Dr. Diaa Al-Awadi was an intensive-care physician. He taught more than a million people to eat differently. Then Egypt erased his record.
Most of what he was treating had been cooked, canned, fried and sweetened long before it was ever diagnosed.
He was not a diet guru. Anaesthesia and intensive care do not tolerate guessing. Standing at the end of the bed at three in the morning, he saw the same people keep arriving. Not accidents, not infections, but bodies taken apart slowly, over decades, by something that happened long before the ambulance was called.
His conclusion was simple, which is why it was unwelcome: most of what he treated had been cooked, canned, fried and sweetened long before it was diagnosed. And a body given what it was built for has far more capacity to repair itself. So he stopped waiting at the end of the road and walked to the start of it.
"A body given what it was built for has far more capacity to repair itself than anybody had told him."From the book
He called it Tayyibat (الطيِّبات), "the wholesome things." He named 89 foods to build a life on and 82 to leave alone, with six rules and a fasting rhythm. Many of the foods he ruled out were ones most people consider healthy. The food list on this site extends his rulings to 575 foods, and marks which ones are his own.
Not following the way people follow an account and forget it, but following the way that changes a shopping list. The way of eating crossed from Egypt into Syria and Iraq, through Jordan and the Gulf, and west across North Africa. The book opens on a moment in spring 2026 when, people in Cairo say, even egg prices moved. You won't find that in a business report.
The Egyptian Medical Syndicate struck him off. Six weeks later he was found dead in a hotel room in Dubai. He was forty-seven. His widow went to a public prosecutor, and on 30 April his body was exhumed and re-examined at his family's request.
On 3 May 2026 the Supreme Council for Media Regulation prohibited the publication, broadcast, circulation and re-circulation of anything he had recorded or written. It acted on submissions from the Ministry of Health and Population and the Egyptian Medical Syndicate, which said the material threatened citizens' lives. Links were referred for removal and to stop them being posted again.
This was reported by Al Arabiya, Youm7 and El Balad. It is not a rumour. And the order did not remove only the advice about medication. It removed everything.
Neither the Ministry nor the Syndicate has produced a documented case of harm: no coroner's finding, no court judgment, no published series. A state that deletes a man's words on public-health grounds owes the public that evidence.
On three points the evidence disagrees with him, and this site follows the evidence: sugar has a limit, water is never restricted, and cooked vegetables stay.
This site does not advise anyone to stop or change prescribed medication.
Everything else here is documented. Claims that cannot be sourced, from his supporters or from his critics, do not appear.
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An Egyptian consultant anaesthesiologist and intensive-care physician, trained at Ain Shams University, who taught a food system to more than a million people on Facebook and YouTube.
In a hotel room in Dubai in April 2026, aged 47. The official report said natural causes. His body was exhumed at his family's request. What is known, and what is not.
The Egyptian Medical Syndicate removed his licence on 11 March 2026 over his advice that food could replace prescribed medicine. This site does not follow that advice.
No. Videos claiming otherwise circulate; his death was recorded by two governments and his body was exhumed and reburied.