It's The Carbs, Stupid!
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It's yummy, it's convenient, and it's us -- but it's also potentially debilitating and deadly. It's the modern American diet, built on quick meal availability (even at home), with a huge reliance on carbohydrate-rich foods.
Most Americans don't realize that the carbohydrate-rich foods they consume everyday is the very food that contributes to the modern diseases of obesity, diabetes, hypertension and heart failure.
"It's the Carbs, Stupid" details how the American food production system has devolved into Sugar Inc., which feeds our addiction to sugar through foods high in carbohydrates -- simple, complex and refined.
With simple food substitutions and smart dining, people can unlock the key to vibrant good health and avoid the illnesses of old age.
Help is at hand. Get "It's the Carbs, Stupid!" today and take charge of your life.
Gary W. McCarty
I'm a professional journalist who's been involved in many publications covering many different topics through the decades. I've covered murders and marriages, breakthroughs and busts, elation and tragedy (the daily news stuff), but lately I've been working on a lot of websites, including nutritional and medical sites. Thus my interest in health, nutrition, diets and carbohydrates. I live in the Los Angeles area with my wife and three dogs. Since retirement is off the table for an impoverished journalist such as myself, I intend to Ernest Borgnine and Betty White it into my 90s and die slumped over a typewriter, er, computer keyboard, er, tablet -- well, over whatever we'll be using then.
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It's The Carbs, Stupid! - Gary W. McCarty
It’s the Carbs, Stupid!
Published by Gary W. McCarty
Smashwords Edition
Copyright 2013-2014, Gary W. McCarty
All Rights Reserved by the Author
ISBN 978-1-62951-367-6
James Carville, 1992:
It’s the economy, stupid,
rallying cry for the Bill Clinton presidential campaign
Gary McCarty, 2014:
It’s still the economy, but at least you can control your carb intake.
If Not Calories, Then What?
I’ll make a couple of bold – but true – statements at the outset to get you thinking:
Stop counting (or don’t start counting) calories. It’s not the overall calories by themselves that are making you fat.
Start counting – and drastically reducing – the refined and other bad carbohydrates you consume. They are making you both overweight and sick, at least potentially on the health front. Give those carbs time, and they’ll show up in your blood pressure, glucose levels, and potential for serious heart disease.
Not count calories, you ask?
Not even don’t count them, but don’t even worry about them. The reason you eat too many calories of food in the first place is due to your consumption of refined carbohydrates, which instead of filling you up are leaving you hungry and demanding more. And more. And more.
If you’re like most Americans, even many of those without weight problems, you’re obsessed with refined-carbohydrate foods.
Admit it.
YOU’RE AN ADDICT. Call us carb addicts the un-silent majority. Those clamoring for bread, pasta, French fries, candies, sodas, starches, sugars. Most of us, in other words.
Let’s look at the symptoms: You can’t get enough refined carbohydrates, so you keep stuffing things down your throat that turn instantly into sugar, but which do nothing to sate your appetite or make you feel full – or healthy, for that matter. Like a drug addict on a downward spiral, you keep reaching out for and stuffing yourself with substances that give quick gratification – and lead to long-term serious health problems.
University of Colorado Denver nephrologist Richard Johnson asks rhetorically in a National Geographic article titled Sugar Love
(August 2013):
"Why is it that one-third of adults [worldwide] have high blood pressure, when in 1900 only 5