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Mittir said:I have the same problem. Even though i feel better without starch.
I eat some starch for lunch. It is not easy to stop eating starch once i start.
It sure increases appetite.
My guess is either it is due to life long habit or starch
eating bacteria causing this craving.
Starch do feed some specific bacterias.
Melon can be full of starch if it is not fully ripe.
jb4566 said:Fruit (cherries, melon), OJ, and Milk.
This is not a ton of carbs, but a very limited carb selection. He does advocate Potatoes white rice at times and other tubers.
Isnt that why paul jaminet advocates eating resistant starches?bc it feeds healthy gut bacteria? I guess it feeds both....Swandattur said:I just wanted to chime in, although belatedly that, like Mittir, I think starch must feed bacteria in that cause hunger for some of us. At least that is the way it seems.
Dutchie said:Isnt that why paul jaminet advocates eating resistant starches?bc it feeds healthy gut bacteria? I guess it feeds both....Swandattur said:I just wanted to chime in, although belatedly that, like Mittir, I think starch must feed bacteria in that cause hunger for some of us. At least that is the way it seems.
But another random thougth,couldnt the getting hungry from starch mean that you're lacking a certain nutrient? Or that you migth not be consuming enough,despite eating to appetite?
Ray Peat said:Starch and glucose efficiently stimulate insulin secretion, and that accelerates the disposition of glucose, activating its conversion to glycogen and fat, as well as its oxidation. Fructose inhibits the stimulation of insulin by glucose, so this means that eating ordinary sugar, sucrose (a disaccharide, consisting of glucose and fructose), in place of starch, will reduce the tendency to store fat. Eating “complex carbohydrates,” rather than sugars, is a reasonable way to promote obesity. Eating starch, by increasing insulin and lowering the blood sugar, stimulates the appetite, causing a person to eat more, so the effect on fat production becomes much larger than when equal amounts of sugar and starch are eaten. The obesity itself then becomes an additional physiological factor; the fat cells create something analogous to an inflammatory state. There isn't anything wrong with a high carbohydrate diet, and even a high starch diet isn't necessarily incompatible with good health, but when better foods are available they should be used instead of starches. For example, fruits have many advantages over grains, besides the difference between sugar and starch. Bread and pasta consumption are strongly associated with the occurrence of diabetes, fruit consumption has a strong inverse association.
Yes, it is OK, if you tolerate it.lazz said:are canned papayas allowed???