That is a great question. I write about this every single day. You are correct. You have to be very careful what you eat because it is the food which makes us ill. Or better said is it is the lack of nutrition and poisonous additives and now GMO's that make us ill. To be healthy you have to eat at least 90 vital vitamins and minerals. This comes from plants. Plants get it from the Sun and from the soil. The problem is that it only take three minerals for plants to grow. Yet we need 90+ minerals and vitamins every day to be healthy.
These are not my words but there is plenty of scientific information to support what I am saying. Animals eat the plants and we eat the animals. We and animals can not just eat the soil. We need plants for that. Minerals in the Earth are not distributed evenly around the World. Therefore, the only way to be healthy is to supplement your diet with the proper nutrients and in the right amounts. Plus you must be able to absorb the nutrients.
I can tell you what not to eat. Do not eat: grains including wheat, barley, rye and oats. Do not eat cereals, flour, bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, pizza's etc, starches. Do not eat cooking oil such as vegetable oils. Do not eat fried foods. Do not eat processed or manufactured foods. Do not eat food additives of any kind. Do not eat sugar or sugar substitutes such as aspartame. If it does not come from nature do not eat it. If it comes in a box or a can or wrapped in plastic do not eat it. Do not drink soda pop. Do not chew gum. Do not use diet foods or low anything food. Do not eat foods that have artificial anything. Be careful of foods that say natural. They usually are not. If it comes from a factory do not eat it.
Here is what you should eat. Drink at least 2 liters or quarts of water per day. Make sure it is clean and free of chemicals and not from a plastic bottle. Eat coconut oil or red palm oil. Eat bone soup, You need fish oil or cod liver oil or flax seed oil. Eat whey protein. Organic meats and vegetables. Use millet and buckwheat. Grind it into flour. Supplement correctly. Use apple cider vinegar to acidify the stomach.
All disease is cell disease; more precisely cell membrane disease. It is the cell membrane that lets nutrition in and toxins to go out. When the membrane malfunctions the cell malfunctions. You must eat foods which allow you to maintain a well functioning cell membrane. Those foods will contain the 90+ vitamins and minerals, Essential Fatty Acids and Protein. You get these things from food, proper supplements, flax seed oil, cod liver oil and preferably whey protein.
When cells do not get what they need they malfunction and inflammation sets in. When cells die from:
1. Suffocation - When cells do not get enough oxygen they go crazy and can turn into cancer or any other disease. You must breathe in deeply through the nose slowly and from the belly. Do this for a few minutes several times a day. You can see an improvement in your condition immediately such as in blood pressure, sugar metabolism, strengthening of the immune system, etc.
2, Starvation - When people are ill they are usually ill because they are starving for nutrition. You may be putting so called food into your mouth but food is not food is not food. It has to be the right food. When you eat the food must be fresh, clean and you must absorb the 90+ vital vitamins and minerals. Otherwise the body will breakdown and you will be sick.
3. Dehydration - Many diseases begin because the person is dehydrated. Cells go crazy when they do not get enough water. You need at least 2 liters of clean, pure, non-chemical water; not from a plastic bottle. Soda Pop, beer, wine, juice, drinks are not a replacement for water.
3. Toxification - If you are eating supermarket foods chances are you are not eating real food. As a result you will be putting toxins into your body. But worse than that the waste of the cells will not be removed. The cells will be smothered and die. Food like bread, flour, grains, cooking oils, fried foods, all make the body toxic.
Today foods are designed to mimic natural foods. But the truth is if you saw these so called foods for what they really were you see them as white or bland, tasteless, odor less or foul smelling. So manufacturers use scientific methods to disguise foods so that you will think they are real. They are not. Further, many foods are designed to turn off the part of the brain that tells you when you have had enough. The net result is you continue eating the flavor enhanced "foods" beyond your fill. Also, many "foods" are actually addictive. They are designed that way. For example bread from the grocery store is intentionally designed to be addictive the same as cocaine. The use of high fructose corn syrup or corn syrup is also just as addictive as cocaine not to mention the diabetes, cancer, alzheimers, arthritis that it causes.
If you look around you you will see the whole society is fat. This is not because they are lazy. This is because of the chemical changes to the foods. Disease and illnesses are rampant. Drugs, medications and surgeries do not help. The only thing that can heal the body is the body itself. And that must function correctly. In order to work correctly it must be fed the proper nutrition.
When you are craving sweets it is actually a sign that the body is craving proteins. Whey protein is one of the best quality proteins available. Rather than eating a candy bar or a can of Coke. Try drinking a smoothie made with whey protein. You will see that your need for sugar subsides.
All illnesses including obesity or weight gain are responses to something having gone wrong in the body. They are not the problem themselves. You must look at the Triangle of Disease to help determine what is going wrong. Simply getting rid of symptoms does not mean that the problem is repaired. "You are not sick because you have cancer. You have cancer because you are sick." to quote Dr. Lorraine Day, MD, a survivor of Class 4 breast cancer without surgery or chemo.
And if you are an athletic person who is not supplementing your diet correctly you are committing suicide. Exercise alone will not protect you.
Speaking of fruit - you should avoid large sweet fruits and juices. Most of the population is suffering from Fructose Malabsorption. By taking in sugar, and fructose is a sugar, you are setting yourself up for diabetes. But in the case of fructose it is processed differently. It is processed in the liver. The liver is responsible for detoxing all the garbage we put into our bodies. By eating fructose we add a further burden on the liver. Fructose Malabsorption means that the fructose goes right into the blood stream where it can do the most damage; the so, called . In the gut as with all other bad foods, the absorption mechanism will be damaged preventing you from digesting what little correct food you do eat, the so called "Leaky Gut Syndrome". When the gut has been damaged particles of food will go into the blood which is supposed to be completely clean. Once the immune system detects foreign substances in the blood it becomes hypersensitive and autoimmune diseases like arthritis, asthma, lupus and others take root. All this because you like sweet fruits?
You have to be careful about beliefs that most people have. These are called memes. Beliefs that are transmitted from person to person without any factual basis. Even doctors and scientist accept memes because they would not be accepted by their professional communities. Information on TV or in the newspapers which is controlled by the same people who operate the drug, food and medical industries is usually designed to keep you buying their goods and services. Do not expect them to be truthful because they depend on your ignorance to make huge profits. Do your own research. Its your body and your health.
Alcohol in itself is not bad in moderation. If you have high blood pressure that is a sign that there is an underlying problem. High Blood Pressure is a symptom. Usually it means that your nutrition is not being absorbed or not in the foods you are eating. Another reason for the hypertension can be a narrowing of the blood vessels as a result of insulin.
Hypertension is a pre-diabetes / pre-cancer condition. When you eat complex carbohydrates such as sugar, starches, bread, pasta and rice you are eating fast burning carbohydrates. This causes a spike in your insulin production. Over a long period of time your body will stop listening to insulin. You become insulin resistant. Also if your diet is improper the receptors for the insulin become blocked. This means that the insulin will not be able to enter the cells. As a result sugar goes to the brain which damages the cells.
In addition, insulin is also a growth hormone. In other words insulin makes cells grow wild. This has the effect of causing excess cell growth within the blood vessels. The narrowing of the blood vessels raises the blood pressure.
Alcohol breaks down into sugar. As such you should be careful not to eat sugar, fast burning carbohydrates and foods that suffocate cells. The resultant micro-inflammation with in the blood vessels increases blood pressure All of these things cause a cascade that can lead to higher blood pressure and many other diseases including cancer and diabetes. Further, you must supplement your diet so that you are sure to get the 90+ vitamins and minerals the body needs.
You probably have digestive problems like gas, cramps, diarrhea, constipation, etc. If so, you must find out which foods are causing the digestive problems and eliminate them. It is possible that you need digestive enzymes to help you digest your food and fats.
Another issue you might consider is it is my opinion that some wines and beers have aspartame in them and other additives. You definitely do not want to consume these dangerous additives. I hope this helps.