Body: High carb diet = Profit for companies and unhealthy

In this post I'm going further into the first rule of the slow-carb diet I'm testing.

The rule says to avoid all 'white carbohydrates', so things like bread, rice (including brown), cereals, potatoes, pasta, tortillas and fried foods with breading.

Makes sense if you consider the following:

They once did a research conducted on 3 women which where all given a diet that consisted of only a 1000 calories a day. The only difference was that the first woman was given a diet that consisted of 90% carbohydrates, the second women had a diet consisting of 90% protein, the third one had a diet that consisted of 90% fat. The results were very surprising. I mean we are told that calories are calories no matter what the source is, right? Well, apparently it matters a lot! These were the results:

Woman on fat diet: weight loss of 0.4 kg per day

Woman on protein diet: weight loss of 0.3 kg per day

Woman on carbohydrate diet: weight gain of 0.1 kg per day  

This proves that calories aren't just calories and the sources do matter! The woman on carbohydrates gained weight on a diet of only a 1000 kcal! Just to let you know, the daily recommendations for caloric intake for a woman is 2000 kcal and for a man 2500 kcal. And then we all wonder why the number of obese people is increasing. That's bound to happen when most of the products sold in stores have a high carbohydrate percentage. I'm pretty sure it's also one of the primary causes for many other diseases in our Western world. One of them being diabetes.

Here's an excerpt from the 4-hour body book: "Chlorine dioxide, one of the chemicals used to bleach flour, combines with residual protein in most of these foods to form alloxan. Researchers use alloxan in lab rats to INDUCE diabetes."

So essentially, we are eating something on a daily basis that induces diabetes...Wonderful.

"But we need carbohydrates for energy!" I hear you say. Well, actually we don't. Carbohydrates aren't essentiel nutrients. Carbohydrates are just one of the sources we can use for energy. Protein, fat and ethanol are other sources that can be converted into energy when needed, although less efficient and I really don't recommend the latter for this purpose. 

That being said, there's nothing wrong with eating carbohydrates. It just has to be in the right proportion and preferably from a source that isn't damaging to your health.  

For me it almost looks like a case of bad parenting with Protein as the quiet, forgotten kid, Fat, the kid who always gets blamed and Carbohydrate, the spoiled kid.

Mom: "Honey, did we bring Protein with us this time?"

Dad: "...Damn, not again...No, we didn't. I guess we'll have to turn the car around. Fat, stop kicking the back of the seat!"

Fat: "It's not me, dad, it's Carbohydrate!"

Mom: "Stop blaming your brother, he's such a good boy!"

Carbohydrate: "Yeah, stop blaming me. I'm a good boy..." *grin*

So why on earth would they give us these recommendations and keep making these products if it is so unhealthy? My opinion: For profit.

The thing about non-essentiel nutrients is that you don't feed your body the proper nutrients, so you'll be hungry again pretty soon after you had your meal. Of course this is something big companies want, because they can sell more of their products and thus earn more profit. As long as we keep eating the wrong things we'll be hungry for more and this is exactly what these companies want. They don't care about our health, only about their profit.