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| itself. If you eat a food that agrees with you, your pulse rate will remain stable. If you eat one that doesn't, your pulse will increase. In his medical practice and through his book The Pulse Test, Dr. Coca trained thousands to monitor their diets and make their own accurate diagnoses. |
| In order to take the pulse test accurately, you must stop smoking for the duration of the test and be free of conditions that might disrupt your pulse, such as fighting off a cold or being sunburned. |
| Count your pulse for 60 seconds just after waking in the morning and just before going to bed at night. In addition, take your pulse just before each meal and again 30 minutes, 60 minutes and 90 minutes after the meal ends. Always take your pulse sitting up, except when you first wake in the morning. |
| Keep a food journal for two or three days, noting everything you eat at each meal and the day's pulse rates. Some connections may be obvious at once. If your pulse jumps from 65 beats per minute just before breakfast to 85 beats per minute after, something in the French toast may not agree with you. One woman discovered that her pulse raced every morning, just after she got up. After three days, she realized that the problem was her toothpaste. When she changed brands, her chronic migraine headaches disappeared. |
| You can use the pulse test to check individual foods and narrow your findings to a single offender. Eliminate the foods that cause your pulse to race and you'll eliminate health problems with them. |
| Antacids, Hydrochloric Acid and Aging |
| The high-fat, low-fiber, nutrient-depleted American diet sustains life; we'd all be dead if it didn't. The fact that it doesn't enhance health isn't obvious, though, or more people would stop eating it. Dietary habits are set in youth, when the body has an abundance of its own enzymes to compensate for the lack of live enzymes in food, when it has abundant gastric juices and a strong, working liver, when minor deficiencies aren't so obvious. |
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