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A recent article by charming Southern boy Matt Stone. Is he now conceding that cheeseburgers, ice cream, pizza, cookies, cake, and deep-fried carbohydrates like french fries, foods that he once recommended to "restore" the metabolic rate actually cause disease?
From March 8th, 2016:
"Carbohydrates have gotten a bad rap because of various health fads over the last few decades that pin the blame for all of our modern health woes (obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer) on the hormone insulin.
Carbohydrates raise blood sugar, which triggers a rise in insulin. Therefore, claim the tater haters, it is sinister.
This scenario sounds perfectly logical, but it's a distant cry from the truth.
Turns out that protein stimulates insulin just as much as carbohydrate, and that postprandial spikes in insulin caused by these foods are normal, natural, and healthy--not a precursor to disease.
It also turns out that eating a lot of carbohydrates keeps you insulin sensitive, which keeps your baseline insulin levels low, not high.
Most telling is that the consumption of carbohydrates is inversely associated with all of the conditions that it supposedly causes via stimulating insulin secretion.
This seems like common sense knowing that the billions of lean people living in Africa, Asia, and South America--as well as all of our lean primate cousins--eat a much higher ratio of carbohydrates to fat than in North America, Europe, and Australia where obesity flourishes (and carbohydrates like rice, beans, potatoes, corn, and fruit are displaced by cheeseburgers, ice cream, pizza, cookies, cake, and deep-fried carbohydrates like french fries).
When should you eat them? It doesn't matter. The most important times to eat them are upon waking and after exercise when stress hormones are elevated, but there shouldn't be any fear of eating them at a certain time of day vs. another.
How much carbohydrate should you eat? I answer that question HERE.
Short answer... A LOT."
https://www.quora.com/Are-carbs-good-for-you-If-so-when-should-I-eat-them
Inb4 the typical anti-health nut, who will roll their eyes. I occasionally eat those foods. But I strive to be objective about the human condition.
From March 8th, 2016:
"Carbohydrates have gotten a bad rap because of various health fads over the last few decades that pin the blame for all of our modern health woes (obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer) on the hormone insulin.
Carbohydrates raise blood sugar, which triggers a rise in insulin. Therefore, claim the tater haters, it is sinister.
This scenario sounds perfectly logical, but it's a distant cry from the truth.
Turns out that protein stimulates insulin just as much as carbohydrate, and that postprandial spikes in insulin caused by these foods are normal, natural, and healthy--not a precursor to disease.
It also turns out that eating a lot of carbohydrates keeps you insulin sensitive, which keeps your baseline insulin levels low, not high.
Most telling is that the consumption of carbohydrates is inversely associated with all of the conditions that it supposedly causes via stimulating insulin secretion.
This seems like common sense knowing that the billions of lean people living in Africa, Asia, and South America--as well as all of our lean primate cousins--eat a much higher ratio of carbohydrates to fat than in North America, Europe, and Australia where obesity flourishes (and carbohydrates like rice, beans, potatoes, corn, and fruit are displaced by cheeseburgers, ice cream, pizza, cookies, cake, and deep-fried carbohydrates like french fries).
When should you eat them? It doesn't matter. The most important times to eat them are upon waking and after exercise when stress hormones are elevated, but there shouldn't be any fear of eating them at a certain time of day vs. another.
How much carbohydrate should you eat? I answer that question HERE.
Short answer... A LOT."
https://www.quora.com/Are-carbs-good-for-you-If-so-when-should-I-eat-them
Inb4 the typical anti-health nut, who will roll their eyes. I occasionally eat those foods. But I strive to be objective about the human condition.