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Hi! I’m Dr. Judi Hollis and you have tuned in to my blog titled “Dr. Hollis Weight
Loss Solace” From time to time I’ll be going through the newspapers and bringing
you various new and interesting information about eating and dieting. Though I am not
a nutritionist, my main focus is psychological but from the early days back in ‘75 when
I created the nation’s first eating disorder unit, I was one of the early people talking
about the evils of sugar and refined carbohydrates. William Dufty had written Sugar Blues which
was quite impactful on many of us, and we already knew that we had an intolerance to
sugar, that we would go through all kinds of withdrawals when they took sugar away.
And we also found out that when we had sugar, we wanted more. Now that’s not to say that
today I am completely opposed to sugar for anybody. But just to know its interesting
“weighty” properties. Well for years, we were talking about “hey, potatoes are
okay, that isn’t a refined carbohydrate; it’s a natural carbohydrate. ” and we
also said that the only thing fattening about a potato was all the stuff you put on it:
the fat, the butter, and the sour cream. We even said that a potato is very healthy with
as much Vitamin C as an orange, so I was pretty much promoting potatoes as quite okay, though
a sweet potato would be even better. But that was until recently now that they’ve come
out with more evidence that potatoes actually spike blood glucose levels, create an excessive
pancreatic reaction to over produce insulin to put us in that addiction cycle. So what
many of us new any about not having potatoes even though they were so highly supported
by the food industry and nutrition industry now medical science is coming around more
and more to what our experience told us and what we always knew. So for each of you as
it is recommended in overeaters anonymous, as we say: avoid your individual binge foods
so if potatoes has been one of your binge foods in the past, it’s time to stay away.
And now you have the evidence.