The Joel Fuhrman Diet
Dr. Joel Fuhrman, M.D. is a family medicine physician who practices in Flemington, New Jersey, USA. He specialises in treating some major illnesses through nutrition and changes in diet.
He has written four books: Disease Proof your Child, Cholesterol Protection for Life, Eat to Live and Fasting and Eating for Health. He states that he wants people to have the opportunity to benefit by developing life long health-giving eating habits.
He introduces the idea of nutrient density, as expressed by the formula Health=Nutrients/Calories. He reasons that there is an excessive consumption of calorie rich food in our society, and accordingly a minimising of nutritional foods in our modern diet. According to his argument, this has resulted in a paradoxically overfed but undernourished (and therefore diseased) population in the developed world. Fuhrman's conclusions link such a diet to higher incidences of ailments such as diabetes, heart disease, autoimmune diseases (e.g. arthritis), cancers, and high blood pressure.
Fuhrman advises that one should base their eating on mainly fresh vegetables, fruits and legumes, while minimising animal products, processed grains and high carbohydrate foods. In contrast to other diets, Fuhrman's guidelines specifically indicate to eat as much as one wishes from the "allowed" groups. The reasoning is that eating foods that have a high nutrient density (such as being high in vitamins, minerals, and dietary fiber) will aid in developing proper nutrition while at the same time promoting, if not directly causing, weight loss.
In addition to the books, Fuhrman actively maintains a website and a blog site with additional features, resources, and content.
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