I- Introduction

            Congratulations; the nutrition system you have begun to read will represent a significant improvement in your overall health and well-being. This system is being used in different parts of the world to prevent, reduce and/or cure multiple diseases and conditions, and to provide complete nutrition to thousands.

            Among the different diseases and conditions this system will help you prevent, alleviate, and/or cure are the following:

            Diabetes                                                Arthritis

            Heart Disease                                      Heartburn

            Renal Dysfunction                              Flatulency

            Cancer                                                   Parasites

            Lupus                                                     Digestive Malfunctions

            Allergies                                               Intestinal Pains

            Asthma                                                  Halitosis

            Sinusitis                                                 Constipation

            Clogged Arteries                                Gastrointestinal Diseases

            Obesity                                                   Migraine

            Ostheoporosity                                   Irritable Colon

            Auto-immune diseases                     Stomach Ulcers

            Hypertension                                        Diverticules

            And many others….

II) What is the Origins’ Design Nutrition System?

            The Origin’s Design Nutrition System is a preventive health system that is based on recommendations made by natural medicine doctors for treatment of multiple illnesses and conditions. One of its main statements is that many human diseases are caused by the custom of eating animal-derived foods, like meats, poultry, milk, fish, cheese, eggs, gelatins, and the like. There are many diseases that have been directly linked to this custom, like: heart disease, high cholesterol, clogged arteries, parasites, kidney malfunction, arthritis, and many others. Thus, the first rule of the Origins’ Design Nutrition System will be to avoid all animal-derived foods. Why will you avoid these?. The reason is simple: the human body has an immune system that rejects any tissue, protein or molecule that comes from other animal organisms or human beings. When you ingest animal-derived products the following three things happen:

            First, the products are decomposed by the digestive system through a strenuous, toxin-producing process into basic proteins.

            Second, the toxins go to different parts of your body to contribute to a long-term poisoning of your system, and…

            Third, the proteins thus produced, being animal-derived, enter the bloodstream to find themselves into an everlasting war with the body’s immune system. If they somehow manage to integrate into any part of the body, even there the immune system will keep attacking them, causing so-called auto-immune diseases in the process. Besides, many animal-derived products are loaded with antibiotics and hormones, particularly estrogens, which are by themselves harmful to anybody.

            This does not happen with the foods you will be consuming with this system.

            The Origins’ Design Nutrition System’s name comes from the fact that it is a system that will have you eat the foods that were originally intended for human beings to eat. What are these?  In the Bible, Book of Genesis, Chapter 1, Verses 29 and 30, the Creator God told the first two human beings: “And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.”( Should you be one of the many that might think that, as for this is written in the Bible it is not scientifically and/or historically accurate, think again; there is abundant scientific argumentation that shows that as for the supposedly scientific proofs that supposedly prove the Bible to be false, it is them which are found to be false. Please refer to Answers in Genesis Ministries.

             As you can see, the first diet intended for human beings and animals was a completely vegetarian diet. Thus, the Origins’ Design Nutrition System will be a vegetarian system. This means you will only consume vegetables or vegetable-based foods. It has been proved that a completely vegetarian diet will provide you with the following benefits, among others:

            1. Will help you live longer and healthier.

            2. Will help you lose unwanted fat.

            3. Will begin to detoxify your organism.

            4. From the outset, will begin to eliminate many of the  illnesses that  you may have, if not all.

            5. Your meals will have a far more delicious taste.

            6. Will help you avoid digestion problems.

            7. Will even help you save money, as the foods required for a completely vegetarian diet are among the least expensive at the grocery.

            What then will you be eating? The foods you will be eating in the Origins’ Design Nutrition System will be classified as follows:

            1) Vegetables that grow below the ground

                        Potatoes                                            Turnip

                        Carrots                                               Radish

                        Beets                                                  Sweet Potatoes

                        Cassava                                             Yam

                        Onions                                                Water Chestnuts

                        Parsnip                                               Garlic

                        And the like…

            2) Vegetables that grow above the ground:

                        Tomatoes                Cabbage                        Asparagus

                        Rice                           Avocados                      Celery 

                        Lettuce                    Bell Peppers                 Grains(*)

                        Spinach                   Chayote                                Red Beans

                        Broccoli                   Artichoke                             Chickpeas

                        Cucumbers             Squash                                  Lentils

                        Pumpkins                 Zucchini                                Okra

                        Leek                          Ripe Plantains               Green Beans

                                    (*) Not dried, as will be noted later

                        And the like…

            3) All kinds of fruits:

                        Apples               Peaches                         Honeydew Melon

                        Bananas           Blackberries                 Dates

                        Grapes              Raspberries                  Figs

                        Pineapples       Blueberries                  Mangos

                        Pears                 Strawberries                 Pommegrenades

                        Cherries            Kiwis                               Oranges

                        Plums                 Cranberries                   Grapefruits

                        Apricots            Watermelons                 Tangerines

                        Passion Fruit   Acerolas                          Papayas

                        And the like…

            Your diet should consist of approximately 80% below-the-ground vegetables, eaten at breakfast and at lunch (these will provide you with most of the energy you will need for the day), and the remaining 20% of above-the-ground-vegetables and fruits, eaten for dinner (or last meal of the day). You could use, for example, potatoes, carrots and beets as  staple foods, and the above-the-ground-vegetables and fruits for the remaining 20%. Potatoes happen to be one the most nutritious foods available; as a matter of fact 2008 has been proclaimed by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization(FAO) The International Year of the Potato, for its nutritional qualities ( See www.potato2008.org). A possible one-day schedule for this 80%-20% diet could be as follows:

            Breakfast

                        Have some microwave-baked potatoes and carrots. A recipe for these will be given later.

            Lunch

                        Enter any restaurant, whether vegetarian or not, and ask for two baked potatoes. Have them served with olive oil, and maybe onions.

            Dinner

                        Have cooked rice (small quantities, as will be noted later),with mixed stewed or stir-fry vegetables. Add plenty of fruit for dessert.

            This can be varied with different kinds of vegetables and different recipes; it may take some time and study of vegetarian cuisine books until you can count with enough alternatives. But the main consideration should be to approximately maintain the 80%/20% distribution between the below-the-ground and above-the-ground vegetables, as it is the ideal balance for energy and nutrients.

            Though possibly vegetable-derived, stay away from the following foods:

            1) Gluten-rich products. These include breads, cakes, pastries, pasta, vegetarian meat substitutes, and the like. Gluten is a very damaging protein which is related to respiratory conditions, clogged arteries and intestinal pains. Should you use any wheat products, see that the wheat  used is of the durum type.

            2) Foods that are too high in protein content. These include grains that  have been dried and soy products. These put too high a stress on the kidneys, which can be damaging in the long run. You may eat these, but keep the quantities small.

            3) Should you eat cereals, keep the quantities small, too. These include rice, corn, wheat, oats, and the like. These contain gluten, and many of them have already been genetically-altered.         

            4) Soy and soy products. Besides having a too high protein content, soy is converted by the digestive system into estrogens.

            You should not mix below-the-ground and above-the-ground vegetables in the same meal. The chemistries on each of them are different, thus mixing them puts a harmful stress on the digestive system. This, together with the fact that  the below-the-ground vegetables are the higher-energy-content foods, is why you should eat below-the-ground-vegetables for breakfast and lunch, and leave the above-the-ground-vegetables for dinner.   

            You should drink about 64 ounces of good-quality water everyday to be well-hydrated. This is necessary because if the body does not find enough liquid within itself, it begins to ration it, sending the available water first to the vital organs (e.g. brain, heart, lungs, kidneys and liver), leaving the other organs without enough of it. This is harmful in the long run. Try the following water-drinking schedule:

            8 ounces 30 minutes before each meal.

            4 ounces with each meal

            8 ounces 2½ hours after each meal

            8 ounces at bedtime

That sums up to 68 ounces for the day, 4 more than the 64 required.  

            If you want, the 4 ounces with each meal can be substituted with fruit juice. Do not substitute water with coffee, tea or sodas. These contain caffeine, which is a diuretic, and will actually make you eliminate more water than the quantity you drank in them.

            The different kinds of vegetables in the Origins’ Design Nutrition System can be prepared and served in many different ways, making this a nutrition system that will provide variety and flavor. At first, you will need help from some vegetarian cooking books until you find yourself confident on how to prepare the different meals. But once you taste the great flavor variety that can be achieved with vegetarian cooking, you will not want to go back.

            As for the moments on which you are on the go, there are plenty of vegetarian restaurants around, and many fast food restaurants carry some vegetarian items. For example, Wendy’s Restaurants offer a baked potato that can be eaten for lunch, seasoned maybe with ketchup. For breakfast, Subway Sandwiches offer hash-brown potatoes; these can be eaten with onions, shredded carrots, black olives, olive oil and mustard; and so on, it’s just a matter of checking into the menus to see what might comply with the vegetarian criteria.

III) Recipe

                        BBQ-MICROWAVE-BAKED POTATOES AND  CARROTS

            This dish can be prepared for breakfast and/or lunch.

Ingredients

            2 medium-sized potatoes

            1 medium-sized carrot

            Salt or herbal seasoning

            BBQ Sauce

Procedure

            Peel and dice the potatoes and carrot. Mix with salt or herbal seasoning. Place in microwave oven on the “cook” cycle for potatoes. When finished, add BBQ Sauce and mix. Place in the microwave oven again on “High” for your estimate of minutes required for the potatoes to begin browning. When finished, serve with olive oil and/or ketchup.

IV) Should your condition still persist:

            The Origins’ Design Nutrition System is based on recommendations being used by natural medicine doctors as the basis for treatment of multiple illnesses and conditions. From the outset, from just applying the Origins’ Design Nutrition System, many of the illnesses that  you might  have will begin to be alleviated, and maybe even possibly be cured. Should, after having applied the system for a reasonable time, any of the conditions you might have still persists, you might need specific help from a natural medicine doctor. Should you not know of one you could trust in your area, the group from whom I've heard most of  the advice, and which I could recommend, is the González-Chacón Group in Puerto Rico. Their phone number for appointments is 787-250-0707. You might have to make some trips to Puerto Rico for appointments and treatment, but it might well be worth the time, money and effort.

            Should you have any questions or comments regarding the system, please feel free to e-mail me at jefernandez@originsdesignnutrition.com

Best wishes,

José E. Fernández