Carbs are bad. Yes or no?
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Forget for a moment the term “carb”. Certain foods are calorie laiden, nutrient poor, highly palatable and very easy to overeat. We all know what they are. It’s not that complicated...11
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It's not the carbs per say. I taught in Thailand and South Korea. White rice is a staple there, and type 2 diabetes was never an issue. Now, with the emergence of fast food, cakes and cookies type 2 is becoming an issue in Asia. I do whole wheat pasta, rice, bananas, whole grain oats, etc. I usually take my blood sugar samples fasting, after luch, and after I drink my 1500 cal Nutribullet. I'm always in the normal range. No issues. The issue so many of us face is with the simple carbs. The white breads, pastas, chips, hoagies, ice cream, soda, etc. Carbs have gotten a bad rap lately. It's stupid IMO. Good carbs also supply us with much needed fiber which is severly lacking in the keto diet.
@bmaw01 thanks for sharing your real world observation about diabetes.
High carbs seem to healthy as high fat WOE can be.
It seems to be the high carb high fat Ways Of Eating that you reported proceeded diabetes increased reports.
Several of my long term health issues have improved/resolved over the past 5 years after moving from 40 years of high carb high fat WOE to low carb high fat WOE. Everyone is different so we each have to find what works best for ourselves.11 -
GaleHawkins wrote: »It's not the carbs per say. I taught in Thailand and South Korea. White rice is a staple there, and type 2 diabetes was never an issue. Now, with the emergence of fast food, cakes and cookies type 2 is becoming an issue in Asia. I do whole wheat pasta, rice, bananas, whole grain oats, etc. I usually take my blood sugar samples fasting, after luch, and after I drink my 1500 cal Nutribullet. I'm always in the normal range. No issues. The issue so many of us face is with the simple carbs. The white breads, pastas, chips, hoagies, ice cream, soda, etc. Carbs have gotten a bad rap lately. It's stupid IMO. Good carbs also supply us with much needed fiber which is severly lacking in the keto diet.
@bmaw01 thanks for sharing your real world observation about diabetes.
High carbs seem to healthy as high fat WOE can be.
It seems to be the high carb high fat Ways Of Eating that you reported proceeded diabetes increased reports.
Several of my long term health issues have improved/resolved over the past 5 years after moving from 40 years of high carb high fat WOE to low carb high fat WOE. Everyone is different so we each have to find what works best for ourselves.
I know you have mentioned weight loss was not your primary driver at the time. That said, how much weight did you lose?1 -
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GaleHawkins wrote: »It's not the carbs per say. I taught in Thailand and South Korea. White rice is a staple there, and type 2 diabetes was never an issue. Now, with the emergence of fast food, cakes and cookies type 2 is becoming an issue in Asia. I do whole wheat pasta, rice, bananas, whole grain oats, etc. I usually take my blood sugar samples fasting, after luch, and after I drink my 1500 cal Nutribullet. I'm always in the normal range. No issues. The issue so many of us face is with the simple carbs. The white breads, pastas, chips, hoagies, ice cream, soda, etc. Carbs have gotten a bad rap lately. It's stupid IMO. Good carbs also supply us with much needed fiber which is severly lacking in the keto diet.
@bmaw01 thanks for sharing your real world observation about diabetes.
High carbs seem to healthy as high fat WOE can be.
It seems to be the high carb high fat Ways Of Eating that you reported proceeded diabetes increased reports.
Several of my long term health issues have improved/resolved over the past 5 years after moving from 40 years of high carb high fat WOE to low carb high fat WOE. Everyone is different so we each have to find what works best for ourselves.
I know you have mentioned weight loss was not your primary driver at the time. That said, how much weight did you lose?
Around 60 pounds starting day 45 after basically cutting out processed calories and replacing with high fat calories. I have maintained 50 pound weight loss for over 4 years now eating all I want. My pain is well managed as long as I watch the raw honey, apple and banana carbs and other natural sources.2 -
GaleHawkins wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »It's not the carbs per say. I taught in Thailand and South Korea. White rice is a staple there, and type 2 diabetes was never an issue. Now, with the emergence of fast food, cakes and cookies type 2 is becoming an issue in Asia. I do whole wheat pasta, rice, bananas, whole grain oats, etc. I usually take my blood sugar samples fasting, after luch, and after I drink my 1500 cal Nutribullet. I'm always in the normal range. No issues. The issue so many of us face is with the simple carbs. The white breads, pastas, chips, hoagies, ice cream, soda, etc. Carbs have gotten a bad rap lately. It's stupid IMO. Good carbs also supply us with much needed fiber which is severly lacking in the keto diet.
@bmaw01 thanks for sharing your real world observation about diabetes.
High carbs seem to healthy as high fat WOE can be.
It seems to be the high carb high fat Ways Of Eating that you reported proceeded diabetes increased reports.
Several of my long term health issues have improved/resolved over the past 5 years after moving from 40 years of high carb high fat WOE to low carb high fat WOE. Everyone is different so we each have to find what works best for ourselves.
I know you have mentioned weight loss was not your primary driver at the time. That said, how much weight did you lose?
Around 60 pounds starting day 45 after basically cutting out processed calories and replacing with high fat calories. I have maintained 50 pound weight loss for over 4 years now eating all I want. My pain is well managed as long as I watch the raw honey, apple and banana carbs and other natural sources.
50 lbs weight loss is huge. Well done...5 -
GaleHawkins wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »It's not the carbs per say. I taught in Thailand and South Korea. White rice is a staple there, and type 2 diabetes was never an issue. Now, with the emergence of fast food, cakes and cookies type 2 is becoming an issue in Asia. I do whole wheat pasta, rice, bananas, whole grain oats, etc. I usually take my blood sugar samples fasting, after luch, and after I drink my 1500 cal Nutribullet. I'm always in the normal range. No issues. The issue so many of us face is with the simple carbs. The white breads, pastas, chips, hoagies, ice cream, soda, etc. Carbs have gotten a bad rap lately. It's stupid IMO. Good carbs also supply us with much needed fiber which is severly lacking in the keto diet.
@bmaw01 thanks for sharing your real world observation about diabetes.
High carbs seem to healthy as high fat WOE can be.
It seems to be the high carb high fat Ways Of Eating that you reported proceeded diabetes increased reports.
Several of my long term health issues have improved/resolved over the past 5 years after moving from 40 years of high carb high fat WOE to low carb high fat WOE. Everyone is different so we each have to find what works best for ourselves.
I know you have mentioned weight loss was not your primary driver at the time. That said, how much weight did you lose?
Around 60 pounds starting day 45 after basically cutting out processed calories and replacing with high fat calories. I have maintained 50 pound weight loss for over 4 years now eating all I want. My pain is well managed as long as I watch the raw honey, apple and banana carbs and other natural sources.
50 lbs weight loss is huge. Well done...
Thanks. It was the first time I ever lost weigh eating all that I wanted with no weight loss planned. I was just going for pain management to avoid the doctors plan to start me on Enbrel injections for pain management. It took 45 days of my new Way Of Eating to lose the first pound and I was still eat high calorie but just LCHF vs HCHF WOE of the prior 40 years. After day 30 I told my MD's I was going to pass on the Enbrel therapy because the pain management had started at day 15 and was improving week by week.
Five years later LCHF is still working it seems in my case. In the past I could lose weight by cutting calories but I was always hungry and cold (cool in the summer). Now I wear lighter coats than ever in my life. As fat left muscle came in its place as I regained my ability to walk well. I never was much over 250 but I guess that was in part because the IBS was so bad for 40 years the CO was high due to low transit time of what I ate.
Two months ago I was back working in the barnyard for the first time in 50 years because the daughter (with the mini horses) was working out of town and her mom got bumped by a horse being chased by another and fell and broke her hip. She was on bed rest for 6 weeks and I was the only one to take her food and drink, care for the six horses, 7 dogs and at least that many cats.
I wanted to ditch them at first but thankful to my WOE of the past 5 years I realized I could "Do This Thing" for the wife and daughter and have done it well and a side effect is I have better range of motion than I have had for decades now at the age of 68. I have dropped 10 pounds over the last 2 months working hard in this heat scooping poop, etc. It would have been bad had I not eaten my way to better health over the past 5 years.
While my wife was told she had osteoporosis 22 years ago when the twins came along the doctors said her bones looked healthy now and when for 3 screws to repair the hip. At six weeks both hips looked identical except for the three screws one one side and she is now back to work.
As one ages guarding our physical and mental health is important especially when we did not when younger.
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I have cut out almost all processed carbs. It has dramatically reduced my calorie intake, which allows me more wiggle room for lunch, dinner, or snacks.
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Like protein and fat carbs are neither good or bad setting in food closet. Some people diet from too much protein but that does not make protein bad for others. The same way with carbs it mainly depends on the consumer of each of the three macros.
If carbs caused Type 2 diabetes without any other factors being consider then everyone that ate any source of carbs would become a Type 2 diabetic but we know that does not happen in every carb eater. If obesity caused Type 2 diabetes then every obese person would be a Type 2 diabetic but we know that is not always a fact because underweight people can be Type 2 diabetic.
We have known medically speaking for about 150 years some people who greatly reduced their carb intake have been able to reverse a state of being a Type 2 diabetic . That does not mean carbs caused the Type 2 diabetic but the removal of most carbs just reversed the case of Type 2 diabetes by some means.
Below is a research link form the NIH.
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30289048/
Expert Rev Endocrinol Metab. 2018 Sep;13(5):263-272. doi: 10.1080/17446651.2018.1523713.
Implementing a low-carbohydrate, ketogenic diet to manage type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Westman EC1, Tondt J2, Maguire E3, Yancy WS Jr1,4,5.
Author information
1 a Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine , Duke University Medical Center , Durham , NC , USA.
2 b Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine , Scranton , PA , USA.
3 c Edinburgh , Scotland, UK.
4 d Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center , Durham , NC , USA.
5 e Duke Diet and Fitness Center , Duke University Health System , Durham , NC , USA.
Abstract
INTRODUCTION:
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) has reached epidemic proportions in the modern world. For individuals affected by obesity-related T2DM, clinical studies have shown that carbohydrate restriction and weight loss can improve hyperglycemia, obesity, and T2DM.
AREAS COVERED:
Reducing carbohydrate intake to a certain level, typically below 50 g per day, leads to increased ketogenesis in order to provide fuel for the body. Such low-carbohydrate, ketogenic diets were employed to treat obesity and diabetes in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Recent clinical research has reinvigorated the use of the ketogenic diet for individuals with obesity and diabetes. Although characterized by chronic hyperglycemia, the underlying cause of T2DM is hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistance, typically as a result of increased energy intake leading to obesity. The ketogenic diet substantially reduces the glycemic response that results from dietary carbohydrate as well as improves the underlying insulin resistance. This review combines a literature search of the published science and practical guidance based on clinical experience.
EXPERT COMMENTARY:
While the current treatment of T2DM emphasizes drug treatment and a higher carbohydrate diet, the ketogenic diet is an effective alternative that relies less on medication, and may even be a preferable option when medications are not available.
KEYWORDS:
Low carbohydrate; diabetes; insulin resistance; ketogenic; obesity
PMID: 30289048 DOI: 10.1080/17446651.2018.1523713
The ADA Considers Alternative Diets
https://asweetlife.org/ada-acknowledges-the-benefits-of-low-carb-but-will-it-really-promote-the-diet/
" .....The 2019 report, however, reviewed a record 8 alternative eating patterns: Mediterranean-style, vegetarian/vegan, low-fat, very low-fat, low-carb, very low-carb, DASH and paleo. The report looks favorably upon every one of these eating styles, particularly to the extent that they all share commonalities with current mainstream healthy eating advice: more non-starchy vegetables, fewer refined sugars and grains, fewer processed foods.
The specific discussion of low and very low-carb diets includes some pleasing material. Those diets are now listed with “potential benefits” that include lowered A1C, weight loss, lowered blood pressure and improved cholesterol numbers. The report also slays the pervasive myth that the brain requires 130g daily of carbohydrates, noting that “this energy requirement can be fulfilled by the body’s metabolic processes … and/or ketogenesis in the setting of very low dietary carbohydrate intake.”
While the paper falls well short of the full-throated endorsement of low-carb that many want to see, at the very least it provides some good ammunition for dieters that find themselves in conflict with an unsupportive medical team. The ADA imprimatur may help some convince their doctors that a low-carb diet is seen as increasingly viable by the medical establishment..... "
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GaleHawkins wrote: »If carbs caused Type 2 diabetes without any other factors being consider then everyone that ate any source of carbs would become a Type 2 diabetic but we know that does not happen in every carb eater. If obesity caused Type 2 diabetes then every obese person would be a Type 2 diabetic but we know that is not always a fact because underweight people can be Type 2 diabetic.
To be fair, 90% of the Type 2's are obese. Thin type 2's make up only 10% and that is probably due to a genetics...
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GaleHawkins wrote: »
I don't think anyone would disagree that carbohydrate restriction can play a huge role in reversing the symptoms of Type 2.6 -
If carbs were bad, they wouldn't be so carb-o-licious.0
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Love them, need them!0
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I found the bad carbs!
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