Foods to Eat in Abundance:  a wide variety of high quality vegetables and fruits; beans and legumes

Foods to Eat in Moderation:  organic, pasture raised meats, dairy products, eggs; fish with low levels of mercury and PCB’s; nuts and seeds; whole grains such as rice, millet, quinoa, amaranth, steel cut oats, spelt, kamut, and faro

Foods to avoid:  all processed foods which include packaged breakfast cereal, chips, packaged dessert cakes, meats that are those preserved by smoking, curing or salting, or the addition of chemical preservatives (this includes bacon, ham, pastrami, salami, pepperoni, hot dogs, and some sausages and hamburgers); sugar in all its forms, especially high fructose corn syrup; trans fat – partially hydrogenated oils; fish that contain high levels of mercury or PCB’s