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Originally Posted by Azure
http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-...431,full.story
Been saying it for how long?
Now, I'm not anti-carb. In fact, I'm all about eating according to your lifestyle. But there is no question in my mind that a government backed 'diet', nevermind certain policies like the subsidization of corn which gave us HFCS in literally everything, not to mention how many transfats we ate until it became apparent that they weren't healthy either.....is one of the biggest reasons our obesity levels are sitting at 50% plus.
This is exactly why it annoys me when people go on a 'diet' where they eat pizza for 3 months and lose weight, and then try to tell the whole world that there is nothing wrong with eating carb heavy foods. Simply put, you can't sustain a diet like that. Any normal person with a normal lifestyle, normal 9-5 job cannot live like that for 65+ years, considering that is our average age. Of course, there is nothing wrong with pizza, provided you eat it in moderation.
Like I said before, that is why you have to eat according to your lifestyle. And there are too many people who have desk jobs and never exercise that eat WAY too much, which includes too many carbs. If you're not extremely active, there is no way in hell you should be eating 300g of carbs per day.
But try preaching moderation and responsible choices to a generation of people who live in the here and now and they'll kick you out of the room.
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It should be clarified that the article is talking about the decrease in fat as a % of total calories being successful, but since society is eating so much more of everything else (ie carbs in the forms of refined sugar, white flour, etc) obesity is rising (because total caloric intake is rising).
If you're once again preaching a low carb diet to lose weight then good luck keeping those glycogen stores up and sustaining any significant long term training!