Increased carbohydrate intake is the culprit, not the solution.
The advice back in 1983 that swept the nutritional world was the worst advice ever given to a population. My husband at the time was thrilled to be following all the pasta recipes from the Galloping Gourmet(he loved to cook). Me on the other hand was not thrilled with what was happening to my backside and a husband harping at me that I simply wasn’t getting enough exercise.
Losing the weight and keeping it off has been difficult at best and at times impossible. I still believe the carb-craze of the 1980’s also set people up to literally be addicted to carbohydrates. It is that carb ‘hit’ that millions of adults are addicted too and it is those lifestyles they are passing on to their kids unknowingly.
“Increased carbohydrate intake is the culprit, not the solution.”
People, I guess, didn’t bother to consider that once you give up the fatty food you will replace it with something else.
The “experts” in this case saw the same chemicals in fatty foods in the bloodstreams of people that were suffering, so they (wrongly) concluded it was the fatty food...where it is not, it is the carbs being processed that leads to bad chemicals. One has to wonder why the “experts” never bothered to try to figure out why a cow is loaded up with all these horrible chemicals after having spent a life eating virtually nothing but grass.
My parents totally bought into the low fat, high carb diet in the eighties. I was a skinny kid, but got a bit heavy in high school and college-even as an athlete. Diets are genetic. It was only a while after college that I started changing the way I ate. First I dropped artificial sweeteners-I had been drinking diet coke for over 10 years. I easily lost 15 pounds. Then I quit eating anything that said light or low fat on the label. Lost some more weight. After having kids I stopped using most processed foods and weight was no longer something I thought about.
Sadly, the past year has brought some difficulties into my family and, at this crazy time of transition I’m relying on processed foods again. I also started working at an Italian Restaurant. We are encouraged to try the food so we can better serve our customers. It’s great, but pasta at 9:30pm is a killer and I don’t want to eat it!!