Why Refined Carbs Are Bad For You

This article is on the Authority Nutrition Site ... you may wish to read it?

"Not all carbs are the same.

Many whole foods that are high in carbs are incredibly healthy and nutritious.

On the other hand, refined or simple carbs have had most of the nutrients and fiber removed.

Eating refined carbs is linked to drastically increased risk of many diseases, including obesity, heart disease and type 2 diabetes.

Almost every nutrition expert agrees that refined carbs should be limited.

However, they are still the main source of dietary carbs in many countries.

This article explains what refined carbs are, and why they are bad for your health."

The take home message from the article reads

" Take Home Message
For optimal health (and weight), try to get the majority of your carbs from whole, single ingredient foods.

If a food comes with a long list of ingredients, it is probably not a healthy carb source."

Link here

http://authoritynutrition.com/why-refined-carbs-are-bad/

All the best Jan

"Our Father Which art in Washington, give us this day our daily calcium propionate, sodium diacetate monoglyceride, potassium bromate, calcium phosphate, monobasic chloramine T, aluminium potassium sulphate, sodium benzoate, butylated hydroxyanisole, mono-iso-propyl citrate, axerophthol and calciferol. Include with it a little flour and salt.
Amen"

John Brunner, 1972

My all time favourite Brunner quote

"It's supposed to be automatic but actually you have to press this button"

chris c wrote:"Our Father Which art in Washington, give us this day our daily calcium propionate, sodium diacetate monoglyceride, potassium bromate, calcium phosphate, monobasic chloramine T, aluminium potassium sulphate, sodium benzoate, butylated hydroxyanisole, mono-iso-propyl citrate, axerophthol and calciferol. Include with it a little flour and salt.
Amen"

John Brunner, 1972

My all time favourite Brunner quote

"It's supposed to be automatic but actually you have to press this button"

Quality Chris, with a capital K ain't that the truth!

The scary thing is how much of what he predicted in the late sixties/early seventies came true!

He worked by reading New Scientist, The Guardian etc. and extrapolating things forward in time a few decades.

The problem was that while my contemporaries and I were reading 1984, Stand On Zanzibar etc. and thinking "this must never happen!" a lot of other people were reading the same books and thinking

"That's a really good idea!"