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Chapter 6 , livestock are among the top two or three contributors to every one of our most serious environmental problems, including climate change. 22
     
    As you will learn throughout
The Starch Solution,
your change to a starch-based diet will do far more than heal your body. You will be making a contribution to changes that ripple out far beyond the foods on your plate. This shift, if adopted widely, will drastically shrink the pharmaceutical and medical industries by preventing and curing common illnesses, including obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, arthritis, and intestinal disturbances ranging from heartburn to constipation.
     
    The Starch Solution
can help you to lose weight and feel and look better, and—with no extra effort—help to heal the world around you, reducing global warming and making our planet healthier and more sustainable for future generations. The only way to find out if a starch-based diet holds all these promises for you is to give it a try.
     

C HAPTER 2
     

People Passionate about Starches Are Healthy and Beautiful
     
    M y wife, Mary, and I sat at a table by the bay enjoying steamed sweet corn tamales with a side of black beans at Guaymas restaurant in Tiburon, California, just north of the Golden Gate Bridge. At the next table were three elegantly dressed women, ample in size. Over the course of our meal, I watched each make her way with great difficulty to the restroom and back.
     
    I looked at Mary and thought, “These women are at least a decade younger than you are and all three are physically disabled.” For what pleasure? Food? As the seaward breeze carried the greasy, fishy aroma of their deep-fried clams and shrimp to our table, I couldn’t help but think that the McDougall Diet could make their lives easier. I wished I could have handed them my business card, or a copy of one of my books, without offending them.
     
    Where have all the pretty women and handsome men gone? People spend thousands of dollars on clothes, cars, makeup, perfume, and plastic surgery to achieve what they believe to be more pleasing appearances. And yet, at the same time, they sacrifice their well-beingfor the sake of unhealthy foods they have developed a preference for, remaining in denial that these foods cause dependency and illness in much the same way that cigarettes, alcohol, and narcotics do. Too few people know that for free they can have all the health and beauty that money can’t buy.
     

E-MAIL TO DR. McDOUGALL
     
    I was talking to my neighbor and he noticed that I had lost weight. My coat now buttons! His comment was that I looked great and to keep up the good work and lay off the mashed potatoes. We both have some great recipes for mashed potatoes. Of course I said nothing to the contrary, but those mashed potatoes have been my daily main course many days with a side of vegetables. There’s so much misinformation about starches. No wonder people are so fat and fail on other diets.
    One thing I noticed after a couple weeks on the diet is that my intense cravings for meat, dairy, and oil are gone. I switched from coffee with cream and honey to hot lemon water. Bingeing thoughts are gone. I had a couple of stress-filled days this past week and instead of eating everything in sight to soothe myself, I just ate some mashed potatoes and broccoli, spinach, and corn. That was filling, my favorite foods, and that was it. No more stress or overeating. Great plan.
    Sincerely,
    Suzanna Browne
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    We humans, on the other hand, are very inefficient at converting carbohydrate to fat; we don’t do it under normal conditions. 6-15 (The cost for this conversion is 30 percent of the calories consumed. 12 ) Subjects overfed large amounts of simple sugars under experimental laboratory conditions, however, will convert a small amount of carbohydrate to fat. For example, both trim and obese women fed 50 percent more calories than they usually ate in a day, along with an extra 3½ ounces (135