Here's a good explanation of good vs. bad carbs. http://www.everydayhealth.com/diet-nutrition/101/nutrition-basics/good-carbs-bad-carbs.aspx?pos=1&xid=nl_MyCalorieCounterNewsletter_20141109
"The most important simple carbohydrates to limit in your diet include:
- Soda
- Candy
- Artificial syrups
- Sugar
- White rice, white bread, and white pasta
- Potatoes (technically complex carb, but acting more like simple carbs in the body)
- Pastries and desserts"
It explains how "Fruits and vegetables, still simple carbohydrates still composed of basic sugars ...are drastically different from other simple carbohydrates like cookies and cakes. The fiber in fruits and vegetables changes the way that the body processes their sugars and slows down their digestion, making them a bit more like complex carbohydrates."
To our good health!
Pierce Mill in Rock Creek Park, Washington DC, Nov. 2, 2014
And here's an amplification from https://www.quora.com - Tue 23/9/2014
ReplyDeleteIf candy and junk food are so bad for our health, then why did we evolve to find them delicious?
Daniel Super, 12 years experience as a waiter and bartender.
73 upvotes by Rich Canino, John Burgess, Sownak Roy, (more)
We didn't evolve in a world with candy and junk food, we evolved in a world with food scarcity. We evolved to prefer the taste of foods that were high value nutritionally in a food scarce world.
Junk food and candy are super-stimuli we have created in the food rich world we have created. Junk food and candy taste good because we have spent lots of time refining how to make things delicious to our existing tastes which are held over from when food was scarce.