Nope. Silly. The simple reality is carbs have a lot of energy. If you do something with the energy that’s good. If you don’t that’s on YOU. Or as I said to a coworker who was declaiming all the carbs in trail mix because she thought it was supposed to be healthy: don’t eat it on the couch, it’s called trail mix for a reason. Carbs are fine IF YOU USE THEM. Special interests have nothing to do with any of this, you’re just blaming the government for your bad habits. The only part of that you have at all right is that the government shouldn’t be giving diet advice at all. Because every person has a different life. The old food pyramid is great for farmers and welders and other people who do hard physical labor. Not so much for software engineers (me). So I use my brain, control what I eat, get exercise and come in at a slightly plump 204. Which ain’t bad for 50 with a desk job. And damn right I eat carbs, they’re delicious. I just don’t gorge on them and work it off at the gym.
Your body can produce the energy from your fat stores, the brain runs better on ketones than glycogen.
If you do expend a lot of energy then yes, you do need more carbs, but older people don’t expend that much energy even if they are somewhat active.
“Special interests have nothing to do with any of this, you’re just blaming the government for your bad habits.”
I guess I can link you to a thread I posted this week where a LEADING NUTRITIONIST is demanding that all people stop eating meat due to Global Warming.
Didn’t we all think that Nutritionists only cared about the health of people? And I have difficulty seeing how people would be healthier if nutrition decisions are made for people based on ‘climate change’ or, for that matter, whether abortion stays legal.
So I’d suggest that you not be so quick to discount the role of politics and self-serving agendas in this.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3772950/posts