In Western society to experience many problems of overweight, obesity, abundance, depression, exhaustion and distress and adult-onset diabetes. The book "potatoes not Prozac" claims that these problems are the result of sugar sensitivity and our overuse of sugar.
We know that there is sugar in nearly all the food we buy as the white stuff we sprinkle on and everything. The author, Dr. Kathleen DesMaisons argues that sugar is not a food, it is a drug. Her book describes how sugar Community acts on our bodies and our moods and provides a simple, step-by-step plan to overcome it.
1 Keep a journal and write down everything you eat and drink, what time and how you feel physically and emotionally.
2 Eat three meals a day at regular intervals. One of these meals must be breakfast.
3 Take vitamins b and c and zinc supplement.
4 Eat protein at every meal, a figure about the size of your fist.
5 Gradually remove white refined foods from your diet and eat complex carbohydrates-wholemeal grains, pasta, etc.
6 reduce or eliminate sugar, including alcohol.
7 stick with it. You will feel great. And potatoes? Eat carbohydrates approximately three hours after eating protein, freeing helps serotonin. (This is what antidepressant do.)
Dr DesMaisons recommends eating a baked potato in skins three hours after your evening meal, or just before you go to bed. A potato nightcap! You have sweet dreams, increase impulse control and reduces cravings. It is worth a try.
Potatoes not Prozac, Kathleen DesMaisons, Simon & Schuster, Fireside Edition, 1999. If $ 70 Australian.
Dr DesMaisons book is based on extensive scientific research and provides much more than this brief review can contain. Deserves to be read and we deserve a straight forward book like this.