Tue, Mar-22-11, 10:29
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Senior Member
Posts: 2,606
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Plan: LCHF/Keto
Stats: 162/116.6/117
BF:30.6%/22.0%/22.1%
Progress: 101%
Location: Kentuckiana
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I will agree with you to a certain extent. However, I don't believe bread, doughnuts, or other refined carbs are natural for us, nor the other long list of ingredients that are hard to prounounce in many of the manufactured processed foods today. While our ancient ancestors may have ground various grains, and possibly used something like honey, agave, pureed fruit, or such, they didnt' use refined flours or sugars. Further, I believe that a lot of the nutrients today, even in unrefined gains, have been lost.
Finally, I will say that prior to cutting carbs, I had a lot of inflammation and joint pain that went away when I reduced my carbs. I do eat a few carbs with each meal (~15-25). However, I try to stick with natural whole "starch foods" such as some fruits, or veggies such as starchy squash, legumes, carrots, sweet potatoes, etc., as well as some dairy and nuts.
Just as some people have weight issues and others don't, regardless of diet and exercise (I have some very thin family members who don't exercise and consume all kinds of junk - - yet I've always been attentive, yet had weight problems) - - people are individuals and what works well for one person will not necessarily work well for another. Some can handle more carbs than others. But I don't think that we can compare bread and doughnuts to naturally occuring fruits and vegetables, which also have been significantly altered over the course of evoluation.
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