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GOOD CARBS. BAD CARBS.



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GOOD CARBOHYDRATES: COMPLEX CARBS.

It's misleading to lump vegetables and fruits in the same category as bread, corn, ice cream, whipped cream, cheese and DingDongs. Vegetables and fruits are good carbs, the latter - bad.

Except for millet, quinoa and whole grain brown rice and their sprouted versions, wheat and other grains contain a unique protein called GLUTEN, which IRRATES THE INTESTINES.

Eating a wheat product food or drink (i.e., pretzels and beer) at every meal over time will guarantee some sort of complications eventually. Glutens in wheat and the leavening in breads cause gas, bloating, constipation, diarrhea, stomach cramps, poor digestion or hyperactivity.

I know mountain sports monster jocks who say simple carbs slow them down, not the sustained energy source they need.

 

You may say that you’re used to it, doing just fine. However it is costing you a lot in subtle ways, maybe some not so subtle: health, downtime, discomfort, frequent colds, and cold hard cash spent on pain killers, antacids, laxatives, and aspirin to fix what bad carbs cause. And that's just for starters.

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BAD CARBOHYDRATES: SIMPLE CARBS
The culprits include milled yeasted bread, chips, cookies, fries, ice cream, potatos or corn at every meal and in between, white foods that are PROCESSED, that don't grow from the ground.

 

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IMPORTANT UPDATE (SEPT. '08)

The traditional terms 'good' and 'bad' carbs are very misleading and INACCURATE. Perfectly good carbs can be worsened by over-cooking or processing them. Some very clean so-called 'bad' carbs can be helped, modified, their status raised when combined with the proper nutrients to make them worthy and less ill-advised. For example, rice cakes alone are fairly neutral, but add almond butter and they become much more valid. Take groats. Whole oat kernels (Irish oats) are much more nutritious when cooked than rolled oats which have been flash-smashed, their natural oils and nutrients splattered to the winds ... a good carb gone wrong.

This new conventional wisdom, not shared by many nutritionists yet, is reclassifying carbohydrates into two additional sub-categories: REFINED and UNREFINED. This makes absolute sense. Raw foods contain much more life force, qi ('chi'), the less processed = the more nutrients retained. The converse should be obvious.

ref: "Ultra-Prevention," Mark Hyman, MD and Mark Liponis, MD

YOU'RE NOT TRAINING FOR AVERAGE RESULTS SO DON'T USE AVERAGE SUPPLEMENTSYOU'RE NOT TRAINING FOR AVERAGE RESULTS SO DON'T USE AVERAGE SUPPLEMENTS

GRAINS and grain products need to be managed VERY carefully, the amount, the kind and the timing. BAD (simple) CARBS are heavy nasty non-muscle-making fillers. They do provide burst energy when we need 'em BUT make fat and blubber when we don't use 'em. So cut back severely grains at dinner time and don't ever snack before bedtime.

Walk any aisle of any typical grocery store thinking about how much of the shelving offers 'tasty, tempting' stuff made from high-yield, low-production, high-profit grains: bread, cereals, potatoes, corn, pastries, treats, dough, fluff, puffs, snacks, desserts, convenience foods.

Other than steel cut oats ('porridge') for breakfast and maybe some great buckwheat or quinoa at lunch. ... there's more in the book...

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