How to eat healthy 

  • Eat pure and natural foods, preferably organic and bring variation in your meals
  • Eat at regular times; 3 meals per day, don’t skip breakfast, lunch or dinner

Low-carb diet

In a low carbohydrate diet all carbohydrates are left out for a period of time (especially the first weeks). It involves eating natural, unprocessed foods with a low carbohydrate content. Carbohydrates are sugars and wheat products (e.g. bread, biscuits, pancakes, pasta), potatoes, rice.

The menu consists of many vitamins, minerals and proteins and a greater amount of fats (olive oil, flaxseed oil, coconut oil, butter). Furthermore it is important to drink about 2L of water per day.

There is a lot of scientific evidence that this type of diet is the best option for people who want to lose weight, optimize their health and lower the risk of disease, especially cardiovascular diseases.

After approx. 2-7 days, the body switches over from carbohydrate-burning to fat-burning. Body fat, just like carbohydrates (sugars), also serves as fuel for the body. The transition from carbohydrate to fat-burning can perhaps give some headaches, muscle pains or weak feeling. This will pass after a few days. Drinking plenty of water will facilitate the body in detoxifying and speed-up the process, so the complaints will quickly disappear or even be prevented.

Any feelings of hunger (and certainly craving for sweet things) will disappear when the blood sugar stabilizes due to eliminating carbohydrates from your diet. You might even start to feel more energetic after a few days (no dips after lunch and dinner). Also the proteins in your diet will provide a satisfied feeling and any surplus of proteins will be converted into energy and not stored as fat.

For whom is it suitable?

You can follow the low-carb diet if you have a normal health. If in doubt, consult your homeopath.

A low carbohydrate diet is not suitable for women who are pregnant or breastfeeding, children and young people under 18 and people with severe kidney disease or liver disease.

Meals

We advise you to compose your own menus with (preferably organic) fresh vegetables, fruits and nuts. This prevents ingesting unwanted additives such as preservatives and aspartame (in light products).

It is also recommended, especially during the first weeks in which you are “strictly” following the low-carb menu, to use a healthy, vitamin-rich diet.

Foods to Avoid

  • Sugar: soft drinks, canned fruit juices, agave, candy, ice cream etc.
  • Gluten grains: wheat, spelt, barley and rye. This includes bread and pasta.
  • Trans fats: “hydrogenated” or “partially hydrogenated” oils.
  • High Omega-6 seed- and vegetable oils: cottonseed, soybean, sunflower, grapeseed, corn and canola oils.
  • Artificial sweeteners: aspartame, saccharin, sucralose, cyclamates and acesulfame potassium. Use Stevia instead.
  • “Diet” and “Low-Fat” products.
  • Highly processed foods: if it looks like it was made in a factory, don’t eat it.

Foods to Eat

You should base your diet on real, unprocessed, low-carb foods, preferably organic

  • Meat: all that flies, runs or swims
  • Fish: salmon, trout, haddock etc.; wild-caught fish is best
  • Eggs
  • Vegetables: spinach, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots etc.
  • Fruits: apples, oranges, pears, blueberries, strawberries
  • Nuts and seeds: almonds, walnuts, sunflower seeds, Brazil nuts, sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds, etc.
  • High-fat dairy: cheese, butter, quark, yogurt
  • Fats and oils: coconut oil, butter, olive oil and flaxseed oil
  • In moderation: dark chocolate: choose organic brands with 72% cocoa or higher

Drinks

2 Litres of mineral water or filtered water (Brita filter) per day

Freshly squeezed vegetable or fruit juice

Herbal tea (variety)

One glass of wine with dinner (if desired)

Some examples

Eat at regular times; 3 meals per day, don’t skip breakfast, lunch or dinner.

Try to avoid eating in between the meals

Breakfast:

  • Whole quark or yogurt with oatmeal with 2 tablespoons of flaxseed oil and walnuts, hazelnuts, Brazil nuts and / or almonds to taste and need
  • Vitamin C Complex with potassium, calcium, magnesium and zinc
  • Some fruits

Lunch:

  • Salad with lettuce, tomato, cucumber, pine nuts, figs, (goat) cheese, oil dressing with herbs
  • Salad of beetroot, apple, celery, carrot, raisins, figs, oil or yoghurt dressing with herbs (coriander with beetroot is very tasty) and a fried egg
  • A soft boiled or soft fried egg
  • Chicory salad
  • Kefir

In between

  • Nuts and / or fruit (no bananas), but preferably nothing between the three meals

Dinner:

  • Homemade vegetable soup (e.g. zucchini, cauliflower or broccoli) with organic broth powder.
  • Salad with fresh cheese, nuts, beetroot and carrot.
  • Main course: braised, raw or stir-fried vegetables with cheese. You can add a thickened sauce (e.g. curry); it contains flour, but so little that it cannot hurt, on the contrary, you eat tasty which is also important to sustain.
  • Dessert: quark or yogurt
  • Evening: herbal tea, decaffeinated coffee, grain coffee (= without sweetener/aspartame).
  • No solid foods after 20.00h

Food

  • In the morning whole yogurt with:
  • tablespoon safflower oil (cold pressed)
  • 2 tablespoons of flaxseed oil (cold pressed)
  • tablespoon wheat germ + tablespoon of oat bran
  • 3 Brazil nuts
  • 5 almonds

These products are sold in health food stores

  • Fruit in the morning (no bananas)
  • 1 Soft boiled or soft fried egg daily (this is the best multivitamin there is!)
  • Fry in coconut oil
  • Stir-fry in olive oil
  • Use coconut oil and butter on the bread alternately
  • Eat seasonal vegetables
  • Eat raw and lightly cooked or stir-fried vegetables
  • Dairy products such as yoghurt, quark, kefir; always after dinner or for breakfast as it supports the digestive process
  • Supplements only on personal advice, not year after year

Beverages

  • Drink at least 2 litres of water, mineral water or filtered water (e.g. Brita filter) if possible
  • Drink (freshly squeezed) vegetable juice
  • Drink freshly squeezed fruit juice regularly, but without sugar, diluted with water
  • In addition, drink herbal tea, but vary, do not drink the same tea all the time

Avoid

  • Pork; all types of raw meat
  • Aged cheese

Unfavourable for intestinal health

  • Alcohol
  • Smoking
  • Sugar