HEALTHY DIET – Chiropractor Salem OR

Getting Through the Holidays NOW!

Let’s begin with Halloween. You have two choices: 1.
Eat candy 2. Don’t eat candy

To make this more palatable, before you eat any Halloween
candy do this: READ THE INGREDIENTS FIRST! If you find high
fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, dextrose, sucrose, processed
molasses, processed honey, malto dextrin, soy lecithin,
aspartame; please remember if these are not toxic they are
fat makers. Your body does not have natural metabolic
pathways to break these chemicals down correctly.

If you want to play the Halloween game decide now what you
want to have on hand for yourself; raisins, apples, almonds.
For the little tykes—do the best you can (why do we feed
them all the junk?). You may want to limit their intake to a
small bowl—that’s still too much. But this is you we’re talking
about.

Thanksgiving. Oh the feasting. This is my favorite holiday.
I always try to think about being more thankful and I will try
again this year. I hope you have some things to be thankful
for.

But the food! And the football! And the shopping! (I admit to
shopping a little but can take only so much then I have to find
a coffee shop and read a book).

Thanksgiving meal is usually way overdone. There are foods
that only come out on this Thursday. The problem here is the
food combination. We have carbohydrates mixing with all
other kinds of fats and proteins. Sweet potatoes, cranberry
sauce, applesauce, breads, stuffing…you name it, it shows up
at the table. Then add some kind of pie or fantastic dessert
and you are in for it.

Think about what you are doing to yourself. The turkey
(protein) is trying to digest with all the carbs you’ve
overloaded on. You have created a war zone in your digestive
system and there’s no chance of being unscathed. You fight it
out until all you see is the floor to which you succumb to,
with a pillow. And it doesn’t matter what game is on or what
store is open—you’re finished.

A rational approach to Thanksgiving. Decide before you
even sit down, like today, that you are not going to stuff
yourself, no matter who made it, whose house you are
invited to, or how good it looks. You can’t eat it all and you’re
going to regret eating too much. So decide now that you will
have a little of this, none of that, and a larger portion of live
salads (Jell‐O, pistachio salad, cranberry salad, and the like
are not real salads). One or no bread. A small portion of
yams. A little drink of water (juice is artificial sugar—read the
ingredients, a little wine, never milk). And if you need
dessert, wait an hour or two. It will taste better if you really
want it (I will have a little pumpkin pie—mom’s coming).
Help clear the kitchen and an hour later take a walk. What
could be easier! A good meal and no regrets.

Christmas Season. If we make it through Halloween and
Thanksgiving without a hitch we begin the Christmas
season…a month‐long assault of all kinds of goodies that
people come out of the woodwork to offer. Some of these
kind people decide that they will take up cooking and baking
during December and stand grinning wide, holding a plate of
their “goodies” for you to test. Be careful. They mean well
but it is not in your best interest. (This of course does not
apply to you who bring in your wonderful works to us.)
Getting through December is the toughest. But MAKE YOUR
RULES now about food and goodies before it comes uponyou.
Don’t wait for New Year’s resolution which is nothing more
than public repentance for ending the year badly.

As New Year’s approaches you will not feel guilty, you will
feel better, and you will have a much better beginning of the
New Year. Do this for yourself this time around.

The following list comes from MY LAST DIET. If you want the
entire handout please email us and ask for it. If you follow
this list you will stay mostly on track.

III. DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT
• Soft drinks and Diet soft drinks (they’re worse!)
• Splenda/Aspartame/Nutrisweet (blue or pink
packs = poison!)
• Glutamate as in monosodium glutamate, MSG
• French fries
• Doughnuts
• Potato chips
• Refined protein powders
• Margarine, Crisco
• Trans-fats, partly hydrogenated fats/oils
• Hydrogenated oils, all low-cost vegetable oils:
soy, corn, canola
• cottonseed (not even edible)
• Mayonnaise (not the ones advertised)
• Iodized salt (its inorganic)
• Soy in any form: milk, meat, protein, formula, tofu
It blocks minerals and enzymes.
• White flour, white bread, and all flour products
• White sugar
• Evaporated cane juice
• Organic cane sugar
• Corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup

There you have it. You’re on your way to making it
through the end of the year.

Dr Peter Lind
Chiropractor