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Carbs are not bad, many carbs we eat today are bad because they've been converted and processed into bad carbs like sugar. It's better to get sugar indirectly than take in refined sugar directly.
Same with meats, the more we cook meats the worse off it is for you. Meats that are lightly cooked have less carcinogens and retains more nutrients.
Humans aren't the only species who like carbs. Show me a dog who doesn't beg for potato chips. Even cats, who are obligate carnivores who can derive no nutrition from them, love them. It's because they taste good.
The carbs we know today are not the same as the carbs people ate hundreds of years ago. Do you think anything like Wonder Bread existed in 100 BC, 1400 AD, 1800 AD? Some of our food has been so genetically modified that it is unrecognizable as food sometimes. Compare Wonder Bread to Ezekiel bread which is sprouted grain, not the wheat most people are used to. Two completely different foods although they are both called bread.
As for craving carbs, when you stop eating processed carbs and sugar, you will stop craving it.
The carbs we know today are not the same as the carbs people ate hundreds of years ago. Do you think anything like Wonder Bread existed in 100 BC, 1400 AD, 1800 AD? Some of our food has been so genetically modified that it is unrecognizable as food sometimes. Compare Wonder Bread to Ezekiel bread which is sprouted grain, not the wheat most people are used to. Two completely different foods although they are both called bread.
As for craving carbs, when you stop eating processed carbs and sugar, you will stop craving it.
That is so true. When you stop eating it, you stop craving it period. I stopped eating a lot of sugar years ago and I seldom crave it. And, I had a big sweet tooth. I grew up eating homemade sweets (as many people do).
I eat a cookie now and then or a graham cracker, a bit of sugar w/ cereal, but that's mostly it. Seldom eat desserts (they're a treat and once every few months). Don't crave bread either after I stopped eating it. Get it out of the house, stop eating it and in a month or more, you won't even miss it.
Starchy foods kept workers going all day with all the calories, back in the days when rice, potatoes, and pasta were staples. They still are in some parts of the world. If you're doing manual labour for 10 hours a day, the carbs are useful and the calories get burned off quickly. Kinda makes sense to me that way.
Starchy foods kept workers going all day with all the calories, back in the days when rice, potatoes, and pasta were staples. They still are in some parts of the world. If you're doing manual labour for 10 hours a day, the carbs are useful and the calories get burned off quickly. Kinda makes sense to me that way.
Carbs are my energy....I don't care what anyone says. I made a cup of rice today for lunch, cooked with 2 beef bouillon cubes with the water, then drizzled with a little bit of low-sodium soy sauce. Kept me going all day. Yesterday, I had a baked potato with cheese, butter, salt and pepper for lunch. Again, kept me going.
I love my proteins, and I do eat them at breakfast and at dinner, but I swear I "keep going" better on a carb-heavy lunch. I think the problem that a lot of people have is their portion size. Of course, a dinner-size portion of chicken alfredo at Olive Garden over lunch -- along with salad, breadsticks and maybe even dessert -- is gonna make you sleepy.
Salads don't satisfy me at lunch, period, even with chicken in them. I need my carbs.
If us humans are omnivores, but mostly carnivores in the centuries past(evolution) , why now do we like\crave carbs so much? ie: pastas, breads.
Where is the connection? If there is one.
Maybe we craved them then?
How did we get the carbs?
It seems by history buffs that we hunted and gathered.
Hunted meat and gathered plants to eat.
I think you answered your question. Maybe we started as hunters/gatherers but most of us evolved over thousands of years into omnivores, notwithstanding certain populations like Inuits who continue with a primarily high animal flesh diet.
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