Most people are familiar with the benefits of a Mediterranean diet. Its fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains and healthy fats offer a diet that is rich in antioxidants and anti-inflammatory properties, and is known to lower the risk of heart disease, high blood pressure and weight gain.

These health benefits are often attributed to olive oil, the key ingredient of this diet. As a result, this golden liquid is commonly considered the elixir of life and has become renowned for both its life and flavor enhancing qualities. Compatible with a range of flavors from sweet and salty to acidic and bitter, olive oil is a highly versatile cooking aid which can be incorporated into a number of dishes, and in a number of different ways.

In this article, we’ll explore some creative ways to unleash the potential of this Mediterranean miracle, helping you enhance your dishes as well as your culinary repertoire.

In a Marinade

Intensify the flavor of a meat, chicken or fish dish by allowing your ingredients to bathe in an olive-oil marinade. You can add garlic, lemon zest, herbs, and spices to your liquid base, allowing it to coat your ingredients and infuse them with its rich flavors and juiciness. 

Whether it’s for a few hours or overnight, allow your olive oil marinade to be fully absorbed, allowing the mixture to tenderize any meat and the flavors to penetrate your dish. If you have friends or family who love to use olive oil in their dishes, consider treating them to one of these holiday gift sets for foodies.

As a Salad Dressing

Olive oil can make a great accompaniment to a simple salad, and bring out the freshness, flavor profile and texture of your seasonal ingredients. Add a splash of vinegar or a squeeze of citrus to your oil to create a delicious vinaigrette which can be further enhanced with garlic, dijon mustard and seasoning if you so choose.  Coating your vegetables in this delicious dressing can quickly transform a plain salad into a zesty and vibrant dish.

Drizzled Over a Dish

Add the pièce de résistance to your dish with a drizzle of olive oil at the end to give it a burst of flavor, richness and an elegant finishing touch. Its smooth, velvety texture can round off a variety of dishes including hearty soups, roasted meats, grilled fish, pizzas and pastas. In addition to providing a glossy finish to these main dishes, oil oil can also be drizzled over a crusty piece of bread to enhance its flavor profile and a touch of richness to each bite.

To Sauté Vegetables

With its relatively high smoke point, olive oil is suited to cooking at high temperatures and can make an excellent substitute for butter when sautéing a medley of vegetables. Its ability to complement the flavor of your vegetables and bring out their natural sweetness without overpowering them, makes it an ideal oil for this type of cooking. It is also a healthier alternative to butter, ensuring your dish is low in saturated fats and high in monounsaturated fatty acids, which help to lower your cholesterol.

With all these suggestions to whet your appetite, why not try out some olive-oil inspired ideas in your kitchen?

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Dr. John McDougall, 1947 – 2024

After many years of practising as a family doctor, and failing to see his patients improve no matter how many pills he prescribed he had a change of heart and mind, as he recalls below:

“Discovering the Power of Basic Nutrition 

From my patients at the Hamakua Sugar Plantation, between 1973 and 1976, I had learned the cause of over 80% of the diseases afflicting people in North America and the rest of the Western world. My elderly patients had immigrated to Hawaii from China, Japan, Korea, and the Philippines, where rice was food. They brought their culture with them. Their children, tempted by Western foods, slowly changed. 

The third generation had essentially given up rice and vegetables for meat, dairy, and junk. For all three generations, their health reflected their diet. The first-generation immigrants were trim, active, and medication-free into their 90s. They had no diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, or cancers of the breast, prostate, or colon. 

Their children became a little fatter and sicker, and most of their grandchildren had lost all of their immunity to obesity and common diseases — in every way of appearance and health, they were full-fledged Americans.”

Dr. John McDougall

Suggested reading:

• “The Starch Solution” Dr. J McDougall ISBN 978-1-60961-393-8
• “The World’s Finest Diet” Podcast by Michael Lingard on most podcast sites
• Now available “Be Your Own Doctor of Health and Happiness” You Are a Miracle! from the author directly

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Our hunter-gathering ancestors are said to have eaten over 2000 different foods, principally plant-based, by foraging berries, leaves, tubers, fruit, and anything which would give sustenance. Modern man now eats perhaps less than a hundred plant-based foods and many less than fifty.

Our health and vitality, depend on the nutritional quality and variety of our diet, not just for ourselves but for the millions of bacteria, and other microbiomes we all have to host to survive. These friendly microbiomes transform what we eat into essential nutrients for each of the cells in our bodies. This is important because the effective functioning of these cells is dependent on the variety of foods we eat and sufficient fibre, their essential food, which is only found in plant-based diets.

It is now recognised that the greatest health promotion and disease resistance is found amongst those who live on a whole plant-based diet of maximum variety.

How Varied is Your Diet?

You can check Your Food Variety Index (FVI) using the table below. Tick every food you include in your diet, even if only eaten occasionally. Add the total and refer to the Food Variety Index Table to find your current FVI.

Please note; that all animal-based foods are excluded from this survey because they provide no essential fibre that feeds the essential microbes you host in your gut, and animal-based foods are shown to increase the risk of developing cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases, diabetes, and all chronic diseases.

The above list is not exhaustive, so add any other whole plant foods you eat that are not included above, to your count.

See the table below to check whether your diet provides all the nutrients for a long, healthy active life or whether it’s laying the foundation for one of the many dietary deficiencies associated with modern chronic diseases.

Michael Lingard – BSc(Econ).DO

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Modern medicine has focused on extending our life span, supported by the general public. This has been achieved but at a severe cost. If we look at America as a vision of where the UK follows a few years on, we should be making vital changes to the way the health care system works. 

Longevity has been achieved with ever increasing medical support, so that now the American people are the sickest people among the industrialised nations despite, or perhaps because of, their highest national expenditure on medicine.

The key question is “are we brighter than an amoeba? Every living creature from amoeba to human has the ability to respond to its environment. Shine a strong light on an amoeba and it will move away for its survival. 

We humans also have the ability to respond to anything that is a threat to life, or in other words we all have response-ability for our lives. Sadly most of us are not living responsibly, we no longer feel responsible for our own health and longevity. Many of us have handed over this responsibility to others such as a doctor, the food industry, or the government in charge of health and safety!

We all have a choice between a long active healthy life or a long increasingly unhealthy life progressively more and more inactive or disabled.

What can you do to achieve the long healthy, active lifespan?

You can start with four key factors for health promotion (in order of priority):

1. Your breathing
2. Your eating
3. Your body care
4. Your mind

Why this ordering? 

We can live our entire lives with many mental problems, we can live for years with little exercise and structural problems, we can only live for a few weeks without food and water but we can only live for a few minutes without breathing!

The other reason for this order is to make this life changing shift easier for you! You can improve your breathing in a matter of days or weeks, you can change your eating habits with a little effort in weeks or months but work on your body might take months or more and changing old established mental problems can take years of effort and good support.

Now you know how to proceed, you need some measuring tools to check your progress on this journey, both to give you encouragement and to help you direct your efforts in the most useful ways.

Based on my forty years of experience in the healthcare profession I would suggest some of the simplest yet well proven tests:

1. For your breathing I suggest the Buteyko Method “Control Pause “ – This test takes about one minute and will give you a good indication of the quality of your breathing and your tissue oxygenation.
2. For your nutritional status I would suggest the simplest test, “The 4LeafSurvey” – This is based on twelve questions and gives a good measure of the percentage of calories you get from whole plant based foods in your diet.

You now have perhaps the two most important vital signs that most doctors have neglected for half a century. The vast majority of diseases are closely related to how we breathe, our tissue oxygenation, and what we eat.

• The testing of your body can be much more complex, but as a good start to assess your weight related to your age and height, the “BMI” can be useful.
• The last but not least is the measure of your mental state. This without doubt is the most complex area but we still need some measure for this. I suggest a very simplified version of “The Luscher Colour Test”. This test was developed by Professor Max Luscher, and is based on the fact that our response to colour reflects our emotional state or mind-state.

Check your breathing, diet, BMI and mental state by clicking on the links below:

1. Breathing
2. Diet
3. BMI
4. Mind

Words: Michael Lingard BSc. DO

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This serious problem is only now being recognised and some efforts are being made to re-establish a better balance between health education and disease treatment.

Two Vitally Important Signs

A good start could be made by focusing on two vital signs of health: our diet and our breathing.

When was the last time your GP checked the quality of your breathing? Unless you presented with asthma or bronchitis I would guess never, unless you are lucky enough to have a very forward-thinking doctor!

When was the last time your GP checked your diet in detail and gave you specific dietary advice? Once again, I would guess never, unless you have that special doctor who is ahead of the profession being interested in improving your health with lifestyle changes you need to make.

We must all agree “That we are what we eat, how could it be otherwise, we can’t make eyeballs from chocolate bars?” And as we know we can live for weeks without eating, for days without drinking, though only two or three minutes without breathing. 

“Surely, based on this alone we should give the quality of our breathing high priority?” 

The Vital Importance of Good Breathing

If we need any more assurance of the vital importance of good breathing, did you know that all mammals, including you and me, have the same number of breaths in a lifetime? We and all our cousin mammals from mice to elephants all take roughly half a billion breaths in a lifetime. The fast-living shrew that breathes at about 800 breaths per minute lives only a year compared to some whales breathing 3 – 4 breaths per minute, potentially living over a hundred years. 

So, the less we breathe the longer we may live, the faster we breathe the shorter our lifespan! Have a look at the chart below:

“The perfect man breathes as if he is not breathing”

Lao Tzu (4th Century BC) Lao Tzu is claimed to have lived to 160 years old. Perhaps he only breathed about five breaths per minute

“The more you breathe the closer you are to death. The less you breathe the longer you will live.”

Konstantin Buteyko 1923-2003

With humans, one of the major factors that cause chronic hidden hyperventilation is stress. Stress triggers the primitive fight/flight response repeatedly, eventually causing the CO2 receptors to accept a lower level of CO2 and thereby establishing an over-breathing pattern.

Improve Your Diet to Improve Your Breathing

For the past fifteen years I have been helping patients to improve either their breathing or their diet and have discovered that as a person’s diet improves so does their breathing or as their breathing improves so do their eating habits.

My measure of diet quality has been how close the person is to a Whole Plant-Based Diet and my measure of their quality of breathing has been the well-established “Control Pause” of the Buteyko Method.

You can learn more about the relationship between diet and breathing by clicking this link HERE.

The good news for us all is that it appears there is a win-win relationship. If we improve one of these two vital signs, the other will improve as well! 

There are good physiological reasons for some of these associations. If we consume a predominately acid diet of meat and processed foods our bodies need to reduce the acidity by breathing more and expelling more carbon dioxide.

If we are stressed, the fight/flight response kicks in to cause us to breathe faster to prepare us for running away or fighting. When we are breathing normally, we are more relaxed and more inclined to sit down to eat and savour our food, and when we are rushed and under pressure, we are more likely to grab any quick sugary snack on the run. 

More research needs to be done to verify this relationship, but my findings are based on over two hundred patients over a period of a decade.

So, until you are checked and advised by your GP on these two vital signs, (though looking at the way medicine is going I suggest you don’t hold your breath!), it is up to each one of us to be aware of these two vital factors in our health and longevity.

I have spent forty years as a natural health therapist trying to find ways of providing this support and help to my patients. The result is all on my website www.totalhealthmatters.co.uk. Here, you will be able to check the quality of your breathing and your diet  in a matter of a few minutes.

You will then be able to help yourself improve both with free training material such as a Buteyko breath training podcast “Better Breathing Means Better Health”  or with the Whole Plant-Based Diet training podcast “The World’s Finest Diet” 

In addition you will have access to two free e-Books, The Breath Connection and The Food Connection that will explain the fundamentals of respiration and nutrition.

If you want help getting started, why not get in contact and book an appointment with me in Hawkhurst for a one-hour consultation to decide the best way forward to improve your general health? 

This will be a “Mini Health Audit” and include the above tests and additional checks on other basic health promoting factors. The fee for this is £60.

Words: Michael Lingard BSc. DO

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If we look at America as a preview of where the UK follows a few years on, longevity has been achieved with ever increasing medical support, so that now the American people are the sickest people among the industrialised nations despite, or perhaps because of, their highest national expenditure on medicine.

We should be making major, urgent changes to the way that our healthcare system works to avoid going the same way, and to take pressure off our NHS.

Most of us have a choice between a long, active, and healthy life or a long increasingly unhealthy life, progressively becoming more and more inactive and disabled through chronic illnesses.

Our life response-ability

The key question is “are we brighter than an amoeba?” Every living creature, from a single cell amoeba to an elephant, has the ability to respond to its environment. Shine a strong light on an amoeba and it will move away for its survival. As food or water supply become scarce the elephant will move on to find a better environment in which to survive. We humans also have the ability to respond to anything that is a threat to life, or in other words we all have response-ability for our lives.

Unfortunately, most of us are no longer living responsibly. We no longer feel responsible for our own health and longevity. Many of us have handed over this responsibility to others, such as a doctor who will “fix” us with “a pill for every ill”, the food industry that seeks to maximise profits with highly processed food that is designed to tempt us to buy rather than provide the best nutrition, or the government in charge of our health and safety, rather like an all-wise nanny, so we are relieved of our own response-ability for decision making!

Big pharma, big food & big media

So, we see in the USA, long healthy, active lives have been degraded into long chronically sick, highly medicated, and poorly nourished lives. This has been driven by “big pharma”, “big food “and “big media” industries all trying to maximise their income and profits at the expense of the nation’s health.

If we, in the UK, are to avoid going the same way, we must get back into the primitive survival habit of taking more responsibility for our own lives and the lives of our children. What does this mean? Using our common sense and the best independent advice and information not driven by profit but by the best science.

Optimal Health

At the simplest level this means:

• Eating for optimal nutrition as well as for enjoyment.
• Avoiding over-processed denatured attractively promoted foods that are filled with additives, preservatives, sweeteners etc.
• Getting more simple exercise; we are designed for walking rather than driving!
• Taking time out to relax mentally and minimise stress. This includes learning to breathe normally as over seventy five percent of us over-breathe due to stress, diet or just a bad habit.
• Drinking adequate water, roughly the same number of fluid ounces as your weight in kilos. That’s about five to ten glasses a day for average weight person; few people drink this amount.
• Being cautious with medications, do you really need all those over-the-counter pills and potions? Check with your doctor if there is anyway you could reduce the need for your prescribed medication. With lifestyle changes, they will generally be delighted to hear you want to take more responsibility for your health!

Please see image below, which demonstrates either a rapid decline with chronic conditions as we age due to an unhealthy lifestyle, or a slower decline as a result of a healthier lifestyle. Both lifestyles may achieve 80 – 100 years of age, though not necessarily with the same quality of life or vitality!

Michael Lingard BSc. DO. Cert.Nut.

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When did your doctor last check your body structure in alignment?

Any structural problem will adversely affect your body functioning to some degree! This is part of the Real Health Assessment.

When did your doctor last check your diet and eating habits?

Our diet is a major factor in health or disease – most chronic diseases are diet related! This is part of the Real Health Assessment.

When did your doctor last check your breathing efficiency?

Very few of us breathe normally for optimal health. Poor quality breathing is a prime factor in over a hundred health problems! This is part of the Real Health Assessment.

When did your doctor last check your stress levels?

Stress is known to be a major factor that impairs good health, weakens our immune system and affects all body functions! This is part of the Real Health Assessment.

Your health is connected to everything – from your diet, your breathing, your body condition, your mind, and even the cosmos!

The Real Health Assessment

We can check all this in the “Real Health Assessment” so you will get the key factors you have control over checked and be given my book “Connection – towards a broader understanding of health in medicine” to guide you on some of the other factors you have less control over.

The consultation will take about ninety minutes and you will usually receive your report the following day.

SEE BELOW FOR A SAMPLE REPORT

The Real Health Assessment – TotalHealthMatters! Hawkhurst Kent TN18 5DA

Name: XXXX

Date: 28/10/2022

The Body Connection

Very briefly, your body general mechanics and structure show a significant torsion on the pelvis of half an inch, associated right side-bending in the lumber and cervical areas with consequent neck pain and restrictions. Recommendation: See an osteopath to correct these problems to establish a level pelvis and maintain this level pelvis with the “Pisa Pelvic Exercise” as described in my podcast: https://yourhealthinyourhands.simplecast.com/episodes/the-pisa-pelvic-exercise

Your Weight: 123.8 lb. is well within the normal BMI (21.3) For your Height:163cm.

Your Body Fat 30.8% is well within the normal range 24-36% Your Visceral Fat 6 likewise is within the normal range of 1-9.

The Food Connection

Your 4LeafSurvey score of +14 indicates You are in the Two Leaf Group and between 40 to 60% of your calories are derived from whole plant food. Associated health risks from your diet are average. You are among the top 6% with this quality diet. Listen to my podcast “The World’s Finest Diet” here: https://the-worlds-finest-diet.simplecast.com/episodes/

Your Diet ID quality diet was 8. General dietary changes would include: increase vegetables content of your diet, reduce dairy foods and eggs to lower cholesterol intake, add more pulses and whole grains. The Diet ID site will offer you more information as to how you can improve your diet.

The Breath Connection

Your Nijmegen Score was 8, indicating no significant hyperventilation.
Your Buteyko Control Pause was 45 indicating excellent breathing quality.

Haemoglobin oxygen saturation was 99% and Pulse rate 69, both healthy measures.

You may like to read the literature I gave you on Better Breathing to keep this monitored.

The Mind Connection

Your Initial LCT score was 2 indicating minimal stress and your second LCT score was 0 indicating the possible lowering of your stress in the future.

We discussed some of the other indications that your choice of colours might mean. As this is a very simplified LCT do not place great reliance on these findings.

General Comments

From your medical history you have had high blood pressure and panic attacks in the past. Both these conditions can be controlled to a large extent with diet and improved breathing. The shift towards a Whole Plant Diet is the most well researched dietary impact on heart and circulatory problems, and any significant hyperventilation is a common cause of panic attacks or anxiety states due to hypoxia.

You already have taken the most important improvement in your diet by eliminating meat. Check out https://nutritionfacts.org/ for the latest research on diet and osteoarthritis. As I mentioned hydration is often a problem with many people, check out my podcast: “Water- The Foundation of Health & Life” here: https://yourhealthinyourhands.simplecast.com/episodes/water-the-foundation-of-health-life

Michael Lingard BSc. DO. Cert.Nut. Tel: 01580 752 852

Book your Real Health Assessment

The fee for this Real Health Assessment is £95.

To book your Real Health Assessment please send an email to lingard [@] totalhealthmatters.co.uk or phone 01580 752 852

Words: Michael Lingard BSc. DO. Cert.Nut.

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The UK has one of the highest publicly funded healthcare systems – 80% publicly funded from our taxes. However, the UK’s healthcare spend as a percentage of GDP is the second lowest of the G7 countries.

Increasingly it is becoming recognised that our NHS is not good value for money and needs a radical overhaul.

The main reason for this inefficiency is that it is too big to be efficient!

Anyone wanting to understand the effect of “bigness” on efficiency should read “The Eternal Venture Spirit” by Kazuma Tateishi.

The saddest part of all is that there is little funding of health promotion and health education in our NHS. It is, in fact, primarily a National Sickness Service, and as such ranks amongst the best in the world. Though without more health education and healthier lifestyles, the burden on the NHS will always be overwhelmed by any new emergency. No amount of increased cash is going to save it for the future. Because there is little profit in health though there is in disease, this has skewed the provision of medical care.

I have worked in the healthcare community for over four decades, trying to contribute my experience to help others to help themselves to better health and reduce the risk of chronic disease. Most of this advice and information is free of charge and can be found on my website.

If you want our NHS to be there for our children and grandchildren we had all better start to take more responsibility for our own health right now!

Can you spare about fifteen minutes to run through a few self-checks to get started? 

Check your breathing quality HERE This takes less than a minute.
Check your diet two ways: with a simple quiz, and with the latest system from the USA, Diet ID
Check your Stress Level HERE with the Luscher Colour Test.
Check your BMI, this gives a rough guide to your healthy weight/height.

Now help yourself to all the free information and training on my site: Visit Courses & Training: Free podcasts on many health topics
And last, though not least, there are a variety of free e-Books HERE

Michael Lingard BSc. DO. Cert. PBNut. BBEA
Orthopath, Buteyko Educator, Whole Plant Based Nutritionist. 

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Learn how you can improve the oxygenation of every cell of your body through simple relaxation and breathing exercises. Over forty years in practise I have discovered that 75% of my patients do not breathe well, in fact they over-breathe or suffer from some degree of chronic hidden hyperventilation. Check your own breathing HERE It takes just one minute. This has an immediate effect on the body’s ability to supply adequate oxygen to every cell in the body. Most people can change this in two or three weeks as it is usually just a bad habit that needs breaking. You can learn to make this change yourself with the aid of a Free Podcast “Better Breathing Means Better Health” or have support and training via Zoom.

2. Avoid Dehydration

Most people assume that they drink sufficient since they will drink when they’re thirsty. However it seems that this simple indicator of need for water, thirst, is not reliable and the majority of the public do not drink an adequate amount of water for their health. We are 75% water and we don’t have copper wires, but nerve signals are carried in watery nerves. The kidneys need an adequate supply of water to function. Our blood coagulation may be increased with dehydration. When we are dehydrated our brain won’t function normally and headaches will be more prevalent. Listen and learn HERE 

3. Keep Your Pelvis Level

The fundamental concept that underpins all structural treatment such as osteopathy and chiropractic is that “structure governs function”. The vast majority of patients I have seen for osteopathic treatment over the past decades all arrive with a tilt on their pelvis that has led to aches and pains elsewhere in the body, from elbow problems and neck stiffness to low back pain or leg pains and into the buttocks. This simple thirty second exercise will keep your pelvis level: The Pisa Pelvic Exercise.

4. Discover the Foundations of Health

Medicine for the past century has been primarily concerned with disease and pathology, to the neglect of all matters relating to promotion of health. Now you can learn what health is connected to and what the foundations of good health and well-being are, and you may be surprised that health is not just about an absence of disease. Read: “FREE HEALTH – Your Own NHS” by Michael Lingard HERE or “CONNECTION – Towards a Broader Understanding of Health in Medicine” by Michael Lingard HERE

5. Learn How Your Structural Mechanics Affects Your Health

Discover more about how your body’s mechanical structure has a profound effect on every aspect of your health in this free eBook that you may download HERE

6. Learn How Your Breathing Affects Your Health

We can live for three weeks without food, for three days without water though only three minutes without air. This surely suggests that how we breathe is perhaps the most important factor in our lives. Did you know that poor breathing is a factor in over 150 diseases? Discover more in this free eBook which you may download HERE

7. Learn How You Can Take Control of Your Health With the Food You Eat

We are what we eat, and research over the past 50 years has demonstrated that most chronic disease may be avoided and sometimes reversed by choosing the right food in our diets. Check Your diet in just a few minutes with our radical new system developed by Dr David Katz – Diet ID HERE. We are the first to offer this in the UK, Learn more with this Free eBook HERE

Michael Lingard BSc. DO. WPNut.Cert.

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What you eat every day in your diet is a far more powerful determinant of your health than your DNA, or most of the nasty chemicals lurking in the environment.

The food you consume can heal you faster and more profoundly than the most expensive prescription drugs, and more dramatically than the most extreme surgical interventions, with only positive side effects.

Those food choices can prevent cancer, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke, macular degeneration, migraines, erectile dysfunction and arthritis, and that’s only the short list!

It’s never too late to start eating well. A good diet can reverse many of those conditions as well.

In short: change the way you eat and you can transform your health for the better!

Surely it makes sense to check your diet? Especially as it now is made so easy with DietID!

What is DietID?

The DietID screening is a quick and simple way for you to check your diet, learn about your nutritional status, the deficiencies or excesses, and decide what you want to achieve with your dietary changes, plus get guidance and support to help you reach your goals.

It is the start of a journey to a long healthy life that will bring you all the benefits mentioned above.

The evidence is almost irrefutable, that a whole food plant based diet meets all our nutritional needs for the vast majority of the population.

TotalHealthMatters! is a pioneer, bringing this radical screening system to the UK. Developed by Dr David Katz and his expert team in the USA it is now widely used by companies and individuals in the States. Most of my readers will know I already promote the 4LeafSurvey screening system based on the epic work of The China Study. The DietID does not replace that system but offers you a broader choice of dietary improvement.

Ready to check the quality of your diet?

You can check the quality of your diet in one minute with DietID by clicking HERE

Michael Lingard BSc. DO. Cert.WPBDiet.

Suggested reading: “Whole – Rethinking the Science of Nutrition” by T. Colin Campbell PhD

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