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the fire – you burn it very quickly and then you are hungry again. So what do
you do? You crave more starch.

In a Banting paradigm, it’s very important to eliminate starch. There is no
nutritional value in starch, so all it does is fill you up temporarily. It’s the
government’s way of feeding people cheaply.

Starch is the reason we have the diabetic epidemic today, because too
many people are having too much sugar, and starch is pure sugar. Banting,
therefore, preaches that carbs in the form of starch is just diabetes on a
plate. It doesn’t matter if the rice and the bread is brown or white – it is
starch.

There is a misconception that starch keeps you full, but this is not true. What
actually keeps you full is protein, and it keeps you full for longer. By contrast,
the more starch you eat, the more you crave. There is only one way to get
your body out of the starch craving zone, and that is by eliminating it.

Let’s move onto the topic of sugar. When people say they have cravings and
they’re hungry, in 100% of cases this has got to do with the times they eat
and what they are eating.

So for example when you start your day with a starch, your cereal is
converted to sugar very quickly and then used by your body as fuel. By
contrast, when you start your day with yoghurt and some fruit or a protein
shake or scrambled eggs and tomato, your body takes longer to convert it to
sugar. So what happens is it keeps you fuller for longer – because it’s actually
the protein that keeps you full, not the starch (as we said earlier).

If you opted for that starch for breakfast which has been converted really
quickly, you now have a craving. So when the mid-morning food trolley at
work rolls by with muffins, rusks and biscuits, you grab some because you are

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