Originally Posted by PaCarolSue

Here's a synopsis.

3 balanced meals consisting of a variety of nutrient-dense foods.

Nutrient-dense foods include all fruits/vegetables, whole grains, seafood, eggs, beans, peas, unsalted nuts and seeds, fat free or low fat dairy, lean meats and poultry that are prepared with little or no added solid fats, sugars, refined starches and sodium.

Include fiber rich foods of 25gm or more of fiber. Sources, fresh fruits,/vegetable, 100% whole grain bread and cereal, dried beans. Foods rich in soluable fiber such as oatmeal, wheat bran, dried beans and peas have been shown to lower cholesterol.

For protein, choose eggs, seafood, poultry, lean meats or soy based alternatives. Trim all fat from meat and remove skin from poultry before cooking. *

Use skim and low fat dairy products.

Limit sat fat and trans fat (butter, lard, shortening) and replace with mono and poly fat.

Avoid high sodium foods like convenience foods, deli meats, pickled foods and cured meat (ham, bacon, kielbasi.)

* Apparently, their food service department doesn't follow this diet. They brought me a pork chop. Breaded, probably baked, not fried, hard as a rock, that had an inch thick rim of fat around the outside, which they did not "remove before cooking."

I was lucky, that due to fasting required before tests, I missed most of my meals.