The Universal Guideline for Human Health, or Part One, is an essential resource for health professionals and policymakers as they design and implement health, food and/or nutrition programs that provide information to help individuals make healthy choices for themselves and their communities.
Grounded in the most current evidence available, the Universal Guideline for Human Health, covers the main pillars of true and sovereign health and it provides detailed guidance focused on preventing the diet- and environment-related chronic diseases that affect our global population today more than ever. The Universal Guideline aims to clear up misinformation and industry-supported false claims on health and wellbeing.
This guideline alone seeks to bring sustainable improvements in individual and population health and to treat health in a coherent and cohesive manner where the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies of an individual are addressed together as a whole. Here, for the first time, we reveal a scientific global health guideline that supports and demonstrates that a cohesive plant-based nutrition structure can have multiple health, environmental, and economic benefits, toward a sustainably healthier humanity and planet that can benefit us all.
What’s Inside
HUMAN AND PLANETARY HEALTH: MAKING THE CONNECTION
Why Plant-based?
Global Health Burden
Global Economic Burden
Planetary Burden
The Whole Approach
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 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.
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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