Low Carb, High Carb, Bad Carb: How Much is Best? By Kathleen Doheny

While researchers continue to sort out exactly how many of our daily calories should come from carbs, experts say most of us could use a bit more information on carbohydrates, starting with: What exactly is a carb?

Really, what is "carb"?
How count amount of carbs I can eat?
When it is "low"?
When it is "high"?
I do have book in my hands.
"The Drinking Man's Diet or How to Lose Weight with A Minimum of Will Power" by Gardner Jameson and Elliot Welliams.
Published in 1964 Cameron & Co. San Francisco.

So, what is a carbohydrate" Mostly, as you will learn in this book, carbohydrates are concentrated in starches & sugars. They are almost absenr from "man-type" foods like meat. fish, cheese, and salads....."

Really very interesting. Who are authors of this so lovely diet? Does not matter. We do have a lot of diets published by MD and Pro in food industry. What makes them to be experts? Nothing. Just read testimonies, and .... of cause one must trust in them, and in authors. I am not one who is easy to trust. At first I took a look at the diet, what I may eat in attempt to lost 9Lbs in 30 days, or any X lbs in any Y days.
Breakfast:
1/4 cantaloupe or 4Oz of tomato juice: 5 calories.
ham or bacon - 2 slices                          0 carb.
egg                                                          trace
coffee or tea with cream                         0 carb.
Lancheon:
Dry Martini or Whiskey with water or soda         0 carb
Boiled fish or steak or roast chicken                     0 carb
2 glasses dry wine    if you wish                           1 carb
green beans or asparagus (1/2 milk)                     4 carb
lettuce & tomato salad                                          4 carb
coffee or tea.
Dinner:
martinies or highballs                                          0 carb
shrimp coctail                                                      4 carb
beef, pork, lamb, chicken or turkey                    0 carbs
green beans                                                         6 carb
2 glasses of dry wine                                          1 carb

1/2 avocado with dressing                                  8 carb
cheese                                                                   trace
 coffee or tea                                                        0 carb
Brandy                                                                 0 carb
                                                   total 37 + carb.
Because of  1 carb= 4 cal. Total 37 * 4 = less then 160 cal.
Where that diet come from? Authors said, they took this diet from their friends who are pilots. Pilots must be fit, and at the same time they cannot use starvation diet. Interesting, can they be addicts? Authors did not say that.
       There are thousands of recipes published how to lose weight. There are not less books published. And for every one of us there are there are Rx from MD every time we go to clinic how to eat and what to eat. It is really easy to be lost to whom to follow.  Do MD know what Rx he put in my hands and how this treatment will work for me? Not at all.

Carbohydrate studies are plentiful, but agreement about the best way to eat carbs -- and how much of them we need on a daily basis -- is rare.

Really interesting. It is not only how much we need to eat, but what do we need to eat, or what we need do not eat, in spite of all published studies, not clear and even absolutely not reliable. 

But another recent study by Harvard researchers found a higher chance of premature death in both low-carb eaters and high-carb eaters.

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The newest study, presented at a meeting of European cardiologists in August, looked at a U.S. sample of nearly 25,000 people. It found that the low-carb eaters had a 32% higher chance of dying from any cause during a follow-up of over 6 years. The risk of death from heart disease, when looked at separately, was 51% higher, stroke, 50%, and cancer, 35%. They evaluated other studies to confirm their findings.

Really, be very careful to trust in any studies.
       So, what to eat? How much to eat? And what do not eat?
Why someone must to say me, how to live my life? I do know how to do my job. I do know how to bring up my children. I do know a lot. Why do not I know how to eat right? I do know it very well. There are some rules I have to follow in my daily life, and I have to follow them day after day.
      Budget. Regardless of what is good or bad, I can buy only what I do have money to buy. This include food and medicine and many other staff for my household. So, even I do know that organic food is better then processed food, I buy what I do have on market, and as best price as I am able to find.
     Processed food vs homemade food. I do know that at home I am able to cook better food then to buy in McDonald. Do I buy food in McDonald? Yes, I do. I cannot all the time have what is best. We have meal outside everyday. We do not have time to cook as we wish. And there are many other abstractions why we have to eat what we do, even we do know there are better way. We simple do not have the path for this highway.
     Health issue. I do know that I have complicated liver. I cannot eat what I love to eat. I cannot eat oily food, fat food, or batter. There are many other complications in my health. So, even I do love some meal, I have to avoid it. As it is in the diet I posted above. I like to take 2 glasses of dry wine, but I cannot. I do suffer from headaches all my life. I cannot drink ether red nether dry wine, Whiskey, or dry Martini.
      Preferences and limitations has everyone of us, and there is nothing we can do, but respect who we are and follow our own rules and limitations. If we do know that, able to follow the way we do, then say me, why we do not live right? Who is able to show to me way to live my life?

"You don't know if it's a select group of individuals who chose to go on a low-carb diet for health reasons," for instance, says Alice Lichtenstein, Gershoff professor of nutrition science and policy at Tufts University's Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging.

You must be kidding, yes? There are no person choice to follow low carb diet. BTW, are you sure that any person follow low carnb diet? I familiar with one person who used to live on this diet. It was Elizabeth Hughes Gossett, diabetic who first in America started to take insulin.

Elizabeth was 4 feet 11.5 inches (1.511 m) and 75 pounds (34 kg) when she developed diabetes (at age 11 in 1918). Under diets that averaged 800 calories per day, her weight fell to 45 pounds (20 kg) by August 1922.

 In America people who pretend they are on low carb diet, have body weight over 200 and even 300 pounds. Elizabeth was slow dying at the time when Insulin was discovered by Dr. Banting. With Insulin she started to recover and lived till 1981. So, to say that low carb diet is for healthy reason then say me, what reason is it? Diabetes? Not at all. It did not help Elizabeth, the same way it did not help to million of other American diabetics.
      Low carb diet help to develop high income buy talking about diet, and providing dieting recommendations. There are no one benefit for those who follow it. Just timeless Death of any cause. Still every time I am in Clinic MD said, I have to lose weight, and Rx low carb, low fat, low sugar, low calorie diet. I am obese person now. I used to be naive and I followed MD orders. This is the way to collect more pounds then any medical condition will let to do. Right now I am no longer naive. I simple eat what is good for me, even pound of grape at once. MD recommended just 18 grapes per day. What about weight? It is stable now. I take Insulin, Lantus Solo Star, and I do control blood sugar with Insulin. Weight does not go up. Still, it is high. I do have high water retention. My kidney effected by long standing diabetes, and water stay in body. I do not take any diuretics. In stead I take a lot of water. Right opposite what MD usually recommended to me.

Previous studies have produced conflicting findings. Some have found that low-carb diets promote weight loss and can help heart health. But other studies have found that low-carb eating could boost the risk of heart disease, cancer, and earlier death.

This is important statement about all diets and any studies. Just do not take it for granted that studies done to help you. No. It is all about money, and we are the source of money. Our health, lives, and even deaths are money in American money business. Some business collect money to provide health, other businesses collect money by introducing bad habits and pretend it is good for health. How to find what is best? Simple, do not let your brain to be washed. Keep it clean for own use.


Low Carb, High Carb, Bad Carb: How Much is Best?
 By Kathleen Doheny
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