2. Best diet for dying person
What to eat if you are dying? Easy! Eat what recharges and supports your life energy. And what is that? Easy again! Food that is still full of life energy: living food. How to recognise this food? It is in the tree, it is in the garden, it is around you jumping, going, and making sounds. Local, seasonal, fresh. It is your new mantra if you would like to sustain your life energy as long as possible. Fish are direct from the sea, vegetables are from the garden, and fruits are from the trees. No (or minimum) transport, no processing. Meat (if you still need it) is from the local butcher or hunter, milk is direct from the local farm. I learned in Pennsylvania that the best milk products, together with chicken and fish, are from the Amish community. When I lived in Pennsylvania, I was in the marked every Fridays just to buy their products. Amish community is not using any fertilisers or chemicals for more than 250 years and their ethical politics are still reliable. I have heard from my friend in New York that rich Americans make contracts with Amish people to deliver their natural fresh, just from the cow, milk in glass bottles early in the morning directly to their doors. And in the top of the milk it is cream. Jammy!
And now about the food combinations:
Group 1: I call it balancing and life support food. This food is easy to digest. It means that you do not spend too much energy for digestion and receive more direct life energy for yourself.
Second group is stimulating food. This application depends on your daily activity. If you work physically you can sometimes include some elements (moderate) from group 2 in your daily diet. But if you are unwell stick to group 1.
Group 2: Stimulating food.
Group 3: food that is difficult to digest. Here is some foodstuff, which sometimes can be used, but it is not the food to sustain your life energy. It is difficult to digest and the part of energy needed for digestion can be bigger than the production of cells of life support energy. Be careful with this foodstuff.
Everything we eat should give us the life energy to support our inner activities (as cell maintenance processes) and outer activities and not create digestions troubles. A tiger who eats meat (very fresh meat indeed!!!) will take a break sometimes for a month between his bloody meals. He is not enjoying the antelope’s beefsteak 365 days a year. If you eat food from group 3 too frequently you will feel tired, sluggish, unclear, sloppy and dull.
Group 3
I do not recommend eating left overs from another day, old food, or industry processed food. I do not recommend you eat when you are angry or upset. In these two cases it is better to do physical challenges: dance, yoga, and sauna. If you are one of the “group 3 fans” this life strategy will not give you anything apart from a shortcut to the cemetery and a bunch of illnesses. How much to eat? The older you are “growing” (if you are still growing at all) the less you should eat. Your activity level is diminishing with age, your muscles are not the same, and you do not need to dig a tunnel every day. Your metabolic processes (or speed of life circulating body processes) will start to slow down with ages. It is natural. That is why you need to use the adaptation law, do not load your stomach with the same amount as 20-year old athletes are doing.
I eat two times a day (I am 60 now): a small breakfast after 10.00 and a small lunch-dinner around 16.00—17.00. That’s all. My parents do the same (my dad is 82). I eat fruit from the trees everyday when in season. My husband follows my routine (even though he LOVES food). Sometimes we have a “fest” food dinner — but very rarely. Middle way — nothing is too much — even rules. I do not mix too much in one meal. Boring? Not at all: I use food for my life not my life for food digestion. And remember: variety! Everyday is a new day. Seasons are changing, weather, your mood: all these are in an everlasting chain of circulation. Follow natural changes, be one with the changes and let your food be the mirror of ever changing life.
Now about “habits”. Are they good? Well, sometimes. But when you have “habits” (and most of habits are mechanical) you are not in the present moment anymore. You are not enjoying it as when it was the first time you tasted the food. And there is danger here. When you drive on “habits” you can oversee the signs for necessary changes in your life. It is as if a little pain comes one day. You ignore it and do the same as usual. It is comforting and safe, but it is very tricky. Better to stop and ask your body: what’s wrong? How can I help you, my old friend (my body)? Maybe you need something special today? But to be able to do this you need to awaken your awareness and be more sensitive. Habits are the sign for dead intellect and dead body. You are not a robot with a program inside. You are a dying person. Love yourself!
Some good food strategies and advice are in my other books -: check it on line and watch our Belbook TV channel on youtube about food strategies.
Now about the cleansing strategy. It is a new mega trend to cleanse the body using fasting, special diet, flushing the stomach with more. In the old days religion was the good guide for dieting and fasting periods. I was raised within the Russian Orthodox Church where out of the 360 days per year about 200 days are devoted to fasting and cleansing the body in order to welcome spiritual experiences in people’s life. Every year the Russian church publishes cooking books with nice recipes for every day of the year — my mom and I like to follow some of the fasting periods. Such books are very good guides to a healthy and rich spiritual life. But I have learned that the best guide is your inner respect for your body needs.
Muslim and Jewish religious have the same approach to guide people for everyday life and for periods of spiritual holidays using rules for food preparation and for special fasting days. In the Protestant religion I did not found the same tendency. Denmark is mainly a Protestant country, and it has no traditions for fasting. People take it easy. Sometimes too easy.
When I travel around the world I always observe the local food traditions. Then when I am back home I will try some of them to see what is working for me. In Germany I learned about D. Mayer Cur from 1920th including the milk and white bread diet, in China I learned about Buddhist fasting traditions. I have tried Atkinson diet myself, the South California diet, I once tried Ramadan tradition for a whole month. I will say that all of these fasts and diets are good and give the reliable results but not always and not for all people.
In my clinic I have develop the simple cleansing method based on rice and green tea which I learned in China, but have modified it by myself for our western lifestyle and patients needs. I call it “White Lotus”© cleansing weekend. It is a two day (weekend) cleansing program for re-establishing the inner resources of the human organism. I approved it in my clinic for many patients during the years of my active practice. I believe that any kind of weakness in the body can be managed by nature. The most rapid and effective treatment is by a change in everyday nutrition consumption.
Now about “White Lotus”:
It could have some desired effects: Stabilize blood pressure; cleanse the hazardous environment in your stomach and intestines, calm your mood, enhance good sleep, re-establish the salt balance in your body, make the whole body and joints more elastic.
My recommendations for how often it can be done: In the beginning, 1—2 times a month (1—2 weekends a month) until your state of well being has improved, later on once every second month (1 weekend) as a routine to maintain your well being.
Who should be careful: People with diabetes I and II, with heavy infections, with serious inflammations, patients just after an operation, and patients with any serious medical condition.
Caution! Have a consultation with your personal physician about changing your personal diet or if you have an existing medical condition, are under health care provider supervision for a medical condition, or believe that you have medical problem; you should contact your health care provider for their recommendations before you start the “White Lotus”© Cleansing Weekend.
There are 3 important elements in our “White Lotus”© Cleansing Weekend: Special breathing pattern, special way to drink the water, and a special way of preparation of the white rice. Here is step-by-step description:
“White Lotus”© Cleansing Weekend
1. Start your morning with breathing exercises, while laying in bed, and repeat it again in the evening just before you fall asleep (I call it the 7-7-7 breathing pattern). First find your pulse in your wrist while laying in bed, start to breathe by inhaling through your nose during seven pulse beats and just after inhalation without stopping, you exhale through your nose again over the next 7 pulse beats. Only breathe through your nose. Repeat this process 7 times. Relax and return to normal breathing.
2. Prepare 1 glass of clean water in the evening before you go to bed, and place the glass on your night table overnight. Cover the glass in such a way that dust will not affect the cleanness of the water. When you open your eyes in the morning, after you make your breathing exercises, drink the water very slowly. In fact you need slowly “eat” the water by keeping a small amount of water in your mouth and by making gurgling sounds for about 1—2 seconds before you slowly swallow the water. Empty the whole glass.
3. Use the following white rice diet in the morning and in the afternoon as the only two meals per day during your “White Lotus” © weekend. Here is your rice recipe.
Round, white rice must be used for this diet. You should leave the rice in a jar of water soaking overnight in the fridge (use 200—250 g of white, round rice covered with clean cold water). The daily amount of cooked rice should be at least 200 — 250 grams per person. Before you put rice in the jar, stir the rice in a warm skillet for 1—2 minutes without oil, then put the rice into the jar, pour clean water over the rice and cover the jar with a lid. This is the way to prepare your daily portions of rice. Do not forget to pour the water from the rice the next morning.
Take half of the soaked, overnight rice and boil it in clean, cold water (ratio of rice to water is 1:2) at low heat without salt until the grains are soft (200g of rice should be boiled about 25 minutes). The last half portion of the prepared rice shall be put back in the jar again, cover it with water and place in the fridge until the afternoon. Place the boiled rice in a big jar and start to wash the boiled rice under running tap water (I recommend to do it in a colander under running cold tap water for about 3—4 minutes). All grains should be rinsed clear from the white muggy water and it should be easy to separate the grains from each other. Heat your clean, cooked rice in a saucepan to the desired temperature, pour the warm rice into a bowl and enjoy it as a warm meal together with a cup — or two — of green tea (I like to use the green Japanese Sen-cha tea but try to find what you like). Do not use salt or sugar or any additives for these two days! Eat slowly, use a fine Chinese bowl and chopsticks — if you have them — to enhance the pleasure and aesthetic of the “White Lotus”© day. Drink the best green tea or herbs tea between your meals (1 — 2 litters each day).
Boil the second portion of rice in the late afternoon and enjoy it as evening meal with a fresh cup of green/herb tea.
Repeat the same procedure the next day.
Remember: To relax, to go for a walk in nature, to do your physical exercises, and to listen to good music, to read a book, or to go to the sauna — you have many choices for making these two days relaxing and joyful.
I did this weekend’s cure many times for myself and my dear husband followed me several times always with great results of freshness, weight loss, clearness and just rejuvenation. Try it!
