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Abstract Of Ornish Diet (Reference)

Category: Misc

Author: The Savvybearcat

Date: 1/1/2007

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Ingredients:

None

Instructions:

You 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.)

o Grains (corn, rice, oats, wheat, millet, barley, buckwheat, etc.)

o Vegetables (potatoes, zucchini, broccoli, carrots, lettuce,
mushrooms, eggplant, celery, asparagus, onions, sweet potatoes,
spinach, etc.)

You can eat the following foods in moderation:

o Nonfat dairy products, including skim milk, nonfat yogurt, nonfat
cheeses, nonfat sour cream, and egg whites. [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. Many more fat-free products
are on the way.

Here 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. ISBN 0-06-016838-2 copyright 1993 by Dean
Ornish.

From: ed@rusty.Kronos.COM (Ed Baker). Fatfree Digest [Volume 9 Issue
36] July 27, 1994. Formatted by Sue Smith, S.Smith34,
TXFT40A@Prodigy.com using MMCONV