My diet rules: Simple is better

Introduction
This is my current philosophy about diet and management. I have studies many different diets and tried a number of different variants. I went from worrying about nutrient content to worrying about Carb/Fat/Protein ratios, and then to GI levels.

In the end I decided on a simple diet that doesnt require me to look carefully at figures and try to do sums on ratios and GI levels. This is my diet.

The simple rules that anyone can follow are: -
1. Eat as much unprocessed food as desired. This includes fruit, vegetables, herbal teas, free range meat and wild fish.
2. Limit any pastuerized dairy. Many people find it difficult to process the proteins in pastuerized milk. If you must drink it then try to find unhomogenized and organic.
3. Limit processed foods. Where you must eat processed foods, scan the ingredients and do not use anything that contains flavour enhancers (such as 635) and try to avoid ingredients such as canola, soy, hydrolysed/modified ingredients or transfats.
4. Eliminate any foods that do not leave you feeling good about yourself.

This is a diet that many will disagree with but this forms the basis of my diet.

I believe no one diet fits all. You may find that you have issues eating certain types of foods, but that is for you as an individual to find out. If you always feel bad after a certain type of meal, chances are there is something in it that is not good for the person called you. It could be a great addition to the diet for Jack down the street however.

If you want to see what type of diet is for you then I recommend you check out Doctor Mercola's Nutritional Typing. This is based on the fact that everyone is genetically different and respond best to different foods.

Carbohydrates
Some people have put to me that white rice is a complex carbohydrate and therefore it is good for you. This line of thinking does not make sense to me and I am not sure of the reasoning behind it. The fact is that we need unprocessed carbohydrates. Our bodies have absolutely no requirement for highly processed complex carbohydrates such as white rice, white pasta, white flour, white sugar, etc.

My stance is this. Make sure you get your complex carbohydrates in less processed form if possible. Same with simple carbohydrates. Unprocessed is best. Processed carbs in my opinion are not necessary. See http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/focus/nutrition/facts/lifestylemanagement/carbohydrates.htm which contains some good information on this topic.

Some foods that I like: -
Chia seeds, almonds, walnuts, macadamia nuts

Spinach, lettuce, purple cabbage, peas
Carrots, tomatoes, capsicum, eggplant, cucumber, zucchini, pumpkin

Blueberries, apples, bananas, apricots, watermelon, coconut, mango, aloe, cherries, berries

Parsley, Rosemary, tumeric, cayenne

Unhomogenised organic milk, organic butter and yoghurt and eggs

Organic red meat, wild fish, free range chicken

Multivitamin, Resveratrol, CoenzymeQ10, Vitamin B, Gingko, creatine, taurine, l-carnatine, spirulina, chlorella, vitamin D

Sickness supplements
Epicor, Garlic, Swedish bitters, Olive leaf extract, Soaked cinnamon, Honey and pollen