Zuleikaa, I don't know of any diet, nutrition or medical book that recommends "white" carbs, meaning white sugar, white flour and white rice. The problem with the book Metabolic Typing Diet is that it suggest a high-carbohydrate diet is the one for you if you love carbohydrates. That is nonsense. The people who love carbohydrates the most are the ones most at risk of getting a disease for the over consumption of them.

The complex carbohydrate rhetoric is not valid either, although it is the foundation for all the high-carbohydrate diet promoters like Dr. Ornish, Dr. Weil and an endless list of vegetarians.

All complex carbohydrates turn to glucose in the blood sooner or later. They keep the insulin level high and eventually lead to insulin resistance, hypoglycemia, diabetes, heart disease and cancer. Nibbling on complex carbs as recommended by many of these "experts" to ease the symptoms of hypoglycemia only leads to the progression to diabetes. The quantity eaten times the number of years equals the risk level. The 300 grams of carbohydrates as recommended by the USDA Food Guide Pyramid takes about 20 years as is clearly visible by the obese shoppers in the stores.

Non starchy vegetables have a few carbohydrates which the body can tolerate, so eating them is highly recommended. It probably would be better if there were none as the case with meat. The body can convert 58% of protein and 10% of fat to carbohydrates. The dietary requirement for eating carbohydrates is ZERO scientifically and on a practical health basis.

The complex carbs and whole grain rhetoric is NOT part of a low-carbohydrate lifestyle as proposed by Drs. Eades and Atkins. Eating just a few non starchy vegetables gives one the 20 gram limit suggested by Dr. Atkins. Most obese people find they cannot go above this limit without gaining weight. I have made it a permanent lifestyle.

Kent