Why you should eat non-starchy vegetables

There are 3 macronutrients: Carbohydrate, Protein and Fat.

All vegetables are carbohydrates and carbohydrates turn into glucose. Protein also turns into glucose, but through a much longer process. Fats turn into fatty acids.

Here are two really important facts:

1. Glucose requires insulin to be stored as body fat. 
2. Fatty acids require glycerol-3-phosphate to be stored as body fat. 

In other words: If you avoid eating foods that contains glycerol-3-phosphate and foods that causes your insulin levels to increase, your body is unable to store body fat. As I said, pretty important facts.

You might have heard about glycaemic load (GL). GL is a measurements for how quickly the carbohydrate in a particular food will cause your blood sugar levels to rise, or how aggressive a food is.

Here is another important fact: Starchy vegetables are quite aggressive foods and they also contain glycerol-3-phosphate, that is, the two substances that the body needs to store body fat. That is a really good reason to avoid them, I think.

Let's focus on what we can eat instead: You can eat all the non-starchy vegetables that you want. It is not possible to over-eat non-starchy vegetables because they are so filling and you want to eat so many of them that you are too full for starch and sweeteners (more about those soon).

So, just in case you are still not convinced, here are some of the reasons for eating lots of non-starchy vegetables:

1. you avoid gaining more body fat
2. you heal your body fat metabolism so that it works to keep you slim
3. you reduce the risk of becoming insulin-resistant (type 2 diabetic)

You can read more about the two first points here, more about type 2 diabetes here and you can find a list over non-starchy vegetables in the Food list.

The above is based on Jonathan Bailor's brilliant book "The Smarter Science of Slim: What the Actual Experts Have Proven About Weight Loss, Health, and Fitness" (2012). Here is the link to www.thesmarterscienceofslim.com - it's never too later to reverse the damage to your body.