Heart attacks and strokes, and even cancer happen because of our wrong food
A well-known doctor, specialist in nutrition, dedicated to research of the influence of diet on health, John McDougall, in his book “the energy of the starch for better health and weight normalization offers the use of a starch diet that is simple and effective. Its essence — there are starch products and to give up meat and milk.
We used to consume meat in large quantities. Our Lunches and dinners not do a single side dish, we love sushi, used to eat fast food on weekends go outdoors to cook the kebabs. Remember how hard it gets after this. In meat diet a lot of animal fats, proteins, cholesterol, and dietary acids, which our body is unable to process even half. And excess poison us, causing a bunch of diseases.
Excess animal protein overloads the kidneys and liver, the fat to blame for excess weight, heart problems. Cholesterol clogs the blood vessels. Heart attacks and strokes, and even cancer happen because of our bad eating habits.
The advantages of starch diets
Starch diet significantly improves our appearance. Heart disease, liver, kidneys, joints and digestive organs gradually pass. Losing weight and because of this disappear and symptoms of arthritis. We become much more active and more mobile, and feel rejuvenated.
It is with this power system, we will not get extra pounds: vegetable starchy foods low in calories, very nutritious and almost immediately processed into energy without turning into fats. Starch is a complex carbohydrate and it is broken down in our stomachs for a very long time, and therefore the feeling of satiety stays with us longer than if we ate meat or sweet pie. Starve you just do not have, and the weight will decline rapidly because the body doesn’t need his fat reserves.
We are by nature greedy for sweet and salty, so limit the use of these two ingredients for many of us an impossible task. Given an unattainable goal – to give up salt and sugar – we will improve health and will continue to buy the same products as always. The food industry is for us to prosper, and we will suffer from various diseases and thereby provide record revenues and pharmaceutical companies. I think the goal is achievable, for example, say to yourself: “don’t eat meat and cheese and eat rice and potatoes, it can turn the world upside down.
The purpose of the starch diet to improve health and to improve their health, and at the same time help our environment. Diet works only in case, if it is to comply. But salt and sugar with various spices will make your food taste better and help you stick to a starch diet my whole life.
What to eat and what to avoid
One of the most impressive facts about the diet on the starches is that it’s not a diet in the traditional sense of the word – you do not need to limit the amount of food consumed. You can eat the right foods until you feel full. If after an hour you are hungry, eat more. This is one of the key advantages of the diet on starch and one of the reasons for its success: it is not possible to experience hunger or malnutrition.
Diet starches does not require you to buy any special foods, count calories or starch equivalents, keep a food diary or exercise or are there only certain meals at certain times. Combine the allowed foods as you like, cook them as you like, do everything according to your taste. You can vary your diet or restricted to a few simple meals and eat them again and again.
The main rule of the diet is that your diet should be focused on the starches, and complement the dishes color and aromas through non-starchy vegetables and fruits. To make Lunches more varied and interesting, feel free to use condiments and sauces without fat. Below is information on what starchy foods should form the basis of each meal and any non-starchy vegetables and fruits should I add.
You should know not only what you should consume and what should be avoided.
So, the following products may not be part of a healthy diet and need to eliminate mandatory:
– meat: beef, pork, lamb;
– poultry, namely, chicken, Turkey, duck;
– dairy products: milk, cheese, eggs, yogurt, sour cream;
– animal fats such as lard and butter;
– vegetable oils, including olive, corn, linseed, canola and safflower;
– processed and processed foods, except those containing only permitted ingredients.
If you break down and eat one of these products, the best way to protect your health – immediately return to diet on starches. Deviation from the plan once or twice a year does not cancel all the benefits of the diet, but you risk to go on the slippery slope. If you give yourself too often, it will be difficult or even impossible to get back on track. For most people it is easier to reduce the amount of food consumed, than to figure out where it is, what doses are safe, and when it’s time to stop. For this reason, McDougall recommends to stay away from forbidden foods for the rest of my life. Now this may seem incredible, but once you decide and feel the results for yourself, you will stop missing the food which has been dropped.
Starch, vegetable or fruit?..
Among the isolated starches whole grains, legumes and starchy vegetables. Most useful whole grains – barley, millet, wheat, oats, rye, corn, brown rice, bulgur, spelt (spelt), triticale. Of them are made from bread, thin cakes, tortillas, pasta, couscous and whole grain cereals.
To legumes include beans, peas and lentils. There is a huge variety of species and sub-species: adzuki bean and cranberry, black beans, cannellini, common beans, chickpeas (garbanzo beans), great Northern beans, kidney and Lima, mung beans, Turkish beans, Pinto, soy beans and white beans. There are also black-eyed peas, and even green or yellow split or whole peas. Lentil is green, red, or brown, each variety has its own taste and aroma. Pea and bean pods, which before use should be clean, also contain large amounts of starch: beans, cranberry, ordinary and soybeans.
To legume crops include peanuts, however, we often mistake it for a nut, because it contains fats, which you should avoid, especially if you are aiming to lose weight.
Starchy vegetables are mostly tubers and root crops: manioc, potatoes, sweet potatoes, Taro and yams. Also rich in starch pumpkin, including her winter varieties – acorn, Ranunculaceae, Butternut, Hubbard and kabocha.
