Source: Eat to Live by Joel Fuhrman, MD.

Your goals are the same as the patient with coronary artery disease: get thin and aggressively treat your risk factors. With time, your body will normalize your numbers. Keep the following guidelines in mind:

1. Refined starches such as white bread and pasta are particularly harmful; avoid them completely.
2. Do not consume any fruit juice or dried fruits. Avoid all sweets, except for fresh fruit in reasonable quantities. Two or three fruits for breakfast is fine, and one fruit after lunch and dinner is ideal. The best fruits are those with less sugar – grapefruit, oranges, kiwis, strawberries and other berries, melons, green apples.
3. Avoid all oil. Raw nuts are permitted, but only 1 ounce or less.
4. The name of your diet is the “greens and beans diet”, green vegetables and beans should make up most of your diet.
5. Limit animal food intake and no more than two servings of fish weekly.
6. Try to exercise regularly and consistently, like dispensing your medication. Do it on a regimented schedule, preferably twice daily. Walking stairs is one of the greatest exercises for weight loss.

As … (this) becomes your prescription for health, heart attacks and strokes can be avoided. If this diet were adopted by the general public, these illnesses would become rare and diabetes would practically disappear from our society.