You have
to keep in
mind that your diet is your health.
Eating
healthy would not mean eating much, but eating clean.
but healthy
food is confused nowadays,
it would be
stressed here that the
old misleading theory of
associating
diet to
calories and proteins more than any other food component
should be rejected.
Proteins were also
wrongly associated
with meats and meat products. There was a big mistake, and proteins are
found also in vegetable materials, such as cereals leguminous dried and
fresh fruits and legumes, and many other materials such as marine algae.
The 10 principles
of the healthy diet
1- Eating healthy
is eating a balanced diet containing more vegetable products than animal
ones. Vegetables are free of cholesterol, are source of most vitamins
and minerals and are the source of body protectors against free radicals
aggression and metabolic compounds. Dietary soluble fibres are
a gut fuel
and can help regulating a lot of physiological reactions. Vitamins are
the metabolic regulators and the catalysing power for most reactions.
Minerals are also physiological regulators and fluid balance keeping in
the body. Antioxidant compounds are found in vegetables and only in
vegetables and hive products. These compounds are the hormonal
monitoring and the body defending system. Many diseases can be due to
the antioxidant deficiency in the body.
In most western
countries the daily consumed amount of dietary fibre had decreased
during the
last decades, and this was fatal for health of most people in these
countries. Meats which are now considered as a staple food would be
involved secondarily in human diet, meat would be allowed one time a
week but not every day. A good quality meat is required such as sea
products, natural poultry (beldi), camel meat and pastured animals.
2- Eating healthy
is eating natural cold extracted oils. Only
olive
oil is natural and can be eaten safely. Olive oil can be eaten as raw or
used in humid cooking. People are used to cooking by roasting or frying,
this is the worst way to cook food. Water/oil cooking procedure is the
safer, and meats should be cooked with legumes, as it was the most used
method in Arab countries.
Olive oil is
supposed to be cold pressed,
unfiltered and look cloudy.
Olive oil should not
be bottled in transparent glass or plastic bottles.
Avoid
hydrogenated oils and refined solvent extracted oils.
3- Eating healthy
is avoiding all processed foods. These may contain toxic chemical
compounds such as additives including chemical colorants, texturing,
flavouring, sweetening, thickening, salting, preserving, antioxidants,
MSG (monosodium glutamate), aspartame, hydrogenated oils, antifungal,
polishing, carbonating, acidifying, propellants, jellifying, packaging,
light exposure etc.. Only home prepared foods are accepted in our
concept. Use safe cooking wares such as clay made wares (non polished or
painted clay) copper made wares and inox made cooking wares. Packaged,
canned and plastic wrapped foods are not safe.
4- Eating healthy
is eating pesticide free foods. Look for non pesticide treated
vegetables and fruits. Dried fruits are also subject to sulphide
treatment to avoid mould contamination during storage. By the way check
if the vegetables are not irrigated with waste water, even treated. And
check also if crops are grown in its right season and not in green
houses. Green houses crops are not seasonal and may have different
chemical profiles from naturally grown crops.
5- Eating healthy
is eating meats from non hormone/antibiotics treated animals. It should
be also checked if the animal was not given GMO feeds. Pastured non
hormone injected animals meat is preferred to fast grown and developed
animals. Eggs and milk are also animal products which can undergo the same
way of production.
Most of the milk cows are injected with hormones rBGH (recombinant
growth hormone) and rBST (recombinant bovine somatotropin). Milk may
induce some allergies in children and may also encourage cancer
development in some organs such prostate and breast.
6- Eating healthy
is avoiding GMO foods. You might be wise and aware about these products,
and pay attention to imported foods in your country. Choose local foods
you can see and you can taste. Be aware about aggressive advertising on
TV and on boards built every where through your town, do not be so
excited by the attracting smashing pictures of food products. It looks
nice only on the picture but terrible when eaten.
7- Eating healthy
is drinking chemically safe water. It should be emphasized here that
safe water is a misleading terminology, according to the WHO, safe water
is any treated or non treated water which must be free of hazardous
micro-organisms. But we do not agree with this old fashioned non
scientific definition. Safe water for us is any water from natural
surface or ground water which is free NATURALLY from any chemical
hormonal or biological hazard (not by treatment). This may reject the
process adopted by the WHO and which is based on the chlorine or ozone
treatment of water. Chlorine and ozone may kill the living materials
(micro-organisms) but they cannot remove the chemical danger. Also the
conventional process for water treatment is not sufficient for removing
the hormones and other soluble compounds. For people who cannot have
natural safe water in their area, the tap water must be boiled to 100°C
for 10 minutes, and this is just to drive free chlorine away. Some other
chemical compounds cannot be removed by boiling. DO NOT drink water when
eating.
8- Eating healthy
is not eating too much, not eating fast and not eating at any time. You
may know that the shape of your stomach is a laying Latin letter J in
the body. The stomach is normally secured against any aggression by over
eating, so the upper side is larger than the bottom side, and the area
called the greater curvature is the most sensitive to cancer. The
stomach should not be filled entirely so it cannot move when digesting
foods. One part at least should remind empty for the agitation of food
while digesting, the fundus should stay free.
9- Eating healthy
including seeds, grains and dried fruits. Besides cereals and
leguminous, your diet may include seeds which are flax seeds cress seeds
fenugreek, black cumin and sesame seeds as well as some other grains
such as millet oat lupin and coriander. These food components are very
important for the body protection and they also boost the apoptosis
phenomenon.
The western
countries do not really include dried fruits such as dates, walnuts and
figs, almond and pistachio are very important component but they should
be non GM. Dates can be fed to babies from 1 month.
10- Eating healthy
is fasting two days a week. It is not easy to control eating and when
you feel hungry you think instinctually to food. And the more you feel
hungry the more you need to eat. In some cases people get more nervous
than drug-addiction teenagers. Fasting may cut off the extra calories
you may have taken more than the normal need of your body. The reuse of
the calories your body received in excess cannot be done when you still
continue to supply the body with calories so the excess will be stored
as fat around your body and around some organs and overweight can start.
Recapitulation
Vegetables legumes
herbs and fruits
Grains
including cereals and leguminous (avoid soya) as well as millet and
lupin
Dried fruits
Olive oil
Seeds
(black cumin, flax seeds, cress
seeds, fenugrek seeds, sesame seeds)
Medicinal plants
Water
Fasting
The right way to
live healthy is to eat healthy, and eating healthy is following an
antioxidant rich diet. Antioxidants are the most required compounds for
the body to saty healhty.