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always been trained to think, right? Our fellow in the nursing home who ate 25 eggs a day ate very little of anything else! There were little or no carbohydrates consumed with his 25 eggs every day. So that’s how his cholesterol levels remained nearly perfect despite consuming so much of such a high-cholesterol food! 5) Have all the fatty, juicy steaks you want but pass on the baked potatoes. 6) Have thick, rich, creamy Ranch dressing or vinegar and oil on your salad, but pass on the croutons and the diet raspberry dressing. 7) Take some time to learn the carbohydrate content of all the foods that you would normally include in your daily menus. I’ve included an abbreviated carbohydrate chart in the back of this book; however, please pick up a more complete Carbohydrate Counter book of some kind at your local book store and take some time to study it well so that you can make good selections at the spur of the moment when you’re eating out. You may even want to make flash cards to carry with you for a few months until you really know your foods well without having to look them up. 8) Have a great, thick, juicy hamburger, or even a double, with cheese, but take off the bun and pass on the fries! For instance, according to Burger King’s dietary statistics, a Burger King Double Whopper with cheese has 54 grams of carbs with the bun but only 4 grams without the bun! Oh yes! By the way, you can lose weight this way too! By restricting our carbohydrate intake to 20-30 grams of carbohydrates a day, my wife and I can drop an average of about 1 to 2 pounds a week. It was even more in the beginning. This principle is the driving force behind the Atkins diet, the Protein Power diet and other low-carbohydrate approaches to weight loss. Other popular diets often work because their recommendations include mostly
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