Finally, a good food guide! After all the bad advice on healthy eating, this is now being binned in the USA by head of HHS, Robert Kennedy, Jr., with his new Real Food Pyramid!
For years people were told to eat lots of carbohydrates and avoid meat and fats. Now high quality proteins are at the top of the pyramid and people are being advised to eat butter, ghee, tallow, lard, unrefined coconut oil and olive oil, as well as organic grass fed meat and good quality eggs.
People are obviously still advised to eat vegetables, fruit and nuts, as well as whole wheat bread. Sourdough bread is much less heavy on the digestive system. However, I will be looking at bread making machines and will use organic whole wheat flour or spelt flour (which makes delicious bread!)
As Hippocrates, who was the 'Father of Medicine', said: "Let Food be Thy Medicine"!
HHS has also announced that from next Autumn, doctors will finally be taught the core basis of health, which is nutrition. Previously they only learnt a few hours of nutrition in their entire medical course and most likely learnt the old food pyramid, which dates back to the 1970s.
Eating a low fat diet is bad for your health as we need good quality fats, so feel free to eat full fat yoghourt and organic cream but ditch the seed oils from your diet, which cause inflammation in the body. Animal fats supply the body with vital nutrients such as Vitamins A, D and K and are crucial for the myelin sheaths surrounding nerve fibres. These fats also protect the body from inflammation and help absorb nutrients from our food.
I recommend eating a protein only breakfast and I personally eat two eggs every single day with no toast or carbohydrate. I find that eating only protein for breakfast keeps my energy up for longer and is better for the digestion.
Charlie Kirk says in fact you can live healthily by eating no carbohydrates at all but suggests 10%, certainly cutting them down anyway!
As regards sugar, I presume that everyone knows that it is bad for us! If you must use it, then use organic coconut sugar, which is a great alternative for your tea or coffee. We make cakes using it, along with organic whole wheat flour, good eggs and butter, and mash a banana in to make banana cake.
It is okay to have some carbohydrates and I recommend a balanced diet but just try to eat real food. Most flour nowadays is genetically modified flour, so buy organic if you can. Also organic pasta is better than ordinary pasta. Avoid pizzas unless you make your own dough and add your own fillers, as there are loads of weird additives in them.
At the moment we are making bone broth from both beef or chicken bones left over from our meals. You simply boil the bones on a very low heat to simmer for a few hours. Then strain off the liquid, keeping the fat in it and make a soup out of it. This is extremely beneficial for people with osteoporosis or weak bones, giving collagen and bone nutrients.
You can use any vegetables to make the soup, so winter root vegetables are good, such as potatoes, parsnips, carrots, sweet potatoes, or perhaps broccoli. You can cut them up and boil them in the bone broth, then let it cool down and use a hand held blender to blend the vegetables and make a nice thick soup. Add a stock cube and we use organic Kallo stock cubes, plus some salt and pepper, as well as any other flavouring you might like.
It is quite interesting to note that in the past people with tuberculosis or people recovering from long term illness who had lost weight, were prescribed full fat milk, plenty of eggs and lots of butter and meat to build them up again!
In the UK, farmers have been treated badly by the government and the supermarkets, which give them very poor returns on their products. So if you are in the UK, I am urging people to search online for organic farms and order direct. Sometimes you need to order over a certain price to receive free delivery but it is worth it, as you can store the food in your freezer.
We are thrilled with the organic farm we order from and the meat is absolutely delicious, reminding me of the meat I used to eat in the 1970s in Somerset, when all meat was organic.
UK farmers are now talking about creating cooperatives, farming supermarkets that the people can buy from directly. This would cut out the middle man and give them fairer prices. Here in the UK we should all support our farmers.
You can read more on how to eat only healthy food to lose weight and to stay slim in my article here, where I go into it in more depth. Eventually, you will immediately recognise which foods to avoid because they are very unhealthy and quite honestly horrible for your digestion and for your health!
