CHANGING YOUR LIFESTYLE: MAIN NACNE’S RECOMMENDATIONS
Main NACNE (the UK Advisory Council on Nutrition Education) recommendations:
• Don’t worry about how much cholesterol you eat
• Don’t change the amount of protein you eat
• Reduce alcohol intake to 4 per cent of total calories at most. (This means in practice a maximum of one pint of beer or two glasses of wine a day.)
• On vitamins and minerals NACNE think that anyone eating along the lines they suggest will inevitably eat more of these nutrients, which is true. I, and many others involved in nutrition, see this as being totally inadequate because of the poverty of vitamins and minerals in modern foods as they actually reach the table. This is a subject of considerable debate, with government food experts maintaining that we all get enough of these things if we eat a NACNE-type diet. Certainly it is true that if we do we won’t be grossly deficient but I maintain that much ill health is caused by marginal (as yet unrecognized by the medical profession) dietary deficiencies.
In addition to NACNE’s recommendations, which I heartily endorse, I would add:
• Avoid or cut down on foods that contain additives, preservatives, colourings, etc. The effects of these chemicals are only just beginning to be understood. Get into the habit of reading labels and don’t buy anything with any of these substances in it unless you have no alternative.
• Greatly reduce your intake of tea, coffee, chocolate and cola drinks. In the case of the first three dilute them and have them very weak.
• Supplement your daily diet with a multi-mineral, multi-vitamin supplement.
Such a supplement should be free from yeast, wheat, gluten, milk, corn, sugar, and artificial colourants and preservatives. The doses given are the minimum. It is safe to take up to four times these doses daily.
Take them all with food, spread throughout the day.
• Eat as much of your foods raw as you can. This mainly involves fruit, seeds and nuts and vegetables, of course. Recent research suggests that raw foods not only have better nutritional qualities (which have been known for a long time) but that they have intrinsic energies which are helpful in keeping the body healthy and curing disease.
If you eat in this way and supplement your diet with vitamins and minerals you will undoubtedly feel better, and specific results can include:
• A slow weight-loss
• Reduced blood pressure
• Fewer signs of vitamin/mineral deficiency
• More energy
• Less tooth decay and gum disease
• Reduced chances of becoming diabetic in middle age (because you are slimmer)
• Less chance of producing gallstones (because you are slimmer)
• A reduced chance of having a heart attack (because you are eating fewer saturated fatty acids that clog up the heart’s arteries and because you are slimmer and have a reduced blood pressure)
• Less chance of developing diverticular disease of the colon
• Reduced chance of bowel cancer
• You’ll feel pleasantly full after a meal
• Reduced problems with (or complete cure of) your piles
• An increased ability to withstand stress.
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