I was also looking for a diet that had everything the body needed but was close to a fast for those people who couldn't fast. For example, people who were emaciated, people who had a fear of fasting, or whatever. In other words, you could live longer if you ate a complete diet which had salt and pepper and contaminants and chemicals, even fluorides in the water, even sprayed chemicals on the food, than if you ate an incomplete diet. But if the foods were whole and natural, you would live longest and healthiest. We are all more or less toxic to some extent, and we all increase toxins in the blood temporarily when we exercise, but we are not all sick.
Most bodies can handle a large degree of toxemia for a long time.
Deficiencies damage us much more quickly. That's the difference between the two evils. In humans, the deficiencies develop more subtly. When that happens, down you go. And once down, it is very hard to get back up.