Allowed: All fruits and vegetable unless specifically prohibited.
Fresh juices
Raw fruit and veg salads
Hippocrates Soup
Oatmeal
These foods are easily digested and should be organic if at all possible.
Occasionally allowed foods:
(allowed once a week: no added salt or fat)
Bread made from whole grain rye, oat or rice flour.
Organic popcorn air popped no salt or oil or butter added
Brown or wild rice
Yams and sweet potatoes
Maple syrup, honey, raw brown sugar, and unsulfured blackstrap molasses, no more than a total of 2 tsp. daily.
Rarely allowed, no more than once or twice a month
organically grown frozen vegetables, no salt or fat added.
Sprouts of beans or seeds (except for alfalfa, which are forbidden)
Prohibited foods.
Manufactured processed foods in bottles, bags, cans, frozen, preserved, refined, salted, smoked and sulfured.
Dairy - the only dairy allowed is called quark and is unsalted and nonfat. Allowed after the 6th -12th week, depending on the status of the person.
Alcohol limits the bloods ability to carry oxygen and strains the liver
Pineapples and berries may cause an allergic reaction to the aromatic acids
Avocados are too high in fat
Cucumbers are hard to digest
Black pepper and paprika are irritants. Basil and oregano have high aromatic content. Cayenne and jalapenos can stop healing.
Soy of any kind, including Bragg's liquid aminos. For many reasons, including high fat, high sodium, toxic inhibition to nutrient absorption, and elevated protein, depending on the type of soy product.
Dried beans and legumes.
Alfalfa sprouts have canavanine, an immature amino acid that suppresses the immune system.
Alfalfa sprouts have canavanine, an immature amino acid that suppresses the immune system.
Alfalfa sprouts have canavanine, an immature amino acid that suppresses the immune system.
(Thought that was worth repeating.)
Alfalfa can cause arthritis and lupus.
Oils and fats, only one allowed is flax seed oil.
Refined sugar, white or brown.
Wheat flour, including whole wheat. (hide my cookies! LOL)
All meat and animal products.
Black and green tea.
Tap water.
Mushrooms
Coffee and coffee substitutes orally.
Nuts and seeds.
Hot peppers.
Mustard and carrot greens.
Baking powder and baking soda. Featherweight is a potassium based powder and is allowed occasionally.
Fluoride in any form-tap water, toothpaste, mouthwash, hairdyes, permanents, cosmetics, deoderant, lipstick and lotions.
Pretty strict, but I hear they have a 90% cure rate for those who stick to it. Beats chemo. But then, a placebo beats chemo. This diet is also used to cure things other than cancer, including Hep C. They have observed full remission and restoration of liver function on the Gerson Protocol. The book says that the juicing and drinking of the fresh juices is the most important thing for those with Hep C.
Fresh juices
Raw fruit and veg salads
Hippocrates Soup
Oatmeal
These foods are easily digested and should be organic if at all possible.
Occasionally allowed foods:
(allowed once a week: no added salt or fat)
Bread made from whole grain rye, oat or rice flour.
Organic popcorn air popped no salt or oil or butter added
Brown or wild rice
Yams and sweet potatoes
Maple syrup, honey, raw brown sugar, and unsulfured blackstrap molasses, no more than a total of 2 tsp. daily.
Rarely allowed, no more than once or twice a month
organically grown frozen vegetables, no salt or fat added.
Sprouts of beans or seeds (except for alfalfa, which are forbidden)
Prohibited foods.
Manufactured processed foods in bottles, bags, cans, frozen, preserved, refined, salted, smoked and sulfured.
Dairy - the only dairy allowed is called quark and is unsalted and nonfat. Allowed after the 6th -12th week, depending on the status of the person.
Alcohol limits the bloods ability to carry oxygen and strains the liver
Pineapples and berries may cause an allergic reaction to the aromatic acids
Avocados are too high in fat
Cucumbers are hard to digest
Black pepper and paprika are irritants. Basil and oregano have high aromatic content. Cayenne and jalapenos can stop healing.
Soy of any kind, including Bragg's liquid aminos. For many reasons, including high fat, high sodium, toxic inhibition to nutrient absorption, and elevated protein, depending on the type of soy product.
Dried beans and legumes.
Alfalfa sprouts have canavanine, an immature amino acid that suppresses the immune system.
Alfalfa sprouts have canavanine, an immature amino acid that suppresses the immune system.
Alfalfa sprouts have canavanine, an immature amino acid that suppresses the immune system.
(Thought that was worth repeating.)
Alfalfa can cause arthritis and lupus.
Oils and fats, only one allowed is flax seed oil.
Refined sugar, white or brown.
Wheat flour, including whole wheat. (hide my cookies! LOL)
All meat and animal products.
Black and green tea.
Tap water.
Mushrooms
Coffee and coffee substitutes orally.
Nuts and seeds.
Hot peppers.
Mustard and carrot greens.
Baking powder and baking soda. Featherweight is a potassium based powder and is allowed occasionally.
Fluoride in any form-tap water, toothpaste, mouthwash, hairdyes, permanents, cosmetics, deoderant, lipstick and lotions.
Pretty strict, but I hear they have a 90% cure rate for those who stick to it. Beats chemo. But then, a placebo beats chemo. This diet is also used to cure things other than cancer, including Hep C. They have observed full remission and restoration of liver function on the Gerson Protocol. The book says that the juicing and drinking of the fresh juices is the most important thing for those with Hep C.
Mak, do you know if the prohibited items on the list are forever, or can you cycle them back into the diet after the initial treatment?