A Balanced Healthy Diet Based on Latest Medical Research

Most of the "balanced healthy diets" discussed on the Web are not truly healthy. There is still a high level of the major poisons that are making us sick in them. We are not designed to be fueled by a diet of animal fats and refined carbohydrates, so diseases are the inevitable result of a diet containing these items.

Why leave in the items we know cause heart disease, cancer, and osteoporosis, to name just a few?

What are the items that don't belong in a balanced healthy diet?

* Meat, especially the American invention of raising meat animals in tiny cages and pens, unable to move around, and fed hormones and antibiotics with their corn and soybean meal feed (This produces six times the fat of a pastured animal). Meats and dairy products are the source for 95% of the herbicide/pesticide residues in our U.S. food supply.

* Milk and cheese are not the health foods the Dairy Council would lead you to believe they are

* Processed foods: canned soups, TV dinners, fast food, baked goods, soft drinks, most energy drinks, energy bars, snack foods, most restaurant foods

* Refined carbohydrates: sugar, white flour, white rice, and especially high-fructose corn sweetener (which is completely unnatural--your body doesn't know what to do with it) Any food containing these items should be avoided.

* Artificial sweeteners and transfats

* Added oils What should be in a balanced healthy diet?

* The key ingredient should be "starches": Whole grains, yams, sweet potatoes, beans and other legumes, simple whole-grain bread, winter squashes

* Vegetables that grow in your area, especially colorful ones and leafy green ones: kale, collards, beets and their greens, spinach, broccoli, cabbage, peppers(hot and sweet), carrots, turnips, summer squashes, tomatoes

* Fresh fruit and berries that grow in your area--not canned, not juiced, but whole and raw (Try for organic-grown)

* Wild fish and free-range eggs are items that should be included rarely, if at all, for their vitamin B-12 content

* No additional oils, even the so-called "heart-healthy" ones (they contribute to coronary disease)

* Limited amounts of nuts and seeds (none for heart patients, per the Esselstyn Diet)

Ideas for Balanced Healthy Diet meals:

Soups of vegetables, grains, and beans: lentil/barley soup, bean and vegetable soup, minestrone, etc.

Casseroles of grains, beans, tomatoes and other vegetables

Stir-fry meals of lightly cooked vegetables and legumes, with brown rice or other whole grain

Salads! Fruit salad with walnuts(Waldorf Salad), Green salad with sprouts and vinaigrette dressing(hold the iceberg lettuce--it has very little nutrient content; use spinach, Romaine, radicchio, arugula, watercress, butter lettuce instead)

If adopting a balanced healthy diet seems a lot of trouble, please consider the benefits:

* Quick weight loss, when some moderate daily exercise is added

* Greatly reduced risk of heart attack, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, osteoporosis, etc.

* Years more of youthful energy

* Much lower food costs: Raw fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and beans are incredibly inexpensive, compared to prepared foods and meat and dairy products

* Much less need for medical care, if any: Imagine a life with no nursing home at the end of it!

* Less suffering for meat and dairy animals

* Less pollution from raising meat animals and dairy cows

* Less need for imported fossil fuels: 16% of all oil/natural gas is used in the USA in agriculture/mostly for meat and dairy production

* Less animal production of methane, a purported contributor to global climate change

For supporting medical reference literature, and recommended reading, see John Robbins, "Diet for a New America", "Healthy at 100", and "Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease," by Dr. Esselstyn.

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