[freepertoo]

I respect your professional opinion. I’m also a professional in my field (fitness training), and ACE recommends that carbs be 50%. Which only goes to prove...what I’m not sure!!!! :-D

[Pharmboy]

If you REALLY want to laugh (if you don't laugh, you must cry) read what the carb recommendations are at the American Diabetes Association. I was a member for 15 years and would often go to their national meetings. In the '90s they recommended 65% of calories as carbs--2 years ago they dropped it to 60%.

I would go to the meetings and tell the VPs and on one occasion the president at the time (they switch every year) that their recommendations for diet are killing their diabetic patients and making more obese people and diabetics by the minute. Some of them actually listened to me, but they are so brainwashed it will not be easy!

As I tell my patients: there are 2 essential fatty acids, 8 essential amino acids, but NO essential carbohydrates. None.