| Kaneman! said: What are the poisons then? Starch and saccharose? And why are those poisons? |
It's refined carbs. It's taking the carbs out of their natural state and turning them into a highly refined product. Eating a potato is healthy (only made potentially unhealthy by what you put on it). Eating a potato chip is unhealthy. They're both a starch, but one is a natural and unrefined starch, the other is a highly refined product that taxes the body.
Here's another example: Eating fruit is incredibly good, drinking fruit juice is not. The fibre and protein in whole fruit slows its absorption and lets the body get the sugar and nutrition naturally; fruit juice is a refined product that typically contains no fibre and hits the body way too fast and hard and taxes the body as it absorbs it.
If you're eating a wide variety of whole plant foods, you almost can't do it wrong. If you're eating highly refined products, you almost can't do it right.
