The Truth about Carbs

[Roland]

I am not making this up and it is not an opinion. I have read a lot and listened to a lot of programs. I found this interesting.

A lot of people concern themselves with counting carbs, watching fat intake and counting calories. Here is a thought. The low carb diet stresses low carbs and high fat. The Japanesse eat a diet of high carbs and low fat. Both diet plans produce the same result even though they are in direct opposition to each other. They do have on thing in common though. Sugar is not included in the diet.

You want to know why we have an obesity epidemic in this country and who is to blame for it? I'll tell you. This is not a hateful comment it is true and you can look it up if you don't believe me. The person responsible for the strong presence of obesity in America is Richard Nixon. I have nothing against him and think he was a very good politician, just a little bit sloppy in the decision making catagory. But one thing he did forty years ago affects us to this day. Here's what happened.

At the time of the '72 election there was an issue with fluctuating food prices the gas does today. Nixon wanted to remove this issue from the election so he went to his secretary of agriculture Earl "Rusty" Butts (that is a real name look it up) and told him to stablize the food prices. So Mr. Butts put a plan into action that removed most of the fiber from food an replaced it with sodium to increase the shelf life. Everything tasted horrible so he hid the taste with high-fructose corn syrup. Ever hear of that stuff? It's in everything and now you know why.

That said, consider what happens to sugar in the body. It starts a mechanism that turns it to fat. I not not a chemist or a doctor but research this if you want. The base result of this process is that the sugar is turned into an aldehyde. Sound familiar? It should. Formaldahyde. This is what you make in your body from sugar and it slowly disolves your organs. This is all real go look it up. I would post where to find it but I don't want to get into trouble for posting links.

Also since it turns into fat you may want to know how much. An example is coke. There is enough sugar in one 20 ounce coke that if you have one a day and dont burn it all away it has the potential to turn to 15 pounds of fat in one year. That is directly from a college lecture on Nutritional Science from Cal Berkley. Nancy Amy was the professor. You can look that up too.

You're on the internet right now. Go check it out. Find a graph of any obesity study in America and notice how it really starts to climb in the early seventies. If you can avoid sugar alone you will see an immediate change in your weight plan.