who started carbs for breakfast?

almc170

I prefer to have a mix of carbs, fat, and protein for breakfast, like I do for most meals. Boring maybe, but it works for me.

Acg67

I am following keto. It works for me. I haven't read Zoe Harcombe's book yet. I don't need to read her book to know the statement is true.

edit: plus I eat plenty of processed meat so I don't think I could follow her diet. I eat bacon daily. Hence my name.

There are things like phytonutrients that I think you discount when just saying fruits are good for Vit C and not much else. But i'm all for increasing bacon consumption in lieu of fruits

nerdyandilikeit

whos bright idea was it to eat carbs and breads for breakfast? where is the logic? i would take an egg and bacon and a little cheese any day. makes me feel great with no crash!

I'm so glad you know everything. I've been lost without you.

armaretta

I find this evidence fairly interesting. http://www.gnolls.org/1086/the-lipid-hypothesis-has-officially-failed-part-1-of-many/

You may also want to check out some of the articals here if you want more in depth details http://www.gnolls.org/

I'm pretty sure gnolls are a hyena-humanoid beast in Azeroth. I wouldn't take dietary advice from them

digitalsteel

What the hell is breakfast? I don't eat it. I mean I do, but I eat it for lunch and I assume that's not what you mean.

(seriously - the person who first thought "I guess I will have carbs for breakfast" was you know, everyone in the course of human civilization who did not HAVE any other food readily available besides a store of grains? Which is more or less all of human existance? Just like the person who woke up and thought "I will have protein and fat for breakfast!" is every hunter ever who only had dried meat because thats what they'd learned to store?)

I do feel the need to point out that grains have only exsisted for about 10,000 years. Where as humans have been around for almost 2 million years.

Acg67

I find this evidence fairly interesting. http://www.gnolls.org/1086/the-lipid-hypothesis-has-officially-failed-part-1-of-many/

You may also want to check out some of the articals here if you want more in depth details http://www.gnolls.org/

"“Heart-healthy whole grains” are mostly carbohydrates, which is to say: sugar. The glycemic index of “heart-healthy” whole wheat bread (72) is greater than that of Skittles (71). Metabolically, a whole wheat bagel is the same as two bags of Skittles."

::SIGH::

AlanAragon

What someone has for breakfast should be based on personal preference & tolerance. If someone likes to have grains for breakfast & feels/performs great, and is either making progress ot maintaining results, then there's no good reason to change a thing. Sure, there will always be folks who have a silly religious zeal against grains (& carbs in general), but the common thread you'll notice among them is a strong tendency to cherry-pick the evidence, or misunderstand/misinterpret it. Grains, like anything else, are perfectly fine in moderation. If you simply don't like them or cannot tolerate them, then this is your own personal situation that shouldn't be blanketly projected upon the world around you.

armaretta

What the hell is breakfast? I don't eat it. I mean I do, but I eat it for lunch and I assume that's not what you mean.

(seriously - the person who first thought "I guess I will have carbs for breakfast" was you know, everyone in the course of human civilization who did not HAVE any other food readily available besides a store of grains? Which is more or less all of human existance? Just like the person who woke up and thought "I will have protein and fat for breakfast!" is every hunter ever who only had dried meat because thats what they'd learned to store?)

I do feel the need to point out that grains have only exsisted for about 10,000 years. Where as humans have been around for almost 2 million years.

are you effing kidding me?

Acg67

What the hell is breakfast? I don't eat it. I mean I do, but I eat it for lunch and I assume that's not what you mean.

(seriously - the person who first thought "I guess I will have carbs for breakfast" was you know, everyone in the course of human civilization who did not HAVE any other food readily available besides a store of grains? Which is more or less all of human existance? Just like the person who woke up and thought "I will have protein and fat for breakfast!" is every hunter ever who only had dried meat because thats what they'd learned to store?)

I do feel the need to point out that grains have only exsisted for about 10,000 years. Where as humans have been around for almost 2 million years.

First check your sources on how long modern humans have been around

Then read,

The broad spectrum revisited: Evidence from plant remains. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 June 29; 101(26): 9551–9555.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC470712/?tool=pubmed

Now, however, a collection of >90,000 plant remains, recently recovered from the Stone Age site Ohalo II (23,000 B.P.), Israel, offers insights into the plant foods of the late Upper Paleolithic. The staple foods of this assemblage were wild grasses, pushing back the dietary shift to grains some 10,000 years earlier than previously recognized. Besides the cereals (wild wheat and barley), small-grained grasses made up a large component of the assemblage, indicating that the BSR in the Levant was even broader than originally conceived, encompassing what would have been low-ranked plant foods. Over the next 15,000 years small-grained grasses were gradually replaced by the cereals and ultimately disappeared from the Levantine diet.

batalina

You can blame Dr. Kellog.

that's what i was going to say!

digitalsteel

What the hell is breakfast? I don't eat it. I mean I do, but I eat it for lunch and I assume that's not what you mean.

(seriously - the person who first thought "I guess I will have carbs for breakfast" was you know, everyone in the course of human civilization who did not HAVE any other food readily available besides a store of grains? Which is more or less all of human existance? Just like the person who woke up and thought "I will have protein and fat for breakfast!" is every hunter ever who only had dried meat because thats what they'd learned to store?)

I do feel the need to point out that grains have only exsisted for about 10,000 years. Where as humans have been around for almost 2 million years.

First check your sources on how long modern humans have been around

Then read,

The broad spectrum revisited: Evidence from plant remains. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 June 29; 101(26): 9551–9555.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC470712/?tool=pubmed

Now, however, a collection of >90,000 plant remains, recently recovered from the Stone Age site Ohalo II (23,000 B.P.), Israel, offers insights into the plant foods of the late Upper Paleolithic. The staple foods of this assemblage were wild grasses, pushing back the dietary shift to grains some 10,000 years earlier than previously recognized. Besides the cereals (wild wheat and barley), small-grained grasses made up a large component of the assemblage, indicating that the BSR in the Levant was even broader than originally conceived, encompassing what would have been low-ranked plant foods. Over the next 15,000 years small-grained grasses were gradually replaced by the cereals and ultimately disappeared from the Levantine diet.

wild grasses do not equal grains, plus they are focusing on asia on top of it, notice how asians tend to have lots of RICE, not GRAINS like we do here.

digitalsteel

Oh, and my bad... 5+ million years according to berkley.

If you are unsure, perhaps you should brush up on your history

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_evolution

AlanAragon

Oh, and my bad... 5+ million years according to berkley

The timeline argument is weak because it involves cherry-picking correlational factors (ie, grains) amidst a multitude of factors contributing to the so-called "diseases of civilization." But why accept a complex interplay of factors when you can point the finger at a single scapegoat?

digitalsteel

Oh, and my bad... 5+ million years according to berkley

The timeline argument is weak because it involves cherry-picking correlational factors (ie grains) amidst a multitude of factors contributing to the so-called "diseases of civilization." But why accept a complex interplay of factors when you can point the finger at a single scapegoat?

Do you have something better to offer? or are you just in denial.

armaretta

Oh, and my bad... 5+ million years according to berkley.

If you are unsure, perhaps you should brush up on your history

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_evolution

Modern humans around for 5 million years? That is utter nonsense.

Also, wikipedia? Really?

I quit

AlanAragon

Oh, and my bad... 5+ million years according to berkley

The timeline argument is weak because it involves cherry-picking correlational factors (ie grains) amidst a multitude of factors contributing to the so-called "diseases of civilization." But why accept a complex interplay of factors when you can point the finger at a single scapegoat?

Do you have something better to offer? or are you just in denial.

Your accusation of denial is a perfect example of the unobjective religious zeal I mentioned earlier. You can choose to ignore the plethora of labor-saving technologies, TV, internet, rise in sit-down jobs, etc that have contributed to a historically recent & massive sedentary shift which is foundational to cardiometabolic disease. but alas, it's way easier to blame it solely on grains, isn't it? Good thing you're in no position to be taken seriously. The last thing the public needs is further immersion into ignorance & confusion via unscientific preachers.

Acg67

What the hell is breakfast? I don't eat it. I mean I do, but I eat it for lunch and I assume that's not what you mean.

(seriously - the person who first thought "I guess I will have carbs for breakfast" was you know, everyone in the course of human civilization who did not HAVE any other food readily available besides a store of grains? Which is more or less all of human existance? Just like the person who woke up and thought "I will have protein and fat for breakfast!" is every hunter ever who only had dried meat because thats what they'd learned to store?)

I do feel the need to point out that grains have only exsisted for about 10,000 years. Where as humans have been around for almost 2 million years.

First check your sources on how long modern humans have been around

Then read,

The broad spectrum revisited: Evidence from plant remains. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 June 29; 101(26): 9551–9555.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC470712/?tool=pubmed

Now, however, a collection of >90,000 plant remains, recently recovered from the Stone Age site Ohalo II (23,000 B.P.), Israel, offers insights into the plant foods of the late Upper Paleolithic. The staple foods of this assemblage were wild grasses, pushing back the dietary shift to grains some 10,000 years earlier than previously recognized. Besides the cereals (wild wheat and barley), small-grained grasses made up a large component of the assemblage, indicating that the BSR in the Levant was even broader than originally conceived, encompassing what would have been low-ranked plant foods. Over the next 15,000 years small-grained grasses were gradually replaced by the cereals and ultimately disappeared from the Levantine diet.

wild grasses do not equal grains, plus they are focusing on asia on top of it, notice how asians tend to have lots of RICE, not GRAINS like we do here.

Wheat and barley aren't grains? And if rice isn't a grain what is it?

digitalsteel

Rice grows naturaly, it is the seed of the monocot plants. Wheat and barley are man made hybrids that never would have existed if not for us.

raystark

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When will we ever collectively learn that what works for one will not work for all?

Yup

AlanAragon

Rice grows naturaly, it is the seed of the monocot plants. Wheat and barley are man made hybrids that never would have existed if not for us.

Your argument makes no sense at all. Are you in favor of avoiding all human technology, including all modern supplements and medical therapies?

digitalsteel

Rice grows naturaly, it is the seed of the monocot plants. Wheat and barley are man made hybrids that never would have existed if not for us.

Your argument makes no sense at all. Are you in favor of avoiding all human technology, including all modern supplements and medical therapies?

I suppose that depends on what it is... Your telling me you like the toxins found in grains? I avoid them for the same reason I avoid transfats.

bcattoes

Rice grows naturaly, it is the seed of the monocot plants. Wheat and barley are man made hybrids that never would have existed if not for us.

How many natural foods, grains or not, that we eat today are exactly as they were a million years ago? I'll give you a hint. It's < 1.

Acg67

Rice grows naturaly, it is the seed of the monocot plants. Wheat and barley are man made hybrids that never would have existed if not for us.

Your argument makes no sense at all. Are you in favor of avoiding all human technology, including all modern supplements and medical therapies?

I suppose that depends on what it is... Your telling me you like the toxins found in grains? I avoid them for the same reason I avoid transfats.

I thought you ate Primal, do you eat grassfed beef?

digitalsteel

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katatak1

I would love bacon, eggs and cheese for breakfast every morning, but I don't want to deal with the mess of cooking every morning.

An asiago cheese bagel is my typical breakfast. Buy them at the grocer, store them in the fridge, pop one in the microwave for 20 seconds... good to go.

There's an easy way to do eggs, bacon, etc with no mess. Preheat oven to 350, get a muffin pan and spray with PAM. Chop up some cooked bacon, green peppers, onions and cheese and put tablespoon in each muffin cup. Mix 6 eggs and a carton of EggBeaters and then pour into muffin cups. Cook for 30 minutes. Dump them out, put in ziplocks, freeze. Each morning, pop one or two or ten in microwave for 3 minutes. Quick and easy, no mess. I make 2 dozen at a time and put 3 to a ziplock. Between 75 and 125 calories depending on how much cheese, etc. I use eggbeaters (egg whites) to keep calorie count down.

This is... genuis. I don't eat meat, but I'm going to totally try this!

Acg67

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Isn't grassfed beef higher in trans fat then other types of beef?

digitalsteel

Your right. I should specify, transfats made by man. the trans fat in ruminant animal products is CLA, naturally occurring trans fats are good for you. Plus they have antibacterial properties. But like grains that are man made, transfats that are man made are bad.

http://www.t-nation.com/readArticle.do?id=1365312&cr=

katatak1

wild grasses do not equal grains, plus they are focusing on asia on top of it, notice how asians tend to have lots of RICE, not GRAINS like we do here.

Wheat and barley aren't grains? And if rice isn't a grain what is it?

What? How can anyone claim rice isn't a grain? That's like, something I learned in 5th grade. They're all from the family Poaceae (I was a botany minor in college) and they are refined by removing layers, typically through a mill. If it's got a caryopsis, it's technically a grain. Now not all grains are edible, but all the cereal grains are. That includes grains like rice, wheat, barley, etc. So yes, wild grasses DO equal grains. They may not all be edible grains, but they are grains none-the-less. The only way wild grasses don't count as grains is if someone chooses to apply the term "grass" to similar plants that belong to the families of juncaceae (rushes) and cyperaceae (sedges). Those are often mislabeled as grasses, but no one actually consumes them, so I doubt the source you guys are referring to made that mistake.

SilentRenegade

I find this evidence fairly interesting. http://www.gnolls.org/1086/the-lipid-hypothesis-has-officially-failed-part-1-of-many/

You may also want to check out some of the articals here if you want more in depth details http://www.gnolls.org/

I'm pretty sure gnolls are a hyena-humanoid beast in Azeroth. I wouldn't take dietary advice from them

HAHAHAHA... sorry, that was the best, haven't seen a WoW reference on here yet. :flowerforyou:

AlanAragon

Rice grows naturaly, it is the seed of the monocot plants. Wheat and barley are man made hybrids that never would have existed if not for us.

Your argument makes no sense at all. Are you in favor of avoiding all human technology, including all modern supplements and medical therapies?

I suppose that depends on what it is... Your telling me you like the toxins found in grains? I avoid them for the same reason I avoid transfats.

Toxins, haha. Do you purposely ignore the research indicating the neutrality &/or health-promoting effects of grains in order to not anger the gods of your anti-grain religion? Good thing most of the longest-living, healthiest populations on this planet do not live by the rules of your religion. Even the bulk of controlled trials do not support your fear of grains, and we're talking about diets that aren't even optimized from a macronutritional standpoint. Folks who preach dietary extremes are simply ignorant of the totality of the scientific evidence, and it's obvious that you're one of them. And once again, I'm happy to see that majority here are not taking you seriously - especially after your selective definition of what's a grain & what's not. I would be impressed to find out that you are not a troll. Good luck with your goals in 2012, just don't expect to create many converts to your doctrine.