The Universal Guideline for Human Health is an essential resource for individuals, families, communities and anyone seeking to promote health and prevent disease. It provides advice on how to achieve optimum health as well as what to eat and drink to meet nutrient needs through plant-based nutrition and lifestyle changes.
The guideline provides detailed guidance focused on preventing the diet-related chronic diseases such as heart disease, dementia, obesity, type 2 diabetes, nephritis and cancer through a comprehensive approach (rather than a partial or isolated one) to health and wellbeing. It is suitable for health professionals and policymakers as they design and implement health, food and/or nutrition programs that provide information to the general public. The current edition focuses on lifestyle changes and plant-based nutrition recommendations using a lifespan approach for all age groups.
Grounded in the most current scientific evidence available today, this Universal Guideline for Human Health covers the main pillars of good health treating it in a coherent and cohesive manner where the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies of an individual are addressed together as a whole. It includes in-depth information on how to follow a Whole Approach to Health and includes the New Health Pyramid based on positive lifestyle habits. It also provides a comprehensive Food List, as well as a list of Foods to Avoid, Plant-Based Substitutions for Common Foods, advice on How to Build a Meal, how to do Meal Planning.
For the first time, a Guideline designed for public health includes advice on how to perform basic Physical Training (and features a Sample Program for Health and Longevity), as well as Lifestyle Habits to Improve Sleep, to Reduce Stress and to promote health and wellbeing through the practice of Meditation.
The First Plant-based Dietary Guideline in the World
Here, for the first time, we reveal an evidence-based global health guideline that supports all aspects of human health and wellbeing through natural approaches.
Though the literature on sustainable diets has grown substantially in the past decade, an approach that is cohesively sustainable, healthy, and conscious for humans, animals and planet hasn’t been considered until now. Furthermore, one that proposes a comprehensive approach to treat human health and wellbeing considering all the aspects of the human experience such as its physical aspect, plus mental, emotional and spiritual are non-existent.
Because of this, here we propose a comprehensive (whole) approach based on a sustainable health structure that combines a plant-based nutritional structure, physical activity, sleep, stress reduction and support systems as the proven core and most reliable basis for optimum health for humans.
Wholistic and Evidence-based
HUMAN AND PLANETARY HEALTH: MAKING THE CONNECTION
Why Plant-based?
Global Health Burden
Global Economic Burden
Planetary Burden
The Whole Approach to Health
Nutritional Reductionism
Deficiency Mentality
Whole-ism vs. Reductionism
The Sustainable Change
The New Health Pyramid
Human and Planetary Health Outcomes by 2050
Global Impacts
Health Impacts by 2050
Emissions Impacts by 2050
Economic Impacts by 2050
UNIVERSAL GUIDELINE FOR HUMAN HEALTH
1. Nutrition
Nutritional Recommendations
Daily Food Serving Suggestion
Food Groups
Other Nutritional Recommendations
Foods That May Need to Be Limited
Foods to Avoid
Meal Planning
Substitutions for Common Foods
Meal Examples
Other Health Recommendations
Fasting
Sunshine (Vitamin D)
Vitamin B12
Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Calcium
Protein
Iodine
Iron
Selenium
2. Physical Activity
Flexibility and Mobility Training
Strength-oriented Resistance Training
Resistance Training Program Sample
Low to Moderate Intensity Aerobic Training
3. Sleep
Recommendation for Adults
Recommendation for Children
Sleep Duration and Disease Risk
Habits to Improve Sleep
4. Stress Management
Stretching, Meditation, Deep breathing, Progressive relaxation, and Imagery
Basic Stress Management Guidelines
Meditation How-to
5. Love and Support Systems
References
The New Health Pyramid
The new health pyramid (the iceberg) is the graphical depiction of two health ecosystems working as one toward achieving human and planetary sustainability. It is also based on a top-down (wholistic) approach instead of a bottom-up (reductionist) approach to research and well-being.
The basis for human health (bottom structure) describes the configuration of a well-planned whole food, plant-based lifestyle that involves a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease.
The basis for environmental health (top structure) describes the phases to achieve education and consciousness levels of health, that when applied to entire communities, creates global impact.
Breaking The Paradigm
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