The doctor behind the list
Years in intensive care. The same illnesses, week after week. He traced them back to the plate.
Not rare foods. The everyday ones: chicken, milk, white flour. He kept treating, kept checking, and the pattern held.
More than a million people changed how they eat because of him. Egypt took his licence, closed his clinic and erased his record. Six weeks after losing his licence, he was found dead in Dubai, aged 47.
The meal you were told is healthy? He took it off the plate.
Grilled chicken. Green salad. Milk and yoghurt. Eggs. Lentils.
Each one has a reason, in plain words, on the food list.
The foods you were taught to fear? He put them at the centre.
White rice. Potatoes. Dates. Butter. Lamb. Olive oil. Aged cheese.
Look up any food and see why it's in.
Does the Tayyibat diet help the colon?
Many people who follow it say yes, and the colon is usually the first thing they say calmed down.
The doctor blamed milk, eggs, chicken, flour and fava beans for colon trouble. See why, and what people say changed.
Read the answerThe fat advice you grew up with was paid for by the sugar industry.
Before you decide the doctor was wrong, look at how the advice he contradicted came to exist.
See the sources1967
The sugar industry paid Harvard scientists to write a review that blamed heart disease on fat and cleared sugar. It shaped fifty years of dietary advice.
1980 to 2001
The cigarette companies Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds owned Kraft, General Foods and Nabisco. Their foods were made more craveable than competitors'.
Dr. Diaa Al-Awadi, an intensive-care doctor from Cairo.
He spent years watching where bad food ends up: the same people, back in intensive care. So he wrote down what to eat and what to leave, and gave it away for free.
More than a million followed him. In March 2026 Egypt took his licence. Six weeks later he was found dead in a Dubai hotel room. Then his record was ordered off the internet.
Read his storyThree steps. No counting.
Tap a food. Get the verdict.
Some answers will surprise you. The foods most people think of as healthy aren't always on the list.
Every food you eat gets a yes or a no, with the reason.
One list. Six rules. The reason behind every answer.
The Tayyibat Code book: the doctor's whole method in one PDF.
Egypt erased his record. The book keeps it.
His story, his rules, every food yes or no, a four-week plan and 40 recipes. On your phone in a minute, in English, French or Arabic.
The questions people ask about this diet, answered.
Shop: the allowed foods, from stores we link to.
Olive oil, ghee, rice and more. Only foods on the yes list.
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Get the list on one page.
The foods he named, grouped and printable. Free, by email.