Q. Your radio program on Why We Get Fat with Gary Taubes may have changed our lives. As overweight middle-agers, we need to slim down.
I bought his book the next day and reading it has given me a new perspective on food. We lost weight in the past with both the South Beach and Atkins diets but we never really got the “bad carbs” point. As a result, we put all the weight we’d lost right back on again once we were off the diets.
This has to be a lifestyle change. Can you recommend a food list for a high-protein low-carb diet for vegans?
A. Following a low-carb diet is more challenging for vegans, but it can be done. Avoid bread, candy, crackers, cereal, pasta, potatoes, rice and sugar. Eat plenty of vegetables such as asparagus, beet greens, bok choy, broccoli, cauliflower, celery, eggplant, okra, spinach and summer squash. Nuts, soy and other beans and legumes are good sources of protein.
Anyone who would like to listen to our hour-long interview with Gary Taubes about Why We Get Fat can find it at www.peoplespharmacy.com.
