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From "An Analytical System of Clinical Nutrition"
by Dr. Guy R. Schenker

The NUTRI-SPEC Fundamental Diet 
The following dietary recommendations apply to you, your family and all your patients, in addition to whatever specific dietary recommendations are indicated by you NUTRI-SPEC fundamental imbalances.

 
1. There are 3 common dietary components that should be kept to an absolute minimum in everyone's diet:

• sugar (The average person – your average patient – consumes over 100 pounds of sucrose every year. That constitutes an amazing 20% of their caloric intake in the form of concentrated sugar. You must help your patients understand the unavoidable health consequences of this pernicious practice. You must also help them understand that the sugar in fruit juice and honey is every bit as damaging as the sugar in candy.)

• polyunsaturated or hydrogenated oils (salad dressings, margarine, fried foods, mayonnaise)

• NutraSweet

2. A minimum of three meals should be eaten daily (that means 21 meals each week). Each of those meals should approximate the ideal ratio of protein and saturated fat to carbohydrate. 
  
3. To ensure sufficient protein and, especially, saturated fat intake, the following formula should be applied: Divide the body weight in pounds by 15 -- this gives the number of ounces of meat, fish, poultry or cheese a person should eat each day. (1 egg may be substituted for 1 ounce of the preceding.) Ideally, this quantity of protein should be divided among three meals. 
  
To illustrate; a 120 pound woman divides her body weight by 15, which equals 8 ounces of meat, fish, poultry or cheese (or egg equivalent) daily. Dividing this 8 ounces by 3 meals gives approximately 3 ounces of meat, fish, poultry, cheese (or egg equivalent) each meal. Simple.
  
The only time this simple formula needs to be revised is for excessively obese patients. For obese women, multiply the number of ounces of meat, fish, poultry or cheese obtained as above by a factor equal to 35 divided by the woman’s percentage of body fat. For obese men the factor is 24 divided by the percentage body fat.  
Example: A 192 lb woman who is 40% body fat.
192/15 = 13 
13 x (35/40) = approx. 11 ounces/day
11/3 = 4 ounces per meal
  
4. Find a good source of spring or well water for drinking. (See chapter 4 -- chlorinated and fluoridated water must be avoided.)
  
5. Eat animal products rare (or raw) or medium cooked at the most; eat vegetable products cooked (but not over cooked). This is, of course, the exact opposite of the way most people eat. A typical meal consists of an over-cooked steak and a salad, both of which are worthless at best. 
  
Human beings have no cellulase enzymes and therefore have zero capacity to break down raw vegetables. (One study indicates that we get less than 1% of the vitamin A from a raw carrot.) So, the only benefit from eating raw vegetables is the fiber, and that is just about as beneficial lightly cooked as raw.
 

Cooking animal protein is a pernicious practice. The proteins are denatured and the fatty acids are converted to harmful trans isomer form. Some of the most important amino acids are extremely heat labile (including taurine, glutamine, and the essential amino acids phenylalanine, lysine, threonine, histidine, and tryptophane, along with the important sulfur-containing methionine). And, as far as the fatty acids are concerned, overcooked meat is roughly the equivalent of eating the fried foods or hydrogenated oils mentioned in #1 above.
  
A study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute showed that women who eat their meat cooked more than rare to medium have shown an amazing 400% increased incidence of breast cancer. (35)
  
S-allyl sulfate and the other protective nutrients in garlic are destroyed by 45 minutes in the oven, or by one minute in the microwave. (36)
 
6. As a general rule, look for the least processing in your foods as possible. For example, whole grains are better than refined grains.
  
7. Take Oxygenic B as a source of trace minerals and other nutrient protective factors.
  
8. Sunlight is an essential nutrient. As long as your patient does not obtain the benefits of natural light in the eyes, health will never be regained and maintained. 
  
Do you have any patients suffering from depression or anxiety? Chances are, inadequate light intake is a part of the problem. Do you have any patients with osteoporosis? They undoubtedly need more sunlight on their skin for vitamin D, but even more importantly in their eyes to regulate the hormonal and biochemical systems it controls – related to mineral metabolism in general and osteoblastic activity in particular. Do you have any patients suffering from chronic fatigue? Adequate sunlight can be an important part of increasing their vitality. Do you know of any children (or adults) with attention deficit disorder? This condition is strongly correlated with unnatural light entering the eyes. You see, when the light hits the optic nerve an impulse is carried to other parts of the brain in addition to the vision centers. Particularly, it is carried to the hypothalamus where it functions as an essential regulator of hormone balance and autonomic nerve balance.

It has been shown beyond all doubt that the depression and lethargy associated with seasonal affective disorder is nothing more than inadequate natural light and/or excess unnatural light. I think it is reasonable to conclude that virtually all cases of depression and lethargy include some element of “seasonal affective disorder.” Think of the millions of poor souls that are dependent upon Prozac and other feel-good drugs just to make life tolerable. How many of these people spend at least 22 out of 24 hours either in darkness or in un-natural indoor lighting (not to mention the hours spent in front of the TV or computer monitor)? Suppose you get these people on the NUTRI-SPEC Fundamental Diet to restore glycemic control. Are you going to have an impact on their depression, anxiety, and lethargy? You betcha. Now, suppose you also get them to take their eyeballs for a walk in the sunlight for a couple hours a day? You will have lifted the dark cloud that surrounds them and distorts their view of life.

One modern American sociological problem that particularly irks me is that nearly three million children in American public schools are now being given Ritalin, an amphetamine, for a condition called Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). It seems that ADD can mean whatever you want it to mean. In other words, any child who does not perform up to either teacher or parental expectations (in other words is not a perfectly model American socialist robot) it tagged with this label and drugged into submission. (I find it amusing to ponder how many of my elementary school teachers would have wanted to put me on Ritalin, had it been available.)

Most of these children and their parents are never informed that fully 25% of the children tagged ADD soon develop the symptoms of manic depression, which requires additional medication. Neither are they told that the very common long-term side effect of Ritalin is bedwetting that persists through the teen years and on into early adulthood, many years after going off the drug.
  
Many of these children do have real problems. But consider this – how many of these children begin their day by filling their belly with sugar, artificial flavors and artificial colors? How many of them proceed to spend their entire day under fluorescent lights or in front of a TV or a computer monitor?

Upon NUTRI-SPEC testing the majority of these children test as glucogenic with a strong sympathetic compensatory response. What is happening here? They are all in a hypoglycemic crisis with a valiant attempt by their over-stimulated sympathetic nervous system to maintain blood and brain sugar levels. These kids are therefore continuously dealing with the neurological effects of crashing brain sugar accompanied by the neurological effects of excess catecholamines. Is it any wonder they cannot focus?
  
How is it that so many NUTRI-SPEC practitioners achieve such success with ADD children? They do so only when they can get parental compliance on the NUTRI-SPEC Fundamental Diet, and, when they can get the parents to turn off the TV and kick the kids out the door where they can get some sunlight. 
  
Here is just one interesting study to illustrate the amazing metabolic effects of natural light. This study was done on hamsters and was concerned with the effect of a high sugar diet on tooth decay. (37)

The experiment was done in two phases. Phase one divided the hamsters into two groups. One group was given their normal diet: the other group was given a high sugar diet. Guess what happened? The high sugar hamsters developed a lot of rotten teeth. No surprise. In the second phase of the experiment they divided hamsters into two groups and gave both groups the high sugar diet. The difference was they put one group in natural light and the other group in fluorescent lighting. Guess what happened? The hamsters in the unnatural light developed five times as many caries as the sugar eating hamsters in natural light. So – is sunlight an essential part of the NUTRI-SPEC Fundamental Diet? Absolutely.  Advise your patients accordingly.

9.  Exercise is indispensable in promoting nutrient assimilation and utilization.

In Summary:

1. Avoid:

• sugar

• polyunsaturated and hydrogenated oils

• Nutra Sweet  

2. Eat 3 meals daily.  
3. Eat adequate protein and saturated fat at every meal, and do not eat excessive carbohydrate.  
4. Drink spring or well water.  
5. Eat animal products cooked medium at the most; eat vegetable products cooked (but not over cooked).  
6. Eat whole, minimally processed foods.  
7. Take Oxygenic B as a source of trace minerals and other protective factors.  
8. Sunlight (though not direct sunlight) exposure for your skin and your eyes is essential daily.  
9. Exercise is indispensable.

Bon appetit!

If you did nothing more than give each of your patients the Nutri-Spec Fundamental Diet along with Oxygenic B you would achieve more as a clinical nutritionist than all those ordinary “nutritionists” with their inane megadoses of vitamins and their herbal drugs. Remember, the essential purposes of your Nutri-Spec Fundamental Diet are quite simple but are vitally important:

1. To insure that each patient obtains adequate nutrient intake (which requires the addition of Oxy B as a source of trace minerals).  
2. To help your patients achieve glycemic control – since aberrations in sugar metabolism are a causative factor in CVD, in cancer, in allergies, in depression and anxiety, in fatigue, in PMS, and in nearly every other symptom or condition you can name.
3. To avoid highly toxic components of the common diet – most particularly vegetable oils and aspartame. Think of it – these are the most critical dietary considerations for every person, regardless of what their symptomatic complaints may be. The Nutri-Spec Fundamental Diet will eliminate primary causes associated with virtually anyone’s clinical complaints. Yes, Nutri-Spec gives you the analysis and the high biological activity supplements to go the giant step further and specifically treat the metabolic imbalances associated with each of your patient’s symptoms – but, nothing is more fundamental than building your Nutri-Spec practice on the solid foundation of the Nutri-Spec Fundamental Diet. If, starting today, every woman one year prior to conceiving a child would follow the above nine recommendations and continue following those recommendations throughout pregnancy and lactation; and, if every person followed those nine recommendations from childhood through adulthood, it can easily be imagined that at least 90% of all health problems would be prevented. Nearly all the remaining 10% could be handled quite simply by fine-tuning with the proper NUTRI-SPEC regimen.