Universal Diet and Beverage Code : The Rules of Halves in Human Nutrition Mishra B 1* and Dinesh SN 2 1 Community Medicine, RD Gardi Medical College, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, Pin-456006, India 2 Department of Dentistry, RD Gardi Medical College, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, PIN-456006, India * Corresponding author: Mishra B, Community Medicine, RD Gardi Medical College, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, Pin-456006, India, Tel: 918989938068; E-mail: badrinmishra@gmail.com Rec Date: Feb 18, 2016; Acc Date: Feb 22, 2016; Pub Date: Mar 02, 2016 Copyright: © 2016 Mishra B, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Introduction / Background he supremacy of human race is attributed to its highest form of adoptability exhibited under diverging conditions. Be it the freezing tundra or non-pardoning tropics this race has established its indomitable authority. he prime cause of this marvellous success lies in its dietary behaviour. Humans are known omnivores; consuming whatever the nature ofered them [1-4]. When this diverse dietary habit is their main secret to success it also creates a barrier in establishing a uniform civil dietary code. his is evident by the difering guidelines by multiple agencies at diferent level. Be it the ever revising and difering RDAs for diferent countries focusing on the minimum nutritional limits or equally vocal orthomolecular exponents stressing on the maximum tolerable end or the moderators like DRI (dietary reference intake); or even some controversial ones like the latest paleo diet; all have played their role in creating this dietary ambush [5-8]. hough these international, national, ethnic and speciic guidelines for difering situations are right at their respective places they have done little in clearing the cloud. In recent years with rapidly changing world trend the geopolitical, socio-cultural and ethnic divides are getting bridged. he un-taming human palate is on a mission to explore all frontiers to satisfy its curiosity [9,10]. his coupled with ever difering and everyday emerging guidelines have created the myth of Sisyphus. Where Sisyphus had no choice but we do have. In this pressing hour we must get our basics right. It is just not enough to provide safe and adequate food to our populace but to guide them to healthy and proportionate eating for productive longevity. Introducing the uniform diet and beverage code here are handful of attempts made and guidelines published but one in the line of uniform diet code is yet to be established. With the support of our ever expanding and enduring research evidences and valued lessons learnt from history painstakingly propagated by world scholars; today we are in a position to direct those resources towards that which will serve us all and serve us well [1-21]. We in all wholeness can advocate a uniform diet and beverage code for universal use which shall be practical, easy to comprehend and implement across the globe. his universal diet and beverage code can also be referred to as the rules of halved in human dietetics as the sections and subsections are divided by halving them. It has two components the diet code and the beverage code. ‘he diet code Assuming a days diet as a plate this rule suggests that halve of its supply should come from proximate articles and the other halve from non proximate one. he proximate halve of the plate can be further divided to cereal and non-cereal based articles at 1:1 ratio. he cereal portion should have equal representation from whole grains and lour cereals. he non- cereal portion is proposed to have half proteinus source and the other halve as fat source. he protein halve should be equally represented by plant and animal products. Furthermore the animal section should further be divided equally to dairy and lesh products- which include ish and eggs in addition to the regular meat items. For vegetarians the animal source should be replaced by dairy items. he plant sources should contain protein rich items like soya beans, pulses and legumes to name some (Figure 1). Figure 1: Universal diet code. he fat counter should have equal presentations from visible and non-visible sources. he visible portion again can be equally presented by saturated to unsaturated fats. he saturated source should ideally be rich in omega 3 like ghee, butter, coconut oil but not hydrogenated oil Journal Nutrition & Food Sciences Mishra and Dinesh, J Nutr Food Sci 2016, 6:4 http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2155-9600.1000e126 Editorial Open Access J Nutr Food Sci ISSN:2155-9600 JNFS, an open access journal Volume 6 • Issue 4 • 1000e126 “ ”‘ ’