45% restrict processed flour..and feed their kids the old meat and 3 veg..how cruel
What utter rubbish! There are no essential nutrients in carb which cannot be gained from elsewhere! We don't feed our children starchy carbs. One of my kids is mildly gluten intolerant so giving her bread or pasta on a daily basis would be sheer stupidity. They have a cooked breakfast in a morning and fresh veg, fruit, meat or fish, yoghurt and cheese. If they want the odd bit of cake or biscuits then we let them. In our house biscuits and cake are available and we have no restrictions but our kids moderate themselves. Generally they prefer carrot sticks and baby bels. Diet doc feeds his kids lchf and they are fine. Sloppy reporting insenses me and this is definitely a case of sloppy reporting!
doug it depends on the DNA in your family, some can eat carbs all day long without any negative effect..
it's not hard looking at a school yard of kids and picking out the ones that are having trouble with carbs
Children need a healthy well balanced diet, it's wrong on so many levels to deprive them of foods that are healthy and to give them food hang-ups at such an early age.
My great granny smoked and drank like a trooper till the ripe old age of 96 almost 97......Well, I'm watching 113 years of life between my mum and my daughter stuffing down treacle syrup sponge as we type.
about 2/3 of the population seem to have trouble with carbs at the moment, it's the minority that can eat them without effectMaybe Australian school-yards are different, in the UK I'd say it's simply too much food, and high GI, and over processed.
As you rightly say, it's in the dna, and you can't say everyone can't eat carbs, just because your particular dna doesn't tolerate it.
doug it depends on the DNA in your family, some can eat carbs all day long without any negative effect..
it's not hard looking at a school yard of kids and picking out the ones that are having trouble with carbs
Actually very little of their time is spend running around at school. Mostly they are sedentary! Ask any primary teacher. It gets worse at secondary! Then they often go to an after school club where lots of arts and crafts are available but depending on the club facilities not much outdoors stuff, especially in the winter. At secondary they have hours of homework or they do where I teach. Most of my Tutees are into the electronic stuff and spend all their spare time communicating through that. I also low carb. In our supposed healthy canteen, there are many days when I'm unable to buy something as its either pasta, jacket potatoes or sandwiches.Whilst I am an advocate of a low carb lifestyle for control of blood sugars and weight loss, many T1s are diagnosed following a prolonged period of high blood sugars and significant weight loss.
In this scenario, and that of being an active child or member of the general public, carb reduction is not the be all and end all. If you are active enough to use them, swapping the type of carbs may be beneficial but cutting them out completely isn't necessary.
In the scenario where kids and adults are extremely sedentary and not spending all their time running around school fields and gardens then I don't see the issue with reducing carb intake, and making whatever carbs are ingested much lower go, as long as appropriate means are used to ensure no lack of vitamins, etc.
The LC diet group preferred butter but also vegetables more commonly than the other
respondents and were less likely to use vegetable bread spreads. The followers of the LC diet and the other
respondents agreed about the healthiness of whole grain, vegetable oils, vegetables, and fruits and berries, and
of the harmfulness of white wheat. Compared to the other respondents, the LC diet group was less likely to
regard eating vegetable/low-fat products as important, more likely to regard eating healthy carbohydrates,
and the health and weight-managing aspects of foods, as important and placed less value on sociability and
pleasures connected to food. The results showed varying food choices among the followers of the LC diet:
some even reported that they were not avoiding carbohydrates, sugars, and white wheat in their diet.
What utter rubbish! There are no essential nutrients in carb which cannot be gained from elsewhere!
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