8 hours Ago By Matt Jackson
Entrepreneur Doug Evans was left stunned when he observed a significant shift in his sleep pattern after altering his diet to include just one type of food. Doug chose to live entirely on various kinds of sprouts for a period of 30 days. His daily meals comprised sprouting broccoli, chia, soy, mung beans and lentils.
Doug admits he "didn't know" what the outcome would be prior to his experiment, but having previously undertaken similar fasts with water, he decided to take the leap. Speaking on the School for Good Living podcast, Doug elaborated: "I lived on sprouts for 30 days, I didn't know what was going to happen. What happened is I literally reconstructed every cell in my body.
[Every cell was] influenced by this super nutritious living food." Doug asserts that the best aspect of consuming sprouts for 30 days was that he had "no desire to over eat". He believes it trained his body to regulate his calorie intake, meaning he was eating "intuitively" to meet his daily needs, reports Surrey Live .
On the Live Well, Be Well Podcast with Sarah Ann Macklin, Doug stated: "The hardest thing, and I've done 14-day water fasts, I do 24-hour dry fasts, and I could tell you, doing the sprouts for 30 days is easy. The interesting thing when you think about food addiction, there's no desire to overeat the sprouts, you eat the sprouts until you're not hungry or you're full." Doug, the founder of the Sprouting Company, reported a series of changes in his body after 30 days.
He said: "My energy was off the charts, my sleep was incredible, and my level of satiation was powerful and I felt really good." Doug, who claims to run between 5K and 10K daily, is currently working with an athlete aiming to complete an ironman triathlon fuelled solely by sprouts. This requires consuming thousands of calories worth of sprouts each day.
According to the NHS adults are advised to eat a healthy, balanced diet, with foods coming from each of the main groups. This includes at least five portions of fruit and vegetables each day. However, the health service says many people are not getting enough fruits and vegetables in their daily diet.
Meanwhile it says we should include starchy foods as around a third of our daily diet. These include the likes of wholewheat pasta, brown rice, and potatoes with the skin left on. It says: “Starchy foods are a good source of energy and the main source of a range of nutrients in our diet.
” Elsewhere food types such as proteins and dairy - or dairy alternatives - should also make up part of an adult’s diet, the health service explains. Unsaturated fats, such as oils and spreads, should be eaten in small quantities. According to the NHS, ditching "fad diets" in favour of three balanced meals a day is the way forward.
The health service points to British Diabetic Association advice, which suggests steering clear of things like water fasts. For more information on eating healthily, visit the NHS Eating Well Guide website ..
