After I failed to bring down my blood pressure with fluid restriction and the no-salt diet during four months in 2002, I questioned the logic behind the relationship of salt and water to blood pressure. I decided to look into research articles for the answer. I found that hyperglycemia has an important role in deciding how our kidneys pick up both water and salt and send them into circulation.

 

Thanks to the online research from many free databases, I have been able to sample more than 1,200 articles as of this writing. To share the information with someone like you, I have organized a reading list of 1,163 articles online at www.carbohydratescankill.com for your reference.

 

Also, thanks to the convenience of the Internet I have had the privilege of enlightenment from many world-class medical and nutritional researchers and experts, just to name a few (by the alphabetical order without the individual’s title), Breton Barrier, Tom Beer, Jennie Brand-Miller, Todd Brown, Richard Feinman, Stephen Freedland, Mary Gannon, Cheryl Krone, Benoit Lamarche, Ainsley Malone, Tony Nelson, Mark Obrenovich, Walter Rocca, Alessandra Tavani, Paul Thormalley, Maarten Tushuizen, and Jeff Volek. I wish to thank them for sharing their thoughts and personal files with me. Opinions and information from all of their articles have helped me explore the role of carbohydrates in the development of many diseases. They helped me understand the global impact of carbohydrates on our health, an understanding that is very important to the practice of preventive medicine, especially in the areas of prenatal, perinatal, and pediatric care. My knowledge is far from perfect. I hope more ongoing researches will help shed additional light on how we should handle carbohydrates in our dietary recommendations especially for our children.

 

Many thanks to Ms. Jean Morris for her help me in finding the articles that I needed but could not find elsewhere.

 

I want to thank my children for patiently supporting me for my experiments. I also thank my other family members and friends for their encouragement in getting this book published.