Take your time and be patient
Start with a basic assessment of the foods you eat, what are the healthiest? What should you change?
- Eat the good foods that you enjoy, but prepare them in new and interesting ways
- Add a new food (or recipe) to your diet every few weeks
- Find out the foods you like and those you don't. Discover the variety of delicious flavors nature has to offer. If you know your foods, you can create any dish
- Whenever possible, choose foods that are pure, fresh, and natural
- Avoid artificially preserved and processed foods
- Cook meat in water rather than oil
- Steam vegetables instead of cooking them
- Eat raw vegetables whenever possible
- Bake or broil foods rather than frying them
- Choose from a variety of foods each week
- Avoid sugar, corn syrup, and artificial sweeteners (replace with honey)
- Avoid canned fruits and vegetables, replace with fresh fruits and vegetable
- Avoid iceburg letture, replace with romaine, butter, endive, green leaf and red leaf lettuces
- Avoid flour-based bread, crackers, and pasta. Replace with whole-grain breads; crackers made from rice flour; and rice, corn, or quinoa pasta
- Avoid pork, especially sausage and bacon also avoid processed meats, especially lunch meats and hot dogs. Replace with turkey sausage and turkey bacon (60% less fat) as well as lunch meats that have been slices from freshly cooked chicken, turkey, and roast beef that contain no nitrates
