So, "just say no" to: 

• Low-fat, low-carbohydrate, low-calorie, and high-fat diets
   
• Refined sugar including high fructose syrup (which can contain high amounts of glutamate)
   
• Products made from enriched flour or whole-wheat flour
   
• Fried, blackened, burnt, or dark-browned meats or vegetables (i.e., potato chips)
   
• Excessive salt
   
• Whole and low-fat cheese, milk, and yogurt
   
• Milk chocolate
   
• Vegetable oils (except for first-press olive), shortening, butter, margarine, and animal fat
   
• Excessive omega-3 from supplements or flaxseed oil
   
• Red meats consumed more than once a week
   
• Tuna, Chilean bass, halibut, swordfish, king mackerel, orange roughy, Farm-raised Talapia, and grouper
   
• Sugar substitutes found in diet beverages, gum, breath fresheners, Jell-O, fruit ice pops, and flavored yogurt, as well as diabetic or low-carbohydrate drinks, foods, snacks, and energy, health, and fitness bars
   
• Processed protein such as bacon, canned meats, cold cuts, egg powder, ham, hot dogs, cheese, nutritional energy drinks, soy, and whey
   
• Glutamate within ingredients such as autolyzed, hydrolyzed, or textured plant protein; bouillon; broth; caseinate; enriched cornstarch; flavoring; gelatin; monosodium glutamate(MSG); spice; soy protein, stock; or whey

Medicinal foods can help, so eat:

• Chips, cupcakes, cake, pasta, bagels, English muffins, cookies, energy bars, and bread made from organic stone-ground, whole wheat, as found in most recipes in BrightFoods
   
• Omega 9, 6, and 3 from organic first-press olive oil
   
• Filtered water; freshly brewed green, white, red, or black tea (over ice with organic apple juice); fresh carrot, grapefruit, or pineapple juice, or processed apple or tomato juice
   
• Lycopene-rich organic tomato sauce
   
• Good carbohydrates containing antioxidants, such as apples, avocados, bananas, beans, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, cherries, corn, cucumbers, grapes, mangoes, oranges, oregano, peaches, peanut butter, pears, peas, peppers, plums, strawberries (organic), turmeric, walnuts, wild rice, and zucchini
   
• Old-fashioned oats (not instant or one minute oats)
   
• Organic poultry, eggs, very lean red meat in moderation, peas, beans, nuts, and seeds
   
• Flounder, sole, salmon (wild or canned), anchovies, and sardines
   
• Organic low-fat or skim milk and cheese in moderation for people under 45