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It's an interesting one this, and you probably need to look not a lot further than body building.It would be interesting for a study of how some adults with T1 are lowering the carbs and yet children (parents) are still being told to have large amount of carbs.....
When undergoing a strength phase in body building, the quickest way to build muscle is with protein and carbs, not protein and fat.
If you look at most of the diets that are prescribed when people undertake personal training, they are usually a short period of fat burning (2-4 weeks) which is very similar to the cutting diet that body builders use pre-competition, cutting out carbs in general, and then move onto a diet that contains carbs in a low GI form to induce a measured insulin reaction (i.e. sweet potato, brown rice*, etc) to undertake a muscle building phase. These two processes are then cycled. The key is managing hormone production (both Insulin and Human Growth Hormone).
In children, where growth is critically important, carbs are still considered to be an important part of that equation.
*I know that GI of Brown Rice is almost exactly the same as white rice but, well, you know...