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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 5

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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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Although each kind of cell is different in structure from the others, they all have basic similarities. The cell’s most important part is the nucleus, just like the yolk of an egg. The nucleus is, as a rule, surrounded by a nutrient reserve, similar to the egg white that envelops the yolk. The cover holding everything together in the cell is the cell membrane. The cell itself is a small state within a state and enjoys a certain independence. There are even cells that circulate or wander for the purpose of being on hand wherever their help may be needed. That is why they are called ‘wandering cells’. We can say that every cell has it own internal regulations, and absorbs and releases certain substances. This process is called metabolism. The cell uses the absorbed nutrients and changes them into energy, or it converts them into a new substance that serves the body, especially in its growth.

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The above case shows that rules formulated on the basis of experience and observation do have exceptions and that some people respond well to something to which they should not. Most people suffer and experience intense disturbances when the seasonal winds blow, for instance the fohn, khamsin and monsoon, but there are some who feel well in this kind of weather. The sea air may not agree with some individuals, while they may feel good in the mountains, perhaps when engaging in winter sports. Whatever good advice the doctor can give you, it would be appropriate to get to know yourself a little better, to find out what your body needs in order to feel fit and well. You cannot always go by what others think or tell you. It is useful to watch yourself and see what benefits your well-being so that you can be guided by the favourable effects and so be able to choose the best place for your holidays or work. I can tell you from experience that some people suffer from liver trouble in Europe but the moment they change their habitat and move to the United States they are completely rid of their disturbances. Then I know patients who simply did not feel well while living in Basle, but after moving to the Appenzellerland where the fohn is often blowing, they had no complaints whatsoever. The opposite is also true, for many people feel unwell in areas with much fohn, but when they go to the Jura where it is unknown, or stay by Lake Geneva, even with a northeasterly wind, they remain fit and well.

Unfortunately, there are not many books that deal with biocli-matic influences on general well-being and the various illnesses. The only such manual so far published that I am aware of is one by the American physician Dr Manfred Curry.

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Although milk is a popular food in Switzerland, it should be used much more for drinking. Many other countries have a much better arrangement, for everywhere you go in the United Kingdom or the United States, for example, milk is available in small cartons, so that workers, schoolchildren, travellers, in short, anyone who wants a cool, nourishing and strengthening drink of milk can obtain one without difficulty. I have even seen some railway stations where milk automats have been installed. It is definitely better and cheaper to enjoy a cool, fresh drink of milk in the heat of summer rather than alcoholic beverages or sweet soft drinks with artificial additives.

Milk is a natural product with many benefits. It is only regrettable that not every dairy farmer is well enough equipped to produce and supply uncontaminated milk, but efforts are being made to improve the quality.

Unfortunately, deliberate interference in nature can reduce the value of the best quality milk, especially when the cows are inoculated. It is necessary, therefore, to raise this subject and draw the dairy farmers’ attention to the problem.

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People who have problems with the liver and pancreas must take care not to eat stone fruit, such as plums and peaches, in any great quantity, for if they do, they will probably pay for it with increased discomfort and pain. It is also important to remember that stone fruit should never be eaten on an empty stomach. What is more, be absolutely sure to eat slowly and insalivate the fruit thoroughly before swallowing. If you eat some crispbread, rusks or wholewheat bread along with the fruit, the gastric reaction to the acids, especially hydrocyanic acid, will be diminished. Healthy constitutions used to raw foods can probably digest stone fruit very well and eat it at any time, but sick or delicate people should not take the risk. It is better to abstain from eating stone fruit than to eat it and suffer the consequences, only because other people might be able to enjoy it. If you should happen to eat some and upset the gastric and intestinal mucous membranes, you can obtain relief by taking a tablespoon of clay in water, morning and evening for a few days. Should excessive gastric acidity develop, take a teaspoon of wood ash before each meal and the disturbance will quickly disappear.

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