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Re Good Carbs book

Each person has an individual tolerance level for carbs. People eating grains has only developed in the past 4 thousand years. The more processed a food is, the more it is handled by man, the worse it is for your health. The problem with grains is that people start with five grain breads and steel cut oatmeal and move on to the soft coffee colored "wheat" bread, instant oatmeal and cold cereals. Some advocates of good carbs recommend using the glycemic index as your guide and never eating higher than a 10-15. To them, these are the "good" carbs and still the amounts have to be monitored. So the answer is it works for the people that can do it without drifting to the higher glycemic index carbs and then binging.

Definitely something I wouldn't mess with until I reached goal!