So low-carbohydrate eating is junk science? What has caused the explosion of diabetes and obesity in this country?
Answer: Excessive consumption of sugar, bread, and high fructose corn syrup containing products. Along with lack of exercise.
Low-carb is different than 'eliminating', which is the word you used.
What has caused the explosion of diabetes and obesity in this country?
Answer: Excessive consumption of sugar, bread, and high fructose corn syrup containing products.
Excessive calorie consuption leads to obesity, which is linked to type II diabetes. The body converts excessive calorie intake, whether they be from carbohydrate, lipids, or protein, into fat. But you're right that excessive carbohydrate consumption combined with a sedentary lifestyle is a main contributer to obesity for most people. I thought you meant people need to eliminate simple carbohydrate, which is what some of those fad diets recommend.
Ever read the "Little House on the Prairie" books? They ate a very high carb diet. Sometimes all they ate was bread and potatoes with a little salt pork. They were slim, and at times very thin, because food was usually in short supply.
And of course every thing you did back then worked off calories. Want a glass of water? You don't just turn on the tap. You go to the well, lower the bucket down, pull the bucket back up, carry it to the house and then you can have a glass of water.
You want a piece of toast? First you have to chop the wood for the fire and carry it into the house.
A high carb diet is fine as long as you are doing a lot physical work.
Even a few years ago office workers still got a fair amount of exercise just doing your job.
About the only thing of which you can eat all you want and not gain weight is if you eat only very lean meat. Of course you will also starve to death because it does not have all you need to keep going. If you are always moving eat what you like, it will not put weight on you. If you are not then you need to watch your intake.