It's close to midnight and I am approaching baggage claim at the Philadelphia airport.
The flight home was delayed by severe weather and we had to stop in some small city where everything closes at 9pm along the way. I have been in airports or on the plane for the past 7 hours. I am starving!
Suddenly, like a Genie's invisible finger pointing "Come hither", an amazing smell wafts in my direction: Auntie Annie's soft pretzels!
Without thinking I wander over towards the evil Aunt Annie. Thankfully there is a crowd there all with the same thoughts I have, "I am starving and this smells amazing".
Thankfully the help behind the counter is a bit overwhelmed by the crowd. I tip my hat to Aunt Annie for giving this person a chance to be productive and move on. She'll be fine with out me and I have a hidden stash of low carb high protein bars in the car.
There but for the grace of God go I.
Hold on! Hold on!
So are carbs really as bad for you as many say? Well, yes and no.
Let's look at some culprits:
First, the evil Auntie mentioned above.
Ingredients include enriched white flower dough, fat and lots of it, salt and almost no nutritional value. Perhaps you'd like some lovely congealed "cheese" sauce on that too!
There is no denying that it tastes good, but there is also no denying that it is not a food you should eat if you are concerned about your diet or your health.
Next let's look at breakfast bars, Pop Tarts™ and Bagels.
Which one should you choose? Answer: None, because they are all about the same.
Now here is a bagel fact you may not know: Bagels are some of the most carb dense foods you can eat, typically tipping the scales at 50 or 60 grams.
Now slather that in cream cheese butter or margarine and you have the nutritional equivalent of a Wendy's triple with cheese, but without the protein.
How about pasta? Whole grain pasta eaten plain actually has some potential, but very few people eat it that way. Now let’s add some store bought sauce. You know the kind that has those little orange globules floating around in it? I wonder what that could be?
Well, it starts with and "F", ends with a "T" and has an "A" in the middle of it. Let's make it even tastier and add Alfredo sauce.
This is one case where home-made sauce can really come in handy. Cooking the tomatoes also releases the primary antioxidant, lycopene.
In my kitchen we cook the sauce from fresh tomatoes and some fat free pasta. Add fresh basil and oregano from the garden, and when it has cooled to the point where it is "very warm" to touch we add 2 capsules of Immune Booster to it.
It gives it a beautiful deep red color similar to a wine based sauce and loads it up with extra antioxidants.
How about oat bran muffins, zucchini bread or Special K™ cereal?
In spite of the industry-sponsored studies that show that whole grains are good for you (and they are, they are just not in the foods that are being sold!) the above choices should be treated as dessert and not main staples of a meal. They are calorie dense and in some cases, fat dense.
And then there is the special case of Special K™. If you read the label it doesn't look too bad at first: Some protein, not too much sugar, not too high on the carbs, either.
But, you have to include the sugars and the "other" carbs which, in this case, come from refined white rice, completely devoid of fiber. What do we have now? A recipe for a fast sugar and insulin spike with no lasting energy.
Translation: you will probably be hungry and tired very soon if this is your mainstay. And let's also include portion size. The label lists the serving size as one half cup. How much is that in human terms? Take your hand and cup it the way you would if you were trying to drink rain water with it. Now fill it up until the cereal is falling out of the sides. Add about half again as much, and you have one half cup.
My point is that this is going to look pretty skimpy, unless you are using a mighty small bowl.
If you are going to eat cereal for breakfast I would recommend Post™ whole grain wheat and bran.
It's loaded with fiber which will slow the carb absorption and the serving size is a hefty 1 and 1/4 quarter cups. That's enough to fill a manly man's bowl and belly.
Also be aware of the “diet” cereals on the market designed to capitalize on the “low carb” craze and diet craze. Some of these have as much as 65 grams of carbs total! Now much of this is "low impact" carbs or non-absorbable sweeteners.
That will get you around the sugar/insulin spike issues, but the calories are still there and with that much non-absorbable ingredients, you better be near the bathroom!
One final point:
Since most of these cereals and grain-derived foods are not very good nutritionally, don't forget to take Monster Multi, Fish Oil, and Immune Booster to make up for what's missing. A scoop of berries won't hurt either.
More on this coming soon.
Best, Dr Dave
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