| Blame
it on the Carbs
by Bentley Thompson
There is a low carb version
of almost every food on the supermarket shelves
nowadays. There is low carb ketchup, salad dressings,
and even low carb beer!
Is the carbohydrate content
of our diet responsible for our size and our weight?
I have two answers... yes and no. Stick with me,
it gets crazy here.
The low carb option in weight
loss dieting continues to gain popularity. It
seems like we are saying that carbohydrates are
the reason we become overweight. Far from it.
Carbohydrates are not the
cause of our weigh problem
Carbohydrates are a part of
all the foods that nature prepares for us - nuts
and grains, fruits, and vegetables. If you get
the idea that I am saying it was not originally
intended for humans to eat meat, you are right.
I'm assuming you can follow
my premise that humans came about according to
the Creationists' view of origins. I hope you're
comfortable with this. Grab a cool drink and try
to relax in case this gets a bit hot for you.
(And by the way, watch the carbohydrate content
of the drink!)
According to the Genesis account,
there was no sin in the beginning, no animal got
hurt, no animal died. So there was no beef, chicken,
nor pork on the plates. In fact, the instruction
was, "I give you every seed-bearing plant
on the face of the whole earth and every tree
that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours
for food (Genesis 1 verse 29)."
You and I were designed to
eat carbohydrates... and lots of it, too. And
since that was perfect for our health then, it
should still be great for us today. But that's
only half the story.
But we made smart carbohydrates,
and a disaster...
We invented machines and processes
that refine our food. We can even extract and
preserve the nutrients from these foods, make
them into pills and punches that are easy to carry
around.
Why eat an orange when we
can drink the juice from a bottle of a cute box?
Hey, we can even make vitamin C tablets. After
all, it's the vitamins we are after, we don't
need to eat the orange and let the juice run down
our cheeks and soil our clothes.
We can make low carbohydrate
content foods too. We want to be able to drive
all day or sit on our couches. It's the 21st Century,
we don't need to walk anymore. Drive. Fly. Use
the computer - we don't have to move. So...
Who needs all that carbohydrate
in our food? Sugar tastes good anyway, so we add
it to peanuts, cakes, even to our meat. You can
hardly find anything without sugar.
The no-so-sweet truth
It's not the carbohydrate
that is to blame for our problem of being overweight,
it's our lifestyle. It seems we have decreased
our level of physical activity, altered the natural
quality of the food prepared for us by nature,
and are taking in more calories that we need (or
can use.)
It's not just one factor that
is at the root of our problem of being overweight.
It is all the habits and practices that constitute
our lifestyle.
So don't blame the carbs.
There is no need to switch to low carb diets.
We just need to do simple things like, having
a good breakfast, avoid snacking (avoid acid reflux
problems too), eat complex carbohydrate and high
fiber foods, exercise daily, and get enough rest.
We were designed to function
a certain way. If we don't follow the Manufacturer's
recommendations we wreck the machine through improper
operating procedures.
Are you overweight or obese?
Don't blame it on the carbs. Change the habits.
Copyright © 2006 by Bentley
Thompson
Bentley writes about lifestyle-related
conditions such as diabetes, obesity, high cholesterol,
and cardiovascular diseases. He advocates the
anti-diabetes diet which he describes on his website.
You may visit his website and blog using the following
URLs: http://www.anti-diabetes-diet-supplements.com/
and http://choosehealthtoday.blogspot.com
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