[Urbane Guerrilla]

Just dipped into page one of the thread, SG, but take a try at aubergines Parmigiana or lasagna or other pasta -- preferably in whole wheat for fiber's effect in easing your blood glucose rise and your body's subsequent effort to deal with it. There's a couple veg right there, with the tomato along with the aubergine. [Eggplant to the Yanks.] See if you enjoy the dishes.

Without fiber along, white flour and products made from it metabolize about as fast as sugar does, and your system is promptly full of your cells' basic fuel, glucose. Lots of blood glucose tells your pancreas to make with the insulin, and in corresponding amounts. Sure, it controls the blood glucose all right, by telling your fat cells to store that glucose -- stored as fat. But with plenty of fiber in play there too, the starch carbs enter your body from your digestion only slowly, and there's a lot less glucose rise for the pancreas to regulate at any one time: a lot less insulin gets pumped and a lot less of a signal to store glucose as fat is given.