Foods to Enjoy It is important to be positive and pro-active about what amounts to a change of dietary habits for most people. That is, people are more likely to make this dietary change, and stick with it, if they embrace it, really look forward to the wonderful food that comprises the diet, and don’t feel like they are depriving themselves or missing out somehow. It is best for example when people ask, to say that I don’t eat dairy, or I don’t eat meat, rather than I can’t eat dairy or I can’t eat meat. If it feels like there are rules being imposed by some outside authority, and it is not a personal choice, then it is unlikely that most people will stay with this way of eating. If people hang on to certain foods (chocolate and cheese are the most common examples) as treats, and feel they simply can’t live without them, they are likely to find it very hard to make this change. It is important to just say, I don’t eat this anymore and be done with it, rather than tormenting yourself with what you are ‘missing out on’. From the evidence assembled here, it can be seen that to stay well with this illness, a lifelong dietary change is required, not a temporary one. From people who have adhered to this way of eating for decades, the usual comments are that the food that comprises this diet is wonderful, tasty and much more enjoyable than what they used to eat. So what are the best foods for MS? The diet consists of all vegetables, fruits, nuts, legumes, seeds, pulses and grains (so most pastas, rice, wheat, oats, corn, barley, etc), fish and all other seafood, egg whites, and so on. From these ingredients, one can make a great variety of tasty, satisfying, and above all healthy meals. The recipes section of this website gives just a few examples of what is possible and there are many cookbooks around that are based on this way of eating. Given that seafood is included opens up lots of possibilities with recipes, and also ensures a healthy intake of amino acids, vitamin B12, and omega 3 fatty acids. For most of the foods that are no longer eaten, like dairy and meat, it is just a matter of changing habits. Some people find this really hard, but given the potential benefit, why not try? Many people thought they would never get used to their cup of tea without sugar, but once used to it, can’t imagine tea that is sweetened. The same applies to dairy and meat. Once you haven’t had any dairy for a while, it tastes terrible! And there are so many alternatives. Soy, rice, oat or almond milk, depending on taste and what you are having them with, offer far more variety than cow’s milk. Soy milk for instance is better in cooking if you want the food to set, like custard or a dessert. Rice milk has less protein and so is lighter and tastes better on cereal to many people. The same applies to meat; when you haven’t eaten meat for a while, just the smell of it is difficult to take. The nutritional approach I describe here has really been taken up and promoted widely by many authorities for many different conditions. For instance, Dr Sandra Cabot’s Liver Cleansing Diet is virtually identical to this.1 Dr Jane Plant in her book outlining her recovery from advanced breast cancer with secondaries, Your Life is in Your Hands, also outlines an identical diet.2 That book is actually really helpful as it goes into this diet in rather more detail than I have here, with quite a few recipes as well. Similary, Dr Colin Campbell’s The China Study, outlines how a plant-based wholefood diet is the ideal diet for optimal human health.3 How interesting that there should be so much agreement on what constitutes an optimal diet. Certainly once people have eaten this way for a while, they find it almost impossible to go back to their old way of eating. VIA: overcomingmultiplesclerosis.org/Recovery-Program/Diet/Foods-to-Enjoy/
Posted on: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 20:29:07 +0000
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