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No Starch Diet Plan

No Starch Diet Plan

The No Starch Diet, developed by Dr. Jerry Sobieraj, promises better health and weight loss through the reduction of stress to your body's insulin system. This effect is achieved primarily by limiting the starch in your diet. But starch is difficult to avoid. It's in your breakfast cereal, muffins and bread. It's underneath your healthy stir-fry, in the potatoes of your nutritious stew and in the ear of corn you'd like to have with your lean beef. Never mind pizza and sandwiches and dessert. What is one to eat on the No Starch Diet plan?

Instead of Bread and Grains

    There are many ways of enjoying your sandwich favorites without the bread. Load tuna, lunch meat, almond butter or pate onto romaine lettuce, nappa cabbage or lacinato kale leaves for a refreshing and energizing lunch. For dinner, serve stir-fry or stew with cauliflower "rice." Simply place roughly chopped raw cauliflower in a food processor and pulse until it is the consistency of cooked grain. Craving pasta? Invest in a spiral slicer to make noodles out of zucchini, then top with your favorite sauce and even meatballs--but no cheese. (Cheese, although it is not a starch, is restricted on this diet. Milk, however, is okay.)

Not Atkins

    Most low-carb diets, such as the Atkins Diet, identify beans and fruits as starch and place them off limits. Not Sobieraj's plan. Beans and fruit are low-glycemic carbohydrates despite their high starch content, meaning they do not cause stressful blood sugar spikes like white flour and sugar do. Therefore, they do not place high stress on the body's insulin system, according to the website for the diet. This claim is supported by a study reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition showing that beans have a slower rate of absorption (and lower glycemic index) than potatoes.

What's For Breakfast?

    Getting away from starchy breakfast favorites may be difficult at first, but the payoff of feeling full until lunch may help you change your eating habits. A study done by Dr. Wayne W. Campbell of Purdue University shows that a high-protein breakfast is more satisfying and sustaining than a high-carbohydrate one. Try nut butter on whole grain toast, eggs and vegetables or a high-protein smoothie.

Benefits

    The No Starch Diet includes and encourages a consumption of a wide variety of whole foods, many of which are highly restricted on other low-carbohydrate diets.

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