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Abstract of ornish diet (reference)

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1You can eat the following foods whenever you feel hungry until you are full (but not until you are stuffed): o beans and legumes (lentils, kidney beans, peas, black beans, red mexican beans, split peas, soybeans, black-eyed peas, garbanzos, navy beans, and so on) o fruits (apples, apricots, bananas, strawberries, cherries, blueberries, oranges, peaches, raspberries, cantaloupes, watermelons, pears, honeydew melons, pineapples, tomatoes, etc).
2O grains (corn, rice, oats, wheat, millet, barley, buckwheat, etc).
3O vegetables (potatoes, zucchini, broccoli, carrots, lettuce, mushrooms, eggplant, celery, asparagus, onions, sweet potatoes, spinach, etc).
4You can eat the following foods in moderation: o nonfat dairy products, including skim milk, nonfat yogurt, nonfat cheeses, nonfat sour cream, and egg whites.
5[equivalent of one cup of skim milk per day from all sources.] o nonfat or very low-fat commercially available products, including life choice frozen dinners, whole-grain breakfast cereals, health valley chili (and many other health valley products), kraft free non-fat mayonnaise and salad dressings, guiltless gourmet tortilla chips, quaker oats oatmeal, nabisco fat-free crackers, fleischmann"s egg beaters, pritikin soups, light n" lively free nonfat sour cream, haagen-dazs frozen yogurt bars, entenmann"s fat-free desserts (watch out for sugar, though), and many others.
6Many more fat-free products are on the way.
7Here are the foods to avoid as much as possible: o meats (all kinds, including chicken and fish) o oils (all kinds) and oil-containing products, including margarines and most salad dressings o avocados o olives o nuts and seeds o high-fat or "low-fat" dairy, including whole milk, yogurt, butter, cheese, egg yolks, cream, and so on o sugar and simple sugar derivatives (honey, molasses, corn syrup, high fructose syrup, and the like) o alcohol o any commercially available product with more than two grams of fat per serving the above was copied without permission from "eat more, weigh less" by dean ornish, m.d.
8Isbn 0-06-016838-2