BALANCED ACCELERATOR BEST TIMES TO EAT

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1 BALANCED ACCELERATOR BEST TIMES TO EAT The Right Time for Balanced Accelerators to Eat The third cornerstone of your healthy eating plan for Balanced Accelerators is to eat your meals timed to your body s best digestive energy levels, and to minimize the discomfort and inefficiencies from eating at the wrong times. As a Balanced Accelerator, your energy runs at a high pace from approximately 6 AM to 4 PM, and follows the circadian rhythm of your dominant sympathetic nervous system. During this time, your digestion tends to be under-active. If you eat heavy foods, you won t digest them well, and you ll end up feeling sluggish, even tired or sleepy. You also have a natural tendency to lose energy during the afternoon. Your energy picks up again in early evening and begins to decline around 10 PM. For Balanced Accelerators, a little food goes a long way. A light breakfast of fruit is the best way for you to start your day. A light to medium lunch will supply you with enough energy to greatly lessen the usual afternoon energy crash. A heavier meal at night supplies you with the energy and nutrients needed by your body for its nightly regeneration. Here s your ideal Balanced Accelerator Formula: Light Breakfast Light to Medium Lunch Substantial Dinner Special Note on BEDTIME EATING NO! Balanced Accelerators must steer clear of snacks! Late night eating guarantees that you ll keep tossing and turning throughout the night. Your body digests and breaks down foods quickly, and even though you tend to burn off the energy in foods more quickly than Accelerators, you ll still burn the energy off at a relatively slow rate. This happens as you sleep, so the energy released from the carbohydrates will wake you up, or at best, give you a restless night s sleep. And, you may suffer from a lot of gas, bloat, and even heartburn. So, no late dinners or late night snacks in front of the television! 2006 Elizabeth Dane, Ph.D., O.M.D. All rights reserved Join Dr. Dane s on-line community to receive healing messages and inspiration specifically for your Meta-type, plus automatic alerts of new and timely Your Body, Your Life program information and Web site updates.

2 BALANCED ACCELERATOR ALWAYS FOODS, NEVER FOODS, AND CHEAT FOODS Your Always Foods Balanced Accelerators should fill up on fish, poultry, grains, selected legumes and vegetables. The foods in these groups will help you stabilize your energy and strengthen your weakened pancreas gland. You will definitely be able to enjoy a wide variety of delicious foods. You ll just have to let go of the refined carbohydrates. This is how the ALWAYS food items are grouped for the Balanced Accelerator Meta-type, and your personal intake ratio of each group. This is not the typical food pyramid you learned in grade school, which is an antiquated, blanket assumption that equalizes all body types. The following food group chart is customized for your body s healthy ph levels and energy flows, stemming from the way your body breaks down food and subsequently utilizes the energy Elizabeth Dane, Ph.D., O.M.D. All rights reserved Join Dr. Dane s on-line community to receive healing messages and inspiration specifically for your Meta-type, plus automatic alerts of new and timely Your Body, Your Life program information and Web site updates.

3 THE BALANCED ACCELERATOR WEEKLY MENU Here it is! The easiest and most personalized week-long menu plan designed specifically for your Balanced Accelerator Meta-type. You meals will be simple to make, many of them with components that can be efficiently prepared ahead of time. Your recipes will feature the Balanced Accelerator s Always foods and eliminate your Never foods, while taking the guesswork out of having to choose the right foods for yourself. With your week s menu all in place you ll be eating healthy every day! With the right quantities of food eaten at the right times of day and in the proper food combinations and proportions, you ll be on the road to your optimal health in mind, body AND spirit! The plan below sets it all out for you. A few brief notes to get you started: Lemon-Lime Splash is an excellent replacement for that hideous agent caffeine! This refreshing splash wakens and brightens you in the morning without any artificial stimulation. Keep your juicer set up on the counter, and it takes just three minutes a day to prepare. Fruits are the Secret Weapon of the Balanced Accelerator diet. Your health trick is, eat fresh pineapple and papaya on a daily basis in Dr. Dane s delicious Dane s Tropical Fruit Starter! Both pineapple and papaya are enzyme-rich fruits, plentiful in bromelin and papain, whose enzymatic action is similar to the strong digestive activity of the pancreatic enzyme trypsin and the digestive enzyme pepsin. These enzymes easily break down your foods and then consume and wash away unwanted toxins. In keeping with the food combining code, fruits are best eaten before a meal, on an empty stomach, and are best eaten by themselves. Fruits should be fresh or frozen. Try this menu for just one week, and you ll realize you feel better right away. Then, you can repeat this weekly menu, or choose foods from your Balanced Accelerator foods list and make the appropriate substitutions. You can also get additional recipes from Dr. Dane s book, Your Body, Your Diet. Review your weekly menu now and then take a look at the advance preparation instructions for your foods, the shopping list, the equipment list, and the daily menu plan. Dr. Dane has made this complete system as simple as possible, taking out all of the guesswork for you while still enabling you to make wonderful food choices to suit your taste. Here we go! 2006 Elizabeth Dane, Ph.D., O.M.D. All rights reserved Join Dr. Dane s on-line community to receive healing messages and inspiration specifically for your Meta-type, plus automatic alerts of new and timely Your Body, Your Life program information and Web site updates.

4 BALANCED ACCELERATOR Weekly Menu Menu & Schedule BEFORE BREAKFAST M Tu W Th F S Su Lemon-Lime Splash LUNCH ENTREES MONDAY Raw Vegetables and Sesame Tofu TUESDAY Raw Vegetables, Poached Fish and Lemon WEDNESDAY Raw Vegetables and Sesame Tofu THURSDAY Greek Vegetable Bowl and Feta Cheese FRIDAY Raw Vegetable,Tofu, Barley and Cooked Beets SATURDAY Chicken Strips and Oriental Vegetable Mélange SUNDAY Raw Vegetables, Tofu, Barley and Cooked Beets BREAKFAST M Tu W Th F S Su Dane s Tropical Fruit Starter MID-MORNING M Tu W Th F S Su Cranberry Spritzer, Herbal Tea LUNCH Follow Entree choices to the LEFT AFTER LUNCH M W Papaya, Herbal Tea Tu Th S Pineapple, Herbal Tea F Su Herbal Tea MID-AFTERNOON M Tu W Th F S Su Cranberry Spritzer, Herbal Tea DINNER Follow Entree choices to the RIGHT AFTER DINNER M Pineapple & Kiwi Herbal Tea W Pineapple & Strawberries, Herbal Tea F Pineapple & Blueberries, Herbal Tea Su Pineapple & Papaya, Herbal Tea T Pineapple & Green Grapes, Herbal Tea Th Pineapple & Mango Herbal Tea S Pineapple, Strawberries & Green Grapes, Herbal Tea DINNER ENTREES MONDAY Fanciful Fish Dinner Health Salad with Poached Halibut, Fennel, Mushrooms and Cauliflower TUESDAY Invigorating Vegetable Dinner Health Salad with Wheat-berries, Tofu and Basil, Spring Cleanser Elixir WEDNESDAY Caribbean Power Plate Health Salad, Baked Chicken, Jerk Seasonings and Squash THURSDAY Gusto Veggie Dinner Health Salad with Cold Grain, Tofu and Vegetables Primavera, Seaweed, Potassium Powerhouse Elixir FRIDAY Fancy Fish Feast Health Salad with Baked Fish and Roasted Vegetable Kebobs SATURDAY Plentiful Pasta Dinner Health Salad with Orzo, Swiss Chard, Tofu and Vegetable Stack, Watercress Salad, Pancreas Balancer Elixir SUNDAY Hearty Carb Dinner Health Salad with Spaghetti Squash and Vegetable Ragout, Adrenal Stabilizer Elixir

5 BALANCED ACCELERATOR ADVANCED FOOD PREPARATION BALANCED ACCELERATOR ADVANCE FOOD PREPARATION Dedicating time once a week for shopping and prep work will make preparing the meals for the rest of the week effortless and enjoyable. VEGGIE STOCK To be used for grains or for poaching fish or chicken. Wash and coarse cut the following vegetables, then add to an 8 qt. pot: 2 onions, 4 cloves garlic, 3 stalks celery, 3 carrots, 1 cup mushrooms, and 1 small zucchini. Cover with water and simmer for 1 hour; then strain. Cool to room temperature and keep in a sealed container in the refrigerator. BAKED TOFU Thaw 2 (3) 12 oz. containers of frozen apple juice concentrate in a large re-sealable tub. Add 4 (6) cloves chopped garlic and 2 (3) teaspoons dried oregano. Cut the extra firm tofu into cubes and arrange in the tub so all the pieces are covered with the marinade. Refrigerate for at least 4 hours or overnight. Drain the tofu and place in a 375 degree oven for 30 minutes or until golden in color. Cool and keep refrigerated; marinade can be re-used. RAW VEGETABLES By prepping the vegetables ahead of time, it will be quick and easy to prepare your meals for the rest of the week. Store the vegetables separately in zip-lock bags: 2-1/2 lbs. Carrots cleaned and trimmed, cut into 2" sticks. 1 lb. Carrots, cut into 1" sections. 1 small head of Cauliflower, cut into florets 2 medium Yellow Squashes, cut in half and then into 1" lengths 3 medium Zucchinis, cut in half and then into 1" lengths 1 bunch Radishes, washed and trimmed 2 medium Yellow Onions, peeled and cut into quarters 2 medium Red Onions, peeled and cut into quarters 1 medium Fennel Bulb, trimmed and sliced thin (reserve feathery tops) 1 medium Cucumber, peeled and cut into 2" sticks 1 small Jicama, peeled and cut into 2" sticks 1 bunch Swiss Chard, cut into 2" lengths 1 Garlic Bulb, peel the cloves and leave whole 2 5" pieces of Gingerroot, peeled 1 small Eggplant, leave whole 1 medium Delicata Squash; leave whole (or substitute small Butternut squash) 2 boxes Button Mushrooms, cleaned with a paper towel, only wash when using 2 medium Beets, peeled and quartered 2006 Elizabeth Dane, Ph.D., O.M.D. All rights reserved. Join Dr. Dane s on-line community to receive healing messages and inspiration specifically for your Meta-type, plus automatic alerts of new and timely Your Body, Your Life program information and Web site updates. 38

6 BALANCED ACCELERATOR ADVANCED FOOD PREPARATION SEAWEED Cook the seaweed of your choice according to the instructions on the package. Drain and refrigerate. It may be served hot or cold. BALANCED ACCELERATOR ELIXIRS Store cleaned vegetables in zip-lock bags and making juice will be easy and fast. For one week you will need the following to make all 4 elixirs: 4 lbs. carrots, 1 bunch celery, 5 bunches parsley, 1 head romaine, 2 lbs. spinach, 2-1/2 boxes alfalfa sprouts. SALAD GREENS Salad greens should be washed and torn into bite sized pieces; then dried in a salad spinner. Wrap greens in paper towels and place in large zip lock bags with the air squeezed out. Enough greens should be washed for only 3 or 4 days, they will last no longer. Certain greens must be washed at the time of use or they will perish once they are wet. These would include arugula, basil, and sprouts. Certain vegetables will begin to deteriorate once they are cut and should only be processed before the meal: Mushrooms should be washed and sliced. Eggplant should be cut in half, the bottom round cut into three 1/2" (1") slices, and the top cut into cubes. Delicata squash should be split lengthwise and the seeds scooped out. For grated carrots or zucchini, use the carrot or zucchini sticks in a hand or mechanical grater. DANE S TROPICAL FRUIT STARTER Clean and prepare these fruits and store them individually; use them as you need them: 4 (7) Pineapples, peel, core, and sliced 2 medium (lg.) Papaya, peeled and diced 8 Kiwi, peeled and sliced 4 (7) Pears washed, cored and cubed 4 Mangos peeled and cubed 2-1/2 (4) pints Strawberries; clean and de-stem, slice as needed 1 dozen Limes 1/2 dozen Lemons BALANCED ACCELERATOR ZING DRESSING Combine 1 cup safflower oil, 1/2 cup lime juice, 4 cloves garlic, 4" gingerroot chopped, 1 tsp. each of dry oregano and thyme. Puree with a hand-held blender and keep chilled Elizabeth Dane, Ph.D., O.M.D. All rights reserved. Join Dr. Dane s on-line community to receive healing messages and inspiration specifically for your Meta-type, plus automatic alerts of new and timely Your Body, Your Life program information and Web site updates. 39

7 DAY 1 BALANCED ACCELERATOR DAILY MENU AND RECIPE COLLECTION Upon Rising - Lemon-Lime Splash Combine and drink the juice of 1/2 lemon and 1/2 lime mixed with 4 oz. warm spring water. Breakfast - Dane s Tropical Fruit Starter Combine 1/2 cup each of fresh: mango, (1 cup) pineapple, (1 cup) strawberries, (1 cup) pears and 1 kiwi. Drizzle with 2 tbsp. low fat coconut milk. Herbal Tea. Mid-Morning - Cranberry Spritzer Drink 6 oz. of salt free seltzer, mixed with 2 tbsp. cranberry juice concentrate and the juice of 1/4 lime. Herbal Tea. Lunch - Raw Vegetable & Sesame Tofu Toss 1 cup (2-3 cups) salad greens and 1/2 cup sprouts with 1 cup Nappa cabbage and add to a large plate. Grate 1/2 cup carrots and 1/2 cup zucchini, toss with 1 tsp. Zing dressing and place next to salad greens. Add 1/2 cup (1 cup) roasted tofu to the plate and serve with 1/2 tbsp. sesame dressing. Half Hour After Lunch 1/2 cup (1 cup) papaya. Herbal Tea. Mid-Afternoon - Cranberry Spritzer Drink 6 oz. of salt free seltzer, mixed with 2 tbsp cranberry juice concentrate and the juice of 1/4 lime. Herbal Tea. Dinner - Fanciful Fish Dinner [Be sure to cook the whole piece of halibut and slice off 2 oz. (6 oz.) to be served cold for tomorrow s lunch] To a 2 qt. pot, add 1/2 cup (2/3 cup) veggie stock, 1/2 cup onion, 1/4 cup fennel and 1/4 cup of mushrooms. Top with 1 cup (2 cups) root vegetable blend and 1 cup of cauliflower tossed with 1 tbsp. chopped fennel tops (looks like dill). Cover the pot and steam for 4 minutes. Remove the cauliflower from the pot and puree with 1 tbsp. of the hot liquid using a hand held blender. Remove the root vegetable blend and serve it and the cauliflower with 2 cups mixed greens, 2 sliced radishes and 2 tsp. Zing Dressing on the same plate. Add the fish to the pot, cover and steam for 7 minutes. Serve the fish with the hot vegetables and pour any left over stock over the fish. Half Hour After Dinner - 1/2 cup (1 cup) pineapple and 1 kiwi. Herbal Tea 2006 Elizabeth Dane, Ph.D., O.M.D. All rights reserved. Join Dr. Dane s on-line community to receive healing messages and inspiration specifically for your Meta-type, plus automatic alerts of new and timely Your Body, Your Life program information and Web site updates. 41

8 DAY 2 BALANCED ACCELERATOR DAILY MENU AND RECIPE COLLECTION Upon Rising - Lemon-Lime Splash Combine and drink the juice of 1/2 lemon and 1/2 lime mixed with 4 oz. warm spring water. Breakfast - Dane s Tropical Fruit Starter Combine 1/2 cup each of fresh: mango, (1 cup) pineapple, (1 cup) strawberries, (1 cup) pears and 1 kiwi. Drizzle with 2 tbsp low fat coconut milk. Herbal Tea. Mid-Morning - Cranberry Spritzer Drink 6 oz. of salt free seltzer, mixed with 2 tbsp. cranberry juice concentrate and the juice of 1/4 lime. Herbal Tea. Lunch - Raw Vegetables, Poached Fish & Lemon Toss 1 cup (2-3 cups) cleaned salad greens with 1/2 cup alfalfa sprouts and 2 sliced radishes. Add 1/2 cup each sliced cucumber and sliced fennel. Toss the salad with 2 tsp. Zing Dressing and place on a plate. Serve with 2 oz. (6 oz.) of the cold fish made the previous evening with 1/2 lemon along the side of the salad. Half Hour After Lunch 1/2 cup (1 cup) pineapple. Herbal Tea. Mid-Afternoon - Cranberry Spritzer Drink 6 oz. of salt free seltzer, mixed with 2 tbsp. cranberry juice concentrate and the juice of 1/4 lime. Herbal Tea. Dinner - Invigorating Vegetable Dinner Mix 2 cups salad greens with 1/4 cup grated jicama and 1 tsp. Zing Dressing; place on a dinner plate. Combine 1/2 cup (1 cup) cooked wheat-berries with 1/2 cup diced zucchini, 1/4 cup shredded basil and 1/4 cup diced red onion. Mix and add 1/4 cup (3/ 4 cup) baked tofu and toss with 1 tsp. dressing Zing Dressing and place next to the salad. Place 1 cup of the root vegetable blend in a pan and add 1/4 cup water; then cover and steam for 4 minutes. Serve with lemon along the side of the salad or in a separate small dish. Serve with 1 glass Spring Cleanser Elixir. In your juicer, juice 6 carrots, 1 head lettuce, 2-3 boxes alfalfa sprouts. Combine the juices and add 2 oz. water and serve. Half Hour After Dinner 1/2 cup each of pineapple and green grapes. Herbal Tea 2006 Elizabeth Dane, Ph.D., O.M.D. All rights reserved. Join Dr. Dane s on-line community to receive healing messages and inspiration specifically for your Meta-type, plus automatic alerts of new and timely Your Body, Your Life program information and Web site updates. 42