Carbohydrates....again.

In light of my last post about the food industry, and after doing extensive research, I've realized a lot about society.


 A large percentage of the population is overweight and obese, yet nobody sees the insanity of the typical American diet. It's filled with meat, dairy, fats and oils. As soon as somebody wants to make a change in their diet, the first instinct they have is to cut out carbs. Society has trained us to fear carbohydrates. It's a common misconception that carbs make you fat. I even thought that for a while, and I'm pretty sure I talked about it in a few older posts. Then I asked myself this; why would it make sense to cut out carbs when your main form of energy preferred by your body are carbs? You'll eventually starve your body of it's most valued macronutrient and yes you'll lose weight but the reason for the weight loss is loss of water weight, because we all know that water is stored in our muscles. Let's say you start a low carb diet and follow it for 6 months. Yes, you will lose weight because you are depriving yourself so far that it will make you sick enough to lose body fat. You will be in a state of ketosis. But what happens after you no longer continue the diet? All of the water weight will result in weight gain along with the increased carbohydrate intake. This will result in that person gaining all of the weight back, and maybe even then some because their body will try and make up for the deprivation they had experienced. My dad had lost a lot of weight about 10 years ago following Dr. Atkin's diet and he gained it all back. He recently just started on it again and has lost 6 pounds so far. He's addicted to fast food and junk. If the diet was so easy to follow and so sustainable, he would have kept the weight off. This is why I believe that low carb diets are bad way to lose weight or become healthier.

Bottom line: carbs are not bad, so don’t deprive yourself of what your body prefers.

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