As noted in the introduction, a few years ago I suffered from a serious illness that nearly cost me my life; an illness which was caused by doctors who then sent me home to die. When I was finally bedridden with a catheter in me I realised I needed to take my health into my own hands. First of all I prayed for wisdom and asked God what I should do. Then I threw away all of my medicine, which was only making me more ill, and went on a four day water fast. After the fast I began drinking natural liquids, and ate some light vegetarian food. Two weeks after the fast I had the catheter taken out of me. Then I was a vegetarian for about a year and gradually began to regain my health, which I considered a miracle.

A few years prior to this incident I had an earlier breakdown in my health, although not as serious since the doctors were not directly involved in treating me, and this led to my study of herbs and of natural healing. After the last breakdown, caused partially by an infected tooth that led to a systemic infection, further complicated by a botched biopsy that caused me to hemorrhage and nearly die over a five month period, Hyppocrates motto became my saving dictum: "Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine your food".

During the first few weeks of my recovery from my last illness it was a struggle to walk across the street.  I gradually regained my health over that year long period I began walking farther and riding my bicycle.

After the first year I began experimenting with dairy products and trying certain meats again, finding out what I could eat and what foods I should avoid. For a long time I thought that merely cutting out red meat and pork was the answer, and when I did eat meat I only ate poultry and fish. Unfortunately this led me to start eating a lot of chicken and turkey dogs, which probably were not the best for my health. I also went out and bought a five gallon tub of ice-cream and ate that nearly every day for a two month period. This led to a temporary setback in my health and I have since changed my diet to a more natural one.

Basically it was trial and error. Sometimes I would eat certain foods and see what their effect was on me over a period of weeks, and if I could tolerate them, or if I felt better eating a certain way, then I knew that they were probably healthy for me. If I felt more tired than usual, or began to feel sick again, then I knew that I needed to adjust my diet.

Now if I eat meat it will be lean meat and not the type with all of the added ingredients in it. I learned after I got better that I could eat meat safely if it was kosher meat as described in the Bible. If I do eat chicken or turkey dogs, they will come from the organic section of the health food store. Lean chicken and turkey meat doesn't seem to bother me. When I eat hotdogs or sausage they will be strictly kosher, not the standard variety. In the Old Testament the Jews were commanded not to eat the fat in meat, but to burn or cut it out. Natural vegetable oils can be very beneficial, but animal fat from meat is a killer.
If I eat hamburger I try to eat only hamburger that has a maximum of 10% fat. I don't touch pork.

When I eat seafood it is Biblical seafood. I don't eat any shellfish and don't eat catfish or unclean food. 
I don't drink coffee but tea seems to have beneficial effects.
I stay away from margarine and use butter, which is described in the Bible as acceptable food.
I learned that I needed to stay away from soft drinks, junk food, most candy, greasy and fatty foods and over indulgence in ice cream, which I will only eat once in a blue moon.
I drink only organic milk or soy or rice milk. I enjoy soy ice cream and soy meat substitutes. I love chocolate and peanuts. I love bean and chicken burritos. I love mexican and chinese food if chicken or red meat is used instead of pork. I love pasta if it is prepared properly. I try to eat plenty of fresh fruit, preferably at least one fresh fruit a day. I drink pure fruit juice and stay away from juice "drinks" that have corn syrup, dye and other additives in them.
Kosher and natural are my keywords to go by in choosing my food. (I understand the word "natural" can have broad connotations. Snake venom and hemlock are "natural" but deadly to consume. Hog fat in bacon is also "natural", but it is not kosher. By natural I mean Biblical and safe to eat and untouched by pesticides, steroids, hormones, dyes, msg and hydrogenated vegetable oils)

Most doctors are evolutionists who can only treat disease as a pathology that must be destroyed by chemicals or surgery; they have no concept of this area of medicine where balance, nutrition, cleansing from toxins, and the body's ability to heal itself are brought into play. They are trained in an evolutionary viewpoint of life; it is inculcated into them with their prerequisite training in psychology, anthropology and biology in college. It is a mistaken viewpoint of life, and one that has brought much harm to many people. If you believe that the human body is merely the result of an accident of nature through a struggle for survival then it is easy to overlook that we are actually a marvelously designed machine with enormous capacity for self healing, or that there may be providentially designed herbs out in nature that have healing properties put into them by God for our well being. This type of outlook is anathema to many doctors and medical institutions, in large part, even though they will be loathe to admit it, because it provides no profit through patented medicines or prolonged and expensive treatment that keeps the medical provider in business.