Want to know what you should be eating for the optimum diet? Just use our guide below to chose the perfect foods; carbohydrate, protein, and fat.
| SUPERIOR | Grains: whole wheat bread, whole wheat pastas, whole wheat crackers, brown rice, maize, rye, wheat, barley, buckwheat, millet, quinoa, popcorn, nacho-chips, granola (without sugar). Vegetables: broccoli, carrots, bell peppers, bokchoi, amsoi, Chinese cabbage, French beans, leeks, onion, cauliflower, all cabbage types, radish, soy sprouts, champignons, watercress, endive, zucchini, Brussels sprouts, Belgian endive, beets, all lettuce types, spinach, tomatoes, all fresh and dried herbs (basil, coriander, garlic, etc.), potatoes, celery, artichoke, asparagus, radish, Jerusalem artichoke, pumpkin, eggplant, cucumber, rhubarb. Fruits: avocado, mango, apples, oranges, cherries, pears, strawberries, kiwis, lemons, grapefruit, pineapple, passion fruit, papaya, tangerines, all types of berries, watermelon, plums, peaches, apricots, nectarines, etc. Sweeteners: stevia , maltodextrin |
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| GOOD | Fruits: dried fruits (the perfect 'healthy snacks'), grapes, bananas. Sweeteners: fructose, molasses, honey and unrefined sugar |
| INFERIOR | Grains: couscous Fruits: melon |
| NO-NO'S | Grains: white bread, white rice, white crackers and anything that contains white flour Sweeteners: sugar (sucrose), aspartame, xylitol, lactose, glucose, dextrose, caster sugar, sorbitol, mannitol, saccharine, cyclamate And all foods that contain these, e.g. cookies, cakes, jam, sweets, chocolate, sodas, juices, chewing gum, etc. |
| SUPERIOR | Dairy products: whey Fish (preferably not from a can): tuna, salmon, herring, cod, trout, whiting, sea perch, sardine, mackerel. |
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| GOOD | Dairy products: low-fat yogurt, kefir, cottage cheese, mozzarella, feta, low-fat milk Meat and poultry: chicken (without skin), turkey, rabbit, hare, pheasant, guinea-fowl Shellfish: lobster, shrimps, oysters, mussels, crab (not surimi) Fish: sepia, octopus Others: eggs Nuts and seeds (not roasted): sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, almonds, sesame seeds |
| INFERIOR | Dairy products: cheese, French cheese (camembert, brie, etc.) Fish: surimi, eel Beans: beans, lentils, soy Meat and poultry: beef, lamb, duck, goose, wild boar, ostrich Nuts and seeds (not roasted): hazelnuts, walnuts, pistachios |
| NO-NO'S | Meat: pork including sausages, salami, ham, bacon, etc.), organ meat (liver, kidneys, etc.) Nuts and seeds: peanuts, peanut butter |
| SUPERIOR | Fish: salmon, haring, mackerel, sardines Oils: cold pressed oil from the following seeds or nuts: olives, safflower, sunflower, linseed, walnuts, sesame, sprouted wheat, hemp, evening-primrose, borage, almonds Seeds and nuts (not roasted): cashew nuts, almonds, hazelnuts, pumpkinseeds, sunflower seeds |
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| GOOD | Dairy products: butter, low fat milk |
| INFERIOR | Meat: all animal fats (beef, pork and all foods that contain these) Poultry: the skin of chicken, turkey, etc. |
| NO-NO'S | Oils: all oils and fats that have been heated (if the label doesn't specify the oil has been cold-pressed it means that the oil was heated), (diet-) margarines, baking fats, tallow, coconut fat Nuts and seeds: peanuts, pistachios, walnuts (sometimes contain mould, so don't eat the soft ones!) |