The Contemporary Diet

The wider picture

This module is called The Contemporary Healing Diet only as a course title. It is not a trademarked plan and not a promise of healing. It integrates a plant-rich food philosophy with the parts of William’s recommendations that overlap public-health advice, while keeping meals nutritionally complete and flexible.

Medical Medium also recommends reducing dietary fats and excluding several common foods. Those recommendations need individual evaluation. Fats are essential nutrients. Eggs and gluten are not universally harmful. WHO’s 2026 guidance emphasises adequacy, balance, moderation, and diversity rather than a single exclusion list.

William’s exclusions

Eggs, dairy, gluten, corn, soy, canola, pork (and, in the 3:6:9, lamb) are foods he says feed viruses or burden the liver. In his books they are dropped for a rehab or a cleanse, not always presented as a lifelong moral law. Readers often freeze them into a forever identity. The books reward a slower reading.

Morning nourishment

Water on waking is ordinary physiology. Fruit for breakfast is compatible with WHO’s fruit-and-vegetable target. William’s sequence — lemon water, then celery juice on an empty stomach, then fruit — is his protocol. You can take the hydration and the fruit without treating a university chapter as a clinic.

A colourful plate

Vegetables, legumes, whole grains, herbs, and fruit make a plate that meets fibre and micronutrient aims for most people. The EBV recipe booklet on the desk is almost entirely this pattern: grapefruit and avocado, berry bowls, spinach soup, sweet potato soup, herb salads, mango salsa. The recipes themselves remain with the publisher.

Foods to reconsider

WHO’s concern is highly processed products high in unhealthy fats, free sugars, and sodium, and diets that have drifted away from minimally processed plants. That is a stronger, better-evidenced target than a war on every traditional staple.

Individual nutritional needs

Protein, essential fats (including omega-3), vitamin B12, iodine, vitamin D, and, for some, iron and calcium. A fruit-and-potato day can be generous in carbohydrate and still leave those short. Children, pregnancy, thyroid disease, diabetes, and eating-disorder history all change the advice. That is why this is a university chapter and not a meal-delivery brand.

Conscious eating

Eating slowly, noticing hunger, enjoyment, and the social dimension of meals are part of health even when they prove nothing about toxins. They are also the bridge to the consciousness chapter.