What is Starch?
All starch is made up of SUGAR.
However, not all sugary food tastes sweet. For example, potatoes, bread and pasta consist of nearly all sugar.
Sugar whose molecules are joined together in long chains does not taste sweet. However, when digested, the sugar is released and pours into the blood stream. This is bad for health and bad for weight.
How Can Starch Be So Bad For You?
Bread is the ’staff of life’; rice is the staple for millions of people; where would Italians be without pasta; etc, etc.
However, science shows that our bodies have not adjusted to the high-starch diet we took up following the agricultural revolution.
Prior to this, we ate meat, fish, nuts, berries, fruit and vegetables. Only when we started to grow grains did we start to eat so many of them.
Some of the ways starch harms us are:
GLYCATION: sugar in the body combines with proteins to cause wrinkles in the skin as well as the major organs. These are a prime cause of aging.
DIABETES: a high sugar (starch) diet leads to diabetes for millions.
HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE: high blood sugar lead to high blood insulin which leads directly to high blood pressure.
We will be looking at these factors and others factors affecting our weight.
For now, hold the thought that “Starch=Bad” and you won’t go too far wrong.