Dietary options for Scenario 3

This page summarizes the dietary options for Box 3 from the Diet Selection Sub-Protocol.

Last updated: May 7, 2024

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Please remember to consult with a healthcare provider prior to undertaking any of the protocols available here.

Maintain your existing daily caloric intake (while ensuring adequate protein intake).
Second, consider adding the following general heuristics to your diet:

Note: These heuristics may not apply for carbohydrate-restricted diets, and are taken from the 2021 CCS guidelines:

1. Aim for ≥30g nuts/day (can reduce LDL-C by 5-7%).

2. Aim for extra-virgin olive oil as your oil of choice (≥60 mL/day).

3. Aim for regular intake of fruits and vegetables (≥5 servings/day).

P.S. - be careful with fruit or sugar-containing smoothies, since fruit juice and/or the process of blending away the fruit-fibre-matrix can deliver a sudden spike in blood glucose upon conumtpion.

4. Aim for regular intake of legumes (≥4 servings/week).

5. Aim for >30 grams of fibre a day (whether through food or through fibre supplements like MetaMucil pills)

Sub-recommendation: Consider a targeted aiming for fibre from specific sources: high viscous soluble fibre from oats, barley, psyllium, pectin, or konjac mannan (≥10 g/day) (e.g. MetaMucil powder/pills) (can reduce LDL-C by 5-10%).

6. Eating ≥ 3 servings of whole grains a day (assuming no carbohydrate-restricted diet).

A simple 2-page guide that includes most of these heuristics is also available here.

Third, pick an specific dietary protocol from one of the following options:

1. Mediterranean diet.

2. Plant-based vegan diet.

  1. Low-glycemic index diet.

Fourth, implement the dietary protocol you picked in step 3, while incorporating the general heuristics from step two.
  • We are currently working on an individualized meal-delivery service to assist our members in implementation.

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