Fit and healthy with the Perfect Health Diet

The Perfect Healt Diet is a fairly popular diet among people who are familiar with Paleo diets, the Ray Peat diet, the diet proposed by the Weston Price Foundation and in general all those diets that in recent years have reduced the concept of healthiness. of some foods (legumes, whole grains) and instead highlighted how some types of meat, fish, eggs and fats can make a difference in our diet and even make us lose weight. That said, it appears that the Perfect Health Diet is a low-carb or ketogenic diet: in reality, it is a balanced diet where only certain categories of foods are excluded from the everyday diet (this does not mean not to eat them infrequently), and which was developed by two scientists with decades of experience, Paul Jaminet and his wife, Shou-Ching Shih.
These two doctors are passionate about paleo and low-carb movements, so to speak, and starting from people’s sensitivity to these issues (Are carbohydrates bad? Are gluten foods fattening? Are legumes healthy or harmful to health? what are the real good fats? is meat to be avoided?), have studied and developed a nutritional regime that, although not low-carb, was still better and healthier than the current diet of us Westerners. In fact, both believe that with nutrition many diseases can be cured or controlled, or at least their symptoms can be reduced and, where possible, prevented.
To do this they have developed the Perfect Health Diet, or the perfect health diet: it is through perfect health that you can achieve a perfect weight, without counting calories and without stress.

PERFECT HEALTH DIET, THE PRINCIPLES
The Perfect Health Diet is based on a series of foods allowed, and others to be severely limited.
– No to cereals, refined or wholemeal: the only cereal allowed is rice and rice products, as long as it is white rice. Simple sugars from fruit, vegetables, tubers (tapioca and potatoes) or plantains are preferred to complex carbohydrates.
– No to legumes: legumes such as cereals are also to be limited, due to their antinutrient and goitrogen agents, and for the content of polyunsaturated fatty acids, such as whole grains. The only exception: green beans and fresh peas. – No to peanuts, seed oils, oil seeds.

These too are to be excluded, due to their high content of polyunsaturated fatty acids. Walnuts and hazelnuts can be eaten in moderation.
– No to foods sweetened with sugar or fructose glucose syrup.
Yupmeat (mainly from herbivorous animals, making sure that they have been foraged, therefore cattle and sheep; duck and wild birds are ok), especially in the fattest cuts, and fish, cheeses in moderation (such as nuts and chocolate), yes to eggs and to meat or fish broth. The fats to be consumed are coconut (oil or milk), butter, lard, olive or macadamia oil, cream, and in moderation almond butter, macadamia nut butter, avocado, avocado oil. Tea, coffee, spices, herbs, vinegar are free. Alcohol too, but like fructose-free coffee, tea and sweeteners, it should be used in moderation.
To sweeten, the two doctors recommend rice syrup or honey in moderation. From this picture you can see how the Perfect Health diet is similar to the Paleo diet, with a few more foods allowed (cream, some cheese, white rice and potatoes). For people who are interested in Paleo, this diet is a great compromise somewhere between paleo and ketogenic diets, and in fact it is very popular and has allowed many to lose weight with ease. It also has on its side the fact that unlike traditional low-carb, including ketogenic ones, this allows you to have a carbohydrate content that is not too restrictive (continued on page two)