Not exact matches
-1 / 4
of the plate should be starchy
carbohydrates such as potatoes, rice, grains, etc. -1 / 2
of the plate should be non-starchy vegetables such as tomatoes, spinach, cucumber, peppers, etc. - In addition to this, you should have some
kind of healthy fat
like a handful
of nuts or some olive oil.
The diet requires you to eat no sugar
of any
kind (or things that act
like sugar in the body,
like carbohydrates).
The
carbohydrates that are available from nature do not cause the same
kind of blood sugar surges, insulin spikes, hyper palatability or digestive problems
like more processed carbs do.
My understanding is that one needs to have a lot
of healthy complex
carbohydrates (all
kinds of vegetables) along with some fermented foods
like sauerkraut, kimchi, etc..
So looking at
kind of the meal timing thing, it sounds
like you really were doing a good job stabilizing your blood sugar, eating really good, you know, proteins, healthy fats, and you were trying to consume more
of your
carbohydrates from
kind of like non-starchy veggies.
So once you adjust that post-workout meal by adding more
carbohydrates than you were doing, you'll find that later on in the day, your body is not craving those
carbohydrates like you
kind of suggested in your question, so step one is to make sure that you have already gone through that — basically
kind of week long period where your breaking that sugar addiction.
Because
of the things I start off with my patients is typically a Paleo template and then we'll add on different layers to it, whether it's
like a low salicylate or oxalate kinda thing, with
like a specific
carbohydrate diet or
kind of a GAPS approach or a low FODMAP or even autoimmune approach.
The cause
of heart disease is not animal fats and cholesterol but rather a number
of factors inherent in modern diets, including excess consumption
of vegetables oils and hydrogenated fats; excess consumption
of refined
carbohydrates in the form
of sugar and white flour; mineral deficiencies, particularly low levels
of protective magnesium and iodine; deficiencies
of vitamins, particularly
of vitamin C, needed for the integrity
of the blood vessel walls, and
of antioxidants
like selenium and vitamin E, which protect us from free radicals; and, finally, the disappearance
of antimicrobial fats from the food supply, namely, animal fats and tropical oils.52 These once protected us against the
kinds of viruses and bacteria that have been associated with the onset
of pathogenic plaque leading to heart disease.
For the sensitive patients, i.e.; those who react quite strongly to any
kind of dietary supplement treatment, for once a day you may
like to try to take the probiotic before consuming any
carbohydrate foods or drinks.
Gary Taubes argues that the problem lies in refined
carbohydrates,
like white flour, easily digested starches, and sugars, and that the key to good health is the
kind of calories we take in, not the number.
You have so much sugar and so much
carbohydrate coming in, your body is in a storage mode, and it can't — it's not actually able to tap in to that fuel because Insulin, it's
kind of like, you know — When you're the conductor on the train tracks, you push it and the train goes one way or the other.
For dinner you might have a meat, a vegetable and a
carbohydrate, a starch, some
kind of potatoes or a bread or something
like that.
We will commonly see
carbohydrate allergies in young cats,
kind of like a cat Celiac disease.