Outside the basics, nutritionists shared more interesting insights about the Cayce readings on diet

• Tomatoes contain the most vitamins, but they should be ripened in the vine. It is better to use canned ripe tomatoes than the green ones that were allowed to ripen later.

• Oysters should not be taken with whisky as they produce a harmful chemical reaction.

• Aluminum cookware should be avoided, especially for cooking cabbage and tomatoes.

• The 3-day Apple Diet, like other fruit fasts, cleanses the system.

• Eat plenty of lettuce; it purifies the blood.

• Adding salt during cooking draws out the juices; it’s better to add salt after cooking.

• Meat should be cooked at very low temperatures.

• Yogurt or Bulgarian buttermilk is largely responsible for natural health, vigor, and virility. One study showed that for every one million Bulgarians, 1,600 lived to be 00, as opposed to only nine Americans.

• Coffee may be taken with sugar, but preferably not with milk or cream.

• Beet and cane sugars, molasses and honey (preferably in the honeycomb) are excellent, brown sugar is not harmful, but also not good; refined sugar should be avoided because it interferes with the absorption of calcium in the body.

• Gelatin helps in making the system react more favorably to vitamins. The protein of real gelatin also has a special value in the production of hemoglobin.

• Do not bolt the food. Chew it well to allow better assimilation by the body.