What is a "healthy and balanced diet"?

What is a "healthy and balanced diet"?

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There are many definitions of a healthy and balanced diet. I have four concepts that I think are crucial: first of all, eat primitively. Second, eat colourfully. Third, eat alkaline. And fourth, eat organic foods. Now, we've been around as the Homo sapiens species, for about 40,000 years, and almost that entire time we ate the hunter-gatherer society diet, which was mostly roots and fruits, greens and beans, seeds and weeds and a little bit of raw fish or wild game. Today we're eating pies and fries, and chips and dips, and cakes and shakes, and meats and sweets. It's a very different diet. We need an unadulterated diet. We need to eat a lot of fruits and vegetables; that's what our colourful diet is all about. It's rich in carotenes. Then, we need an alkaline diet so that we have about an 80/20 ratio of alkalinising foods (translate that as fresh fruits and vegetables) to 20 percent of acidifying foods (translate that as proteins, fats and sugars). We need to eat an organic diet that is developed without pesticides, synthetic hormone additives, and other chemicals that can be mutagenic or carcinogenic.