Acne Sample-diet

Yes, you can eat fresh raw egg yolks , but you need to know that eating raw egg yolks can make you seriously ill if you do not follow these eleven instructions regarding consuming fresh raw egg yolks:

#1 ALWAYS check the freshness of the egg right before you want to consume the yolk.

#2 If you are uncertain about the freshness of an egg, don't eat it.

#3 If it smells 'weird', don't eat it.

#4 If there is a crack in the shell, don't eat it.
#5 Don't wash the eggs before storing them

#6 To be able to properly judge the freshness of an egg, it's contents need to be at room temperature; eggs that are stored in the fridge and are opened right away seem fresher than they are. The eggs that you want to check freshness of, should be kept outside the fridge for at least an hour prior to opening them.

#7 First check all the eggs by rolling them across a flat surface. If they don't roll wobbly, don't consume them.

#8 Secondly: shake the eggs; when they dash, don't consume them.

#9 Thirdly: Immerse the eggs in a pan of cool, salted water. If it rises to the surface somewhat, don't consume it. If the egg emits a tiny stream of bubbles, don't consume it. (then the shell is porous/contains a hole)

#10 and last: Open the egg;

If the egg white is watery instead of gel-like, don't consume the egg.

If the egg yolk is not convex and firm, don't consume the egg.

If the egg yolk easily bursts, don't consume the egg.

#11 The first 3 days that you consume fresh raw egg yolk, take only one teaspoon of it, so that your defense system has the time to adapt to the small amount of bacteria in the egg. The next 3 days you can take one whole egg yolk. And the next 3 days after that you can take one yolk more, and so on. That way your defenses system will be properly trained to fight bacteria, so that even if you eat something really bad in the wrong restaurant with your friends, your bowels will maximally move too much while your friends may be seriously ill.

Egg yolks that are not that fresh, can also make your bowels move too much.

You can add fresh raw egg yolks to fruit shakes, but only add them AFTER you have mixed the fruits in a blender. After adding the yolks, only stir with a fork. (blended yolks can cause acne too, and if you are very susceptible to acne, even blended banana can cause acne)

You can also just add the fresh raw yolks to fresh orange juice, and stir with a fork.

You don't really taste the egg yolks, except that they make the shake taste creamy and a bit vanilla-like. Bon appetite!

001) FIRST READ THIS

Yes, you can eat fresh raw fish, the Japanese have been doing it for thousands of years (sashimi), but you should only eat fresh raw fish that does not contain parasites. If you are not sure about a specific piece of fish, don't eat it.

To be absolutely safe:

#1 The safest (and most expensive) thing is to eat sashimi in a traditional Japanese restaurant that is also frequented by Japanese customers.

#2 Fresh raw tuna (that has NOT been in the freezer) from a reliable fish-shopkeeper is also safe, because tuna cannot contain parasites.

You can also eat other fresh raw fish, but that is on your own risk.

The risk of parasites in fresh raw salmon is almost negligible, but slightly elevated in salmon that originates from hatcheries.

It has to be a whole fish for you to be able to judge its freshness. The slime-layer must be intact. The gills should be moist and bright red (except for mackerel, whose gills are brown). The scales must be both intact and shiny, and firmly attached to the body. The cut edges must have a fresh scent and be moist. If you lightly jab your finger into the meat, it should bounce back. Fresh fish have convex eyes that aren't bloody, but bright white - with shiny black pupils.
And fresh fish does not smell.

Whether or not the fish shop employees tell the truth, you can tell if a fish has been in the freezer because the scales are more open, and fish that has been in the freezer tastes 'watery' and smells strange - not like fish. Herring is never raw because it's not allowed; herring has to be deep frozen for 24 hours to kill possible herring-worms.

The fish with the most fat is the best fish to be consumed raw. Red tuna, therefore, is much better eaten raw than white tuna. Salmon is also a perfect raw fish for consumption. If you want to eat raw mackerel, be sure it's very fresh (sashimi) because you might have an allergic reaction to not-so-fresh mackerel due to its originated amines.
Oysters contain too little fat, too much copper, and far too much zinc (up to 160 mg / 100 g). Zinc and copper are added to cattle's feed to enhance growth and to make their skin shine. Eating oysters can make your skin shine, too, but it can also cause inflammations and severe allergic reactions.

002 ; "Can I put beans in the salad?"

No, no matter what type of beans, they can NEVER be consumed raw, since they contain waaay too many natural toxins (that are destroyed through the cooking process). Those beans that you see in salads, always have been cooked in some way; always. And since beans contain a LOT of protein, consuming beans you ingest a LOT of 'dirty' protein.

006 ; "Can I eat other nuts like hazelnuts and almonds etc?"

Yes, be careful with the almonds; non-sweet raw almonds contain mild toxins, but hazelnuts and walnuts can be eaten raw indeed, just like macadamia nuts and Brazil nuts.

008 ; "Can I eat tuna fish in spring water"

No, tuna in spring water = canned tuna. Canned food is ALWAYS cooked food, that is why it can be kept for so long. It is cooked during the canning process. And since tuna contains a LOT of protein, canned tuna contains a LOT of 'dirty' protein.

009 "What about these uncooked vegetables - Beetroot (from what I have heard it is suppose to be very good for the skin)/ red/green peppers/ spring-onions/ cauliflower(uncooked)/ Peas (from the bod)/ celery?"

These vegetables all contain high levels of enzym-inhibitors (which are destroyed by heat), which can impair your digestion; and a perfect digestion is one of the keys in controlling acne.
Beetroot, for example, contains very high levels of oxalic acid, pentosanes and hexosanes. Check out this site

Once your skin is totally clear, you can start adding these foods (back into?) your diet, to check what (whether) influence exactly these foods have on your acne.

010 ; "Are you allowed to eat seeds? ie sunflower sees/ pumpkin sees/ sesame seeds?"

Yes; make sure that they are really raw; that they did not receive any heat treatment to increase shelf life.

117 "i've been including berries in my fresh fruit salad, is that ok?"

Yes!

116 "Are dried fruits okay?"

Yes, unless they are not sun-dried. Because if more heat was involved, they can cause acne as well...

115) I'm wondering whether I can eat some non leafy veggies like carrots and cucumber mixed with a little bit of lime juice?

Sure!!!

114) Are any fruits off limits?

Only fruits that you are allergic to.
Regarding all other fruits: please make sure to eat enough (and a variety), and please make sure to consume sufficient fat afterwards all the time. And also don't forget that you can also eat dried fruits (dates, figs, apricot etc.) and in-shell nuts (shelled by hand), which are very easy to take with you.

113) Does the orange juice HAVE to be "freshly squeezed" or can I use from concentrate?

It does not matter whether you have squeezed it first and then consume it right away, or many hours later.

What DOES matter very much, is whether the OJ is freshly squeezed or a commercial product. ALL commercially sold OJ (including those sold in health food stores) has gone through some process to increase shelf life. OJ contains little protein, but the problem is that it (like all fruits) contains relatively much free amino acids, which very easily react to sugars to form 'dirty' protein under the influence of the processing to 'increase shelf life' of comercial OJ. (they are NEVER 100% raw)
So absolutely NO canned (or bottled) fresh juices, NO juices from concentrates etc. WHATSOEVER.

112)

I don't know where else I could store the eggs other than the fridge and keep them cool. I live in South Carolina, and it is very hot and humid

To be able to properly check the egg on freshness, it need to be on room-temperature. So you can store them in the fridge, and when you want to have egg yolks, you should make sure to get them out of the fridge first and let them warm up (the inside as well) to room temperature before you open them up.
I don't know how long this takes because you live in a very different climate. The first few times you should check the time how long it takes for the inside of the egg to reach room temperature. So that you eventually know exactly how much times it takes.
You should ALWAYS check freshness. The freshness 'symptoms' tell you whether the egg is fresh AND whether the egg contains too much bacteria or not. If all 'symptoms' tell you that the egg is fresh, it also does not contain too much bacteria like salmonella.

To be able to check freshness properly it needs to be at room temperature because in a cold egg it may seem that the egg is fresh while it in fact is not.

Before you start to consume raw egg yolk, and to check freshness, first read this

Don't consume raw egg white. Egg white contains avidine and ovomucoid which inhibit digestion. Also do not consume the 'bag' containing the yolk and the string attached to it:

Just crack the egg in half. Dump the yolk into the other half leaving as much white in the other half as you can. Keep doing it until you're satisfied. Then put the yolk in your hand, and puncture it. Squeeze all the yolk out of the sac into your cup and your done.

111) Can we eat macadamia nuts instead of Brazil nuts?

Yes!
Like Brazil nuts, macadamia nuts indeed contain as much fat as Brazil nuts, and thus equally perfect to stabilize blood-sugar level. But if you don't eat any animal food (fish / egg yolks) you need the Brazil nuts for the protein; macadamias have a very poor protein quality, while Brazil nut-protein quality is better than that of any other food in the world.
So if you eat some sashimi / egg yolk regularly, yes you can eat macadamias (shelled by hand) instead of Brazil nuts.

104) What could I substitute for the raw fish?

Fresh raw egg yolks are a very good substitute. Especially because they contain more vitamins and minerals than any other food in the world and because they contain loads of solely good cholesterol, which inhibits your cravings and makes you feel good. (the 'natural prozac', see info about cholesterol)

If your skin is not very susceptible to acne, you can mix bananas, an apple and some orange juice in a blender and add the egg yolks AFTER the blending; only stir with a fork. (the blending causes molecular damage to the egg-protein, which can also cause acne. If you have severe acne, you should not blend bananas either)
The yolk makes the fruit-shake taste creamy and a bit vanilla like. But besides that, you don't taste the yolk at all.

If you are worried about bacteria / salmonella, please read this

Just make sure the eggs are fresh!

103) Can I eat canned tuna?

No, canned tuna is cooked during the canning process.
You can only eat RAW fresh tuna, which cannot contain parasites. Its safe.

102) Excessive Tuna in your diet risks Mercury Poisonin

Just because some tuna appears to contain mercury we should not eat tuna regularly???
The risk of consuming tuna containing mercury is incredibly small, while for example the risk of absorbing carcinogenic heterocyclic amines from cooked foods is 100%.
One example:

Cigarette smoke contains Prepared foods also contain

beta-carboline (1) beta-carboline (2)

Trp-P-1 (3) Trp-P-1 (4)

Trp-P-2 (5) Trp-P-2 (6)

4-aminobiphenyl (7) 4-aminobiphenyl (8)

MeIQx (3) MeIQx (9)

Glu-P-1. (10) Glu-P-1 (11)

Mutagenic heterocyclic amine concentration in prepared food can be much higher than in cigarette smoke. 100 gram (3.5 oz.) of prepared meat for example contains as much AalphaC as smoke of 812 cigarettes. And 100 gram of prepared meat contains as much of even-more-mutagenic MeAalphaC as smoke of 1,050 cigarettes !!! (12)

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101) How much water should i drink on a daily basis while on this diet ?

Well, you will be consuming loads of fruits in this diet, and fruits averagely contain about 85 to 90% water!
So, consuming pounds of fruits, you will be consuming quarts of water. Only if you consume much unshelled Brazil nuts (shelled by hand), you might want some extra water, but you don't need to.
IF you drink water, take low-mineral bottled water (especially low in sodium, potassium, chloride and calcium), like Volvic.

97) How important is it to eat a bite of salad for every bite of fruit?

VERY important.
the reason:
In this diet you will be eating loads of fruits, which means much fruit-sugars and little protein and fat. This will be a too strong focus on sugars, which will cause blood-sugar fluctuations. And blood-sugar fluctuations increase your cravings and may even cause acne in some (if the insulin systen is not sufficiently regulative)

The body has (besides alcohol) only 2 sources of energy at its disposal: sugar-like molecules and fat-like molecules (redundant protein is converted in both).
The sugars are fast but short-lasting energy. The fast are slow but long-lasting energy. Together they are perfectly complementary. But if you consume too little fat, all the energy has to come from sugars, which will cause too strong blood-sugar fluctuations.

THAT IS WHY IT IS VERY ESSENTIAL TO COVER YOUR SALAD WITH LOTS OF EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL. YOU NEED IT!

But, of course not only the salad can supply you with the required fat, you can also consume plain oil (in juices) or raw Brazil nuts / Macadamia nuts with / right after the fruits.

If you need a guideline how much fat to consume with the sugars; about 1 gram fat with every 2 grams of sugars. Here is a list of fat and sugar contents of the foods that are included in this diet.

Here is a thread about this topic, saved from our crashed Acne Bulletin Board

95) You say you can eat eggs instead of the fish? how?

You should ONLY eat fresh raw egg-YOLKs.
Also do not consume the 'bag' containing the yolk and the string attached to it; hold the whole yolk in your fingers, make a small cut, and drain the yolk.

First mix bananas, 1 apple or pear and some orange juice in a blender. Add the fresh raw egg yolks AFTER the blending. DONT blend the yolks, for that can cause acne too. Only stir with a fork.
you dont taste the egg yolk, except that the egg yolk makes the fruit-shake taste creamy and a bit vanilla-like.

Of course you should only consume egg yolk that is really fresh. But before you start to consume raw egg yolk, and to check freshness, first read this

94) Is it ok to prepare the salad the night before?

If you cut the avocado the nite before, it will brown and look very bad. (it will NOT induce acne at any point)
You can prepare the salad the night before, except for the avocado, which you add the next day.

93) Any other thing i can add to this sample diet to improve the flavour?

To replace the chives; use basil or parsley etc. or a dash of lemon juice, chopped red onions or chopped shallot. You can also mix the olive oil with Balsamic vinegar.

92) Isn't frequent eating of egg yolk bad for health?

I guess you mean cholesterol?

All people that are on my diet for over a few months, while eating more than 2 fresh raw egg yolks daily, have better cholesterol levels than before.

The reason:

There is good and bad cholesterol.
You can eat as much GOOD cholesterol as you want because the body is very effective in converting redundant good cholesterol into bile acids and to decrease cholesterol synthesis by the body if much good cholesterol is consumed.
Fresh raw egg yolks and fresh raw fish only contain good cholesterol, so you can eat as much as you like!the good cholesterol inhibits your cravings and makes you feel very good (cholesterol-products activate serotonin receptors in the brain)
so consuming fresh raw egg yolks makes it much eaiser to maintain this diet.

BAD cholesterol is a whole different story.
Good cholesterol is converted into bad cholesterol due to cooking, frying, baking etc.; due to the influence of heat.
Already at 100° C, cholesterol oxidizes 'spontaneously'. (1) By oxidation, the cholesterol molecules gain or lose atoms, forming new cholesterol-like molecules. Due to the influence of heat, about 30% of natural cholesterol oxidizes into oxy-cholesterols. About 6% of this oxy-cholesterol is absorbed into the body. (2)
These strange unnatural oxy-cholesterols, however, do not inhibit cholesterol synthesis. Some of these unnatural oxy-cholesterols also block transformation of cholesterol into bile acids. (3)
That is why the consumption of bad cholesterol causes the combined level of both good and bad cholesterol to increase (4) causing vascular disease. (5)
All you need to do is consuming no cooked animal food.

But before you start to consume raw egg yolk, and to check freshness, first read this

(1) Bascoul, J. et al, Preparation of autoxidized cholesterol from (4-14C) cholesterol and cholesterol fatty acid esters. J. Steroid Biochem. 1983 / 19 (6) / 1779-1782.
(2) Vine, D.F. et al, Absorption of dietary cholesterol oxidation products and incorporation into rat lymph chylomicrons. Lipids 1997 / 32 (8) / 887-893.
(3) Novikov, D.K. et al, Study of HDL-2 dependent synthesis of bile acids in culture of rabbit hypotocytes : Effects of oxidized cholesterol derivates. (in Russian) Biull. Eksp. Biol. Med. 1990 / 110 (9) / 267-269.
(4) Vine, D.F. et al, Dietary oxysterols are incorporated in plasma triglyceride-rich lipoproteins, increase their suspectibility to oxydation and increase aortic cholesterol concentration of rabbits. J. Lipids Res. 1998 / 39 (10) / 1995-2004.
(5) Lemaire, S. et al, Different patterns of IL-1 beta secretion, adhesion molecule expression and apoptosis induction in human endothelial cells treated with 7alpha-, 7beta-hydroxycholesterol, or 7-ketocholesterol. FEBS Lett. 1998 / 440 (3) / 434-439. , Guardiola, F. et al, Biological effects of oxysterols : Current status. Food Chem. toxicol. 1996 / 34 (2) / 193-211.

91) Can I still drink tea?

Not during these first two weeks. Even tea contains quite some protein (26 gram protein / 100 gram dry tea!!)

90) Is honey ok?

Cold-processed honey is perfect!

88) I am feeling a bit nauseous after consuming 3 egg yolks, why is this?

The hens are very often fed unnatural, recycled foods that sometimes even contain animal residues, thus bad substances will accumulate in the egg (oxysterols, trans-fatty acids etc.). When you cook the egg, these substances are still there, but you don't notice because all cooked foods also contain sedative chemicals (see RESULTS thread)
Consuming raw foods, you can very clear notice all the bad substances that are in there. I had the same thing until I started eating egg yolks from a farm where the hens were fed gress, raw grains and little insects and worms only.
Unfortunately such eggs are rare!

Before you start to consume raw egg yolk, and to check freshness, first read this

Another thing: be sure to remain physical inactive after having consumed fresh raw egg yolks at least 1.5 hour after having consumed the egg yolks. So only consume carbs and fats before exercising.

87) Are raw oysters ok?

Oysters can contain EXTREMELY much zinc (from 6 mg up to 160 mg / 100 gram (3.5oz))
This can cause the tightening of your skin (because zinc stimulates proliferation of specific skin cells), which may cause the sebum canals to be pinched off. The high salt can also make you break out.

83) To Meg

Wai, any advice on dried anchovies....I know they contain a lot of sodium....which would lead me to believe that they would be a problem....but I dont think they are cooked or roasted in any way....)

Oops! Yes, I should have told so, the dried anchovies can definitely cause acne! (because of the salt)

81) To goracergo
I went through your website and I get the feeling you dont think consuming egg whites is worthwile? Why?

Egg white contains many vitamins, minerals and protein etc., but RAW egg-white also contains avidin and ovomucoid, which are enzym-inhibitors. When you cook the egg these are destroyed, but that also originates 'dirty' protein that cause acne if you also produce much sebum.
And the enzym-inhibitors can also aggravate your acne because they inhibit digestion. And if digestion is not complete, more partly undecomposed protein is absorbed, and temporarily ends up in the skin, because the other organs first only take up free amino acids. In the skin this extra protein attracts more water, increasing water-pressure, which pinches off sebum canals.

But before you start to consume raw egg yolk, and to check freshness, first read this

80) Also, do you think refined sugars tend to create acne?

Refined sugars can cause acne in some because they de-stabilize blood-sugar level, causing blood-sugar levels to fluctuate too much. Though blood-sugar level is generally regulated very strictly (about 30% fluctuation), but in some the blood-sugar level can fluctuate much more, due to insulin-resistence for example (diabetes), or by nature. And like protein, glucose attracts water, so that like 'dirty' protein, too much fluctuating blood-glucose levels can also temporarily make your skin retain more water, pinching of sebum canals. Though this is only temporary, the accumulation of sebum can already be caused in a second.

To stabilize blood-sugar levels, you need to consume sufficient fat every time your have consumed high-sugar food / fruits.
Fat stabilizes blood-sugar level because fat is slow, but long-lasting energy while sugar is fast but short-lasting energy. Combined they are perfectly complementary, stabilizing blood-sugar level, preventing sugar-caused acne.

That is why you should consume a few bites of the salad (containing lots of olive oil) every time you have eaten some fruits.

79)

Does anyone know how to shell a macadamia nut?
I already tried dropping it off a 10-story building and driving over it with my car. TIA.

I use a hammer! (for the Brazil nuts too)
With some experience you don't crush the nuts anymore...

You can also buy a $5 nutcracker (officially meant to crack extremely hard macadamia nuts) at: http://www.blackjackorchards.com/nutcracker/index.htm

78) To Leonore

I'm afraid of worms in raw fish

The risk of absorbing parasites from raw fish is almost negligible. Tuna never contains such parasites, while especially salmon from hatcheries may.
Furthermore, these parasites can be easily detected (especially by a sushi-chef);

In the main there are two kind of parasites to look out for: flukes and nematodes.
Flukes are too big to remain unnoticed. They also are extremely rare.
Nematodes look like big, but short human hair. They lie perpendicular to the fishes' muscle striations (the pattern of striae in the flesh) and have a white translucent sheen. Any merchant - who wants to make sure his customers will not get ill - can detect them using ultrasound.

The risk of absorbing parasites that can cause ill effects is extremely small; less than 40 US citizens get ill each year by consuming fish containing parasites. In comparison: every year thousands of US citizens are bitten by snakes. But does that justify killing all snakes? Of course not. We only need to be careful. Still - unbelievably - the Food and Drug Administration in the USA forbids the consumption of raw fish!!!
And again: Tuna never contains such parasites.

77)To Crzyakta

Wai, why not rice??

Acne is caused by the combination of pinched off sebum canals and a high sebum production. If one of these is absent, you will not have acne.
The pinching off of sebum canals in the true skin is caused by an increased water-pressure in the true skin, due to retaining too much water in the true skin.
This water-retention can be caused by salt (only temporary) or protein (up to a couple of days).

The true skin can easily contain too much protein, causing water retention, because the blood-protein levels can fluctuate very much, from 100% (alanine) up to 900% (cysteine.).
Normally redundant protein is converted into direct available energy, glucose or glycerol, but this conversion is done by enzymes and if the targeted protein molecule does not exactly match their 'job-description', the enzymes cannot convert/decompose that molecule anymore. And the protein that remains undecomposed / unconverted, can make the true skin retain too much water.

So what does this have to do with rice?

Rice always has to be cooked before consumption.
And cooking partly causes damage to the molecules in food. For example, due to the influence of heat:

- about 30% of good cholesterol is oxidized into oxysterols
- are some fatty acids damaged so that artificial trans-fatty acids originate (the average American adipose tissue contains about 5% trans-fatty acids)
- does part of the protein oxidize or even form new compounds (the "Maillard reaction")

So due to cooking, part of the protein becomes what I call 'dirty' protein, which is hard-to-decompose protein that makes your skin retain more water.
Rice always has to be cooked so therefore always contains water-retention-causing 'dirty' protein.

Does this mean you can only eat RAW foods?

No.
But to know to what extend your acne is caused by 'dirty' protein and salt, you first need to make 100% sure that it does by totally eliminating your acne by consuming only raw foods during one to two weeks.
Once your skin is clean, you can start adding the least harmful cooked foods to your diet, to the extend that you want your skin to be clean.

76) To Bob

1. Why should eggs not be refrigerated? Will refrigerating eggs cause them to lose their freshness? How long can will the eggs remain edible if not refrigerated?

To be perfectly able to judge an egg's freshness, they should not be refrigerated, for the refrigerating makes the egg look (after opning it) a bit more firm (more fresh) than it actually is fresh. So it's not that the refrigerating causes them to loose their freshness (on the conrary), it's just that it makes it a bit harder to judge freshness, which is very important to know.
Stored on a cool place fresh eggs will remain edible (for raw consumption) for about 2 weeks (sometimes longer).

Before you start to consume raw egg yolk, and to check freshness, first read this

2. How many raw egg yolks can be consumed daily for an active 200 lb. male before cholesterol or ance breakouts can become a negative factor? Obviously, one would want to gradually begin consuming raw yolks until the body gets used to it.

The cholesterol in raw eggs is only good cholesterol.
When heated (cooking, frying etc.), about 30% of this good cholesterol oxidizes into bad cholesterol (oxysterols). About 6% of this bad cholesterol (only from heated foods) is absorbed into the body, and can cause vascular diseases, click here for an extensive explanation and scientific references.
Fresh raw egg yolks can never be dangerous regarding cholesterol, because they contain only good cholesterol, and the body can ALWAYS convert redundant good cholesterol into bile acids, and this also inhibits cholesterol synthesis by the body. No matter how many fresh raw yolks you consume.

Before you start to consume raw egg yolk, and to check freshness, first read this

For a male your weight the minimum is about 3 egg yolks and the maximum about 7 to 8 egg yolks (regarding protein), but your skin may very well be able to cope with more yolks. (you can start experimenting after the first 1 to 2 weeks)

3. I'm not sure I understand what you mean by 'bag' of the egg yolk.

When you open a fresh egg, part of the egg-white will automatically slip through your fingers, though the fresher the egg, the more solid the egg-white (the less watery). The egg-yolk however is contained in a bag. If the egg-yolk is not contained in a bag, or if the bag breaks too easily, and the egg yolks also drains away, the egg was not fresh.
In fresh eggs the egg yolk remains contained in the bag, and you can flip it over from one hand to the other without a single drop of egg yolks is wasted, because it is still inside that bag.
Now if you make a small incision in that bag, the contains of that bag, the actual egg yolk, can be drained into a cup.
Do it slowly, because it requires some experience to drain all the egg yolk in the cup without pieces of the bag slipping into the cup too.
Maybe you have a cat. If you have, offer it one saucer with the bag on it and another saucer with just the egg-yolk on it. Your cat will only like the yolk, not the bag.
The reason: Like raw egg-white, the bag contains enzym-inhibitors (avidine and ovomucoid) that inhibit digestion. Your cat knows how to recognize these by taste.

BTW: egg yolk contains more vitamins and minerals (in greater quantities) than any other food in the world.

But before you start to consume raw egg yolk, and to check freshness, first read this

72)
but sasami that raw fish thing is too expensive

You don't need to eat sashimi every day, and you can also buy fresh raw tuna at a fish-store. (tuna never contains parasites, while salmon from hatcheries occasionally can) You only need about 5 oz every 3 days. (which isn't that expensive at all)

To Veronica1
Since tuna is one of the foods on the diet, I will broil fresh tuna without any oils or butter to supplement the fruit……
I am quite understandably suspicious since I have gone months on nothing but fresh fruit, fresh fish, and fresh vegetables (with the one exception being the bread I mentioned above) without an improvement to my acne. However, I also have to admit that I drink black coffee.

I'm afraid you have been missing the point. It is NOT about fresh fish, vegetables etc. because that generally means "cooked".
Especially the broiled tuna can definitely cause acne and cellulite, and so do the vegetables. (and of course the bread and coffee also)
May I advice to view the sample diet and the Q and A page before giving it a try?

To Bob
45). Is there something special or synergetic about the Tomato-Cucumber-Avacado-Chives-Extra virgin olive oil combination. I'm guessing none of the food will give me acne but if I eliminated chives, for example, and ate only the others, would I get the same benefit?

Exactly. The only special thing about chives and the other ingredients is that there is no way they cause acne; only by eating solely non-acne causing foods during this week(s) you will become 100% sure that the diet works for you, which is the required fundament for to start experimenting later. Yes you can eliminate the chives, that just makes the salad even less tasty.

44). Can I purchase the eggs to get the raw, fresh egg yolks anywhere but from a local farmer? Is there any way to select one of these eggs from a typical grocer?

I'm not sure whether I interpret your question right, (English obviously is not my first language) but is the question whether you can select fresh eggs (from in between other maybe not-so-fresh eggs) from a typical grocer?
If so, yes, you just need to know HOW to select the fresh ones. Check this site for instructions. When doubting whether the inspected eggs are fresh, buy only one first and open it at home to make sure. If it is fresh you can buy more. Before you buy eggs / consume raw egg yolk, and to check freshness, first read this

To Cecilia
42) One question, can I dip the sashimi in kimoman sauce?

No, because that can also cause acne.
It is not that you can never have things like that anymore, not at all.
But during this one to two weeks you should not take any of such sauces / foods at all because even one single bite of the wrong food can cause a new pimple. And even if you only get one single new pimple during this week(s), you already cannot be 100% sure anymore whether this diet works for you. ONLY if you don't get a single new pimple during this week(s) and the old ones fade / shrink away, you know FOR SURE that this diet works for you too.
I'm stressing this so much because you can only lastingly maintain a diet if you completely 'trust' it and you can only give weight to your later experimentation with food, if you are absolutely sure what does NOT cause acne. This/these week(s) of maintaining the 'sample diet' is the fondament on which you will be building your diet; it better be reliable.

To "just Me"
41) Wai quickie question, I hate tomatoes and chives (yukk) - I could bear the cucumber and ergh maybe avocado - could you suggest something else to replace the tomatoes and chives?

To replace the chives; use basil or parsley etc. or a dash of lemon juice and pressed garlic, or chopped red onions or chopped shallot. You can also mix the olive oil with Balsamic vinegar.
To replace the tomatoes; mixed lettuce or non-salt soaked olives, or Brazil nuts/walnuts and raisins (previously soaked in sirup or orange juice) or pineapple, or chopped carrots.

To sue

40) Wai: One more question. How about olives? I'm guessing too much salt, right?

One cannot eat olives raw-from-the-tree, for their skin contains awful tasting oleuropin, and they therefore have to be soaked for a long time to eliminate that oleuropin.
But salt is not required for this process.
Mostly salt / spices are used in this process, but you can also buy olives that have been soaked without the use of any salt / spices at all. and these olives can perfectly be consumed in the Fruit-diet; they do not cause acne. (I luuuve olives)

"Just Me" wrote:

24) I grew up in Singapore and love the fruit there but hate the fruit here ie don't really like citrus fruits - prefer mangoes, papayas - that soft stuff that isn't sweet

Wai wrote:

Why would you eat citrus fruits? You don't need them! (except for oranges). Fruits that are best digested by humans (there are many more animals that eat fruits) are the fruits that taste best. In combination with some animal food (B12, D and good cholesterol), fruits contain ALL (except for the B12, D and cholesterol) the vitamins and minerals you need. You name it, and it is in fruit.
Mangoes, melons, bananas, oranges, mandarins etc. are perfect. Mangoes not sweet??? I luuuuuve their sweetness!

23) I am allergic to sea food! Hmm, doesn't help huh!

As an alternative, you can try this:
Make a fruitshake by mixing 2 bananas, 1 apple or pear and some orange juice in a blender. Then add 1 fresh raw egg yolk afterwards (DONT blend the yolk). (and NO egg white) It makes the shake taste creamy and a bit vanilla like.
Be sure the egg is fresh. Before you start to consume raw egg yolk, and to check freshness, first read this

Salmonella dangerous? Only when your defense system is not well trained, like in elderly people that are fed mainly sterile foods, which has left their defense unprepared. In healthy people your defence is adapting its force to the amount of bacteria (like salmonella) it has to fight on a regular basis. By consuming 1 fresh raw egg yolk a day, your defense system will be much stronger.
The extra advantage of this is that you can then by accident eat something bad in the wrong restaurant and not get sick while your friends do, simply because your defense system is properly trained.
If you consume some fresh raw egg yolk (or sashimi) regularly, and then you by accident consume a not-so-fresh egg yolk, the worst that can happen to you is that your bowels move more than they normally do. (I know from experience :))

Jane wrote:

22) I totally understand what you say regarding Diet, but i am very worried about the chance of getting Salmonella. I have heard horry stories about people dying after eating raw egg yolk. Is this true. Will i be at any harm?

If you are that worried, simply DON'T take egg yolk.
Why not take sashimi?
That is what I advised in the 'sample-diet' in the first place!

If you do want to consume fresh raw egg yolk:
The stories you hear about salmonella are NOT about people consuming whole FRESH raw egg yolks but about food-PRODUCTS containing raw egg yolk or other raw animal food. (like meat)
If these products are not immediately sold and consumed, the salmonella accumulates too much.
But...
If you can check upon the freshness of an egg yourself before buying it and before and after opening it, you can make 100% sure that the egg does not contain too much salmonella.
Salmonella is not a dangerous bacteria UNTIL YOU ABSORB FAR TOO MUCH of it.

Everything we touch and eat contains bacteria (unless the food is completely sterile). Our body is very capable in destroying these bacteria, unless....

- unless FAR TOO MUCH bacteria are absorbed AND
- if our body is not properly trained to fight these bacteria.

If your body IS properly trained to fight these bacteria, excessive salmonella will make your bowels move too much, and that is it.
If your body is not properly trained to fight salmonella, too much salmonella can make you seriously ill. And if you have a poor defense system in general, you can even die.

SO IF THE EGGS ARE FRESH (and immediately consumed after opening), THE SALMONELLA CAN NEVER BE DANGEROUS.

To further eliminate the danger of any intoxification, you should eat fresh raw egg yolks regularly, to train your defense system in fighting bacteria. the reason: the force of your defense system depends on how much it is trained to fight bacteria. If you never eat raw foods, your defense system will be very poorly trained, and can a little excess salmonella easily make you sick. That is why mostly elderly in elderly homes become sick after eating products containing animal food; they mostly are fed very little raw food and therefore have a poorly trained defense system.

The advantage of eating fresh raw animal food (like sashimi or fresh raw egg yolks) regularly, is that it strengthens your defense system. So that if you by accident eat something bad (deteriorated) in the wrong restaurant, you will not become sick, while those who ate the same food will.
Consuming fresh raw animal food regularly excludes the possibility of becoming sick by eating fresh raw animal food, and strongly limits the consequences of eating deteriorated food by accident.

Before you start to consume raw egg yolk, and to check freshness, first read this

Don't consume raw egg white. Egg white contains avidine and ovomucoid which inhibit digestion. Also do not consume the 'bag' containing the yolk and the string attached to it:

21) Where do i buy Sashimi?

Preferably there where it is unfortunately the most expensive: In Traditional Japanese restaurants run and visitited by Japanese. Among Traditional Japanese chefs it is a matter of honour to serve only the highest quality fish. They rather die than serving not-so-fresh fish.
In other take-outs, restaurants or on the market, tuna is safest. (salmon often originates from low-hygiene hatcheries)
But again, the more often you consume fresh raw fish, the stronger your defense.
Here you can find adresses of all the Japanese restaurants in your city: http://www.sushi.infogate.de/

There is another option:
If you are THAT worried, simply don't consume animal food at all.
Instead consume 70 gram (almost 2 oz.) Brazil nuts a day and take supplementary vitamin B12 and D.
There is nothing that keeps you from trying this 'sample-diet'.

Bob wrote:
20) Wai- Your diet sounds wonderful but I love meat!

How bad do you want to eliminate the acne?
Heated-in-whatever-way animal food is the worst for your skin. (My boyfriend actually eats RAW beef, but I cannot recommend that)

19) How bad is soy protein that you buy at GNC? I have been taking that.

VERY bad; at least as bad as cooked animal food. Soy does not only contain very much protein, it is also extremely processed because soy by nature contains such much enzym-inhibitors (lots of phytic acid, polyurones and arabinoxylanes) that have to be destroyed by heat so that the soy can be digested anyway. 5 to 20% of the enzyminhibitors in soy is not even destroyed throughout the preparation process. [1] These remaining enzyminhibitors inhibit your digestion which can make you absorb more 'dirty' protein (causing acne).

The intense processing of soy originates much 'dirty' protein, causing acne.

Furthermore, soy by nature contains lots of phytoestrogens. (which are claimed to be healthy) The main phytoestrogens in soy, genisteine and daizeine are mutagenic (which means they can cause cancer) [2] and can enhance prolactin-producing brain-tumors. [3]
These phyto-estrogens can also impair your hormone metabolism, they can increase the level of increases level of DHEA-sulphate [4] and decrease estrogen level with 27% [5], while you need adequate estrogen levels to protect you against osteoporosis for example (and lots of other things of course)
Phyto-estrogens can also cause infertility [6] and liver-diseases. [7]

I have a juice machine and juice frequently- mostly carrots, apples, oranges and greens. I think fresh juice is good for you and I feel wonderful when I drink it. However, is it really good for me and acne?

Anything that inhibits your digestion can cause acne because that may keep the enzymes from completely decomposing the protein in your food, which can cause excessive water-retention in the true skin, pinching of sebum canals.
Almost all greens contain enzyminhibitors (pentosanes, hexosanes, phytic acid etc.) That is why animals that are specialized in eating greens (which are actually leaves) or grains (which are grasses) have a specialized digestive system (4 stomachs or a gouter etc.)

You should stick to juicing only fruits for a while. Don't blend it too intensively, since this causes 'heat' on a molecular level (the 'friction'), which also originates some 'dirty' protein.

Like I told to other people before:
You should first make 100% sure whether the diet works for you. After that you can start adding 'munch-foods' to your diet, to experiment how much bad foods your skin can cope with without getting acne again.
To make sure the diet works for you, you should ONLY eat:
- well-ripened fruits
- a tomato-cucumber-avocado-chives salad covered with loads of extra virgin olive oil
- sashimi

during one or two weeks. Then the results will be very clear and you can start adding delicious munch-foods, see book.

[1] Liener, I.E. Possible adverse effects of soybean anticarcinogens. Journal of Nutrition 125 (1995) / 744-750.

[2] Morris, S.M. et al, p53, mutations, and apoptosis in genistein-exposed human lymphoblastoid cells. Mutat. Res. 1998 / 405 (1) / 41-56. , Kulling, S.E. et al, Induction of micronuclei, DNA strand breaks and HPRT mutations in cultured Chinese hamster V79 cells by the phytoestrogen coumestrol. Food Chem. Toxicol. 1997 / 35 (6) / 605-613. , Anderson, D. et al, Effect of various genotoxins and reproductive toxins in human lyphocytes and sperm in the Comet assay. Terat. Carcinog. Mutagen. 1997 / 17 (1) / 29-43.

[3] Stahl, S. et al, Phytoestrogens act as estrogen agonists in an estrogen-responsive pituitary cell line. Toxicol. Appl. Pharmacol. 1998 / 152 (1) / 41-48.

[4] Persky, V. et al, Epidemiology of soy and cancer : perspectives and directions. J. Nutr. 1995 / 125 (3suppl.) / 709S-712S.

[5] Nagata, C. et al, Effect of soy milk consumption on serum estrogen concentrations in premenopausal Japanese women. J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 1998 / 90 (23) / 1830-1835.

[6] Zimmerli,B. en J.Schlatter, Sojamilch : Gefahr durch Phytohormone ?, Mitteilungen aus dem Gebiete der Lebensmittelhygiene, 1997 / 88 / pag.219-231. , Adams, N.R., Detection of the effects of phytoestrogens on sheep and cattle. J. Anim. Sci. 1995 / 73 (5) / 1509-1515.

[7] Setchell, K.D. et al, Dietary estrogens - - a probable cause of infertility and liver disease in captive cheetahs. Gastroendocrinology 1987 / 93 (2) / 225-233.

18) Where can I get unshelled nuts?

Veronica2 wrote:
Here are three URLs for places on the web to buy them, sorry everyone outside the US, these are the only ones that came up and I know international shipping is a bear.

http://www.nuts4u.com/shell.html (NOT this one)
http://www.multiscope.com/hotspot/nuthome.htm

http://www.sunorganic.com/cgibin/store/products?cat_id=12&search=products&session_id=&Search.x=15&Search.y=14

Wai wrote:

The people from Nuts4U store their nuts in the fridge, which decreases maintainability once you have received them.

This one does NOT store the nuts in the fridge:

http://www.nutsonline.com

I don't know about the other two, so please ask them first before you buy!

I want to add that you can also call a nut-whole sale retailor in your city and ask him to mail you a 10 kg box with UNSHELLED Brazil nuts or even a 25 kg bag, which supplies you with sufficient nuts for half a year if you eat 70 gram (Net) a day.
FRESH (!) unshelled Brazil nuts can easily be kept for over a year. I have nuts here that are from 2.5 years ago and still 50% is edible.
Brazil nuts should NOT be stored in a refridgerator!

Sara wrote:
17) How much Brazil nuts do i need to eat, and why by hand, not bought in the bag?

Before I knew I'd never thought about it, but there is of course not a group of underpaid people that shells our nuts by hand. And a machine that can shell all those different nuts and still leave the nut itself intact is apparantly to complicated and expensive.
Anyway, the nuts are shelled by the use of either heat or quick-deep-freezing, which makes the shell fall off, but this also originates 'dirty' protein. (due to the Maillard or simple oxidation). This 'dirty' protein causes acne.

As a vegan you need about 70 gram / (a little less than-) 3 oz. Brazil nuts daily. (Net weight; without the shell)

16) Are salads okay, lettuce, cucumber, etc...?

Yes, but NO dressing from a bottle etc., just olive oil and fresh herbs like chives.

But no other greens than lettuce, since they are harder to digest. Almost all greens / vegetables are leaves, containing all kind of enzyme-inhibitors that can impair your digestion. That is why animals that eat leaves have a specialized (pre)digestion system.

Veronica2 wrote:
14) Wai, please confirm if this is ok - I make a dressing for my fruit by mashing a couple of sections of orange and mixing in cold-pressed flax oil to make a dressing into which I dip the other fruit. I don't think the oil you use has to be olive, any oil that is cold-pressed, not heated in any way should be fine (ok, Wai?).

Yep, it is just that the flax oil contains quite some enzyme-inhibitors that can cause digestion problems, so olive oil is safer.

13) Also, I don't eat the sashimi with every meal, usually just in the evening, and so far, only every 4 days or so (ok, Wai?)

That is OK too, we actually don't need that much animal food anyway. Regarding B12 we only need a tiny amount. Regarding the protein we need a bit more, but if you don't want to eat sashimi that often you can also eat a handful Brazil nuts daily (shelled by hand!); their protein quality is better than that of any other food in the world! (almost twice as good as beef and more than 3-fold better than milk)

But what is true: the clean (good-) cholesterol from sashimi does help you to maintain this diet; it decreases your cravings by activating your serotonin receptors, and also makes you feel better.

Meg wrote:
7) I have been following Wai's diet....almost....I eat pistachio nuts..which I'm not sure are okay. They are shelled but slightly opened. I'm still learning. I started the diet religiously today...day one. I'm wondering about the heat. Could it be the cause of these two new pimples.

The pistachio nuts can ABSOLUTELY easily cause new pimples!

These nuts are roasted in the shell, just like peanuts are. And, besides being proteinaceous, the pistachios have also been salted, which makes it even worse.

If you want to give my diet a try, you should do it properly first. After that you know FOR SURE that the diet works, THEN you can start adding munch-foods, so that you ALWAYS know what causes new spots.
ONLY by doing it this way, are you fully in control.
You need to be completely clean first, by consuming no 'dirty' protein or salt / spices at all.

5) I can't have salad and sahimi for breakfast so is just fruit OK? I assume all fruits are OK?

Yes consuming only whatever well-ripened fruits for breakfast is okay. But be sure to have some food containing fat with the next fruit you eat, to stabilize blood-sugar level.
After you have consumed this 'sample diet' for about 1 to 2 weeks the results will be clear and you can start adding the least harmful 'munch-foods', as described in the book.

Meg wrote:
4) I ate tons of sashima last nite.
THere is a wonderful place not to far from me....but I did eat fruit immediately after...I didnt realize I had to wait 1.5 hours.

That can ALSO cause acne, because consuming much more protein than you need will cause an increase in blood protein level, which also can make your true skin retain too much water. The blood protein level can easily increase 100% (alanine) up to 900%!!! (cystine)

So you should normally maximally consume 100 gram (3.5 oz.) fresh raw fish / egg yolk a day. (unless if you intensively work out)

Be also careful with the sashimi because in many restaurants the fish has been frozen first (just ask the chef), which can also cause acne if you eat lots of it.
And like Veronica2 said; eating the fruit after the sashimi can cause gripes/cramps/bloating.
Be sure to eat sufficient fruit BEFORE you eat the sashimi, so you have plenty of energy to last for at least 1.5 hours.

3) It is hard for me to stay on top of the raw fish and raw egg yolks. I'm not sure how to find healthy raw >eggs in my area without worrying about salmonella.

Really, you can find them in your area too. They key is not the salmonella, but your fear for the salmonella. What the official institutions are 'forgetting' to tell you, is that your body can perfectly fight bacteria, unless it is not properly trained to do so. And do you know how to train your body to fight salmonella? By ingesting traces of salmonella on a regular basis, so that your body 'knows' the enemy, and how to fight it. It functions exactly the same as a vaccination; with vaccinations they inject traces of the virus / bacteria in you, that they want to make you immune for. The same goes for salmonella: you need to be 'vaccinated' on a regular basis, by ingesting some traces of salmonella on a regular basis.
The only way to do, is by consuming fresh raw animal food on a regular basis. If you don't, your immune system is not trained to fight salmonella, and will be 'surprised' and 'overwhelmed' when you accidentally consume something containing very much salmonella. And since elderly in elderly homes hardly ever get raw foods for consumption, it mostly they who have untrained defense systems, and it is therefore they who fall victim to a salmonella poisoning.
The only ones who are safe, are those who consume fresh raw animal food on a regular basis. If you then accidentally eat something very bad in the wrong restaurant, your bowels will maximally move too much, while your diner companions may end up in the hospital.

So, what to do?
You first need to train your defense system gradually. First you need to expose it to only very little egg yolk (like half a teaspoon) during the first few days. Then you gradually increase the amount of egg yolks, eventually up to a few egg yolks a day.
Of course you should still use FRESH raw eggs, because even fresh raw eggs already contain traces of salmonella. To check the eggs on freshness, please read this