You know this bit about:
People often try to banish all carbs from their diets. As I know from personal experience, this can just make people miserable — and is therefore almost impossible to sustain.
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I do think that if people knew what a vital thing this was, they would change their mindset about it. For example, my friend is lactose and cheese intolerant. She loves cheese. But recognizes that she cant have it without bad stuff happening. There are a illion other foods she can have. Taking her intolerance seriously improves her life, making the mindset to make that choice easy
If excess carbs were presented as the danger they truly are, the danger would be seen as sufficient to stop us eating them.
After all, the media dont use this argument bout smoking or alcohol to alcoholic, do they?
We train our small children to deal with not being able to have something, why is it seen as impossible for the majority of adults to do the same?
I think the bottom line is that the carbs problem is not given the seriousness it needs, due to pressure from the food lobby. The whole carbs thing is the same as the smoking thing in the 70's.