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Another cr*p newspaper article.
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An interesting mix of sense and silliness.
Type1Lad
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carbs FTW
AloeSvea
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Many thanks for posting that @carol43. Hmmm - yes, it's a question of balance in the argument, and some dodgey generalisations going on there, for sure. No wonder we live in 'interesting times' when it comes to nutrition!
Saying former humans eating carbs "all the time" was just ridiculous! I know what lengths some of my ancestors had to go through to make the berries they had available to eat non-poisonous and edible! They certainly weren't eating them "all the time"! They did eat sweet potato, and as a staple of their diet, but they weren't like modern-day sweet potatoes as far as I can gather. (A different kind than the one we have today, which is probably been bred to be sweeter - yum!). And if anyone has eaten taro, for instance - there is only so much of it you can eat! Before being full, which was the whole point really. And yeah - nothing wrong with eating healthy starchy veg in a generally low-carb food environment. Bit different when we have KFC and McDonalds down the road and not a sweet potato or taro garden!
Nothing about our toxic food environment, and what it means to eat a high-carb diet in that food environment in that article - no.
But - at least the writer did say that low-carb was good for diabetics and for folk with 'certain health conditions' (that was very big of the Independent! lol.)
But - nothing about what could be bad for us about legumes (the leaky gut syndrome - me and Mr Svea argue about this all the time too - I think there could be truth in it, he does not). Nothing about the overall effect of grains on humans generally. (Again, the gut permeability idea. Which is partly where stomach bloating and digestion issues associated with certain foods, comes in.) (This is also tied into the gut greeblies that Leech does refer to ,that we need for good health so much which they are finding out far more about now.) (We don't need grains to have great gut greeblies!)
And what is the overwhelming knowledge and research that says high-carb foods are not fattening? (Lest we forget - sugar is a high carb food.) Joe Leech, the dietician-writer, quotes one source, one article! I rather like Stephen Guyanet - but I'd more happily listen to Gary Taubes on the subject! (Because his figures made sense to me too.) And I trust my own eyes. My own big gut before, and now my friends on high carb diets with really big guts. Big guts = bad health too often, as a metabolic syndrome/diabetic can truly know!
Thanks again for the link Carol - a good meaty (carby?) read
Saying former humans eating carbs "all the time" was just ridiculous! I know what lengths some of my ancestors had to go through to make the berries they had available to eat non-poisonous and edible! They certainly weren't eating them "all the time"! They did eat sweet potato, and as a staple of their diet, but they weren't like modern-day sweet potatoes as far as I can gather. (A different kind than the one we have today, which is probably been bred to be sweeter - yum!). And if anyone has eaten taro, for instance - there is only so much of it you can eat! Before being full, which was the whole point really. And yeah - nothing wrong with eating healthy starchy veg in a generally low-carb food environment. Bit different when we have KFC and McDonalds down the road and not a sweet potato or taro garden!
Nothing about our toxic food environment, and what it means to eat a high-carb diet in that food environment in that article - no.
But - at least the writer did say that low-carb was good for diabetics and for folk with 'certain health conditions' (that was very big of the Independent! lol.)
But - nothing about what could be bad for us about legumes (the leaky gut syndrome - me and Mr Svea argue about this all the time too - I think there could be truth in it, he does not). Nothing about the overall effect of grains on humans generally. (Again, the gut permeability idea. Which is partly where stomach bloating and digestion issues associated with certain foods, comes in.) (This is also tied into the gut greeblies that Leech does refer to ,that we need for good health so much which they are finding out far more about now.) (We don't need grains to have great gut greeblies!)
And what is the overwhelming knowledge and research that says high-carb foods are not fattening? (Lest we forget - sugar is a high carb food.) Joe Leech, the dietician-writer, quotes one source, one article! I rather like Stephen Guyanet - but I'd more happily listen to Gary Taubes on the subject! (Because his figures made sense to me too.) And I trust my own eyes. My own big gut before, and now my friends on high carb diets with really big guts. Big guts = bad health too often, as a metabolic syndrome/diabetic can truly know!
Thanks again for the link Carol - a good meaty (carby?) read
