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Originally Posted by IanG
I am reading Gary's book and it is very interesting. But the summary of research is misleading. Not all carbs are bad. Just refined, processed ones perhaps.
Good Calories, Bad Calories suggests that unprocessed carbs do not create the same insulin spike and survive long enough in the digestive tract (as does protein) to release hormones that provide satiety.
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I don't believe in the "one size fits all" theory of nutrition. I rarely ate refined carbs before I became gluten intolerant. And afterwards the carbs in my house came from brown rice, wild rice, quinoa, sweet potatoes other starchy veggies and so forth. I'm talking healthy food cooked from scratch very simply. My husband still has metabolic syndrome and has been heading into prediabetes (fasting glucose over 110).
I prefer not to make sweeping statements personally, but I absolutely believe a person needs to realize, whether they like it or not, that some things, even theoretically "healthy whole food" good things, are not
GOOD for THEM and need to be open to the idea that maybe this person's pancreas doesn't pump out insulin in response to brown rice, but
theirs does.
If someone is eating adequate calories of whole foods, avoiding refined carbs, but still is having problems dropping weight, is having problems with energy crashes (and if they have a fasting blood glucose over 90 in particular) they need to realize that whole grains and fruit may NOT BE GOOD FOR THEM.
It's not going to hurt anyone to cut most carbs out of their diet for a few months to experiment and see how their energy levels, blood sugars and weight loss go.
Cutting carbs and upping fats, as opposed to upping protein, should reverse prediabetes (too much protein affects the body the same as too much carbs).