To: SamAdams76
Nutrition experts have known for years that excess carbs are metabolized and stored as fat. Yet the American people were told that it is fat that makes us fat, not excessive carbohydrates. The people listened, and they got fatter. And the FDA is still blaming fat and McDonald's! Diabetics are given this information, then told to eat between 6 and 11 servings of complex carbohydrates per day in addition to the carbs in fruit and vegetables. Then the "experts" and your doctor have a hissy fit because you are overweight. I am thinking very seriously about cutting way back on my carb intake. Giving up ice cream is going to be harder than quiting a two pack a day cigarette habit. Then, I at least had a patch!
To: Wiser now; Xenalyte
Nutrition experts have known for years that excess carbs are metabolized and stored as fat. Yet the American people were told that it is fat that makes us fat, not excessive carbohydrates. The people listened, and they got fatter.They still are. Look at posts 51 and 67-69.
It's amazing how people here will treat skeptically everything they read, hear and see from the "mainstream" media when it comes to politics, but consider these same known-liar reporters to be demigods on any non-political subject. "Well, duh, everything I've ever read about fats and carbs has said..." Yeah, you go right on listening to the 21-year-old "expert" with the big breasts on your local news, morons.
GOD, what is wrong with this world any more...
To: Wiser now
As one of those nutrition professionals,
I have spent most of my life dealing with a public that couldn't understand "PORTION SIZE"....
Those 6-11 servings of complex carbs (we are talkin' high fiber here too) translated into 24-48, zero fiber in reality....
I have the diet histories to prove it....
76 posted on
07/03/2003 11:05:44 AM PDT by
najida
(What handbasket? And where did you say we were going?)
To: Wiser now
I am thinking very seriously about cutting way back on my carb intake. Giving up ice cream is going to be harder than quiting a two pack a day cigarette habit.
Seriously, and I say this as a total carb fiend - after one week of hell, it gets LOTS better. Seeing five or six pounds drop off really motivates.
112 posted on
07/03/2003 11:44:51 AM PDT by
Xenalyte
(I may not agree with your bumper sticker, but I'll defend to the death your right to stick it)
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