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Q&A on The Carbohydrate Addict’s Manual!
Author: , September 07th, 2010

I’ve compile a Q&A which will answer

twelve important questions about

carbohydrate addicts.

Kirsten Plotkin Author

of the soon to be published

The carbohydrate addicts manual

1. What special knowledge gives me the right to write a book about carbohydrate addiction?

First my age. I’m an energetic 69 year old who happens to have something not many people can match? First my knowledge and love of history. Secondly, some facts about events that go back 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 myself join the millions of carbohydrate addicts around 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: “This is all wrong”!

3. Could it be that my mistakes in failing to recognize my carbohydrate addiction 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 begin to ask the right question about carbohydrate addiction and to link carbohydrate addicts to the obesity statistics and type2 diabetes?

Like you, I wanted to believe these people. They were about the future and what they said seemed clever and true. Like most people, I was seduced by words like new, modern, green healthy, diets, calories and detox. Like so many, I lost my way and completely forgot what I knew. In any case, surely they knew better than me?

5. What finally brought me to my senses and made me question the obvious?  It was the escalating obesity statistics, and the near epidemic type2 diabetes numbers. Most of all I think is was the shock of seeing little kids start school already obese. That had never been seen in the past.

One of the few benefits of growing older is that you become more skeptical. You can 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 not always know more than you do.

6. Why is my information about carbohydrate addicts more correct than statements and promises made by those other people?

I have an advantage. I remember how it all began and who started it. I know why today we have an obesity epidemic and why the same is true of carbohydrate addiction. When people offer advice for carbohydrate addicts today, it’s invariably done in the context of “the right diet” when instead it should be about a cure for carbohydrate addiction. Till that’s changed or you change it, you’ll continue to be one of the carbohydrate addicts.

7. How can I be so sure I’m right about carbohydrate addiction?

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 rule is ignored when it comes to carbohydrate addicts and the spread of carbohydrate addiction!

8. Why is that?

When we think of ourselves as carbohydrate addicts we are encouraged to think about what is the right diet that will fit in with our craving for carbohydrates foods. The word addiction rarely enters into that equation. So before we do anything, shouldn’t we be thinking and talking about how to cure carbohydrate addiction?

9. Why do people skirt the subject of carbohydrate addiction?

In the past people used to skirt around the subjects of tobacco and alcohol addiction. For a long time, people were not truly convinced that these were genuine addictions. Today we see the same knee jerk response from people who should know better when it comes to carbohydrate addicts and their addiction.

10. Why the reluctance to officially acknowledge that addictions, including carbohydrate addiction exists?

There were too many ‘experts’ and corporations citing their own research about the safety of smoking and drinking in moderation. Today we see the same thing happen to carbohydrate addiction. We listen to the message we want to hear. In this case the message that says carbohydrate addicts can be cured with yet another diet. That’s how all addictions thrive, including carbohydrate addiction, and how we are so easily manipulated by the ‘experts’!

11. How important is carbohydrate addiction compared to other addictions?

They are equally important. An addiction is just that. An overpowering compulsion to do, or eat, or use something over which you have no self control. The only variation is your choice of substance. The moment somebody puts the focus on carbohydrate addiction, shouldn’t the first question be: How do we cure it?  But you see, that’s when it becomes a problem… Not to people like us – the carbohydrate addicts, but to all those vested interests who profit from our addiction.

12. What can YOU expect to learn from ME about carbohydrate addiction?

I’ll show you when the groundwork that caused us all to become carbohydrate addicts was first laid. I’ll tell you what caused it and why it continues to this day. Unless you know the truth, you will never be fully ready to change your lifestyle and overcome your carbohydrate addiction. And yes, I will teach you how to overcome the addiction, never crave it again and lose the weight for good.

When you are back in control of your body, for the rest of your life, your choices might surprise you!

Kirsten Plotkin

The Carbohydrate Addicts Diet/Obesity Statistics

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