I came across a pretty good article that puts a lot of it into a nutshell:
http://ezinearticles.com/?Healthy-Diet---Guidelines-For-a-Healthy-Diet&id=1120877
Everyone should at least know the things this article lays out.
This is a daily log of the meals, exercise and internal struggles of a diabetic who believes there is no disease that in some cases cannot be healed naturally and completely. It includes thoughts about loosely relevant things as his mind wanders.