2,000 others. This is all preventable by you, go on the nicotine patch, and ask your
doctor what other options are available to you to help you quit this habit. In relation to
gout, read my post on Gout and Smoking.
So let’s do a good recap of what we’ve learned so far and touch on some other points
to get this good information imprinted in our brain. We must eat a very high
carbohydrate diet and should consist of 80% of our daily calories. Eat plenty of fruits if
you are not diabetic but if you are; limit your daily portion to no more than 3 a day.
Another food that causes much confusion from doctors and dieticians is bread, that I
want to touch upon. Fifty percent of your daily calories can come from eating
bread. Bread is called “the staff of life” because it is a very basic food that supports life.
The world of bread is vast and varied; some form of bread is found in virtually in every
society. Our forefathers lived on it but the big no-no is that we process it to get white
flour; we feed the bran of the wheat (the best and healthiest part of the grain) to the
hogs. Isn’t that stupid?
Eat whole grain pastas, rice, oatmeal barley, corn, beans and peas which are soluble
fibers and all legumes and avoid too much absorption of cholesterol and fat. Stay on
low protein diet because our need of it is vastly exaggerated and 4 ounces of meat in
one day is plenty. Limit your intake of red meat, fish is your best source of protein, it’s
low on fat and it has plenty of Omega 3 oils which helps drive up our HDL (good
cholesterol) and drives down LDL (bad cholesterol). Eating fish 2-3 times a week will
decrease our risk of heart disease and risk of heart attack by 50%! Limit your animal fat
to avoid coronary heart disease, cancer as well as gout. They say that the main problem
of children in Third World countries is protein depletion. But the truth is, their major
problem is that they don’t get enough calories, so that they burn up their own muscle
for energy which is inefficient. If we give them large quantities of grains, vegetables and
fruits, they would burn less muscle and require less protein intake.
You can eat as much as you want of anything that has less than 15% of its’ calories as
fat. For example, corn has as much as 10% of its calories as fat while lettuce stands at
11%, but it doesn’t mean that you can go home and eat all of the chicken breast that
you want since it has 15% of its calories as fat—don’t be a glutton but eat modestly.