Healthy Eating
Food should be organically produced and eaten fresh wherever possible.
Cooking times should be kept to a minimum (except for certain meat, e.g. chicken).
Vegetable products
- Vegetables: May be eaten raw, steamed, boiled, stir fried, or baked. Vegetable juice may be prepared by liquidising.
- Grains: Eat wholegrains; wheat, oats, brown rice, barley, rye, millet, and corn; may be taken in the form of grain, flour, breads, and pasta.
- Fruit: Fresh fruit may be eaten raw, or lightly cooked. Freshly prepared fruit juices may also be used as sweetening.
- Nuts and Seeds: Freshly shelled nuts are best. Sunflower and pumpkin seeds, pine nuts, sesame seeds etc; any of these raw or roasted.
- Legumes: Peas, beans, lentils, chickpeas. Tofu (soya bean curd)
- Vegetable Oils: (unrefined/cold-pressed): Sunflower, safflower, soya, corn, and olive.
Animal Products
- Meat: Organic poultry
- Fish: Fish and seafood
- Eggs
- Honey: May be used as a sweetener in limited quantities
- Milk alternatives: Soya milk/yoghurt/cheese, rice milk, margarine (non-hydrogenated, eg Pure or Granose)
Drinks
- Spring water, vegetable juices, and fruit juices in limited quantities, herbal teas.
Try to eat a range of foods each day, varying the diet as much as possible
Foods to be avoided (or eaten only occasionally)
- Foods containing sugar and refined carbohydrates.
- Refined Sugars - white sugar, brown sugar, fructose, glucose, dextrose
- Hidden Sugars - in packaged and processed foods
- White flour and white rice
- Red meats
- Preserved foods - smoked, pickled or other
- Additives - e.g. colourants and flavour enhancers, E621 Monosodium Glutamate
- Tea, coffee, chocolate and cola drinks.
Please note that any diets and dietary advice in the Patient Guidance section of our website are only intended for the patients attending our own clinics in Southampton and London. These diets are based on a recommendation made by one of the Centre doctors after an appropriate consultation. Our advice relating to use of a particular restricted diet is really only appropriate for individual patients who have consulted us and have been individually assessed by one of the doctors from the Centre and advised that they should follow a particular dietary regime. We do not recommend that people use restricted diets without proper medical supervision. We also recommend to our patients that they should not use a restricted diet for more than 6 weeks in the first instance without further consultation with us, as it may result in nutritional deficiencies. Sometimes food exclusion diets may be clinically effective in the long term, but their management will require a balanced nutritional approach.
We hope that visitors to our website who are not our patients will find much to interest them in this website; we aim to present useful, practical, considered and authoritative information on Complementary and Integrated Medicine. We strongly advise that you should not follow a restricted diet without proper medical supervision by a qualified practitioner.
