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Which foods you must strictly avoid in your diet

Dr. Hüseyin Nazlıkul
Dr. Hüseyin Nazlıkul 06.10.2019 4 min read
The basic requirements for a healthy life are eating a balanced diet, drinking plenty of water, getting healthy sleep, and exercising regularly...

The basic requirements for a healthy life are eating a balanced diet, drinking plenty of water, getting healthy sleep, and exercising regularly.

Now, here are a few tips about nutrition!

The food and beverage industry is a fundamental market that varies according to each country's own production and cuisine. What all living things need to sustain life are oxygen, nutrients, and water. A healthy life depends not only on securing these basic needs but also on their balance, quantity, and quality. What we mean by healthy eating is actually a balanced and varied diet. It's mentioned everywhere, in every source, in every statement: eat healthy! Eat a balanced diet! But how? Let's think simply — if you were going to grow a plant at home, or keep an animal, the first thing you'd think about is how it will be watered or what it will eat. We need to show ourselves, for our entire lives, far more of the care we show the living things we look after. I say "for our entire lives" because, unfortunately, efforts toward healthy eating after we've already fallen ill and lost our health are not very meaningful! Eating is a habit. There are many factors that influence eating — family, regional, personal, knowledge, manners, and financial factors. Since nutrition is so important for a healthy life and for staying free of disease, we physicians have an important duty in helping the public learn about this subject. We need to inform everyone who consults us, especially our patients, about their nutrition — every patient, tirelessly and without growing weary. In fact, healthy eating should be taught as a separate subject in schools. Health begins with education; that's when people will be less confused by everything said on every page, in every magazine, on every channel, as is the case today.

FOODS WE MUST STRICTLY AVOID IN OUR DIET

What we need to understand by healthy eating is consuming every food group in a varied and rotating way. As is well known, the food groups are proteins, carbohydrates, and fats. This is always said and written, but in my nearly twenty years as a physician, I've seen that while we know these names, we don't know what counts as a carbohydrate and what counts as a protein. To make a very general classification, grains, grain products, sugar and its derivatives are carbohydrates; meat, milk, and animal products are protein. Legumes, meanwhile, naturally contain both carbohydrates and protein. Rather than explaining what's in each food group, it will be easier to keep in mind the food groups we need to avoid. At the top of the list of foods we must strictly avoid are refined foods — particularly refined carbohydrates that have been processed, have lost their natural state, and no longer offer any benefit. The main ones are white flour, white sugar, and all forms of alcohol. Whether it's chronic diseases, painful conditions, allergies, digestive system diseases (constipation, gas, ulcers, reflux, etc.), or obesity, take the first step in treatment yourself and eat a diet free of refined foods. You will see the difference yourself first. We've emphasized what to avoid. What we need to do is consume, in rotation, the many kinds of natural vegetables, fruits, legumes, and grains found in nature. Even if a food belongs to a natural food group, eating it every day, at every meal, does not fit the definition of a varied, rotating diet. Fruit also contains carbohydrates, but natural carbohydrates. The sugar in fruit is called fructose. However, when consumed in large amounts under the assumption that it's healthy, fructose also converts to glucose and, by its very nature, stops being healthy. Through a natural, rotating, and varied diet, we also obtain the necessary vitamins and minerals. In that case, there is no need to take ready-made vitamin and mineral supplements from outside.

What we need to understand by healthy eating is consuming every food group in a varied and rotating way. As is well known, the food groups are proteins, carbohydrates, and fats.

Recommendations

- Choose whole grain flour and products instead of white flour.

- Stay away from white sugar and all foods containing white sugar.

- Use brown sugar instead of white sugar.

- Pay attention to the amount of food you eat.

- Watch for the moment you feel full, and stop eating as soon as you notice you're satisfied, whatever you're eating.

- Take care not to eat too late at night.

- Don't drink water while eating.

- Fast food! (I don't think there's much else to say on this subject)

- Most importantly, make it a habit to consume these healthy food groups in rotation.

If these recommendations don't produce results, then a comprehensive digestive system analysis should be performed, the state of the intestinal flora should be assessed, the accumulated toxin load in the body should be identified, the intestines should be checked for yeast, and food sensitivity and food intolerance should be evaluated. It is also recommended to seek support from complementary medicine approaches — neural therapy foremost among them — and to begin physical activity and exercise.

Prof. Dr. Hüseyin Nazlıkul

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