"Safe starches" refers to types of carbohydrates that are considered healthier options because they have a lower potential to negatively impact blood sugar levels. These starches provide energy and essential nutrients without causing dramatic spikes in blood sugar. They can be an important part of a balanced diet.
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After I discovered your site and read your book we made the switch to
adding safe starches back into our diets.
The carbohydrates
from safe starches such as potatoes can rapidly replenish liver glycogen stores.
In small amounts, can they be eaten, just as small amounts of
safe starches like white rice and sweet potatoes?
I pretty much exclusively eat locally grown white potatoes for my
daily safe starch consumption.
Safe starch proponents say that raising blood glucose and raising insulin is a very natural phenomenon and needn't be avoided.
In your experience, do you consider the reward system in the brain can
take safe starches (eg potatoes) as a reward and then induce some weight gain?
It takes a while to get used to no grain and work up a good collections of
safe starch recipes.
Of course this comment
lumps safe starches like potatoes and rice with toxic carb sources like sugar and wheat.
Just avoid added fructose - containing sugar — added sweets should be
safe starch based, like rice syrup.
So we recommend getting ~ 2 lb plant food per day, roughly 1 lb
from safe starches and 1 lb fruits and vegetables.
1 lb
of safe starch does not work to get anywhere near the right macros.
I know all of these things can be made
with safe starches, but I'm wondering how often you eat foods with sugar or wheat flour.
Added in
safe starches in November and started to implement PHD with recommended supplements.
Hi Paul, After reading this post and watching your AHS
safe starches panel (kudos on both), I am curious about the following:
Jimmy Moore is graciously continuing the conversation
about safe starches with a post from Dr Ron Rosedale.
On Carb Nites, primarily
use safe starches such as rice, potatoes, and sweet potatoes as my source of carbohydrates.
You might search the Recipes post for bread links, or just search the web for gluten - free bread recipes that use
PHD safe starches.
Paul Jaminet and all the other
safe starch advocates concentrate on blood glucose... and though it is unwise, to say the least, to eat glucose when one is trying to keep blood glucose down, diabetes is not a disease of blood glucose, but of insulin, and more importantly, leptin resistance.
I would try those, plus work in
safe starches as you tolerate them, plus vegetables and fruits and berries.
I didn't really have any health complaints before PHD, but I do think I am happier and have more energy and my carb cravings are pretty much gone because I'm no longer doing VLC and am enjoying healthy fats including more omega 3, and now
enjoying safe starches like sweet potatoes.