Why are carbs so bad?

I hear people saying that they have to avoid carbs a lot, but I don't understand why. I eat bread or pasta or potatoes all the time and I'm still losing weight. Also I thought they were good for you because they keep you full?
Can anyone explain? (:

Healthy carbs--whole wheat pasta, brown rice, wild rice, beans, cream of wheat healthy grain, oatmeal...are actually pretty good for you and should be part of every meal:)

Yeah but, that's a lot of carbs in one meal. j/k

How does one hunt pepperoni?

Very carefully. It takes many days of stalking the pepperoni. You have to study the pepperoni's habits. It is best to try and take a pepperoni at night, as the pepperoni cannot see well. Oh, also you will be required to obtain a special permit from the pepperoni authority board, they only approve permits once a year on February 29.

Scientists have uncovered some rudimentary pepperoni hunting tools dating back to the Paleolithic period. It included a thin square box, a 300lb celll phone and a magnetic sticker with the 2 digit phone number.

LOL! Isn't the "bag phone" from the Stone Age?

Wow....this thread went places I never anticipated.

There are plenty of ****ty studies out there. I love PubMed, but responsible use consists of being able to weed out the bullsh*t, not just searching terms that will support your argument. There are plenty of papers that support both sides based on what metabolic parameters you're looking at.

I like low-carb because (as I mentioned previously) it's some YUMMYASS FOOD and ketones, fat, fiber and protein all have appetite-suppressant effects, either through hormonal regulation or by filling up your poop machine.

Non-low-carb contains those things too, but some in lower amounts. NOT A BIGASS DEAL.

Bottom line--if you're an as*hole, no one will care about your science.

Before low carb became trendy, people lost plenty of weight doing low fat. Back in the day I was happy to live off pasta (with no-oil tomato sauce) and jacket potatoes with baked beans (but no butter) for months!

Different things work for different people - you may find you get dry skin from low fat, not enough energy to run from low carbs or bad results from resistance training if you don't have enough protein.

A good balance with enough of everything (including my favourite micronutrient red wine!) works best for me and helps me achieve my weight-loss goals without compromising my fitness goals, which are probably more important, or feeling hungry.

Low carb was trendy LOooooNG before low fat. Low carb has been around for loosing weight since the 1700s (some prince or other lost a lot of weight eating just meats and green veggies) It was purported back at the turn of the century. It wasn't until the mid 1950s that fat became 'bad' and the whole idea that one should eat lots of empty carbs and limit fat and protein. Flawed studies in the 70s (now refuted) showed that protein was bad. Its due to these that there has been a large campain to push carbs.

I am not saying don't eat carbs lol. I am saying if you try just cutting cals and it doesn't work, or you are miserable try cutting carbs. I have never been so relaxed and happy about food... even forgetting weight loss. I only need to figure out how to get more veggies in.

Carbs are very good. Just as good as fats and proteins. But like others have said if you overeat any of those 3 then yes it's bad. Carbs and fats are easier to overeat cause all the bad tasty food is made of these. Haha. Just think of donuts, soda, and tinkies!!

Tinkies are the worst!

I think I may have opened a can of worms with this topic. :0

It wouldn't be the first time, so don't sweat it. We can be pretty wormy around here sometimes.

Like I said, the response to keto diets is highly individial. What part of this are you failing to understand?

Where did I say otherwise?

ppl that in favor of keto or low carb diet should just stop posting in this tread, you guys are beating a dead horse.

let the simple minded follow their " balanced" diet

will we get lean Thick Solid, vascular.

I don't think this guy follows a low carb diet religon like you. Given the choice based on apparent results, I'd have to go with this vs . since you seem to be judging by reuslts.

yeah, i started the KETO 3 weeks ago, but that pic is from early 2011. months ago, but nice try.
also, i am a powerlifter, there for, actually i had a "balanced" diet with carbs in the pic (standard bulk up diet). come at me when you can deadlift 500lb or squat 400lbs.


follow whatever diet you want lol

so I guess I can "come at you" because I've done a sanctioned meet legal 400lb+ squat right? Were those lifting during competition or practice? What belt and wraps do you use? Pics?

"carbs" can't be bad! Look at a piece of fruit, whether its an apple, grape,orange,strawberry,pineapple.. your mouth waters and they taste good. Carrots, all of the lettuces,available taste good naturally so they must be good? Look at a cow and tell me it looks delicious. Go choke it... Meat doesn't taste good raw. Meat doesn't taste good cooked. Meat needs herbs and spices which are natural. Seems like we should eat whatever is raw and natural? Uncooked? Beans are good but we must cook them so idk about that. Nuts have all of the fat and protein we need. Animal protein is proven to cause many health problems like kidney stones

Wow - zombie thread resurrected by someone telling me to go choke a cow....interesting

Why do you hate mfp?? What's the problem?

"I hear people saying that they have to avoid carbs a lot, but I don't understand why. I eat bread or pasta or potatoes all the time and I'm still losing weight. Also I thought they were good for you because they keep you full?
Can anyone explain? (:"

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I might sound like a rebel or come off as having a bad attitude for saying this, but I'm just going to say it. My bariatric nutritionist says for the "rest of my life" I'm going to have to have exclusively protein and eventually work in 25% carbohydrates and I tend to think it's bull****. Yes, she's trained in nutrition and I'm not, but I don't think she's seeing the forest for the trees. The key to everything is and always has been a BALANCED DIET, except under rare circumstances (such as recovering from surgery or childbirth). I don't think mostly carbs is the way to go, and I don't think mostly protein is the way to go.

When I grew up in the 80's, the big push was the food pyramid with carbs comprising the most intake and meat/protein to be eaten "sparingly". Now the industry is saying just the opposite--do all protein and carbs are a no-no. I think it's going to swing back around in the future to where they start recommending both in moderation, or equal quantities (well, DUH).

Just my two cents.