Originally published October 17 2005
Nutritionists urge eaters to keep dietary records
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Alice Ottoboni, Ph.D. and Fred Ottoboni, M.P.H., Ph.D., discuss strategies for preventing nutritional diseases by gathering information and keeping a record, in journal or diary form, of your daily nutrition.
The United States is experiencing an epidemic of diseases related to poor nutrition.
In this column, public health scientists Alice and Fred Ottoboni describe simple dietary and lifestyle changes that can significantly reduce the risk of modern nutritional diseases and, at the same time, improve one's health and sense of well-being.
Your goal is to care for your health based on scientifically valid information, not on popular culture or advertisements.
2. Second, learn how to do it.
You should have learned much of what you will need from reading this series.
Very important tasks are to learn the details of selecting and balancing carbohydrates, proteins, and fats and balancing essential fatty acids.
3. Third, do the job, properly and on time.
This means, for example, setting up a schedule for taking your vitamins, implementing your new diet, keeping a diary, and working with your doctor as necessary.
This will require regular reading and learning to make sure you are aware of any new or better information.
You must have access to good books that you can study and refer to later when questions arise.
Enter the Zone, by Barry Sears, discusses why and how the 40:30:30 diet promotes optimum health and entry into the Zone.
It describes the relationship between dietary carbohydrate and blood insulin levels and explains why this relationship is important to health and well being.
In addition to suggested menus and recipes, it presents tables of foods by protein, carbohydrate, and lipid content that permit easy planning of 40:30:30 menus.
The Omega Diet, by Artemis Simopoulos, is valuable for an understanding of the tremendously important role the essential fatty acids (and their proper balance) play in all phases of life, beginning in utero.
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