Anti-Jet-Lag Diet

There is something you can do to help minimize the effects of jet-lag. Éngland is five hours ahead of the East Coast in the US (8 hours ahead of California), and you can lose several days of severe fatigue and then being awake all night trying to get your body to acclimatize to a different schedule once you're here.

Prior to departure, go on the Anti-Jet-Lag Diet developed by the Biological and Medical Research Division of Argonne National Laboratory at the U.S. Department of Energy.

The Diet for Eastbound (To the UK) Travel:

• Start three days before your departure date.
  
• Day One: FEAST. Eat heartily with
  High Protein* Breakfast
  High Protein* Lunch
  High Carbohydrate** Dinner
  NO COFFEE or other caffeinated drinks, except between 3 and 5 pm
  
• Day Two: FAST. Eat only light meals^ of
  Salads (skimpy)
  Light Soups
  Fruits
  Juices
  NO COFFEE or other caffeinated drinks, except between 3 and 5 pm
  
• Day Three: FEAST. Eat heartily as on Day One.
  
• Day FOUR (Day of Departure): FAST. Eat as on Day Two.
  COFFEE or other caffeinated drinks only between 6 and 11pm.
  ON PLANE, DO NOT DRINK ALCOHOL. If flight is long enough, sleep until the normal breakfast time in the UK.
  Break the final fast at the destination breakfast time, and FEAST on high-protein breakfast. Then stay awake and active. Continue the day's meals according to meal times in the UK.
  

FEAST MEALS:
*High Protein Breakfasts and Lunches help stimulate the body's active cycle. Suitable meals include steak, eggs, hamburgers, high-protein cereals, beans.

**High Carbohydrate Dinners help stimulate sleep. They include spaghetti and other pastas (but no meatballs), crepes (but no meat filling), potatoes, other starchy vegetables, and sweet desserts.

FAST MEALS:
^Fasting helps deplete the liver's store of carbohydrates and prepare the body's clock for resetting. Suitable foods include fruit, light soups, skimpy salads, unbuttered toast, half pieces of bread. Keep calories and carbohydrates to a minimum.

Westbound (back to the United States): Do the same diet, but you can drink caffeinated beverages the morning before departure.

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