Fast Carbs, Slow Carbs The Simple Truth About Food, Weight, and Disease

David A. Kessler

eBook - 2020

The New York Times–bestselling author of The End of Overeating addresses the problem of processed carbohydrates—and how to reclaim our metabolic health.It was once a revolutionary idea that seemed to offer so much promise. Instead has become the cause of a global health crisis: processed foods.Starting in the mid-twentieth century, processed carbohydrates gradually became our main food source. For decades, no one questioned their effects. The focus was on fertile grassland, ideal for growing vast amounts of wheat and corn; an industrial infrastructure perfect for refining those grains into starch; a food production behemoth that turns refined grains into affordable, appealing, and ever-present food items, from pizza to burritos to bagel...s; and an efficient distribution network that ensures consumption by Americans nationwide. Meanwhile, our bodies quietly contended with the metabolic chaos caused by consuming rapidly absorbable starch. Slowly but... more