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<blockquote data-quote="hanadr" data-source="post: 169111" data-attributes="member: 8110"><p><span style="color: #BF40FF">>>Carbs are needed for your body as fuel and to make you feel full for a longer period of time. They release sugar slowly into your system opposed to other foods...<<</span></p><p> Sorry Eiche</p><p> that just isn't so!!</p><p> there is NO scientific evidence whatsoever that we need to eat any carb at all. And yes they do release sugars in to the blood, remembering that sugar itself is a carb. Protein does too to a lesser degree. Fats don't. Even so-called slow release carbs are not really slow. Digestion of starch doesn't ever take long unless in a mixed meal.</p><p> I'm delighted that you personally have done well on a carby diet. I wish I could, but I definitely can't without increasing medication, which I'm not prepared to do.</p><p> It used to be thought, and still is in some places that the brain needs glucose. It's now known not to be true. Our brains function perfectrly well on ketones and if they do need a glucose "boost", the liver easily makes enough.</p><p> There's no need for dietary carbs at all. Any thing a carby food provides otherwise can be got elsewhere.</p><p> Hana</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hanadr, post: 169111, member: 8110"] [color=#BF40FF]>>Carbs are needed for your body as fuel and to make you feel full for a longer period of time. They release sugar slowly into your system opposed to other foods...<<[/color] Sorry Eiche that just isn't so!! there is NO scientific evidence whatsoever that we need to eat any carb at all. And yes they do release sugars in to the blood, remembering that sugar itself is a carb. Protein does too to a lesser degree. Fats don't. Even so-called slow release carbs are not really slow. Digestion of starch doesn't ever take long unless in a mixed meal. I'm delighted that you personally have done well on a carby diet. I wish I could, but I definitely can't without increasing medication, which I'm not prepared to do. It used to be thought, and still is in some places that the brain needs glucose. It's now known not to be true. Our brains function perfectrly well on ketones and if they do need a glucose "boost", the liver easily makes enough. There's no need for dietary carbs at all. Any thing a carby food provides otherwise can be got elsewhere. Hana [/QUOTE]
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