A Deeper Look into High Carb Low Fat Diets
Some people may find the subject of diet boring and a dead end, as there are so many contradictory claims, but I cannot over-stress the importance of how much diet affects physical, mental, and spiritual health. (I'm using the word "diet" for convenience. The word "diet" doesn't have to have a negative connotation.)
There are three main diets. Two of the three diets obtain positive results, while the remaining one causes disease. There are also diets that are in between, as it's quite a spectrum, but here are the main three:
1. High fat, low carb.
2. Low fat, high carb.
3. High carb, high fat.
The main cause of obesity, diabetes, and disease among the population comes from the trend to go with #3. #3 is a diet that includes sugary sodas, foods fried in vegetable oils, candies, and so forth.
In my opinion #1 gets far too much attention, becoming more like a cult. #1 may work well for others, but what about people who have a vegetarian blood type? I've repeatedly tried #1, and my blood sugar did go lower, but I always had other disastrous psycho-physiological effects from #1. This post will therefore be exploring #2.
Dr. McDougall who goes into #2:
"Eating starches make my blood sugar spike. How is that good?"
McDougall's macronutrient protocol is:
75-90% carbs in the form of starch.
7-15% protein from non-animal sources.
10% or less from fat.
Low
fat high carb diets often fail because people eat low fat products with
huge amounts of added sugar, such as low fat sweetened yogurt and the
like, and then they go for 'heart healthy' vegetable oils, which turns
the diet into a high fat, high carb nightmare. As I've stated before,
people poison themselves with added sugars and vegetable oils. There is
still a way to go high carb and have very positive results if going low
in fructose and keeping the fats and vegetable oils to a minimum.
My version of #2 is a hybridized version of McDougall's protocol. I am still avoiding starches high in saponins. Rice, polenta, and some refined bread (the bread must be low in added simple sugars though) are what can be eaten instead of whole grains, quinoa, beans, and the like.
To throw out some numbers, the sugar and fat intake each can be 15g or less per day. Carbs from starch can be 200-300g per day - something like that. (This isn't an exact science but one gets the idea.) I will give this a go and report on the results.
One can go back 100 years or so, and look at what people were eating in other countries like Japan and China. They ate a large amount of starch in the form of rice, but they were definitely not diabetic and overweight! People started becoming diabetic and overweight when fats, oils, and the sweet stuff was added. When rice started being fried in oil, for example, this is when diabetes and obesity emerged.
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