The 80-10-10 Diet

Balancing Your Health, Your Weight, and Your Life One Luscious Bite at a Time

* The 80/10/10 Diet is scientifically congruent, is nutritionally complete, is ideal for supporting human health, is medically sound, and arguably is the most delicious and enjoyable food program available.

* For people with weight issues, The 80/10/10 Diet teaches a proven system for reaching and maintaining optimal goal weight

* For people who binge, or have an unhealthy relationship with their food, The 80/10/10 Diet offers a sane and satiating approach to eating that has already helped thousands of people.

* For people who are concerned about their nutrition, The 80/10/10 Diet offers the most nutritious approach to eating, bar none.

* For athletes and anyone else looking to support their fitness with their food, The 80/10/10 Diet provides the necessary information.

* The 80/10/10 Diet is for anyone who would like to understand the dietary essentials for being healthy, and who wants to be happy about eating that way.

* If you're already doing raw foods, the 80/10/10 Diet will show you what you are doing right, and what you are doing wrong in terms of diet, nutrition, and food. It is your ticket to success with raw foods, and is the missing link for any raw-foodist who has been struggling to either stay raw, stay healthy, or both.

Doctors around the world have been telling us for almost half a century that we need to lower our overall fat intake. They came to this conclusion based upon the results of countless scientific studies and their experiences with the declining health of millions of patients. 

Scientists have continued to reinforce the recommendation from doctors that we lower our fat intake. In fact, both the largest nutrition study ever done (The China Study) and the longest nutrition study ever done (The Framingham Study) have reached the same conclusions that lowering overall fat intake will result in improved health. The people behind both studies recommend 10% of calories from fat as the maximum allowable number if one wishes and expects healthy results.

Health experts the world over also support the concept of eating lower total fat. Nathan Pritikin got the ball rolling in the 60' and 70's by first recommending a zero fat diet and then loosening his belt by increasing his recommendations to roughly 7% of calories consumed. 

Since that time, a wide variety of respected and published doctors including McDougall, Harris, Hiedrich, Ornish, Fuhrman, Greger, Pinkney, Barnard, and many others have all gone into print endorsing a diet comprised of 10% of calories or less. The Director of Nutrition for the US Olympic Committee stated that she was in favor of lowering fat intake for her athletes. The official stance from every health organization such as The Heart Foundation, The American Cancer Society, etc. invariably includes recommendations to lower overall fat intake while increasing the consumption of whole, fresh fruits and vegetables.

Nutritional science has also made it extremely clear that whole, fresh raw fruits and vegetables are the ultimate when it comes to human nutrition. In creating The 80/10/10 Diet, Dr. Graham took the recommendations of these respected groups of people and combined them into one simple program. 

Permanent weight control
For anyone that has ever struggled to control their weight, blessed relief is now available. The 80/10/10 Diet explains a program in easy-to-follow format that will bring you to your goal weight and allow you to stay there, year in, year out. You will be able to enjoy holidays, special occasions, and all your social engagements while knowing that as long as you follow the useful advice and tips from the book, your weight will not fluctuate out of normal range.

No more bingeing
The 80/10/10 Diet brings new meaning to the word, diet. Although an eating program to follow for the rest of your life, is not a new idea in any way, an eating program that you can healthfully enjoy for the rest of your life is definitely unique to The 80/10/10 Diet. Finally there is a program that is satiating. The 80/10/10 Diet addresses the problems experienced by almost 50% of all Americans, that of bingeing. When you learn to take care of the quality of the foods you eat, the quantities will take care of themselves. The beauty of The 80/10/10 Diet is that EVERY meal is satiating, satisfying, nutritious, and delicious. When you follow The 80/10/10 Diet, you will lose all desire to eat any other way

Maximum satiation, no more snacking
The 80/10/10 Diet is almost too good to be true. Every meal is sweet and juicy. Every meal is nutritious, delicious, and satiating. Snacking becomes a thing of the past when you follow The 80/10/10 Diet simply because the meals are so satisfying that all desire to snack is lost. When you eat healthy sweet treats, junk food looks a lot more like junk and a lot less like food than it ever has. All the guilt is removed from eating and replaced with pride. When you were a child, your mother likely said, Don't eat sweets before your meal, they will spoil your appetite. To paraphrase you mom, The 80/10/10 Diet relies upon the fact that if you eat fruit for a meal, you will satiate yourself, healthfully.

Optimum health 
The 80/10/10 Diet is the healthiest and most nutritious diet that anyone could try. It is rooted in anatomy and physiology. It is made up solely of the foods that we are naturally designed to eat, the foods to which we are biologically adapted. While no single factor in health can be solely responsible for your overall health, diet plays a bigger part in most people's ill-health than any other influence. The 80/10/10 Diet has not negative features, and provides all of the nutrients we need, in the quantity and proportion that we need them.

Personal pride in eating healthfully
Self respect, self love, and self image are all affected by many things. It is sometimes difficult to tell which came first, the positive self image or the great lifestyle habits. It really doesn't matter, as they both tend to feed each other. Whether your low self image leads to bingeing on unhealthy foods or whether eating your bingeing leads to lowered self image is not really the question. Every person feels a sense of personal pride when they eat a healthy meal. It is quite possible to cause an avalanche of positive self image by eating well day after day after day. Following The 80/10/10 Diet leads a person to feel better about themselves, simply by eating healthfully. As their body becomes more svelte and their activity and energy levels rise, they feel even better about themselves. The 80/10/10 Diet provides so much reinforcement for itself that once you start you just won't want to stop.

Childlike contentment when eating sweet and juicy
The foods marketed to children invariably revolve around the same taste theses: sweet and juicy. In fact, when we wish to provide adults with taste sensations that we hope they will consider as decadent, we also provide sweet and juicy. Whether this is in the form of cookies and milk, coffee and cake, pie a la mode, hot chocolate with whipped cream, chocolate covered cherries, or any of a thousand other variations, the theme is always the same. In every case, eating such foods is considered to be a pleasing treat, though as adults we are taught to also add guilt into the equation.

The 80/10/10 Diet revolves around sweet and juicy foods, the very fruits that have sustained us since we first set foot on the planet. Every bite of fruit is a treat. Every bite of fruit is pleasing on every level. Every bite of fruit brings us back to that innocence and joy that we see when a child eats a strawberry. Eating fruit makes us happy.

Freedom from disease
No single lifestyle factor is the be-all end-all when it comes to health creation. Every facet of lifestyle plays a role in your overall health. But diet and nutrition is one of the biggest factors in this regard, for certain, mostly because as a society we tend to eat so poorly. It is wonderful to see, feel, and totally sense yourself becoming healthier as you follow The 80/10/10 Diet. Energy levels soar and stabilize, health problems fade into ancient history, athletic performance improves dramatically, emotional issues that revolve around food just melt away. It is simply marvelous to know that with every bite of The 80/10/10 Diet that you are getting healthier and healthier and that your likelihood of every having an acute or chronic disease is disappearing into nothingness.

Freedom from worry about chemicals in food
I am often asked, With all the fruits and vegetables you are consuming, aren't you worried about all the chemicals that are sprayed onto your foods? The answer is a resounding, No! Here's why.

Animals eat about 40 times the amount of calories that they provide as food on your plate. In order to do so, they also concentrate the chemicals in what they eat 40 times. So every time you eat food from an animal source, you are getting chemical concentrations 40 times greater than if you ate your calories from plants. When you consume grains and other starchy products, you get as much of a chemical hit as when you consume fruits and vegetables. Sure, all of these foods are available in organic versions, and those are better for you. 

Now, here is the kicker. When we cook our foods, the toxins we create by exposing our proteins, carbohydrates, and fats to heat are often far more powerful health destroyers than the chemicals that are sprayed on foods in the fields. The chemicals that are added to foods in the production process are equally toxic. So, when we follow The 80/10/10 Diet and eat a diet predominated by whole, fresh, ripe, raw, organic, plants, we are actually minimizing our toxin exposure to the lowest possible levels.