Why carbs don’t make you fat

The thinnest people in the US eat high carb diets while the fattest est high protein diets.

False assumption.

The skinniest people exercise a lot...or smoke a lot.

You are also confusing skinny with healthy.

Alan

Morbidly obese cows with zero willpower seem to gravitate towards these dogmatic diets. They require super strict guidelines similar to religion to get them to stop cramming copious quantities of food down their pieholes.

Whenever I see one of these zealots SCREAMING about how carbohydrates are EVIL and how they were once 300lb and lost 100lb on their ketogenic diet, the only thing that I wonder is how the hell they got to 300lb in the first place. Really these people have impulse control mental disorders. A person without a brain disorder can eat a freaking potato and not bloat up to 300lb.

Never heard this. The fattest people acquire the cheapest calories, and carbs and fat tend to be generally cheaper than protein. Not sure why the thinnest would be eating more carbs than average.

Probably referring to vegans. Another dogmatic cult.

Healthy people eat diets high in fruits and vegetables and whole grains. They eat lean meat and fish and nuts but in smaller quantities than the other foods. This isn't a secret.

No one has bothered to differentiate naturally occurring carbs that are in whole foods from refined carbs which the overconsumption of is responsible for three epidemics: cardio vascular disease, type 2 diabetes and obesity.

the bulk of the diet of refined carbohydrates is product made with flour

Ummm....I do believe that's been mentioned.

Don’t forget sugar.

I think many people would be a lot better off ditching the blanket ‘carbs are bad’ assumption and simply focus on cutting out refined/added sugar. I’ve never known a fat person who didn’t consume way too much sugar, and that includes myself at times.

Wtf? It’s just the difference b/t complex and simple carbohydrates? How the hell has nobody mentioned this.

I am not forgetting sugar, just wrote that the bulk of the refined carb diet is products made with flour. But yes sugar as well. Fruit juice, pop, and many other products.
One behaviour that needs to change is snacking after dinner in front of the TV. People watch their favourite shows eat refined carbs, have an insulin response so get drowsy and go to sleep.

we don’t burn glycogen while sleeping. Plus we store 2.5 grams of water with every gram of carb that we store.

that’s why Joe six pack looks bloaty and puffy as do his wife and kids. Stuff their faces and get very little exercise.

Are you sure about that? I just looked at a McDonald’s meal of a Big Mac, large fry with ketchup, and large Coke. 1330 calories, 190g of carbs (760 calories) of which 88 grams (352 calories) is sugar. The large fry is 490 calories of which 65 grams (260 calories) is (non-flour-based) carbs. That leaves 37 grams (148 calories) that is probably mostly (but not all) white flour in the bun.

I disagree that white flour is the issue.

You should see the calories on a double whopper!

941kcal for a Burger King Double Whopper.

All I have to do cram down 4 of those per day and I'll be able to maintain my 135lb.

If I eat enough bacon to gain fat, then I gain not just fat but pork fat? Same question but for virgin coconut oil. Or, does the body first convert the food we eat into something else?

Are all carbs the same? Does a plate full of mars bars impact a person's weight the same as the equivalent amount of calories from broccoli?

Why do diabetics monitor glucose levels? Might this all have something to do with the impact of your diet on glucose (and insulin levels)?

So here is the result of 15 years eating about 2lbs fatty meat, 6-8 eggs and 3-4 sticks of butter and/or cheese (plus nowadays all the fruit I want) per day

https://imgur.com/a/eAjZ596

Feel free to post your results. Good luck finding a dietician with anything like those results (not even going to to mention performance levels)

I'll be over here with ice cubes :)

The real question is did you properly count calories before and after?

A lot of these "I changed my diet..." anecdotes don't really tell us much because they come with a change in average calorie consumption..

If you don't eat carbs you're either a Lib or a RINO.

8000 yrs ago humans ate poached salmon and steak with steamed broccoli