10 Essential Foods

Lalitha Thomas in her book Ten Essential Foods offers a specific list of 10 foods that she recommends for optimum nutrition and health.  She says that while other foods may be equally nutritious, her choice of these ten foods is based on her twenty years of experience and apprenticeship to master healers and her extensive study in the use of food and herbs. 

What are the ten essential foods?

1.  Almonds—a complete protein furnishing all essential amino acids.

2.  Broccoli—great chlorophyll content and high concentrations of potent disease-preventing phytochemicals.

3.  Brown rice—energy-producing, complex carbohydrate with plenty of B vitamins.

4.  Carrots—a major source of disease-preventing beta carotene.

5.  Dulse—a rare vegetable source of vitamin B12.

6.  Figs—more calcium than milk with wonderful mineral concentrations.

7.  Flax Oil—a special oil containing essential fatty acids, especially the Omega 3 group.

8.  Grapefruit—a citrus full of vitamin C and bioflavonoids.

9.  Spinach—generous chlorophyll content, important in rejuvenating the health of the blood.

10.  Sprouts—power houses of nutrients and life force.

Lalitha Thomas recommends these 10 foods since she feels that together they supply the essential amino acids for complete protein, all trace minerals and major minerals, essential fatty acids, vitamins, complex carbohydrates, and enzymes.

SOURCE:

10 Essential Foods by Lalitha Thomas, 1997.  Hohm Press, Prescott, AZ - ISBN#0-934252-74-2