8 GROUNDCOVER NEWS NUTRITION Dr. Sebi's diet really works! DALON EATON Groundcover contributor I grew up riding the fast food ferris wheel as a child. Growing up with a single mother in Detroit, TV pretty much raised me. Commercials, promos and giveaways were usually linked to my favorite TV shows. I remember one commercial in particular advertising a burger so good you could eat the paper when you were done; needless to say the paper was not edible (I tried). My grandmother was a cook, a lunch lady in fact, but by the time I came around she was wiser, tired and retired. My great grandmother, God rest her soul, didn’t know how to read, so starting a family restaurant was out of the question. Having to take the city bus when I was eight years old, I was reliant on fast food for survival. From french fries from clowns to onion rings wearing crowns and every red headed colonel selling chicken … I thought Popeye ate spinach. I was caught in a web — low income family barely making ends meet. Depression soon set in, and coming from where I’m from, comfort food was of course the go-to as the remedy for emotional pain. Nutrition was out of the question; there was simply no time. I mean how? With my mother working, no father, a retired grandmother and me going to school and learning life … (plus yo like I was eight). So, over the years I developed type two diabetes. At 17, I said enough was enough and I was going to take control of my eating habits. I decided to start eating salads and salmon and also jog. While this route definitely was a great start to my new lifestyle and covered the basics, it did not give me a full understanding of the effects certain foods caused on the body. I used to have to take Metformin and insulin even though I had worked myself off of them, as the damage to my pancreas had already been done. So, I was determined to get in the best shape of my life and started to research different types of fruits and vegetables. That’s what led me to Dr. Sebi’s diet. The point of the diet is to eat foods that reduce acid in the body and eliminate mucus build up. Acid and mucus carry disease. Diseases are bad, okay? “Alkaline” is a type of battery that charges all of the electronic devices that we use today. The body is no different than these devices — they need charge! If, God forbid, someone’s heart stops, they would hook that person up to a defibrillator and they would yell “clear” and send electrically-charged currents to jumpstart the heart. Alkaline is a type of battery where the electrolyte has a pH value above seven. Alkaline foods have this same pH threshold. Certain types of fruits and vegetables are genetically modified and do not have a high enough ph value to recharge your organs or reverse cell death. Dr. Sebi’s diet is a plant-based diet that prioritizes foods that have a pH value above seven. see SEBI page 10 JUNE 30, 2023
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