About Food

Beverages
Water should be your drink of choice. Glass bottled spring water is best; but filtered water is acceptable.  It would be better to have the water at room temperature. Ice-cold water can be a trauma to the delicate lining of your stomach.
Try not to purchase any plastic (PVC) containers from your grocery store as they transfer many chemicals into the water. .  Avoid plastic containers in your car.  The overheated plastic produces fumes that are very damaging to your health and could cause cancer.  The five-gallon containers are made of a better plastic and will not give the water that awful plastic taste. In any case, it is better to use glass containers.  It is time that people start demanding glass as containers for their beverages.   You can add lemon juice to your water to help the flavor and also because it changes the pH of the water making it more absorbable.
Do not drink tap water. Chlorine is a toxic chemical and should not be consumed in large quantities. It is much better to have an alkaline water to drink and acid water to bathe.  This distinction can also be accessible through appropriate water filtration systems.
If you have a water softener, you need to divert the softened water away from the kitchen tap to a reverse osmosis system. After reverse osmosis filters, often it is necessary to pass the water through zeolites or minerals to give it the proper mineral content.  Avoid distilled water as it has the wrong ionization, pH, polarization and oxidation potentials. It will also drain your body of minerals.
Other than Water Beverages
Freshly processed vegetable juices are a wonderful storehouse of nutrition. The water contained in vegetables or fruits is very absorbable although if you drink fruit juices you are adding a lot of sugar to your diet.  So juicing should be done mostly with vegetables like celery, parsley and the rest of greens.
Most people recognize that coffee, tea or soda pops are not the best fluids to drink. As you bathe your body with water only and you would not take a bath in coffee, consider that your internal organs have the same need.

Eat More Vegetables:
All vegetables promote health, unless you are allergic to them or they cause gas or intestinal problems. Cooking your vegetables should be a joyful task and they should be barely cooked to conserve their minerals. It would be best to have them uncooked, but you may have to lightly steam them initially. Vegetables contain phytochemicals, which are powerful natural agents to promote health. Most people benefit more from increased vegetables than from extra vitamins. Not all vegetables are created equal.
Kale, Swiss chard, collards, and spinach are very good options. You may want to steam the stems separately from the leaves because they require longer cooking time. Carrots are high in sugar and generally should be limited. Dandelion greens, green and red cabbage, broccoli, red and green leaf lettuce, romaine lettuce, endive, Chinese cabbage, bok Choy, fennel, celery, cucumbers, cauliflower, broccoli, zucchini, brussel sprouts, collard greens, Jerusalem artichokes, kale, kohlrabi, and parsley are also good choices. The greener the vegetable, the more good chlorophyll nutrition is present.
Try to purchase only organic vegetables. Organic vegetables will decrease your exposure to dangerous pesticides. Additionally, they have two to five times more nutrients as compared to non-organic vegetables. Most people agree that they also taste much better. If you are unable to obtain organic vegetables, you can rinse non-organic vegetables in a sink full of water with 4-8 ounces of distilled vinegar for 30 minutes. Be sure to rinse in a salad spinner and squeeze out most of the air in the bag before storing them in the refrigerator. This will double or triple the normal storage life of the vegetables.
Sugar  
Limiting sugar intake is absolutely necessary to maintain good health.
Eating refined sugar weakens your immune system and promotes yeast overgrowth. Candida overgrowth is responsible for many aches and pains in the body.
The refined sugar industry is recent in the history of humans.  These changes in our diet are producing genetic modifications that are altering the insulin mechanisms in the human body.  The average consumption of refined sugars has reached dangerous proportions in the American people.  For example, soda pops have 8 teaspoons in each can.  Most packaged cereals have sugar as their major ingredient. We are facing an epidemic of carbohydrate addiction that is undermining the health of this country.
If you want to survive the rest of your life in good health we encourage you to avoid most natural sweeteners (including refined sugar, corn syrup, fructose, honey, sucrose, maltodextrin, dextrose, molasses, rice milk, white grape juice, fruit juice sweetened, brown rice syrup, maple syrup, date sugar, cane sugar, corn sugar, beet sugar, succanat and lactose). 
Read Labels.  To avoid hypoglycemic reactions eat some protein at each meal. This will help to prevent side effects and stabilize your blood sugar.
However, do not become obsessed about sugar. Moderation here is the key word if you are able to exercise it. However, many people are addicted to sugar and should avoid all sugars permanently for optimal health. This is not much different than someone who is addicted to alcohol and requires total abstinence. Actually sugar turns into alcohol inside the body. If you must have some sugar, raw honey would be the best choice and is best eaten with a large meal.
Avoid Nutrasweet (Aspartame) or Equal.  These artificial sweeteners need to be eliminated since they are really poisonings.  Nutrasweet damages the Hippocampus in the brain.  The Hippocampus is like the keyboard on a computer.  When it is damaged we cannot access our files at all.  There are more adverse reactions to Nutrasweet reported to the FDA than all other foods and additives combined. In certain individuals, it can have devastating consequences. If you need an alternative healthy sweetener, an herb called Stevia may be used. It is available at the health food store.
For those people that would like to loose weight and therefore use Nutrasweet or Equal, it is important to understand that the quality of sweetness even without 'calories' is as fattening as the 'calories' themselves because the digestive organs get stimulated with this quality.  Not everything in food is 'calories'. There are many other elements that are not accounted for in our chemical knowledge and that are nevertheless present and produce an effect.  The flavor of sweetness is one of them.