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Excellent Book For A Huge Percentage Of Us With A Glucose Control Problem
Its funny what people complain about. Want to be rich? It's very easy: spend less than you earn and invest the difference. In time you will be rich --guaranteed. Simple formula right? Why are so few able to achieve it? Because it requires discipline and focus. This book is the same I guess. It is not complicated but most of us don't want to hear for the thousandth time that pasta, rice, bread, and potatoes are really bad for many of us. Tough luck, many of us are genetically inferior so STARCHY foods are not something we can process. I am one of you and so is the author.
To all the complainers that it is information we already know, well guess what: A. IT WAS WRITTEN TEN YEARS AGO! and B. guess what...like applied mathematics there are no mysteries. It is simply factual information. Turns out STARCHY foods are evil for a huge population of people who are genetically predisposed. For everyone else --well lucky you. Eat all the potatoes, rice, bread, and pasta you want. For the 40% of the rest of us, well we will just have to eat more protein!! Do we have to completely abandon those tasty things? Well, no but severely restrict them --yes. I cut out the most evil of all --RICE altogether. limited whole wheat bread, potatoes and pasta intake. Easy to do and not that sacrificial really. I order a spaghetti meal and eat a quarter of it after a nice leafy green salad with oil and vinegar --hold the garlic bread (DAMN!). Save the rest for meals through the week with green vegetables to slow the sugar conversion process. Will this work for everyone --yes, if you stick with it. Like everything that is the challenge. Fall off the wagon --well get back up. Tenacity wins every time.
Hey, we're all in the same boat gang. We lost the DNA raffle. Oh well. Get over it, stop complaining and making excuses and start taking control of your health. Drugs are only a short term crutch. The drug companies hate books like this because it creates less dependency. Small changes in diet and activity really make a huge difference but you have to commit to the process long term. Turn off the TV, get your brain engaged, and win the war.
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