Adding a rainbow

The people in Okinawa live longer on average than anyone else on Earth, and their diet is called the rainbow diet. Actually, like the Hay diet it isn’t really a diet at all, but is just a different way of eating, and a regime you can definitely stay on for life.

The Hay diet concentrates on an abundance of fruits and vegetables and reduces the carbohydrates and proteins (by confining them to one meal each), so it’s almost automatically a rainbow diet, but seeking to deliberately eat foods of as many different colours is definitely a good move, and absolutely in keeping with the principles of the Hay diet.

There was an old saying that you should eat something yellow, something green and something red at every meal, but why not add purple, blue, pink, orange, dark green, light green, cream, and every other colour you can imagine. It’s also another way to diversify the diet, which has to be a good thing.