Carbohydrates are Healthy and Required in the Diet

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Carbohydrates are Healthy and Required in the Diet

This myth that carbohydrates are an essential in the diet is stated over and over in health and diet articles, books and web sites. Yet, every person who goes on the low-carbohydrate diet quickly proves the fallacy of this myth. The lower the amount of carbohydrates in the diet the healthier one becomes. Carbohydrates cause many diseases which take years to develop and have come to be called "age related" diseases, a convenient excuse.

The anti-meat vegetarians are trying to justify eating unhealthy carbohydrates by saying "there are bad carbohydrates and good carbohydrates." This is untrue. All carbohydrates are bad, but simple carbohydrates like sugar and white flour are killers. Complex carbohydrates cause debilitating age-related disease also. It just takes longer. There are no healthy carbohydrates.


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Saying there are bad carbs and good carbs is a LIE.
Some carbs are dreadful and the rest simply bad.


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The standard recommendation states that 60 percent of calories in the diet should come from carbohydrates. Text books on human anatomy and physiology may accurately state that carbohydrates are not one of the scientific essentials to human life but erroneously stress they are highly recommended for good health. The United States Department of Agriculture Food Guide Pyramid recommends a high level of carbohydrates in the diet as shown in the graph above. The sweetener and grain lobbies are powerful organizations whose members infiltrate universities, government and nutritional organizations to ensure that their high-carbohydrate products are strongly recommended. They twist and distort scientific studies to justify their products.

All of the claims that carbohydrates are scientifically required by humans or they are necessary for energy or good health is absolutely false. The body can easily create the required amount of glucose from protein and fat without causing the insulin rush that occurs when carbohydrates are eaten. As an example, the author was on a highly restricted low-carbohydrate diet for several months prior to restricting all food during a 12-hour fast in preparation for a blood test. The blood test showed a perfect blood glucose level of 92 MG/DL which was midrange in the desirable range of 65 to 109 MG/DL. The common claims that carbohydrates are required in the diet to maintain a proper blood glucose level is a myth. Eating carbohydrates places the body in a continual blood sugar control crisis that is very unhealthy.

The body can maintain a perfectly normal level of blood glucose by gluconeogenesis of either dietary protein or fats. The figure in the following reference book shows the entire process in graphic form. The process is reversible and can go either way in order for the body to maintain the proper blood glucose level without eating any carbohydrates.

"Both triglyceride molecules and protein molecules may be broken down and converted to glucose in the liver. The process by which new glucose is formed from noncarbohydrate sources is called gluconeogenesis. In the process of gluconeogenesis, glucose is formed from lactic acid, certain amino acids, and glycerol portion of triglyceride molecules (Fig. 25.10)." Principles of Anatomy and Physiology, Seventh Edition by Gerard J. Tortora and Sandra Reynolds Grabowski, page 835.

It is an embarrassment that highly educated doctors and nutritionists still insist that a healthy diet requires a high level of carbohydrates. Dr. Wolfgang Lutz in his book, "Life Without Bread," labels carbohydrates as pathogenic (disease causing). Carbohydrates cause flatulence (intestinal gas) when the gut bacteria feed on the undigested carbohydrates. Some of the byproducts produced by the bacteria are toxic, and pathogenic bacteria flourish because they are opportunistic. The colon resists the presence of undigested carbohydrates and triggers a constipation reaction in an attempt to keep the carbohydrates from entering. Over time the colon reverses this defense measure and triggers diarrhea in an attempt to flush the undigested carbohydrates from the body. The excessive consumption of carbohydrates leads to a whole host of intestinal diseases and autoimmune diseases like arthritis.
Absolute Scientific Proof Carbohydrates Are Pathogenic.
Bowel Diseases and Candida - News You Can Use.

College text books are a prime location to read the myths, distortions and lies about carbohydrates in the diet. As an example, Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Biochemistry by Pamela C. Champe and Richard A. Harvey, Ph.D., claims that dietary carbohydrates are "protein sparing" which means the body will cannibalize muscle protein when carbohydrates are not eaten. This concept is absolutely ridiculous since many body builders use a low-carbohydrate diet which they call the ketogenic diet to build highly muscular bodies. The high-protein, high-fat and low-carbohydrate diet is called the "Anabolic Diet" because it places the body into a state of building muscle and other body structures. All body building diets are relatively high-protein diets.
Ketogenic Diets for Bodybuilders.

The vegetarians of Southern India eat a low-calorie diet very high in carbohydrates and low in protein and fat. They have the shortest life span of any society on Earth, and their bodies have an extremely low muscle mass. They are weak and frail and the children clearly exhibit a failure to thrive. Their heart disease rate is double that of the meat eaters in Northern India. HL Abrams. Vegetarianism: An anthropological/nutritional evaluation. Journal of Applied Nutrition, 1980, 32:2:53-87. The Myths of Vegetarianism.

Carbohydrates cause obesity. A diet high in refined carbohydrates has been directly linked to obesity and disease. Obesity has been shown to greatly increase the risk of diabetes, cancer, heart disease and intestinal diseases. The high-carbohydrate diet is common as a resulted of the false assumption that dietary fats caused obesity. The low-fat, low-cholesterol mania propagated for the last 40 years has resulted in the current epidemic obesity trend. The low-carbohydrate diet has been proven to be an excellent diet for losing weight and improving health.
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Carbohydrates cause diabetes. Carbohydrates have been solidly linked to diabetes because the body reduces all carbohydrates to simple blood glucose. The excess glucose causes high levels of insulin, insulin resistance in cells and failure of the pancreas. Those with diabetes suffer a much higher incidence of heart disease, cancer, inflammatory bowel disease and osteoporosis.
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Carbohydrates cause intestinal diseases. Complex carbohydrates are not healthy as often claimed. They appear to be healthier for the hypoglycemic because they do not cause the sharp glucose and insulin spikes, but they lead to bowel diseases like Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. The complex carbohydrates delay the onslaught of full-blown diabetes only for a few years. This is no answer for our current surging diabetes and irritable bowel disease epidemic.
Bowel Diseases and Candida - News You Can Use.

Carbohydrates cause osteoporosis, bone loss, hip fractures and degenerative disk disease. Carbohydrates raise the insulin hormone level to an extreme as people become insulin resistant and hypoglycemic from eating to many carbohydrates. The body reacts by increase the levels of cortisol and adrenalin hormones which demineralize the skeleton.
Osteoporosis, Bone Loss, Hip Fractures and Degenerative Disk Disease.

Carbohydrates cause cancer. Carbohydrates cause cancer by invoking intestinal diseases, reducing the effectiveness of the immune system by the stimulation of cortisol hormone, and general overall all degenerative diseases.
Carbohydrates Gave Diet Guru Nathan Pritikin Cancer.
Dietary Glycemic Load and Risk of Colorectal Cancer in the Women's Health Study.

Carbohydrates cause heart disease. Carbohydrates invoke heart disease by raising the blood level of the bad triglycerides and lowering the level of the good HDL, high density lipoproteins. Diabetic are a good example. Heart disease kills diabetics at a 50% rate, which is several time greater than other people.
Absolute Scientific Proof Carbohydrates Are Pathogenic.
Carbohydrates Gave Marathon Runner James F. Fixx Heart Disease.
Diet low in fat and high in fruits and vegetables caused an increase in the plasma levels of bad oxidized LDL cholesterol.

"High triglyceride levels, in conjunction with high LDL and low HDL, significantly increase the risk for developing cardiovascular disease. Controlled carbohydrate nutrition effectively lowers triglycerides while raising HDL cholesterol. Lowering the LDL to HDL ratio in conjunction with lowering triglycerides will significantly reduce the risk of coronary heart disease."
Triglyceride, LDL and HDL Cholesterol Concentrations on Coronary Heart Disease Risk.

Carbohydrates cause dental and bone diseases. Tooth decay (caries) occur when plaque bacteria turn carbohydrates into acids. These acids attack tooth enamel, which eventually results in cavities. Carbohydrates also cause the dental arch (shape of the mouth) to be narrow which crowds teeth and makes them come in crooked. Carbohydrates cause the pelvic arch to be narrow which makes child birth more difficult. All of these conditions were solidly proven nearly 80 years ago by dentist Weston A. Price, DDS, who traveled the world with his wife in the 1920's studying the health of isolated people and tribes. He found that all those who lived on a low-carbohydrate diet had excellent dental health and bone formation. His studies are well documented in his book and web site.
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price, DDS.
Weston A. Price Foundation.

Beginning in 1906, arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson and his companion, Karsen Anderson, spent several years living with Eskimos in Northern Canada. They lived on an all meat and fat diet of salmon. Doctors and nutritionists insisted that was impossible. The Eskimos had no carbohydrates and no fiber in their diets but suffered no detectable health effects. In fact, their health was excellent with absolutely no dental caries, no heart disease, no cancer and excellent bone health. To prove his statements were true, both men entered Bellevue Hospital in New York City to live for a full year on a supervised diet of meat and fat only. At the end of the year both men had improvements in health as could be measured by all the tests available at the time.
Stefansson 1 - Eskimos Prove an All Meat Diet Provides Excellent Health.

The universally accepted concept of a "balanced diet" is without any basis in fact or science. We are told to eat high quantities of fruit and whole grains, but we should avoid red mead and saturated fats. A high percentage of the population in English speaking countries follow this dogma without the slightest question. Mankind has lived thousands of years with very little or no fruit or grain in the diet. Primitive people never had fruit available year round and many lived in a climate where fruit was never available. Many people are fructose intolerant, and fructose causes insulin resistance which contributes to diabetes and heart disease. Today 75% of the space in the fresh fruit and vegetable sections of the typical supermarket in the USA is loaded with high-carbohydrate fruits and starchy-vegetables like potatoes and yams. Only 25% of the space is allotted to the healthy low-carbohydrate vegetables. Shopping carts can be observed loaded with fruit and products made from grains as the obese customer waddles to the checkout area pushing their "balanced diet."

Grains are new as a human food source. Many people are gluten intolerant or have other allergies to grain products which leads to many different bowel diseases. The "balanced diet" concept is a myth that will harm your health rather than make it better. The current epidemic of cancer, heart disease, diabetes and bowel diseases has proven the "balanced diet" of the USDA Food Guide Pyramid will make you sick and shorten your life. The balanced diet concept is a myth and a lie.

Do not eat honey. Honey is pure carbohydrate sugar consisting of fructose and glucose, sucrose, maltose, isomaltose, maltulose, turanose, kojibiose, erlose, theanderose and panose. It is very confusing why people worship honey. Many people are wrong on this point. They claim it is acceptable because ancient cavemen may have eaten it and somehow became adapted to honey as a healthy food. That is an incorrect conclusion. Ancient Paleo man may have eaten it once in a lifetime, but probably not. They didn't want to be stung by bees any more than we do, and they didn't have any protective netting.
The Chemistry of Bees.

Carbohydrates are highly addictive and many people have lived their entire life with an insulin rush from an excessive glucose intake. Insulin is the body's most powerful hormone and makes it extremely difficult to resist carbohydrates. Many would rather be sick than give up their fruit with the high levels of fructose, the second most addictive carbohydrate. To be healthy one must break these addictions.