Confused About Which Diet Plan to Follow?

(By Dr. Bessie Jo Tillman, M.D.)

Does the fad diet roller coaster boggle your mind?  Should you eat low carb (Atkin’s diet and others) or low fat (which usually means high carb)?  Should you be a vegan or eat meat?

Twenty years ago when I entered the nutrition field to become enlightened, it was Atkin’s vs Pritikin.  Dr. Atkins was advocating low carbohydrates which necessitated higher fat intake.  Pritikin advocated cutting fats severely.  So who was I to believe?  Like most of us I was thoroughly confused.  And the confusion still reigns in the media and probably in your mind.

An invitation to a seminar at the Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation  led me to the truth!  Under the tutelage of Dr. Bruce Pacetti for two days, finally my eyes were opened and the confusion cleared.  His message spoke the truth because no one was promoting products.  Rather PPNF, a non-profit organization, is dedicated to preserving and disseminating the truth about nourishing the human body well as discovered in the basic research done by Dr. Price and Dr. Pottenger in the 1930’s and 40’s.  Paying attention and implementing those truths in our lifestyles can save us today from degenerative disease and pain.

Implement these basic truths for eating in a brilliant, healthy way:

• Eat a balanced ratio of healthy fats, protein and complex carbohydrates at each meal. Be sure to start your day with a good protein source to deter energy slumps and carb cravings later in the day.
• Try eating 5-6 smaller meals per day instead of 2-3 larger ones. That keeps you appropriately full, stabilizes blood sugar, and stabilizes hormonal swings induced by poor eating habits.
• Eat as much fresh-off- the vine food as possible. Nutrient content of food deteriorates as the produce sits in the truck for transport, stores in the frig, and finally is sold at the market.
• Fresh vegetables and fruit are most nutrient dense if eaten soon after picking.  Dried and frozen foods preserve nutrient density second best. The high heat required to can food may deplete many of the nutrients or damage them.
• Eat as many raw vegetables and fruit, nuts and seeds as your GI tract can tolerate. Steam the rest. For even easier-to-digest nuts and seeds, soak them overnight in water.

Here’s a challenge with healthy consequences:

Eat vegetables with every meal – including breakfast – (5 to 7 servings per day or more).

• Eat fruit between meals healthy digestion. Fruit has higher sugar content than vegetables so limit fruit to no more than 2 servings per day to minimize blood sugar swings.
• Eat whole fruit, not juice. Fruit juice concentrates the sugar too much and causes more rapid uptake into your blood.
• Shop locally grown food as much as possible. It gets to the market place faster preserving more of the nutrients and minimizes transportation costs.
• Eat organically grown food as much as possible to avoid pesticides and hormones. Organic food generally tastes better and sweeter because of the higher levels of nutrients, especially of minerals.
• Enjoy colorful salads frequently. Did you know that vegetables and fruit are color coded? Different colors of them contain different nutrients. Combining a variety of colorful vegetables provides you with a variety of nutrients, tastes good, is interesting and fun. Add more variety and good fats by adding nuts or seeds to your salad. To make meal prep easy eat your protein (chicken, fish, beef, etc.) hot separately from your salad at your evening meal. Make your lunch for the next day in a jiffy by cutting up the left-over protein and placing it on the left-over salad.
• Cook food lightly, at lower heat. Steam, simmer or sauté food. Avoid microwaved or fried food and food cooked at high temperatures (over 375 degrees F).

Finally, relax in a pleasant environment at meal time. Chewing each bite of food thoroughly until it’s liquid in your mouth helps you relax and decreases the impulse to overeat.

Enjoy your new found brilliant healthy lifestyle way of eating because it serves your body well (and probably your mind and emotions too). You will be pleasantly amazed at the way you feel eating this way.

Dr. Jo (Bessie Jo Tillman, MD) makes brilliant healthy eating easily doable as you follow her concise coaching in her cookbook, Dr. Jo’s Natural Healing Cookbook.  Set up your kitchen and organize your shopping easily!  Drawing a blank on how to incorporate so many vegetables?  No worries, Dr. Jo sparks your own creativity.

>>>>>  Dr. Jo’s patients often said, “The best side effect of this eating plan is weight loss.”

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About the Author:   For 20 years, Dr. Bessie Jo Tillman, MD, fondly known as “Dr. Jo”, educated, coached and treated patients from an approach that combined alternative, natural healing practices with conventional medicine.  She now educates people through her website, books, e-books and audio and video recordings.  Dr. Jo is known for being bold and courageous in telling the real story about what causes degenerative disease, she also gives caring and heartfelt advice on not being overwhelmed while taking steps to greater physical, emotional and spiritual health.

For more information about Dr. Bessie Jo Tillman, visit: http://www.drjomd.com/

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