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Because fats, especially saturated fats, keep many people full and functioning with very little need for carbohydrate, and for those same people, carbohydrates with very little fat just make them sluggish and ravenous. For some -- I am one of them -- the focus on the carbohydrates is so I'm lean, satiated, and energetic.
I also think it's obvious to most thinking people -- you are an exception, evidently -- that the "eating pattern that is recommend by all major health organizations" is not one-size-fits-all or anything close.
YES, a low fat/high carb meal will make me drowsy in very short order.
Yeah, I tried eating a "very healthy" low fat/high carb diet for quite a while.......I was eating a LOT, yet I was constantly starving.
Why does a low fat diet have to be high carb?
Why not a balanced diet with lean proteins, healthy mono-saturated fats, whole grains, fresh veggies and fruit? Watch caloric intake and exercise.
Its amazing what this approach can accomplish.
Why does a low fat diet have to be high carb?
Why not a balanced diet with lean proteins, healthy mono-saturated fats, whole grains, fresh veggies and fruit? Watch caloric intake and exercise.
It doesn't, a low-fat diet could be high protein instead. But high protein intake is problematic, where as high carbohydrate intake is not. So a healthful low-fat diet is going to be high in carbohydrates.
Mono-unsaturated fats are no more healthy than sugar, in both cases the healthfulness depends on the context. An avocado, a whole food rich in monounsaturated fats, is healthful while some monounsaturated rich vegetable grease is not. Same goes with sugar, fruits are good while refined sugars are not.
Having to "watch your calories" is a sign of a poor diet.
Yeah, I tried eating a "very healthy" low fat/high carb diet for quite a while.......I was eating a LOT, yet I was constantly starving.
The devil is in the details, just because a diet is low-fat doesn't mean its healthful. A diet based on whole plant foods with no or small amounts of lean meats, eggs, etc will be low-fat and healthful, where as a low-fat diet based on refined pasta, enriched breads, lean cuisine frozen meals, etc will not be.
"Low-fat" shouldn't be the focus on any diet, instead eating whole plant foods. But any whole-foods plant strong diet will be lower in fat since whole plant foods, on average, are low in fat.
Why does a low fat diet have to be high carb? Why not a balanced diet with lean proteins, healthy mono-saturated fats, whole grains, fresh veggies and fruit? Watch caloric intake and exercise.
Its amazing what this approach can accomplish.
Because that is common sense, because it is proven to be safe and effective. We can't have any of that thinking.
Common sense is the faculty that tells us that the earth is flat.
What are you trying to prove? . Do you have any clue at all what each component of nutrition does? Do you understand what the role of a carbohydrate, protein, fat, and fiber? Do you even understand the importance of each to sustain a healthy body?
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. Do you have any clue at all what each component of nutrition does? Do you understand what the role of a carbohydrate, protein, fat, and fiber? Do you even understand the importance of each to sustain a healthy body? 
