepares to fight off threats to his or her life. But how do you fight off traffic? You can’t punch your boss when you’re told that your work is unsatisfactory. You can’t smash your watch because you’re late for an appointment. Are you going to take an ax to the car that backfired and woke you up?

So the high-voltage chemicals flooding your body are useless— worse than useless, in fact. With no outlet for their energy, they turn on you, jolting various parts of your “doctor within.” If that keeps up, you will eventually blow a fuse.

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Day 1

Lunch: Fruit salad

Whole-wheat bread

Cold, sliced, sweet potatoes

Dinner: Steamed fish

Steamed crucifers Side of kasha

Wedge of lettuce with sliced tomatoes

Day 2

Lunch: Sandwich-Bag Vegetables Whole-wheat tortilla Sprouts Plain yogurt Fruit

Dinner: Mama Fox’s Spaghetti Sauce Whole-wheat pasta

Romaine lettuce, cucumber, tomato, radishes

Day 3

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Day 7

Lunch: Dinner:

Mixed Sprouts and Raisins Whole-wheat pasta (leftover) 1/2 papaya or an apple

Simple Baked Chicken Vegetable and Barley Soup Dr. Fox’s Super Salad

Homemade Strawberry Yogurt Whole-wheat bread 1/2 melon or grapefruit

Flippers’s Choice Baked potato Eastern Salad

Pita Sandwich Fruit

Sandwich-Bag Vegetables

Pety’s Chili with bread

Zucchini Soup

Sliced tomato and cucumber

Fruit

Dr. Fox’s Favorite Sandwich-Bag Vegetables 1/2 melon or grapefruit

Spinach Lasagna L.A. Sprout Salad Fruit Salad

Fruit Salad Whole-wheat bread Sandwich-Bag Vegetables

Passyunk Fish Steamed Vegetables Dr. Fox’s Super Salad Cucumber and carrots

Day 8

Lunch: Tomato-Tuna Cottage Cheese Banana Whole-wheat bread

Dinner: Robin’s Pineapple Chicken and Rice Green Bean Cecy Sliced apple

Day 9

Lunch: Sandwich-Bag Vegetables Whole-wheat bread Fruit

Dinner: Kasha (Buckwheat) and Fish Steamed Vegetables Orange

Day 10

Lunch: Rodeo and Wilshire Yogurt

Whole-wheat bread

1/2 melon or grapefruit Dinner: Margarita’s Black Beans and Rice

Crucifer and Carrot Slaw Salad

Banana and/or orange

Day 11

Lunch: Vegetable Soup

Pita Sandwich Dinner: Chicken and Red Pepper Rice

Steamed Vegetables

Dr. Fox’s Super Salad

Day 12

Lunch: Cold sliced chicken breast in pita Fruit Salad

Dinner: Bean Lentil Supreme Steamed Vegetables

Day 13

Lunch: Sandwich-Bag Vegetables Crunchy Potato Salad Apple

Dinner: Tuna Sprouts

Brown rice or barley Shredded carrots and cabbage

Day 14

Lunch: Beverly Hills Coleslaw Salad Tuna Sprouts in pita

Dinner: Mixed beans

Steamed Vegetables

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Fibrous Super Foods are especially helpful in fighting cancer and intestinal disorders. Eating a lot of fiber makes your stool bulkier and softer, pushing it rapidly through the bowels. Getting the stool out faster reduces the amount of time your gut lining is exposed to potential carcinogens in the stool. In addition, fiber promotes the growth of aerobic bacteria (bacteria that requires oxygen to live) in the intestines, rather than the anaerobic bacteria encouraged by the low-fiber S.A.D. The S.A.D.’s anaerobic bacteria can break down bile acids into cancer-causing substances.

Thanks to the large amounts of fiber in my Super Food diet, straining and constipation are eliminated. This protects against hemorrhoids, appendicitis, varicose veins, diverticulosis (weak pockets in the large intestine caused by straining and constipation) and diverticulitis (an inflammation of those weak pockets). Gastroesophageal hiatal hernia, a condition that allows acid to pour onto the lining of the esophagus and cause the common “heartburn,” is also greatly ameliorated by the fibrous Super Food diet.

I’ve found fiber-rich diets to be useful in combating both insulin-dependent and noninsulin-dependent diabetes. Most of my diabetic patients, who have given up the S.A.D. in favor of a Super Food diet rich in fibrous foods have been able to reduce the amount of insulin they must take. Many can eventually do without insulin altogether.

High-fiber diets have another benefit: they can help you lose weight. Since we don’t digest and absorb fiber, it adds no calories to our diet. It also gives us a full feeling, so we don’t rush right back to the refrigerator after a meal.

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Every illness dealt with here can be caused in some other way as well, and it is important to remember this when thinking about your own problems. What makes food intolerance likely is if you have two, three or more of these symptoms, especially if your doctor has been unable to find any cause for them.

No-one with food intolerance will have all these symptoms – most patients have two or three major symptoms and several minor ones, but some people have just one symptom. No two patients with food intolerance are the same, and each one has a different collection of symptoms, acquired in a different order, and at a different time of life. Food intolerance can begin at any age, and it may disappear in a child as it grows up, only to reappear later, often in a different form.

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Every illness dealt with here can be caused in some other way as well, and it is important to remember this when thinking about your own problems. What makes food intolerance likely is if you have two, three or more of these symptoms, especially if your doctor has been unable to find any cause for them.

No-one with food intolerance will have all these symptoms – most patients have two or three major symptoms and several minor ones, but some people have just one symptom. No two patients with food intolerance are the same, and each one has a different collection of symptoms, acquired in a different order, and at a different time of life. Food intolerance can begin at any age, and it may disappear in a child as it grows up, only to reappear later, often in a different form.

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