do you eat carb ?
saynow111
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i found recently i love this type espcially bread and rice
i wonder if i eat vegetables and fruits and stopped this kind of carbs
will this be better for my health ?
i also wonder what make human eat such food like bread and rice
is this becoz they are filling ?
are they have any benefit
thanks
i wonder if i eat vegetables and fruits and stopped this kind of carbs
will this be better for my health ?
i also wonder what make human eat such food like bread and rice
is this becoz they are filling ?
are they have any benefit
thanks
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Carbs are NOT the enemy. If you can fit the bread into your calorie goals for the day, go ahead and enjoy it. Can you see yourself STOPPING bread and rice for the rest of your life? If the answer is NO, then don’t bother doing it. Short term isn’t helpful, and personally, I would fail miserably at losing weight if I decided to do so by depriving myself.
And of course carbs have health benefits such as being a fantastic source of energy for your body. Just like everything else though, you need to control yourself and have them in moderation. Or at least within your calorie goal for the day if your goal is weight loss or maintaining.12 -
Yes.
Everyday. Even rice, bread and candy.8 -
I eat carbs but I generally look for ones with more flavor than rice and bread. I also do not find them filling. I do eat rice and bread but bread is probably a couple of times a month. Rice is maybe once a quarter.1
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You can replace some of your bread and pasta with foods like fruits and vegetables without completely eliminating them. Or you can eliminate them if you prefer. At the end of the day, your weight management is going to come down to the calories you consume. Some people find that foods like bread and rice aren't filling and prefer to choose other foods. Other people, like me, find that they are a satisfying source of energy and nutrients.
People eat them because they're enjoyable, typically very affordable, and they do provide energy and nutrients.2 -
If you don't want to eat carbs you can literally only eat chunks of butter/gulp away oil and eat meat and fish. Why would carbs be bad for you?2
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i also wonder what make human eat such food like bread and rice
is this becoz they are filling ?
are they have any benefit
thanks
Humans have always eaten some sort of carb-rich foods, just because they were freely available to forage, but our ancestors ate predominantly hunted animals and over-ground vegetables and fruits until agriculture took over hunter-gatherer societies.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/topics/reference/neolithic-agricultural-revolution/
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i found recently i love this type espcially bread and rice
i wonder if i eat vegetables and fruits and stopped this kind of carbs
will this be better for my health ?
i also wonder what make human eat such food like bread and rice
is this becoz they are filling ?
are they have any benefit
thanks
For many people they are filling. They were generally consistent sources of calories (remember at times meat was not very available to most, and fruits and veg are seasonal). They are still perfectly fine foods to include and do have some nutrients, including some that people tend to lack on some versions of a low carb diet, but for many of us reducing portions of those foods in favor of more veg and fruit and protein (including from carbier sources like beans and lentils) can make it easy to cut cals. Others find them very satisfying or filling so prefer to reduce other sources of cals (like fat or all across the board).
Like Novus, I don't especially love most bread or rice, so I found rarely eating bread and eating small servings of rice when I eat it to be an easy way to control cals, but that's taste preference, not because I think there's anything wrong with starchy carbs.0 -
mariomicro wrote: »i also wonder what make human eat such food like bread and rice
is this becoz they are filling ?
are they have any benefit
thanks
Humans have always eaten some sort of carb-rich foods, just because they were freely available to forage, but our ancestors ate predominantly hunted animals and over-ground vegetables and fruits until agriculture took over hunter-gatherer societies.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/topics/reference/neolithic-agricultural-revolution/
If you go even further back likely leftover meat from other animals, tubers, grasses, and fruits, and even further back likely even less meat.3 -
i found recently i love this type espcially bread and rice
i wonder if i eat vegetables and fruits and stopped this kind of carbs
will this be better for my health ?
i also wonder what make human eat such food like bread and rice
is this becoz they are filling ?
are they have any benefit
thanks
For many people they are filling. They were generally consistent sources of calories (remember at times meat was not very available to most, and fruits and veg are seasonal). They are still perfectly fine foods to include and do have some nutrients, including some that people tend to lack on some versions of a low carb diet, but for many of us reducing portions of those foods in favor of more veg and fruit and protein (including from carbier sources like beans and lentils) can make it easy to cut cals. Others find them very satisfying or filling so prefer to reduce other sources of cals (like fat or all across the board).
Like Novus, I don't especially love most bread or rice, so I found rarely eating bread and eating small servings of rice when I eat it to be an easy way to control cals, but that's taste preference, not because I think there's anything wrong with starchy carbs.
It is a shame that homemade bread is more calories because that is bread I do actually love. It is hard to justify making an entire loaf though (even a small one) for 2 people and once frozen it is never the same.4 -
Humans are omnivores and yes we need carbs, that's why we eat them. Though they should be balanced with other food too.
Vegetables and fruits have carbs so you're going to have to eat some unless you eat only meat and oil.
Unless you mean grains and starches. Not carbs. That being said I think the human body also needs grains and starches in reasonable amounts. Our brains needs them. And there ARE nutrients in them, some that you really only get from them. They're not totally nutrient devoid.1 -
Humans are omnivores and yes we need carbs, that's why we eat them. Though they should be balanced with other food too.
Vegetables and fruits have carbs so you're going to have to eat some unless you eat only meat and oil.
Unless you mean grains and starches. Not carbs. That being said I think the human body also needs grains and starches in reasonable amounts. Our brains needs them. And there ARE nutrients in them, some that you really only get from them. They're not totally nutrient devoid.
What would be an example of a nutrient we can only get from grains or starches?1 -
janejellyroll wrote: »Humans are omnivores and yes we need carbs, that's why we eat them. Though they should be balanced with other food too.
Vegetables and fruits have carbs so you're going to have to eat some unless you eat only meat and oil.
Unless you mean grains and starches. Not carbs. That being said I think the human body also needs grains and starches in reasonable amounts. Our brains needs them. And there ARE nutrients in them, some that you really only get from them. They're not totally nutrient devoid.
What would be an example of a nutrient we can only get from grains or starches?
This is my question too. I am an eat the rainbow kind of person but I do not believe there are single source nutrients.2 -
janejellyroll wrote: »Humans are omnivores and yes we need carbs, that's why we eat them. Though they should be balanced with other food too.
Vegetables and fruits have carbs so you're going to have to eat some unless you eat only meat and oil.
Unless you mean grains and starches. Not carbs. That being said I think the human body also needs grains and starches in reasonable amounts. Our brains needs them. And there ARE nutrients in them, some that you really only get from them. They're not totally nutrient devoid.
What would be an example of a nutrient we can only get from grains or starches?
This is my question too. I am an eat the rainbow kind of person but I do not believe there are single source nutrients.
Yes, my understanding is that while starches and grains *can be* good sources of nutrients, they are not required. You can meet your nutritional needs without them.1 -
i found recently i love this type espcially bread and rice
i wonder if i eat vegetables and fruits and stopped this kind of carbs
will this be better for my health ?
i also wonder what make human eat such food like bread and rice
is this becoz they are filling ?
are they have any benefit
thanks
Love the right kind of bread, but love pasta even more, not plain like rice could be of course, but with sauces that are usually decently high fat. Ehh, I make them fit.
I do like the spicy rice dishes though, gumbo or Jambalaya flavoring.
Sadly I enjoy those types of carbs to almost exclusion of fruits and vege's if I allow it, though I can get in to those too, but indeed seems less filling despite extra water content and possibly more fiber.
Better for health?
If the bread & rice calories stopped you from getting any vege's & fruit and the nutrients from them - ya that's not great long term.
Do you have to stop the starchy carbs to do the other - can you not have some balance of both, perhaps on alternating days if you can't fit them all into 1 meal?
Bread and rice store longer than most fresh vege's & fruit too - so it's like there, and cheaper in some respects depending on location and season.
Filling to some. Unless I eat starches slow and with something to drink, like to make it swell up perhaps, I can go through a lot of starchy carbs pretty easy if it tastes good.
Without my glasses on that profile pic above me already reminds me of sausage and eggs, and now talking about this - I'm hungry.0 -
mariomicro wrote: »i also wonder what make human eat such food like bread and rice
is this becoz they are filling ?
are they have any benefit
thanks
Humans have always eaten some sort of carb-rich foods, just because they were freely available to forage, but our ancestors ate predominantly hunted animals and over-ground vegetables and fruits until agriculture took over hunter-gatherer societies.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/topics/reference/neolithic-agricultural-revolution/
And 12,000 years is way plenty more than enough time/generations for natural selection to cause suitable adaptation, so meh, don't care.6 -
I eat bread every day and rice maybe a couple times per week. Perfectly fine...1
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I think I AM a carb at this point. You'll have to pry carbs from my cold, dead hands.10
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IronIsMyTherapy wrote: »I think I AM a carb at this point. You'll have to pry carbs from my cold, dead hands.
YES! At this point, I think some of my best friends are carbs. I would NEVER dream of giving up carbs. 😊3 -
IronIsMyTherapy wrote: »I think I AM a carb at this point. You'll have to pry carbs from my cold, dead hands.
I think I like you
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IronIsMyTherapy wrote: »I think I AM a carb at this point. You'll have to pry carbs from my cold, dead hands.
I think I like you
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Dogmom1978 wrote: »IronIsMyTherapy wrote: »I think I AM a carb at this point. You'll have to pry carbs from my cold, dead hands.
YES! At this point, I think some of my best friends are carbs. I would NEVER dream of giving up carbs. 😊
Oh, I have long talks with my friends pasta, pizza and beer. Sometimes rice and potatoes join us.2 -
"do you eat carb ?"
Yes lots, of all kinds including starchy carbs.
Been maintaining at goal weight for almost 8 years, enjoying good health, enoying my food and enjoying the energy those carbs give me for lots of exercise and a highly active lifestyle.3 -
I love carbs, although I do try to eat balanced meals, and find myself tired and sluggish when I overdo it on the carbs. I nap after a dinner of pasta or pizza, but don't feel that need when I have a protein, salad, vegetables, etc.
I don't try to hit specific macro targets, but over a long period of time my carbs have averaged 35 % as per the Food Diary.2 -
mariomicro wrote: »i also wonder what make human eat such food like bread and rice
is this becoz they are filling ?
are they have any benefit
thanks
Humans have always eaten some sort of carb-rich foods, just because they were freely available to forage, but our ancestors ate predominantly hunted animals and over-ground vegetables and fruits until agriculture took over hunter-gatherer societies.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/topics/reference/neolithic-agricultural-revolution/
WOW!! I found an article to support your assertions!
https://www.stephanguyenet.com/in-a-stunning-reversal-archaeologists-report-that-paleolithic-humans-ate-nothing-but-animal-fat/ 6 -
IronIsMyTherapy wrote: »I think I AM a carb at this point. You'll have to pry carbs from my cold, dead hands.
Iron enriched bread carb?1 -
IronIsMyTherapy wrote: »I think I AM a carb at this point. You'll have to pry carbs from my cold, dead hands.
Iron enriched bread carb?
And occasional potato.0 -
I found a delicious, wholemeal, seeded loaf that for 100 calories will provide 2.2g fibre, 3.7g protein, 9% of my calcium and 10% of my iron requirements for the day. What's not to like?3
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Food is made up of three macronutrients and human diets comprise all three, protein, fats, and carbohydrates. A tomato is chiefly carbohydrates, so are a potato and rice. Some chiefly-carbohydrate foods are more "nutritively dense" in terms of nutrients, micronutrients and fiber than others. A tomato is more nutritively dense than boiled white rice. A sugar cube is straight, calorie-dense, vitamin-free sugar. It provides calories but little else. The same amount of calories worth of a whole grain has sugar, yes, but also fiber, nutrients, and complex carbohydrates.
So, the choice is yours but you should consider the effects of your choices. A slice of white bread with butter is yummy but calorie-dense and nutritively poor. Apple wedges, peel on, with peanut butter has far more nutritive benefits for what may be the same number of calories.
I have bread proofing as we speak -- no, I ain't giving it up -- but I will eat it in moderation.5 -
You asked about the benefits of some of these foods!
I present to you... your history!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_agriculture3
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