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Nutritionist reveals the top 14 foods every Australian should be eating for a better lifestyle
- Claudia Calisto believes in using food as medicine
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A professional dietician who uses customers' blood type to determine what they should be eating has revealed the top 14 foods everyone should add to their diets.
Claudia Calisto, from Sydney's Claudiability and Total Health & Wellbeing, told Daily Mail Australia she began studying nutrition 20 years ago after suffering sepsis.
Now, she has recommended 14 foods to live a longer, healthier and happier life.
Included in her list were protein-rich foods salmon, eggs and grass-fed beef.
Healthy fats including Greek style plain yoghurt, olive oil and ghee were also featured.
'Using good fats and protein energises the body,' Ms Calisto said.
'For example, grass-fed beef is really good for my blood type, it increases the energy in my body.
'When I was sick, I made casseroles with beef, capsicums, onions and a little bit of carrots. Really wholesome foods.'
Also high on Ms Calisto's list were legumes, natural walnuts, berries, broccoli, pumpkin and dark chocolate.
However, one major ingredient she believes most working Australians are missing from their diet is adequate water.
'Our body is 75 per cent water,' Ms Calisto said.
'People in the corporate world, even day to day people, they don't drink enough water. A lot don't like the taste of water.
'They ask, "Well what does it do to the body?". It's like you're having a shower internally. We have 7.5m of intestine that needs water to flush away toxins.'
The last ingredient on Ms Calisto's list was red wine. She encourages her patients to have a glass of red wine because it's 'good for the heart'.
'It also keeps things fun - no one likes "diets". It's about finding a good lifestyle that fits you,' Ms Calisto said.
When Ms Calisto sees a new patient, she spends hours with them analysing blood test results and understanding what their health concerns are.
From that, she is able to gauge what the 'building blocks' of their lifestyle should be.
'Everything starts in the gut,' she said.
'If the gut is working at the optimum with the right nutrients, water and oils, then the body will work because it's got all the building blocks.'
Ms Calisto began studying nutrition almost 20 years ago.
She was given just three months to live after being diagnosed with a horrific case of sepsis and turned to some of Sydney's top naturopaths.
Unfortunately, she was left disappointed and feeling her struggles weren't being heard.
'I was so heartbroken because I was so sick and I was just hoping somebody would listen to me,' she said.
With nowhere else to turn, Ms Calisto enrolled in a nutrition course but was told she wouldn't have the strength for intensive study.
'I went to the clinic at the Australasian College of Natural Therapies and saw the naturopath who used to own the clinic at that time,' Ms Calisto said.
'My weight dropped to 37kg at my lowest. I couldn't eat, I couldn't drink.
'She looked at my blood type and within four weeks I started putting on weight. It took me eight months to get completely well and strong.'
Once she was healthy enough, Ms Calisto returned to the college to earn her qualifications.
'Now I work with people's blood types, because that's how she healed me,' she said.
With chronic disease on the rise, Ms Calisto believes the world's best medicine is already sitting in your fridge.
'There is a lot of chemistry and scientific evidence on using food as medicine but most people just don't know,' she said.
'Carbohydrates, proteins, complex fats, water and salt - these are the building blocks of the body.
'You don't have to buy horseradishes or things that are very expensive, things like onions and carrots can help.
'We need to listen to our bodies, find out what it needs and create a lifestyle that works with it.'
Ms Calisto also revealed the warning signs someone's body is out of balance and in need of better nutrition.
'For example, feeling tired all the time, can't sleep, having palpitations, getting headache, foggy, brain constipation, diarrhea,' she said.
'When the body is balanced, you get up in the morning and your energy is at 100 per cent.
'Your attention and physical health is good - you have no aches and pains in the body.'
Ms Calisto encouraged all Australians to seek to better understand the nutrients their bodies need.
'It's about giving people knowledge so they get something back,' she said,
'It's a power and benefit to them.'
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