WATER IS THE BEVERAGE OF CHOICE THAT THE BODY CRAVES!

p. 67 “The king of all sugars, the one that increases blood sugar faster than any other, is maltose, which exists in beer. Now you understand what’* behind the beer belly: The rapid rise of blood sugar caused by guzzling this beverage stimulates a corresponding rise in insulin production, which encourages storage of fat around the midsection.”

p. 88 (How to Eat in a Restaurant) “Avoid white wine, spirits, or, worst of all, beer.”

“So my eating plan’* first principle was to permit good carbohydrates (fruits, vegetables, and whole grains) and curtail the intake of bad carbohydrates (the highly processed ones, for the most part, where all the fiber had been stripped away during manufacturing).”

p. 12 “I went on the diet. I gave up bread, pasta, rice, and potatoes. No beer.”

p. 50 “And the beer, of course, is nobody’* idea of a diet drink. Maltose, the sugar in beer, has a higher glycemic index than white bread. The insulin response to it leads to the fat storage in the abdomen that we call, quite accurately, the beer belly.”

p. 56 “At the other end of the spectrum is beer. As discussed, it has a high glycemic index thanks to its main component, maltose, which is even worse than table sugar.”