Food, as you know, can help make you healthy, trim, and attractive... or into a grossly overweight stay-puffed marshmallow man or woman.

What you may not also know is that food directly impacts your mood, and the extent to which you are able to have a positive impact on others.

Food is a drug that you take as many times per day as you eat. It deeply impacts the chemistry and functioning of your entire body. There are probably hundreds of things involving food that you could modify to change the impact it has on you, but I'm going to try to focus mainly on one: how food changes your insulin level.

When you eat carbohydrates -- from simple sugars, to complex carbs, like wheat -- your pancreas releases insulin to metabolize it. When you eat pure sugar or other easily digested carbohydrates, your blood sugar levels rise very rapidly, and cause the pancreas to release more insulin than necessary to metabolize what's there. In a way, it's like your pancreas is guessing that if you're wolfing down sugar that fast, you're probably going to continue to do so. So, in it's anticipation, it releases a bit too much insulin, which causes your blood sugar level to be too low... triggering your hunger and causing you to eat again.

This little cycle will make you fat... very fat. But, moreover, what really concerns me is that large amounts of insulin in your blood stream have significant psychological effects.

Remember those little amino acid transport molecules I mentioned back in Secret #3? Those little 'ships' which bring certain amino acids through your blood/brain barrier? Well, it turns out that these ships are not only limited in quantity... but that they can be 'selective'. They can choose to transport certain amino acids and not others. And guess what? When these little transport molecules are exposed to insulin, the insulin basically tells them 'hey... don't transport ANY amino acids into the brain except for tryptophan'. Unless you have really screwed up brain chemistry, this is not the most beneficial thing for someone wanting to create an irresistible mindset.

Tryptophan, you see, is the raw material the brain uses to synthesize serotonin. We all need a little serotonin to remain calm and happy. But too much serotonin makes you drowsy, blank and spacey. For instance, pot smoking makes you release a significant amount of tryptophan. People who smoke pot, as you may know, are easily amused by everything. Everything is funny to them, since everything becomes so incredibly difficult, now that they have the capacity of a sea monkey. Putting a cap back on a coke bottle becomes a monumental task. It's so funny, funny, funny, indeed.

What a crock of bullshit. It's funny if you have the mindset of a six year old, but really, excess serotonin, from what you eat, or drugs you do... whatever... is not exactly something which is going to help you blissfully connect with anyone but a loser.

As someone on the path to irresistibility, the secret is to minimize your insulin release. Again, insulin makes you fat. Insulin makes you stupid. Insulin puts you to sleep. Insulin makes you resistible. (In fact, on a molecular level in your body, when you release too much insulin for too long, your cells actually begin to be resistant to insulin itself -- let that be a strange reminder to you of just how resistible insulin makes you in the grander scheme of things)

So how do we go about minimizing our insulin release?

I'll give you three inside secrets.

1. First of all, some of the sagely advice I've already given in Secret #5, will help to deeply regulate your insulin release. The right kinds and the right amounts of fiber slow down  how smoothly sugar hits your bloodstream.

For instance, on the same day I wrote this particular report, I didn't follow my diet all that well... I pigged out on pizza and ice cream -- both of which contain lots of carbs. The kind of ice cream I had, in fact, was a triple carb hit. There was the ice cream itself, and it was also full of caramel and toffee. Oooh.

Usually, within a half an hour or so of eating such a high carb meal, I'll feel myself become drowsy and dumb. However, today I did something different. Before munching away, I had a serving of a supplemental fiber drink. (It was High Fiber Complex, from Life Services Supplements -- although I believe that even a plain psyllium only based fiber drink may have had the results I'm about to mention) And guess what? I didn't get the extreme urge to snooze that I usually get. In fact, the only dips in energy I had lasted just a few seconds versus a few minutes or a few hours, like it normally would. All day today my energy has been consistently high, despite a larger than normal carb intake.

This is probably the easiest way to reduce this nasty effect within your body. It's the easiest, but ultimately, the further tips I'm about to give should be heeded. They're just better for you overall.

2. Lower your carb intake. Period. If you're like most people, you eat far too many carbohydrates. Pasta, bread, pastries, chips, etc. These things are all against you and your life as an irresistible person. Eat less of them.

Specifically, avoid what are called 'high glycemic index' foods. These are foods that, during lab testing, have been showed to cause the greatest and fastest increases of blood sugar within people (and thus the greatest and fastest increases in attractiveness destroying insulin!).

Click here for a  fantastic list of several hundred foods and their glycemic index, compiled by Rich Mendosa. You want to stick to the carbs with the lowest glycemic indexes.

Scroll down his page about halfway to the "GI-based" list, and you'll find all of the foods sorted by their glycemic index, lowest to highest.

You'll see that pure sucrose (table sugar), on this list, has a glycemic index of 137. That's like the pure crack cocaine of sugars -- raising your blood sugar level hellishly fast. Anything lower than 137 is absorbed slower than sucrose, anything above 137, causes a greater release in blood sugar.

Believe it or not, parsnips, maltose, maltodextrin, and non-dairy frozen tofu dessert, all raise your blood sugar level faster than pure glucose! God!

On the other hand, something low on the list, like organic agave nectar, has a GI of just 14. That means that it causes blood sugar increases about 1/10th as fast, or you could also say 'as bad', as glucose. That's actually not too bad at all. Hell, it's good.

Fructose here is at 32. Just to let you know, fructose isn't known to adversely affect anybody, so it's safe to say that anything at a GI of 32 or less is pretty safe. 

2a. The nutritional company I mention throughout many secrets involving health and well-being, Life Services Supplements, has started a line of "Keto" foods and formulas. They're foods and formulas that, if made normally, would be made almost completely of carbohydrate. But instead, they've engineered them so that they're almost completely devoid of carbs -- instead, providing a large amount of protein. They have Keto Pancake mix, Keto Syrup, Keto Bread mix, Keto Muffin Mix, and Keto Shakes. Pancakes and syrup with almost no carbohydrates? When I was first reading about these products, I thought they might have been kidding. I mean, it just doesn't seem right. In any case, I haven't yet tried these products, but will do so soon -- and report the results here. Feel free to send in your own reports on how good or bad they are.

3. Consider adopting a quality, low-carb diet.

I recommend that irresistible folks follow, as best they can, The Zone by Barry Sears.

Barry Sears is famous for creating various cancer treatments, including AZT (which is now used to treat AIDs).

Despite his famous pharmacology background, he maintains that your diet is the ultimate drug -- one that can either infinitely degrade or infinitely enhance your life. He agrees with what I say here about diet, so he's obviously right about this.

He has very ingeniously incorporated the latest nutritional information known -- about carbohydrates, protein, and fat -- to be able to get you to VERY reliably release just the right amount of insulin, and other hormones that affect your well-being.

I'll tell you the truth -- when I'm most able to accurately follow the guidelines set forth in The Zone, I feel better than I have in my life. I feel very, very good. Yes...good. Clear, confident, and energized steadily. It's a very nice diet. Additionally, The amount of zip and lucidity you get from combining The Zone with Secrets #3 and #4 is on the level of unbelievable.

Unique in the diet industry, too, is that Barry Sears actually constantly updates his diet according to the latest advances revealed in both his own research and the research of other nutritional researchers. It's great that he's doing this. He's kind of like a computer programmer, in a way. You can update your diet, according to his diet updates, and actually 'upgrade' your own body chemistry. Brilliant!

The best single book I've read on how to practically implement The Zone is 'Mastering The Zone'. I highly recommend this book.

My own little secret method for implementing The Zone is this: Get a copy of this book on tape. Just pop it into a portable walkman, and actually go food shopping, each time, playing this tape. Eventually, you'll just 'get' all of the information. After a few shopping journeys like this, the whole thing will make sense to you, and you'll be shopping zone and cooking zone as easy as 1-2-3. This is really a great learning method.

I have another secret for you. Right now, you can get the several Zone books on tape for free (well, actually, for a cent, plus shipping and handling). Just join the 'The Audio Book Club', which gives you 4 tape sets for just a penny. Go to their site at www.audiobookclub.com> and choose "The Zone Audio Collection" as one of your selections. You'll get the original "The Zone" book on cassette, which will give you much of the background to The Zone. It'll really convince you the importance of the diet. If you're an athlete, it'll also provide you with some important information you won't find elsewhere. More importantly, you'll get "Mastering The Zone", which will help you to easily implement this masterful way of eating. You'll want to listen to "The Zone" itself perhaps once, but listen to "Mastering The Zone" again and again to get the maximum benefit.

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PS -- I mention a few other useful selections to get at the Audio Book Club in Secret #21, as part of your homework in your continuing quest for irresistibility. Be sure to add them to your initial 4 for a penny order!