Water, green vegetables, don’t we need carbohydrates for energy?
A. Most of us best base our diet on lean animal protein and vegetables, roots, seeds, fruits, nuts, and berries. Refined sugars, processed grains, hybridized grains, or low fat / high-carbohydrate meals trigger an aggressive insulin response. Two to four hours later, a stress response is demanded to bring up the blood sugar lowered by the massive insulin response. This pattern puts our immune system to sleep, melts muscles and turns them into flab around the waistline. If we eat this way before bedtime, the nighttime healing of growth and repair is hindered, and immunity is compromised. The type A blood types (30 % of Americans, mostly of Scandinavian or Japanese descent) do best with less animal protein and do well with the modern grains, wheat, corn, lentils, and peanuts. The type A’s actually handle carbohydrates quite well.
