Carbohydrate & Weight Loss

Below is an excerpt from Part Two of

The 2004 Multi-Diet

by Anderson A. Anonymous, M.D., Ph.D.

More Carbohydrate Technique

• Frozen mixed vegetables are one of your best friends when Multi-Dieting because they are convenient, quick, and filling. They are a low G.I. food and have considerable fiber at about 19 grams per pound. (See more on… fiber.) They also satisfy the requirements for the Quantity Sensation (See more on… sensation.)
• Many processed foods are now sweetened primarily with “high-fructose corn syrup” rather than sugar. Since fructose is very low on the glycemic index, these foods are a definite improvement over those sweetened with more sugar. Unfortunately, fructose still provides lots of Calories compared to the purely artificial sweeteners.
• Popcorn (air popped, no added fat) is a very useful “munchie” type food for Multi-Dieters. It is a high G.I. food, so it has an immediate blood-glucose-raising effect when eaten—this tends to immediately reduce the kind of hunger caused by low blood glucose. But popcorn is mostly air—so it contains very little actual carbohydrate (compared to its volume). This means it’s easy to avoid raising blood sugar too high by eating too much. Only one tablespoon of unpopped kernels makes about two cups of popcorn. (You should munch it one or two kernels at a time instead of by the handful.) Popcorn has about 30 Calories per cup.

• Beans are a great high-fiber, low-G.I. food. For reasons unknown, they seem to have a disproportionately calming effect on The Beast.
• Canned tomato sauce is low-Calorie, cheap, and very useful (read labels—some brands have added oil). It also has a large amount of potassium (900-mg per cup).
• A craving for “rich” deserts often indicates a need for EFAs rather than carbohydrate.
• A craving for potato chips, etc. often indicates a need for sodium or potassium. Potato chips are essentially potatoes with the water removed. This concentrates the potassium in them so much that one 8-oz bag of potato chips has almost your entire daily requirement of potassium (2894 mg). Too bad it also has “a few” fat Calories.The sodium of course, comes with the added salt.