I have study health and nutrition for 40 years.

I do not agree with your food chart.

In general no human should consume grain. Grain has gluten. No wheat, corn, soy or seeds of any kind should be consumed by humans. They are inflammatory to most humans. Beans or legumes are also seeds and in most cases should be eliminated from our diet. Rice is a seed but has the lowest inflammatory marker of all the seeds. If you already know that you have a negative response to gluten then you should eliminate rice as well.

Chronic inflammation is the root of all disease.

In my opinion meat, vegetables, seasonal fruit and nuts are what the human digestive tract evolved on.

However, this does not include beef that is raised in the USA or anywhere else that feeds the cattle grain. Grain causes cancer and obesity in cows as well as humans. A cows digestive system evolved on grass not grain. All one needs to do is look at the cows in USA, Costa Rica and Panama that only eat grass and compare the...

All one needs to do is look at the cows in USA, Costa Rica and Panama that only eat grass and compare them to the fat sick cows in the USA feed lots that are fed grain to quickly fatten them for market. Grain causes an acidic condition as well as chronic inflammation in cows as well as humans.

Their are many other things we consume that should come out of our diet.

Some of the worst offenders are vegetable oil, anything that says hydrogenated,partially hydrogenated, pasteurized, homogenized, HFCS, sugar, No soda, Coke, Pepsi, 7Up, Sprite, etc., No energy drinks, Gatorade aid Red Bull, etc., No Diet or Lite anything ,No fruit juice,No Natural Flavors, No canned tomato products.

This is just to name a few things.

I hope that this will help anyone who will read this post.

In response to your comments about this article regarding the Mediterranean Diet, I should clarify that I cannot take credit or responsibility for the chart. This is not my chart. This is a chart to illustrate foods that are included in the Mediterranean diet which was 'developed' originally by a nutritionist called Ansel Keys back in 1945. Oldways, Harvard School of Public Health and The World Health Organization built on Key's work and introduced the Mediterranean Diet in 1993 at a conference in Cambridge MA. Key's studied men who lived in the mountains of Crete and ate a traditional Cretan diet (like the Mediterranean Diet) and he found they also had low rates of heart disease, cancer and lived to a very old age. He was very interested in comparing diets of individuals from around the world and found those who embraced and consumed foods from the Mediterranean Diet demonstrated significant health benefits relative to those who didn't.
The main purpose of writing articles suc...

The main purpose of writing articles such as the one above is to report on some of the scientific studies that have been conducted on various diets and other health related topics that people have asked me about when training with me. As a graduate in science from the University of Toronto as well as the Fitness and Lifestyle Management Program from George Brown College in Toronto, I feel it is important to make available information that is based on good science so those who are interested can make informed decisions about choices they make regarding their health. By doing the searches and presenting articles such as the one above, the hope is to make topics of interest more accessible.