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Originally Posted by alexg  Well that is certainly good advice. I don't have bad carbs like sugar in my diets and I don't want to eat much meat because of cholesterol in them, so I don't know if I am fine like this or what. I still want to loose some weight and maybe this low carlorie diet will help. Though I am suppose to have at least 1500 - 1700 or so calories a day, but today I found out I got 1,200 or so and 50% of that was from Carbs. If my glucose levels at this diet point are still good, am I still on the right track? What do you think, comments?
alexg |
"bad carbs like sugar" is a meaningless categorisation i am afraid.
ALL carbohydrates are made up of polysaccharides. "Polysaccharide" means "many sugars"
ALL carbohydrates will be broken down from a long chained sugar molecule (polysaccharide) into glucose by your saliva and gut.
The shorter the polysaccharide chain is the sweeter the taste of the food. so, there is not really such a thing as a good carb or a bad carb.
regarding meat and cholesterol. we are all different here. but in my case, eating more fat and protein and less carbs has sent my bad cholesterol very very low and my triglycerides for the first time in my adult life into the normal range.
to paraphrase Bernstein, "saying that eating fat makes you fat is like saying that eating an apple will make you red"...
