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Here is something else I discovered --about me, I can't extrapolate to everyone else. If I go for a few days eating strictly fuhrman with hardly any rice, potatoes etc, when I go back to starches my blood sugars climb very high. But if I eat a serving of starch with most meals, then my blood sugars are more even and do not go as high. McDougall wrote about amylase which digests starch and for which we have more DNA coded than our nearest primate relatives. I think it is a use it or lose it thing. I am just guessing.
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And it isn't even six in the morning. And it's cold and dark outside. I feel myself decrepitating even as I write and it isn't pretty.
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The article reminded me of a program the government had (possibly in the eighties, I can't remember) in which they periodically gave away butter and cheese to senior citizens-- for free of course. The cheese was in the form of those long rectangular things you see in the deli when the guy slices off the amount of cheese you want. The butter consisted of several big packages of I don't know how many pounds. They gave it away per person, not per family, so mom and dad each got their own butter and cheese. Can you think of anything worse to give anyone, much less the elderly?
My dad and mom who hardly used cheese and butter at all, stood in the long line to get their cheese and butter because by golly, the government had taken so much of their money in the form of taxes over so many years and used it to give to other people who didn't work for a living that now they were going to get some of their money back in the form of butter and cheese.. They were delighted to give it to my brother and me for our families. They finally got one over on the government. And we all innocently headed down the path of cardiac disease.
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A non diabetic can eat things like fats, sweets, lots of meat, white flour etc and not have blood sugar rise very high. If I did that I would be in trouble even though my symptoms have disappeared on a good diet. I think it is like alcoholism. An alcoholic can abstain from alcohol for years yet still has to be careful because one drink could mean a binge.
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