The golden rules for a healthy diet

The medicine of the future will no longer be remedial, it will
be preventive; not based on drugs but on the best diet for
health. This document explores the issue:
What is Optimum Nutrition?
By Peter Shepherd

• Avoid stimulants such as sugar, coffee, tea and cigarettes, and limit alcohol.
• Avoid saturated (animal) fats and hydrogenated (processed) fats.
• Avoid simple (refined) carbohydrates, including white bread, biscuits, cakes and
• other processed foods.
• Avoid unnatural additives, flavourings and preservatives.
• Eat more beans, lentils, seeds, nuts and whole grains.
• Eat more vegetables, raw or lightly cooked (steaming is best).
• Eat several servings of fresh fruit every day.
• Wherever possible eat organically-grown, natural, unprocessed foods.
• Drink plenty of filtered water.