The McDougall diet, or why potatoes are the new superfood. The McDougall Diet, or Why Potatoes are McDougall's New Super Food Recipes

John A. McDougall, MD, and Mary McDougall

The Starch Solution

Eat the Foods You Love, Regain Your Health, and Lose the Weight for Good!

Scientific editor Nadezhda Nikolskaya

Reproduced with permission from John A. McDougall, MD, c/o Bidnick & Company.

Legal support for the publishing house is provided by Vegas Lex law firm.

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This book is well complemented by:

Colin Campbell

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Lindsey Nixon

Dedicated to our grandchildren - let the starch diet give you a better future

To readers

Diet is a powerful regulator of the state of the body. If you are seriously ill or are on medication, before changing your diet and starting to exercise, be sure to check with your doctor to find out how this diet might affect you and how it will work with your medications. The people mentioned in the book are real and their names are used with their permission. If you do what they do, you will achieve similar results. Of course, the consequences of applying any method are very individual, but in most cases, a diet on starches really allows you to avoid a number of common diseases, restores health and improves appearance. (Cancerous cases are real and documented, but less common.)

Dr. McDougall's diet is based on the use of starches with the addition of fruits and vegetables. If you have been strictly following this low-fat vegetarian diet for more than three years, or if you are pregnant or breastfeeding, take at least 5 micrograms of vitamin B 12 daily as a dietary supplement.

From the author

In the last year and a half alone, starch has opened the door to health for thousands of my patients, helped them get rid of excess weight and cured nutritional ailments such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and inflammatory arthritis. More than five thousand people have taken part in McDougall's five- and ten-day programs, and for most of them, life has been completely changed. One and a half million people have purchased eleven of my previously published books. The longer I practice medicine, the clearer decisions come to me.

In The Power of Starch, I share what I've learned and show you what you can and should do to regain control of your health and well-being. You'll find intuitive, evidence-based information, an easy meal plan, and hundreds of simple and delicious recipes. After studying the above information, you will understand how to change your life for the better, while not denying yourself your favorite dishes.

Everything you do for health right now is not working. That is why you are holding this book in your hands. Most likely, you have already tried other diets - and even a lot - but they did not work for you. The fact is that most diets help to lose weight only if they are strictly followed - but since they require constant deprivation from you, or even more so if they are bad for your well-being, they are not rational. Instead of losing weight, you lose interest and motivation, and the lost pounds quickly come back.

The starch diet is different in nature, as it offers an acceptable and enjoyable way of eating. You won't feel hungry or left out because a starch-based diet is not only healthy, but also highly nutritious. This is a meal plan that you can stick to for as long as you like, and even if you don't follow it one hundred percent, its benefits will stay with you throughout your life. In other words, there is no definite milestone to strive for.

In addition to losing weight with little or no effort, you will look better, feel better, and your life and activities will also improve. Your blood pressure and cholesterol levels will return to normal, and your digestive system will finally start working the way it should. In most cases, you will be able to opt out medicines And food additives while maintaining a budget and enjoying natural health. Once you try this method and feel the results, you will realize that the starch diet is the answer you have been looking for all your life. You can jump right into the seven-day starter plan in Chapter 14 if you want to: follow it by reading the book and learning how and why this method works.

Questions will arise as you read, but don't worry, I was still hearing them long before I wrote this book. You don't have to worry about getting enough protein, calcium, vitamins, or other nutrients: all of these ingredients are naturally found in natural foods. Being prepared, you will be able to adequately assess what health benefits or harms the advertised products will bring, proper nutrition and other information materials. You will even learn why you have never heard of this method before, although it promises so much grandiose.

In addition, you will realize that the same method contributes to the preservation environment. By radically changing the way you eat, you can heal the world around you - by starting to lose weight, improve your health and save money, thereby changing your whole life.

Introduction

My own way to a starch diet

One of my first life lessons was about honesty. As a child, I attracted trouble like a magnet. I didn't want this - it was my curiosity that was to blame. When I was seven years old, the police arrested me for “breaking and entering” into a vacant house on my street. At the time, I considered myself a researcher. The following year, I killed my hamster in an accident. At the age of nine, I set fire to the sofa in the living room when I was experimenting with my father's lighter and gas for this very lighter. I was very ashamed of this incident. But my parents were wise. They knew that punishment would only increase the risk that their truly unwilling little troublemaker would quickly turn into a disgruntled, rebellious teenager. They rightly believed that the more I told them about my antics, the more likely they would be to channel my energy into more productive channels. So instead of screaming, they showed me that the best way to avoid trouble is to tell the truth. Since then, the search for the truth and the need to tell the truth has become my life credo.

I active person, with an aggressive A-type personality. I try to live with great enthusiasm every day of my life (sometimes I succeed, sometimes not). I don't just value truth - I'm obsessed with finding it. Sometimes I am criticized for being too harsh, undiplomatic, direct, but I don't care. For that matter, I believe that such straightforwardness is the only and most effective method open people's eyes, free them from delusions that lead to various diseases, and teach them the truth, which will help restore health.

Excessive wealth destroys our health

I started studying medicine long before I became a doctor. At the age of 18, in 1965, I had a stroke that completely paralyzed the left side of my body for two weeks. My recovery has been very slow and not complete. Forty-seven years later, I still limp (although I windsurf almost every day)—a constant reminder of the path that led me first to illness and then to my newfound health.

My parents lived through the Great Depression of the 1930s. During those difficult times, my mother's family was based on beans, corn, cabbage, parsnips, peas, swedes, carrots, onions, turnips, potatoes, and bread, which they bought for five cents a loaf. The only source of meat was a small hamburger once a week. All these horrors made my mother promise herself that her children would never suffer the way she did, that her children would eat the best food money could buy. The irony is that her good intentions ended up doing more harm than good. Over time, it became clear that the diet of the Great Depression was much more useful!

I grew up eating scrambled eggs and bacon for breakfast, meat sandwiches topped with mayonnaise for lunch, and beef, pork or chicken as a daily main course for dinner. All three meals were washed down with a large glass of milk. Carbohydrates? At best, these were side dishes (seasoned butter). With the exception of bread and cakes made from premium flour, they were rare guests in our house.

I didn't understand it at the time, but best food that money can buy nearly killed me. For as long as I can remember, I have always suffered from stomach pains and severe constipation. I often got sick and caught colds, and at the age of seven my tonsils were removed. In physical education classes, I always came to the finish line last, and in adolescence my face was oily and covered acne. At the age of 18, when I had a stroke - which I thought could only happen to older people - it suddenly became clear to me that something was going completely wrong. I didn’t even have any thoughts to somehow connect what happened with my diet - and the doctors at the hospital also did not make such assumptions - so I continued to eat as before. In my early twenties, I was over twenty kilos overweight.

I don't blame my mom. She fed us according to the best recommendations those years. Who knew these tips and tricks were coming from meat and dairy companies that declared protein and calcium to be our basic nutritional needs? And although there were some suspicions about the adverse effects of eating animal products, they were immediately dismissed by scientists as insignificant.

I grew up in a lower middle class family in suburban Detroit. My parents treated doctors as some kind of higher beings. I was a completely ordinary person and never even dreamed of a career in medicine - at least until my fatal hospitalization due to a stroke. My elevated attitude towards doctors changed radically during the two weeks that I spent in the hospital walls. I became a medical incident that the luminaries of science came to see to describe my case later. As a patient and as a teenager who dreamed of going back to school, I asked every doctor who saw me the same questions: “What caused my stroke?” “How can you help me?” and “When can I get home?”

The typical reaction was non-verbal: they silently shrugged and left the room. I remember thinking to myself, “Well, I can do this.” When it became clear to me that the doctors could not answer any of my three questions, I left the hospital despite advice not to. When I returned to college at the University of Michigan, at first I was in deep thought about my future studies, and in 1968 I finally entered the medical school and plunged obsessively into the study of medicine.

A little later, I also became obsessed with a surgical nurse whom I met in my senior year as an assistant during a hip operation. Mary and I got married and moved to Hawaii, to Honolulu, where I did an internship at the Royal Medical Center. For the next three years, I worked as a doctor for the Hamakua sugar company on the Big Island. I was the only doctor for five thousand people - employees of the company and their families, and therefore I had to attend births, sign death certificates, and so on. The nearest physician was in Hilo (70 kilometers from there), and my patients entrusted me with all the duties that are usually performed by completely different doctors.

While doing ongoing work, such as stitching, fixing broken bones, or prescribing antibiotics to treat an infection, I was able to see the real results of my work while watching patients recover, and I was very pleased. But chronic conditions led me to utter despair. Despite my best efforts, I simply could not help patients with serious problems such as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, or arthritis. When a plantation worker came to me with one of these complaints, the only thing I could do (and what I learned in the medical school) was to recommend the right medicines. Before patients left my office, I told them to come back if their prescribed medications didn't work, and they often came back. Then we tried other drugs. I never refused this method - to use various drugs, but after a while, patients stopped visiting me at all.

I was absolutely sure that these failures were the result of my unpreparedness, and after three years spent on sugar plantations, I left the Big Island, returned to Honolulu and became a member of the graduate medical school (residency) program at the Royal Medical Center. After two years, I left this intensive training course without getting answers to my questions. However, I realized something very important: it was not my fault that the patients did not recover. Even the best representatives of medical science could not achieve more noticeable results: their patients continued to suffer from chronic diseases in the same way, and at best my eminent colleagues managed to temporarily control the symptoms.

I graduated, passed the exam and received my certificate in medicine. But neither education nor diploma made me a good doctor. I thought about returning to the plantations.

Lessons from my patients

Many people, including doctors, are firmly convinced that a person gets fatter with age and acquires more and more health problems. Children are the strongest, parents have slightly worse health, and the older generation is already suffering with might and main from serious and chronic diseases.

However, observing my patients on the plantations, I saw a completely different picture. Members of the older generation of immigrants from Asia remained cheerful, active and did not need medical care even in their ninety years or more. They didn't have diabetes cardiovascular diseases, arthritis, or cancer of the breast, prostate, or rectum. Their children had a little harder time, and they were no longer in such excellent health. But the most surprising thing for me was that the representatives of the younger generation, the grandchildren of these same immigrants, suffered from all possible serious illnesses- just from those that I studied at the university for several years.

What could have caused such a twist of fate? I decided to keep a close eye on these young families. I analyzed their lifestyle, working environment on the plantations and behavior and drew attention to one interesting detail. These families moved away from the traditional diet of their countries and completely reoriented to American style nutrition. Did they not thereby lose natural protection from obesity and general chronic diseases that their native food provided them?

My oldest patients have immigrated to Hawaii from China, Japan, Korea, and the Philippines, where rice and vegetables form the basis of the daily diet. And they continued to eat exactly the same here, in their new american home. The second generation, born in Hawaii, began incorporating Western foods into their parents' traditional diet. And third generations have swapped out their grandparents' vital starch-based diet for the typical American diet of meat, dairy, and processed foods.

The society in which I grew up had a strong belief, supported by the government and other sources, that the most healthy, balanced diet consisted of the four food groups—meat, dairy, grains, and fruits and vegetables. However, on the plantations, I saw a completely different picture: the older generation lived very well, eating exclusively grains, as well as vegetables and fruits, that is, products belonging to two of the four groups, while the representatives of subsequent generations became weaker and weaker. as they increase in their diet of products from the two remaining groups - meat and dairy.

Again and again I have observed this “nutritional shift” and its subsequent impact on the health of my patients. In the end, something clicked in me, and I seemed to wake up, realizing the false assumptions of the medical education I received. Thanks to my patients, I was able to experience a sudden insight, an insight. This is what I have been looking for since I was 18 years old, when I was shattered by that terrible stroke and longed to find out what caused it and how doctors plan to improve my health and condition in the future.

My medical background taught me nothing about the effects of food on health. Nutrition was almost never covered in medical school, in my textbooks, or during practice. There were only a few questions on this topic in my qualifying exam. Nevertheless, one simple insight allowed me to save patients from ineffective drugs, protect them from dangerous surgical interventions, offer them a simple and effective path to health and longevity, and also lose weight forever.

A worldwide phenomenon

Thinking about whether this trend could be applied beyond the small population in Hawaii, I began to study the traditional diets of different cultures around the world. I must say that the dependence I identified was confirmed again and again. Diet, which unfortunately has often been overlooked, has indeed been a major component of human health.

The full potential of practical dietetics was unleashed when I did more research on the impact of a nutritious diet on human health. Scavenging the scientific journals in the medical library at the Royal Medical Center, I realized that I was far from the first physician or scientist to notice the effect of a diet based on starches in getting rid of a variety of ailments. Many authors before me discovered that potatoes, corn and whole grains promote health, while meat and dairy products lead to chronic diseases that make life very difficult.

In studying these journals, I also saw that people who were already suffering from some kind of serious illness could reverse this process and begin to recover simply by stopping eating their habitual food that undermined their health and switching to a starchy diet that supported the natural process. convalescence. And there has been more than one article devoted to this: many studies have described the normalization of weight, as well as the disappearance of chest pains, headaches and arthritis due to a change in diet. Kidney disease, heart problems, type 2 diabetes, intestinal disorders, asthma, obesity and other ailments receded under the onslaught of a healthy diet. The sheer volume of research published in these journals over the past 50 years has shown that my patients with seemingly incurable chronic diseases could benefit from a starch-based diet supplemented with fruits and vegetables. And it would not require any drugs and operations!

I longed to tell the world that it was possible to improve health and avoid various ailments simply by changing the diet, and that this discovery of mine, which I made while working on plantations, had already been scientifically documented. I was sure that my revolutionary breakthrough would be widely supported, that this fluke would allow others not to waste time searching for the truth, that this truth should be shouted about in a world of people who seek to save themselves from pain and suffering.

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The fate of Dr. McDougall

When John McDougall completed his higher medical education, he opened a practice on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. He began writing books on nutrition and health and became known throughout America. In the mid 1980s. John was contacted by St. Helena Hospital in Napa Valley, California and asked if he would like to take a position at their medical center. It was a Seventh-day Adventist hospital; if you remember from chapter 7, this teaching encourages a vegetarian diet (although the followers of the teaching consume dairy products in excess of the average level). It was too good an opportunity to pass up, and John left Hawaii for California.

He spent many fruitful years at St. Helena's. Taught nutrition and recommended transition to healthy eating in the treatment of sick patients, which he managed to unusually successfully. He has treated more than 2,000 seriously ill patients, and in 16 years he has never been sued or even filed a complaint. Perhaps more importantly, John saw his patients recover. During this time, he continued to publish his work, maintaining his reputation. But gradually he began to understand: something had changed compared to what it was when he first arrived at the hospital. His discontent grew.

Later, he spoke of these years as follows: “I simply did not see any prospects in front of me. The program involved 150–170 people a year, and that was it. This number has not increased. I did not receive support from the hospital and had to overcome numerous administrative obstacles.”

He began to flare up small conflicts with other doctors of the hospital. At some point, objections arose from the cardiology department about McDougall's methods of treatment. In response, John suggested to them: "Let me send each of my patients suffering from cardiovascular diseases to you for a second consultation, if you, in turn, will send your patients to me." It was perfectly reasonable, but they did not agree. On another occasion, John referred one of the patients to a cardiologist, who mistakenly told the patient that he needed a bypass. After a couple of such incidents, John increased the number of his patients to the maximum possible. Finally, John called the cardiologist after he recommended surgery to another of his patients and said, “I want to talk to you and the patient. I would like to discuss the scientific literature on the basis of which you made such a recommendation. The cardiologist refused to do it, to which John objected: “Why not? You just recommended this guy open heart surgery! And you're going to charge him 50,000 or 100,000 bucks. Why can't we discuss this? Don't you think this is unfair to the patient? The cardiologist replied that the discussion would only confuse the patient. This was the last time he recommended heart surgery to McDougall's patients.

In the meantime, none of the other doctors at the hospital ever sent their patients to John. Never. They sent their wives and children to him, but never their patients. According to John, the reason was as follows:

“They were worried about [what would happen] when patients came to me, and what really happened every time the patients came to me themselves. They came with cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, or diabetes. I advised them to follow a diet, and they no longer needed drugs, and their medical indicators returned to normal. They said to their doctor, “What the hell have I heard from you before? Why did you let me suffer, spend money, almost die, when all I wanted was oatmeal?” The doctors didn't want to hear it."

There were other tensions between John and his colleagues at the hospital, but the last straw was Roy Swank's MS program, which was mentioned in Chapter 9.

John contacted Swank and learned that he was about to retire soon. For a long time he knew and respected this doctor and proposed to merge his MS program with his medical practice at St. Helena's Hospital, retaining its name in honor of Swank. He, to John's great delight, agreed. As John said, this program fit perfectly into medical practice St. Helena Hospital for four reasons:

It was consistent with the principle of the Adventists: the cure of diseases through nutrition;

She allowed to help people who needed it;

It would double the number of their patients, which would help expand the program;

The cost of the program was almost zero.

Recalling this, McDougall says: “Could you think of one reason not to do it? It [was] taken for granted!” Therefore, he came with this proposal to the head of the department in which he worked. She replied that she did not think the hospital should agree to this: “I don’t think we really need to introduce new programs at the moment.” A stunned John asked, “Please explain why. What is a hospital for? What are we here for? I thought, in order to treat sick people.”

The response of the head of the department was amazing: “Of course it is, but people who suffer multiple sclerosis, not the most desirable patients. You yourself told me that most neurologists do not like to treat such patients. John couldn't believe what he was hearing. After a tense pause, he said:

"Wait a minute. I am a doctor. Here is a hospital. As far as I know, our task is to alleviate the suffering of patients. These people are sick. Just because other doctors can't help them doesn't mean we can't either. Scientific evidence shows that it is in our power. I successfully treat those who need my help, and this is a hospital. Can you explain to me why we don't want to help these patients?"

“I would like to speak with the head physician of the hospital. I will try to explain to her why this program is needed, why the hospital needs it, and why patients need it. I ask you to arrange our meeting."

But the conversation with the head physician was no less difficult. John discussed the situation with his wife. He had to renew his contract with the hospital in a couple of weeks, and he decided not to do it. He warmly said goodbye to his colleagues and to this day does not feel any personal resentment. He simply explains that they had different goals in life. McDougall prefers to remember St. Helena's as the kind home it was to him for 16 years, but it was also an institution "connected to pharmaceutical company money."

Today McDougall, supported by his family, runs a highly successful "lifestyle cure" program, maintains a popular news blog open to the public (www.drmcdougall.com), organizes group trips with former patients and new friends, and windsurfs more frequently. when the wind picks up in Bodega Bay. This doctor, who has extensive knowledge and high qualifications, could help millions of people improve their health. Colleagues never questioned his dignity as a specialist, and yet official medicine does not need his services. He is constantly reminded of this:

“Patients with rheumatoid arthritis come to me. They move in wheelchairs, they cannot even turn the ignition key in their car. I start treating them and three or four weeks later they go to their doctor. They firmly shake his hand. The doctor exclaims: “Great!” The excited patient replies: “I want to tell you what I did. I went to McDougall, changed my diet and cured my arthritis.” The doctor replies, “Oh my god, this is great. Whatever you do, keep going and then come to me.” The answer is always the same. They don't say, "Please tell me what you did so that I would recommend it to other patients." They say, "Whatever you do is great." If the patient starts talking about switching to a vegetarian diet, the doctor interrupts him: “Okay, great, you are a really strong person. Thank you very much, see you later.” The patient must be escorted out of the office as quickly as possible. It's dangerous... very dangerous."

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The starch diet is developed by Professor D. McDougall from the University of Hawaii. Being a certified nutritionist, this doctor is not afraid to break stereotypes - he invites his patients to completely abandon animal proteins in order to lose weight and.

During clinical research D. McDougall obtained interesting results. It turns out that the human body most easily absorbs starch-containing foods. Therefore, if you eat only them, your body will not experience stress, which means that if you follow a medium-calorie diet, it will quickly give back the “accumulated good”.

Who is starch diet for?

This atypical food system will only be good for those who do not suffer from a lack of animal protein. If you can’t think of a day without a steak, cheese sandwich or yogurt, look for another weight loss system, because McUgall advises once and for all to exclude from the diet:

Any meat;
Eggs;
Fish and caviar;
Dairy products.

You need to be prepared to take vitamins for vegans for the entire period of the diet - your body may face a serious deficiency of vitamin B12. The WHO does not approve of the starchy diet, and considers it unbalanced.

In domestic clinical practice, protein-free diets are used in the treatment of patients with renal insufficiency and liver cirrhosis. Naturally, patients lose fat mass on such a diet, but they also lose a certain amount of muscle.

Diet diet on starches

According to McDougall, a person's diet should be 70% whole grains, legumes and potatoes, 20% vegetables, and 10% fruit. About “processed” food and concentrates, pastries, industrial sweets, except for dried fruits, you will have to forget once and for all.

Approximate starch weight loss menu as follows:

Breakfast: oatmeal with any fruit in water, no oil added
Snack: 10-20 g nuts or seeds
Lunch: vegetable salad, a portion of boiled potatoes
Snack: 1 apple or banana
Dinner: a serving of boiled lentils with rice and vegetables, no oil added.

Most modern nutritionists believe that such a diet can only be used as a quality, and using it for a long-term diet is fraught with a slowdown in metabolism.

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The author of a unique diet on starches is a professor at the University of Hawaii, John McDougall, he "broke" all the stereotypical concepts of rational balanced nutrition. The nutritionist offers his patients to completely refuse to include protein-containing foods in order to speed up the metabolic processes of the body, thereby getting rid of overweight body.

Numerous clinical experiences and developments that were carried out by an experienced nutritionist gave positive results and showed everyone that best digestion the human body are subject to starchy foods nutrition. Therefore, eating only such food, the human body will not experience shock, and when using a low-calorie diet, it will quickly give up fat deposits accumulated over the years.

Based on the experience and results of the scientific research, John McDougall created special starch diet, which advises everyone to use, subject to good tolerance, or to use as a permanent nutrition system. Professor absolutely convinced that is properly designed human diet must be on 70% whole grain, legumes and potatoes, on 20% - from fresh and boiled vegetables and on 10% - from fresh fruit.

All foods and dishes should be completely excluded. industrial production- These are concentrates, pastries, sweets and confectionery.

On dessert only allowed to use dried fruits and various types of nuts. Also, throughout the entire time of this type of nutrition, it is imperative to take complexes vitamin-containing drugs, because the human body is faced with a large shortage of microelements.

Eggs, meat, fish and dairy dishes are also subject to exclusion from the diet.

This peculiar feeding method will be perfect for those who will not suffer shortage in food animal protein. In the event that you cannot do without eating steaks, a slice of bran bread with cheese or a glass of natural yogurt or kefir, then it is best to choose another method of losing weight.

In official medicine protein free diet used to treat patients diagnosed with renal failure and cirrhosis of the liver. Of course, such patients get rid of fat accumulations on this type of diet, but they also lose a certain amount of muscle tissue at the same time. Once again, it is worth recalling that on starches it will be good only for people who do not suffer from a complete absence of protein foods in their diet.

In the same time starch diet has quite critical reviews and opinions of many contemporary nutritionists . They assure that this method of losing weight should be used for a very short period of time, and then only as a small unloading after a long abuse of meat, smoked and fatty foods.

An exemplary sample menu of a one-day diet on starches

Breakfast:

a portion oatmeal cooked in water without oil, with the addition of a small handful of raisins;
a glass of unsweetened rosehip broth.

Snack:

25 grams of pumpkin or sunflower seeds.

Dinner:

a large portion of fresh salad of tomatoes, green lettuce, white cabbage, cucumbers, sweet peppers, finely chopped dill, parsley and basil;
two large baked potatoes.

Snack:

one big green apple and banana.

Dinner:

a cup of boiled lentils or white beans;
any fresh vegetables in unlimited quantities or a salad from them, without adding oil;
a glass of rosehip infusion.

John McDougall, Mary McDougall

starch energy. Eat delicious, take care of your health and lose weight forever

John A. McDougall, MD, and Mary McDougall

The Starch Solution

Eat the Foods You Love, Regain Your Health, and Lose the Weight for Good!

Scientific editor Nadezhda Nikolskaya

Reproduced with permission from John A. McDougall, MD, c/o Bidnick & Company.

Legal support for the publishing house is provided by Vegas Lex law firm.

This book is well complemented by:

Colin Campbell

plant based diet

Lindsey Nixon

Dedicated to our grandchildren - let the starch diet give you a better future

To readers

Diet is a powerful regulator of the state of the body. If you are seriously ill or are on medication, before changing your diet and starting to exercise, be sure to check with your doctor to find out how this diet might affect you and how it will work with your medications. The people mentioned in the book are real and their names are used with their permission. If you do what they do, you will achieve similar results. Of course, the consequences of applying any method are very individual, but in most cases, a diet on starches does avoid a number of common diseases, restores health and improves appearance. (Cancerous cases are real and documented, but less common.)

In the last year and a half alone, starch has opened the door to health for thousands of my patients, helping them lose weight and cure dietary ailments such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and inflammatory arthritis. More than five thousand people have taken part in McDougall's five- and ten-day programs, and for most of them, life has been completely changed. One and a half million people have purchased eleven of my previously published books. The longer I practice medicine, the clearer decisions come to me.

In The Power of Starch, I share what I've learned and show you what you can and should do to regain control of your health and well-being. You'll find intuitive information based on scientific evidence, an easy meal plan and hundreds of easy and delicious recipes. After studying the above information, you will understand how to change your life for the better, while not denying yourself your favorite dishes.

In addition to losing weight with little or no effort, you will look better, feel better, and your life and activities will also improve. Your blood pressure and cholesterol levels will return to normal, and your digestive system will finally start working the way it should. In most cases, you will be able to forego medications and supplements while saving your budget and enjoying natural health. Once you try this method and feel the results, you will realize that the starch diet is the answer you have been looking for all your life. You can jump right into the seven-day starter plan in Chapter 14 if you want to: follow it by reading the book and learning how and why this method works.