All carbohydrate foods end up as energy or fat, and contrary to what you might have heard, fat and not carbohydrate is the human bodies preferred source of energy. Vegetables and fruits are good for us, as the research makes clear, but good for whom, and then how much qualifies as good are the questions.
I would like to suggest that in the winter it’s the root vegetables that keep best, and therefore are the ones to be favored. In the summer months, summer vegetables as well as fruit that is local and in season are a healthy choice… unless you have a sugar disease. Cancer, most heart and vascular disease, and all blood sugar disease from hypoglycemia through diabetes are sugar diseases. If you have a sugar related disease, sugar is poison to you. If anyone tells you that you have to eat vegetables and fruit to be healthy, refer them to the Eskimo’s. There are no essential carbohydrates. That’s right. I repeat, there are no essential carbohydrates.
Since the advent of the high carbohydrate diet (also called the low fat diet), all the sugar related diseases have increased significantly, overweight is epidemic, and the food processors and food manufacturers are laughing all the way to the bank. Protein and fat are both essential, as are vitamins and minerals. There are no essential carbohydrates.
When you limit packaged and processed foods (pasta is a good example), weight control becomes less of a dilemma. Eating locally grown foods in season makes staying trim a much easier task. My nurse/receptionist has told me I need to let everyone know that I was green before green was fashionable — actually, forty years before green was fashionable, but eating smart really hasn’t changed, you just have to ignore the nonsense in the media, paid for by the same agribusiness and food producing interests that are making all of us sick. I often tell my patients, “If you see it advertized on TV, don’t eat it.”
In the next issue, I’ll talk to you about the fallacy of counting calories. That’s going to put holes in a lot of balloons.
Update: Eat Your Way Thin… Here are the four articles which are in the series.
- Part 1 – Protein Is Our Most Misunderstood Food
- Part 2 – The Importance Of Fat… And The Misinformation Surrounding It
- Part 3 – Carbohydrates
- Part 4 – Let’s Talk About Weight Loss