Potato chips, french fries, ice cream: "Many people think they have problems with high-carbohydrate foods, controlling the amounts they eat," she says.

He said that even though "high-carbohydrate foods ordinarily make people feel sleepy, patients with winter depression are activated by carbohydrates instead of being sedated."

But some diet experts who have been extolling the health benefits of low-fat, high-carbohydrate foods are now backtracking.

You eat no high-carbohydrate foods during this time.

In prehistory, high-carbohydrate foods were of intermittent, seasonal availability.

You may be able to reduce this side effect by decreasing the amount of high-carbohydrate foods you eat, such as pasta, breads, and rice.

This can be accomplished by not fasting for long periods, and eating high-carbohydrate food.

When given high-carbohydrate foods supple-mented with tryptophan, which the body converts to serotonin, the ex-smokers were able to stay off cigarettes.

A number of new studies show that many high-carbohydrate foods like potatoes are also high in weight-controlling "resistant starch."

"We were stunned to see that the females ate more high-carbohydrate bland food after nicotine withdrawal than the males did," says Dr. Grunberg.