Sublime

Even vegetarians can suffer high rates of chronic disease, though, if they eat a lot of processed foods.

The empowering news here is that we can mimic many of these benefits in part by keeping tight reins on our bodies’ production of insulin. We can do this by engaging in brief periods of fasting (which I will introduce in chapter 6), avoiding rapidly digesting sugars, and demoting starches (especially processed grains) from mainstays in our diets to

“there is no significant evidence for concluding that dietary saturated fat is associated with an increased risk of CHD [coronary heart disease] or CVD [cardiovascular disease].”

Traditional higher-carb diets are still low in sugar. Traditional diets include far less “acellular” carbohydrate—sugar and starch that have been removed from the cells they were contained in. Think whole fruit vs. fruit juice, or sprouted bread compared to pulverized and powdered “whole-wheat” bread.