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Well, this is just my own humble input, but I have indeed found carbs to be bad. They make me hungrier and hungrier and hungrier until I feel like a wolf. When I cut them down to near zero, my appetite shrinks, my energy levels stabilize (no more wild ups and down... that means no ups, but oh well.) The weight drops off and I feel like I have myself under control. It works for me, anyway.

It works for me, anyway.

Unless there is an underlying medical problem, like a thyroid condition, it works for everybody. Avoid a lot of carbs, myself. I went from 215 lbs at one point several years ago to a steady 180 now. Some carbs are okay, just don't overindulge. Sugar is not as bad as they used to say when we were kids in the 60's. The real PROBLEM IS HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP and its derivatives, like CORN SYRUP SOLIDS:

A sweet problem: Princeton researchers find that high-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/

They make me hungrier and hungrier and hungrier until I feel like a wolf.

That's the HCFS. It's what it does to rats as well as people.......................If you start looking at the ingredients on the labels of many processed foods, you'll find it practically everywhere.

Politics, being what they are, there is no hope for any changes any time soon unless somebody in government gets brave and wants to take on BIG CORN and BIG SUGAR simultaneously. If Moochelle really, really wanted to end child obesity in this country she would do this, but BOTH the GOP and DEMS are in the pockets of the sugar and corn lobby. If we paid what the rest of the world paid for sugar, then we'd be paying about 1/2 of what we now pay and the HFCS would fade away.

Protectionist sugar policy cost Americans $3 billion in 2012:

https://www.aei.org/publication/protectionist-sugar-policy-cost-americans-3-billion-in-2012/

But, the Corn lobby and the Sugar lobby are hand in hand, although it would seem that they should be against each other. As long as we have the sugar protection racket, er, laws, then the food processors will use HFCS, which makes the Corn lobby very happy...................