119 Chapter 12 – Carbohydrates: using GL to sort the good, the bad & the suicidal No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office. George Bernard Shaw If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. Unknown My interest is psychophysiology( my daughter thought this made me a total psycho physiologist) where the psychology of‘ food choice’ meets the physiology of hunger, taste and fattening foods. In this chapter I am going to put on my medico hat and drill down on food choice as it relates to the carbohydrate food group. To illustrate the issues around food choice I could use any food group, so why pick this one? As I outlined in the previous chapter, alcohol intake is on the decline anyway and we are already eating less fat. Besides I have never met a fat person who did not know they should minimize saturated fats in their diet. I can deal with the key issue with protein in one sentence: Eat more of the low fat forms to help fill you up so it is psychologically easier to eat less of the more fattening foods. Carbohydrate has snuck under the radar and so if we were to target one macronutrient food group I pick carbohydrate. While this chapter will talk about which carbohydrates are less fattening, it is limited to carbohydrates and foods containing carbohydrates which constitutes only a part of balanced dietary intake. For those of you wanting advice on a comprehensive diet I would recommend you have a look at the The CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet by