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4. Refined Carbs Lead to Overeating
Eating a diet high in these refined carbs is one of the driving factors behind today’s obesity epidemic. Since these types of carbs are low in fiber and are easily digested, these foods can cause serious swings in blood sugar. This often leads to overeating as your body attempts to stabilize those blood sugar levels.
This is because refined carbs do induce a feeling of fullness and satiety, but it is short lived. After eating a meal or snack high in refined carbs, you will feel happy and satisfied for about an hour, more or less. Then your blood sugar drops, so your body tells you that it is hungry again so it can increase the sugar level in the blood. This bouncing back and forth leads to reward behavior, where your body sends out certain signals so that you will reward it with more sugar or other type of refined carb.
Long term studies have shown that a diet high in these types of carbs leads to a significant increase in belly fat, the most dangerous type.
5. Not All Carbs are Bad However
After reading these things about carbs, you might be ready to swear them off forever, but hold on a minute! Not all carbs are created equal! Some foods that are rich in carbs are very healthy for you. These include whole foods the way that Mother Nature intended them to be. Some of the best high carb foods are fruits, beans, lentils, potatoes, carrots, all vegetables, corn (non-GMO of course) and whole grains such as oats and barley.
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Unless your doctor has prescribed a specific low-carb diet, you should never be afraid to eat whole carbohydrate foods from Mother Earth.
References:
American Beverage Association
Feb 2, 2016 at 8:41 am
When it comes to achieving or maintaining a healthy weight, all calories count and physical activity is a key component of a healthy lifestyle. Interestingly, as sugar-sweetened beverage intake has declined over that past several decades, other
sources of calories have increased dramatically. In fact, fats, oils and starches comprise a whopping 84 percent of the added calories Americans are taking in, whereas all sugar-sweetened beverages combined comprise just 6% of the calories in the average American diet. The important message here, we believe, is that education can continue to help propel positive health behavior change – a shift that applies to overall diet, not one category of products.