'Cookie' test helps identify body's ability to process starch

Place a cookie (such as ice cream biscuits or water crackers) in your mouth and start chewing, while looking at your watch. When do you start to see sweetness? This will show how well your body processes carbohydrates or turns it into fat.

If it takes less than 14 seconds for the sweetness to appear, you can follow a high carbohydrate diet, but if it takes more than 30 seconds, you don't metabolize carbohydrates effectively and therefore may accumulate more calories than they do.

Try putting a cracker in your mouth and start chewing, while looking at your watch to determine your ability to handle carbohydrates.

What's going on? A few lucky people can eat a lot of food without accumulating fat - because their bodies can handle them very effectively - others cannot. According to Dr. Sharon Maolem, a Canadian geneticist and father of crackers , this test shows which group you fall into, and may help explain why you are always so struggling with your weight.

Although science is still unclear, this involves amylase , an enzyme in saliva; It breaks down starch into sugars for the body to use as energy.

Some people have more than 50 times more amylase, making it easier to degrade carbohydrates, which is why the food tastes sweeter faster.

If you don't convert carbohydrates so well, reduce the amount of carbohydrates such as rice, bread and pasta and replace it with lots of high-fiber vegetables.