The Low-Starch Diabetes Solution by Rob Thompson;Dana Carpender

Author:Rob Thompson;Dana Carpender
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780071621502
Publisher: IB Dave's Library
Published: 2009-10-29T07:00:00+00:00

Step 1: Purging Starch from Your Diet 119

A handful of chopped walnuts magically turns a bowl of bran cereal into a satisfying breakfast dish.

• Learn to make a “wrap.” Sandwiches make it possible to eat lunch without a knife, fork, plate, and table. If you can’t live without sandwiches, instead of putting the meat, lettuce, and mustard between two slices of bread (glycemic load 260), wrap them in a wheat tortilla. An eight-inch tortilla has a glycemic load of only 80—whole wheat ones, even less.

• Try eating hamburgers bunless. The only problem with hamburgers is the starchy bun. However, hamburgers are great without the bun. All that breading just gets in the way of the good stuff. You’ll fi nd that most restaurants are usually glad to comply. Put all the extras on it that you usually do, and eat it with a knife and fork. If you have to eat your burger with a bun, at least break away hunks of the upper bun as you eat it and put them in your starch pile.

• Keep your glucometer where you will be two hours after eating. Blood sugar measurements taken two hours after eating are invaluable. They’ll tell you exactly what foods do to your blood sugar. However, it’s easy to forget to check them. It helps to keep your glucometer close to where you usually are a couple hours after eating. Some glucometers have a beeper you can set to go off two hours after eating and a memory function that will keep track of fasting and after-meal readings separately.

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Step 2

Inhibiting Starch Absorption

It’s easy to pass up bread, potatoes, and rice when they’re side dishes, but occasionally starch is the main dish. There are probably going to be times when you can’t avoid it. If you have to eat some starch, even though you know you shouldn’t, there are some things you can do to lessen its blood-sugar-raising effects.

A concept that has fascinated weight-loss dieters for years is the notion of a “starch blocker,” a supplement that would keep starch from entering the bloodstream. Then you could fi ll up on your favorite starches and still lose weight. If that sounds too good to be true, it is. No one has yet found a way to block starch from going into your system. The capacity of your digestive tract to extract every available calorie from your food is formidable. Keep in mind that for millions of years, survival of our species depended on the ability of our digestive tract to glean nutrition from whatever passed through it. The intestine evolved to be a powerful extractor of nutrients. Moreover, starch is the easiest of foods to digest. Your intestine is twenty-six feet long, but the fi rst foot or 121

122 Six Steps to Optimal Control of Your Diabetes two can absorb most of the starch you eat. If something is interfer-ing with the absorption of starch, your digestive tract has plenty of time, copious amounts of enzymes, and a lot more intestine to fi nish the job.

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