Rw: What does freebird eat?

[Guest guest]

okay, have pasted something from the internet which is the Ornish

diet, is this what you follow? and just a couple more questions.

(1)Do you calorie restrict on this kind of diet?

(2) What does this do to your cholesterol, what are you hdl/ldl

stats.

(3) What does this do for you fasting glucose, what are those stats.

I am presuming you have the figures as something must have motivated

you to follow this diet and getting bloodworks once following it

would seem logical.

I won't ask any more questions after this. Thanks. ... My

diet is currently in meltdown as I try and work out what foods are

causing my allergy, but after that I want to follow the healthiest

diet I can, so that's why I am hungry for detail.

Dean Ornish

The Life Choice Diet

The Life Choice Diet is a low-fat vegetarian way of eating with less

than 10% calories from fat (for most people, this would be a diet

with 15 to 25 grams of fat per day). The focus is on beans, fruits,

vegetables, and whole grains, with processed foods and nonfat dairy

products consumed in moderation. Simple sugars and alcohols, like

fat, are to be avoided.

Guidelines -- " all you really need to know "

You can eat the following foods whenever you feel hungry until you

are full (but not until you are stuffed):

Beans and legumes (lentils, kidney beans, peas, black beans, red

Mexican beans, split peas, soybeans, black-eyed peas, garbanzos,

navy beans, and so on)

Fruits (apples, apricots, bananas, strawberries, cherries,

blueberries, oranges, peaches, raspberries, cantaloupes,

watermelons, pears, honeydew melons, pineapples, tomatoes, and so

on)

Grains (corn, rice, oats, wheat, millet, barley, buckwheat, and so

on)

Vegetables (potatoes, zucchini, broccoli, carrots, lettuce,

mushrooms, eggplant, celery, asparagus, onions, sweet potatoes,

spinach, and so on)

You can eat the following foods in moderation:

Nonfat dairy products, including skim milk, nonfat yogurt, nonfat

cheeses, nonfat sour cream, and egg whites

Nonfat or very low-fat commercially available products, including

whole grain breakfast cereals, Health Valley chili (and many other

Health Valley products), Kraft Free nonfat mayonnaise and salad

dressings, Guiltless Gourmet tortilla chips, Quaker Oats oatmeal,

Nabisco fat-free crackers, Fleishmann's Egg Beaters, Pritikin soups.

Read labels. Some of the nonfat or very low-fat commercially

available products are high in sugar, so avoid these when possible.

Ingredients are listed on food labels in order of the amount

contained in that food. In other words, if the first ingredient is

sugar, then there's more sugar than anything else in that food.

Also, on most packages you'll find the number of grams of fat, the

number of calories, and the amount of cholesterol.

Here are the foods to avoid as much as possible:

Meats (all kinds, including chicken and fish)

Oils (all kinds) and oil-containing products, including margarines

and most salad dressings

Avocados

Olives

Nuts and seeds

High-fat or " low-fat " dairy, including whole milk, yogurt, butter,

cheese, egg yolks, cream, and so on

Sugar and simple sugar derivatives (honey, molasses, corn syrup,

high fructose syrup, and the like)

Alcohol

Any commercially available product with more than two grams of fat

per serving