12 Steps to Whole Foods

CHAPTER 10
Starting Your
Morning Off Right
Your Goal:
To start every day off right with hydration and needed minerals, and then good nutrition for breakfast.
You’ll get off of morning stimulants and sugar cereals and onto the sustained energy of whole foods.
What You’ll Need:
You’ll want to order some fine-granulated Original Himalayan Crystal Salt for cooking and salt stones
for making “sole” (see www.tiny.cc/zekBn for the most reputable source). No new tools are needed this
month.
Even before breakfast, you should know some important
information and create a critical new habit. This habit has the
potential to hydrate your body as well as address your body’s
ability to absorb and utilize minerals more effectively.
You likely wake up dehydrated in the morning. The proof of that
is extremely yellow urine (a well hydrated person has very light or
clear urine). In my family, the first thing we do upon waking is
drink a pint of water. But the next thing I’m going to tell you may
sound strange: I also add 1 tsp. of high-mineral crystal salt
solution, or sole (pronounced “so-lay”), into half of that pint of
water. Let me explain, by first detailing how important water is,
starting at the minute you wake up, and then by telling you about
salt.
Why Drink Water upon Waking?
F. Batmanghelidj, an Iranian medical doctor, was a true pioneer, ahead of his time, and probably the
main researcher behind changing attitudes toward water. Now, one or two fringe voices are telling us
water’s not such a big deal, so go ahead and count your soda as “fluids” for the day. Beware of these
voices; they have no real evidence, that critical “reliability” standard in research. Your body is 70%
water, and some parts are as high as 90% water, so the need to flush the body with its primary element
is common sense.
Though Dr. B.’s theories have gained much traction since the 1980s thanks to his doggedness, so many
of us are still calling “liquids” or “fluids” our hydration, and we’re not drinking much water. Dr. B.
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