Conventional wisdom persuades us to believe that grains: wheat, rice, cereal, bread, pasta, etc, are the grains of life, the foundation of a ‘healthy diet’. Government dietary recommendations insist that we should consume 6-11 daily servings, and that carbohydrates should make up roughly 55-75% of the diet.
We are discovering now that carbohydrates can be unhealthy for you, and many individuals have even notably developed gluten allergies: giving rise to the current gluten-free market. The trend advises staying away from highly processed carbohydrates, and involves consuming more fresh fruits, vegetables, and meat. The recommendation to make carbohydrates a staple in our diets may not have been such a wise one, it has even been called the:
Worst mistake in the history of the human race - UCLA evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond
Chronic inflammation may likely be the result of excess carbohydrates. Excess inflammation can lead to a variety of health impairments: ulcers, arthritis, Crohn’s disease and Colitis, which are both inflammatory bowel diseases, even lead to cancer. Excess carbohydrates in your diet can cause an increase in insulin production, fat storage, and even lead to risk of heart disease, according to Mark Sisson, author of The Primal Blueprint, and a variety of other scientific studies.
Are All Carbs Bad?
Carbohydrates can also be found in fruits and vegetables, so it is important to distinguish between good carbohydrates and bad. Unrefined carbohydrates are rich in fiber, vitamins and minerals. Such as beans, oatmeal, bran cereal, millet, barley, couscous, wheat, vegetables, lentils, herbs, lamb, and poultry. Refined carbohydrates, or simple carbs, have undergone manufacturing or repackaging processes, and they are the worst form of carbs. Refined carbohydrates strip the bran and germ from the whole grain, these types of carbs can interfere with your sugar levels, and they may even be worse for your health than saturated fats it turns out.
Fruits and vegetables contain complex carbohydrates, they contain sugar molecules, which take longer for the body to break down into glucose. One study has suggested that women who eat more white bread, white rice, pizza, and other carbohydrate-rich foods that are rapidly absorbed by the body, have more than twice the risk of developing heart disease than women who eat less of those foods. The higher the sugar to fiber ratio, the worst the carbohydrate seems to be for you.
Common simple carbohydrates:
soda
artificial syrups
sugar
candy
white rice
white bread
white pasta
pastries
When you reduce your consumption of grains and sugars, and opt for animals and plants, your levels of insulin and glucagon will be in an ideal balance, which enables your body to burn fatty acids as your preferred fuel source instead, says Primal Blueprint author, Mark Sisson (2012). Excess insulin production from a high sugar diet, requires that you eat multiple times daily in order to boost your crashing blood glucose levels (Sisson, 2012). This goes against the conventional wisdom that carbohydrates should make up a large portion of our daily diet.
American science writer Gary Taubes, addresses the issue of society long believing that dietary fat was the cause of heart disease, and so we should eat low fat diets and replace the low fat with carbohydrates, and that obesity is simply and only about energy balance, calories in versus calories out.
These two ideas…become the foundation of everything that happened since the 60s…evidence never came around [to support those hypotheses],..the existence of these hypotheses were reason enough to believe that they were true. - Gary Taubes
Taubes, Sisson, and other experts in the field of nutrition, assert that obesity is crucially associated with hormonal regulation of the fat tissue, and not just energy alone. And that people on diets high in simple carbohydrates and highly processed carbs, are at higher risk of developing health issues such as cancer or heart disease.
For the last 50 years the American Heart Association has been giving the wrong advice, and they are not held accountable. There are simple ideas about nutrition that have never been fully embraced. Today many medical specialists who treat inflammation-rooted illness, will commonly insist that diet plays little to no part in the onset of symptoms, severity, or healing for the patient. Doctors are merely treating symptoms and creating customers, instead of looking at underling causes of illness. This isn’t surprising considering that most doctors take a limited amount of official training on nutrition.
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