Hi it's me again, Kirsten Plotkin. Today I want to pose
12 important questions about The Carbohydrate Addict’s
Manual that I'm sure you want answered.
1. What has enabled me to write a book of ’authority
‘on carbohydrate addiction?
First my age. I’m a spritely 69 year old who happens
to possess something that not many people can match.
First my understanding and love of history. Second, my
knowledge of some critical facts dating back over more
than forty-five years. And finally, the ability to
collect my thoughts and ideas and put them on paper.
2. With all that I knew, how could I let it happen to
me?
How could I spend 20 years being overweight, frozen in
indecision and locked in despair?
My mistake was to listen to experts when what I call
my innate “Bull Dust” barometer was screaming at me:
this is all wrong!
3. Could it be that my mistakes are also your
mistakes?
You see I listened to the wrong people till it was
almost too late. They were the ‘experts’, most other
people listened to them with reverence. How could
I be right and they be wrong?
4. Why did it take me twenty years to act?
Like you, I wanted to believe these people. They
laughed at the past and what they said seemed so
clever and right. It was new and modern and I was
seduced by words like green and healthy diets and
calories and detox. I lost my way and completely
forgot what I knew. Anyway, surely they knew better
than me?
5. What finally brought me to my senses?
One of the benefits of growing older is that you
become more skeptical. You look down your telescope
and see how it was before. You have had time to
learn that it’s not about what people claim, it’s
about where their claims originate and what they
are based on. You begin to realize that 'experts'
are not always expert and they do do not always
know more than you do.
6. Why is my information more correct than those
other people’s?
I remember how it all began and who started it. I
know why there’s an obesity epidemic today and why
carbohydrate addiction is equally critical. If
others are aware of it they are certainly not
talking about it. When Carbohydrate addicts are
talked about or written about today, it’s
invariably in the context of “the right diet”
when, it should be about ‘curing the addiction’.
Until that is changed nothing will change.
7. How can I be so sure I’m right?
When we think of other common addictions like
tobacco and alcohol we don’t think about ways to
live a healthier life using those substances, we
think about how we can cure the addiction. That
same rule does not apply to carbohydrates.
Instead, when we think of carbohydrate addiction
we think about what is the right diet that can
fit in with our cravings for carbohydrate. The
word addiction rarely enters into that equation.
8. Why do people skirt the subject of
carbohydrate addiction?
In the past people used to skirt the subject of
tobacco and alcohol addiction. For a long time,
people were not even convinced that these were
genuine addictions. We all witnessed the power
of vested interests when the tobacco industry
was finally called to account.
9. How did they get away with it for so long?
There were too many ‘experts’ and corporations
promoting their own research about the safety of
smoking in moderation. We are human. We always
listen to the message we want to believe. As
addicts we become co-conspirators. That’s how
addiction works and how we are so easily
manipulated by the the ‘experts!
10. How important is carbohydrate addiction
compared to other addictions?
They are equally important. An addiction is
just that. An unstoppable compulsion over which
you have little or no control. All that changes
is the substance to which you are hooked.
11. What is the greatest handicap to a cure?
At present, carbohydrate addiction is in a
special category. It is not yet taken seriously.
The moment somebody puts focus on the word
addiction, in relation to carbohydrate, the
immediate question should be: How do we cure it?
But that’s when the subject of carbohydrate
addiction becomes a problem. Not to people
like us - the addicts, - but to all those vested
interests who profit from the addiction and want
nothing to interfere with that.
12. What can YOU expect to learn from ME?
I’ll show you why you are addicted. Who and
what caused it, and why it continuous to this
day. Unless you know and understand that, you
will never be fully ready to change your
lifestyle and overcome your addiction. And
yes, you will overcome the addiction because
you will be ready. You will realize that soon
the cravings will be gone and as a by-product,
so will the weight - for good.
The book, The Carbohydrate Addicts Manual,
will be published soon. For more information
please visit my blog.
http:www.thecarbohydrateaddictsdiet.com
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