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I read in an article that only 25% of the US population are able to handle a high carbohydrate (as in high starch) diet. Their bodies are built to handle it. For the 75%, we are a mixed type or protein type diet. That means that we are NOT able to handle large amounts of starch. I've read thru this book in the library, and compared it to the ZONE diet. Both diets replace the grains with fresh non-starch vegetables. And you have to eat plenty (~3 cups of vegetables) per meal (even breakfast!) in addition to your protein & fat. What most Americans don't do is to eat the required vegetables. If you don't eat the vegetables, then you are eating a "protein only" diet, which can only spell disaster for anyone's health. As for grass fed beef, organic chickens, what is wrong with that? If you can afford organics, organics are always better for your body, because there are no preservatives, no hormones, no antibiotics, no pesticides, used in raising the animals. The organics produce are slowly coming down in price. I suggest you check around. For people like me, who can't afford organics all the time, I try to buy as much organic as my budget allows. I follow an Asian diet now, and replacing 90% of grains with fresh vegetables that either I eat raw, or simply stirfry. So for people who can't have starch, eat the best protein you can afford, the best vegetables you can afford. Go check out your local asian grocers. Their vegetables tend to be cheaper and better in quality, simply because of the volume they sell. They also have a greater number of vegetables. Have people tried pea sprouts, snow pea shoots, water convolvus (aka ong choy, kangkung, water morning glory), chinese mustard greens, baby mustard greens, daikon sprouts, gailan, chinese red spinach (Gynura bicolor), taiwanese bokchoy, A-tsai (aka duck lettuce, as ducks and geese love this vegetable), fresh bamboo shoots, fresh arrow bamboo shoots, arrowhead vegetable, ling nut (water caltrop), taiwan lobok, korean lobok, chinese leeks and flowers, asparagus lettuce (celtuce), chinese celery (thinner than pencil stalks with lots of leaves and intense celery smell), garlic stems (wonderful mild garlic aroma), malantoh (Kalimeris indica leaves), crown daisy leaves (aka shungiku, Glebionis coronaria), taku choy (Brassica campestris L), lily bulbs, chinese youchoy, yam leaf, perilla (aka shiso, ooba), ngo gai (culantro, Eryngium foetidum), amaranth leaves, hot mint, hot basil, purple basil, basil seeds, thai eggplants, chinese eggplants, japanese or chinese cucumbers (the best ones have these big spines like a cactus and super crunchy), corkscrew vegetable (aka chinese artichoke, Stachys affinis), daikons, komatsuna (japanese mustard spinach), kabocha, big taro, little taro, nagaimo (aka wild mountain yam, chinese yam), soybean sprouts, fresh water chestnuts, fresh lotus root, fresh lotus seeds, lily bulbs, and the unbelievable number of veggies that Asians eat on a daily basis? As a diabetic and a severe alleries, I've been able to keep both under control without medication, with the large amounts of leafy greens and fresh veggies I eat every day, and good proteins, and good fats. I'm not vegan because I'm NOT one of the lucky ones who can eat lots of starch. A real change in your life requires a life style change. If this works for you, then it is something you should do for life. If it doesn't work for you in 14 days, there's no reason for you to keep doing it. The food plans are simply not for you. It doesn't mean it's bad. We are all the same on the inside, but due to our diets (eating only processed food, or lots of premade meals or not even eating), we all have DIFFERENT reactions from the same foods. May you all have great health!