TIPS

Embrace beans, fruits, vegetables and grains. Avoid meat, fish, egg yolks, fatty dairy products, coffee, nuts, seeds, oil and alcohol. Can have small amounts of egg whites, non-fat dairy or soy, sugar and white flour.

Pay attention to what you eat. Ask yourself if you are truly hungry before you decide to eat. Mindful eating helps us eat less.

Love and intimacy are at the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well. Tap into the healing power of companionship. No medicine, diet or exercise has greater impact on health. Ornish is professor of medicine at University of California, San Francisco, US, and founder of nonprofit Preventive Medicine Research Institute