When you’re first thinking of changing your lifestyle and go through a long list of foods that are not health promoting – it can seem pretty overwhelming. We offer this list as a guideline that we’ve used with patients, with the essence being: get the majority of what you eat from plant based sources.

As soon as we discuss the above chart, we get lots of questions:
– How much do I have to stick to the diet to get results?
– How much do I have to change to lose weight?
– What will I eat???
Green category foods – What foods are the most health-promoting?
We’ve put in bold the foods that we think form the basic shopping list.
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