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To: Arthur McGowan
Carbohydrates are poison for humans. Doesn’t matter whether sugar, starch, beans, fruit, white, brown, refined, “whole grains,” etc., etc. etc.

I agree in general, we aren't supposed to eat the vast quantities of carbs that are in our diets. But there is a difference between types. Generally carbs mixed with fiber (whole grains, vegetables, etc.) are absorbed more slowly, and don't spike blood sugar/insulin as much as much as more refined carbs. That doesn't mean eat an unlimited amount, just that given the same amount of carbs, the less processed are better.

36 posted on 08/15/2014 5:58:39 PM PDT by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!")
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To: Hugin

I’m not talking about blood glucose only, but lectins. Rice is actually the least bad grain, but all grains contain lectins, a protein. Lectins cause leaky gut, which causes chronic inflammation, which causes diabetes, heart disease, Parkinson’s (also known as Type-III diabetes), and other diseases.

Except for oil and Bobcats, N. Dakota produces almost nothing that isn’t bad for people: corn, soybeans and soybean oil, sunflower oil, flax, sugar beets, barley, etc., etc.


53 posted on 08/15/2014 9:44:19 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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