Table 3. – Diet and Nutrition Advice of popular Facebook Pages / Websites.
Page | Vegetables | Fruit | Legumes | Grains | Lean Meat, poultry, fish, eggs | Dairy/Alternative | Fats | Sugar | Salt |
Michelle Bridges 12 Week Body Transformation (12WBT) | Eat all vegetables. Choose non-starchy vegetables. 5 serves a day. | Eat fruit. Choose seasonal, variety. Avoid dried fruit and juice | Eat legumes | Eat wholemeal or whole grain. | Eat meat, poultry, fish, eggs. Eat lean, grilled. 1 serve a day. | Eat dairy or alternatives. Choose low-fat option. Two serves a day | Limit butter/margarine Use unsaturated fat options. Avoid deep-frying |
Eliminate soft drinks. Eliminate salt. | Chose low-sodium foods |
Jamie Oliver | Eat vegetables. Choose variety of colours, seasonal, organic. | Eat fruit. Choose variety of colours, seasonal, organic. | Eat beans. Regularly. | Eat wholemeal or whole grain. Chose complex carbohydrates. | Eat. Quality over quantity. Choose organic, free-range or higher-welfare, responsibly sourced. | Eat dairy. Choose low fat, reduced saturated fat and reduced sugar. Choose organic. | Eat unsaturated fat. Coconut oil (saturated fat) may be exception. | Avoid added sugar. | Reduce salt. |
Chef Pete Evans (Pete Evans) | Eat vegetables. Choose fibrous (non-starchy) vegetables and greens. Choose cultured and fermented vegetables. | Limit fruit | avoid legumes | avoid grains | Eat meat, poultry, fish and eggs. Choose grass-fed meat, pastured and free-range poultry and eggs, wild caught fish | avoid dairy |
eliminate vegetable oils.
Use olive or nut oil unheated. use natural fats such as duck fat, tallow, pastured lard. use coconut oil. |
Eliminate refined sugar. | Choose Himalayan and Celtic Sea salt |
I Quit Sugar (IQS) | Eat vegetables. Choose variety of colours. Plenty. Maximise green vegetables. |
Limit fruit. Avoid dried fruit and juice |
Avoid legumes. If eaten then soak / activate. | limit carbohydrates. Choose Gluten-free. Use fermented, sprouted, wholegrain. | Eat meat, poultry, eggs and fish. Choose sustainable, organic, grass-fed, grain-fed (organic grain), free range | Eat full fat dairy. Eliminate low-fat products. |
Eat saturated fats. Avoid polyunsaturated fatty acids. Avoid omega 3 supplements. Get Omegas from food sources. Eliminate transfats. |
eliminate fructose. eat glucose, maltose and lactose in moderation. | Eliminate refined table-salt. Choose pink salt, whole food sources of salt. |
The Healthy Mummy (Healthy Mummy) | Eat vegetables | Eat fruit | Eat legumes and beans. Use dried or canned varieties. | Eat wholegrains. Try quinoa a gluten-free grain. | Eat. Choose less calorie, lean, low-fat, high protein like turkey. | Avoid high sugar dairy. |
Eat saturated fats, eat coconut
oil Avoid processed fats |
Eliminate soft drinks | reduced salt or no salt |
Super Healthy Kids (SHK) | Eat a variety of fresh, frozen, canned, dried, raw or cooked vegetables | Eat fresh, frozen, canned. Limit fruit juice. or dried fruit. | Eat legumes | Eat wholegrain | Eat organic or hormone free | Eat low fat/fat free dairy | Avoid trans fat | Salt – not too much | |
Quirky Cooking | Eat vegetables. Eat organic. | Eat fruits. Avoid fruits affected by pesticides. Eat organic. | Eat Legumes. Soaked. |
Eat grain free and/or gluten free/ low
gluten
Pesticide free, soaked, sprouted, fermented grains |
Eat grass fed, free-range, organic meat | Avoid dairy, except for butter/ghee | Eat saturated fats. avoid polyunsaturated vegetable oils. choose macadamia oil, tallow, duck fat, or ghee. Chose fats with high smoke point. | Avoid refined sugar. Replace with more natural sugars. | Choose Himalayan or Celtic Salt |
Weight Watchers AUSNZ (Weight Watchers) | Eat vegetables. choose variety and in season | Eat fruit. Variety and In Season | Eat pulses as a meat replacement | Eat wholegrains | Eat lean meats | Eat low fat dairy | Eat vegetable, nut and seed oils | limit sugar | limit sugar |
Rebel Dietitian | Eat a variety of vegetables | Eat a variety of fruit. Naturally dried fruit is ok |
eat legumes. Minimally processed. Soaked. | Eat wholegrains Recommend soaking. Avoid processed grains |
limit meat and processed meat. If eaten, choose organic. Avoid fish and shell-fish products - toxic contaminants. | Limit dairy | avoid animal sources of saturated fat. use unrefined and
cold-pressed oils at room temperature Sparingly use. saturated plant-based fat for cooking |
avoid added sugars, avoid processed sugars | Iodised salt |
Note: Italicised text indicate non-evidence-based advice or those that deviate from AGHE.