9 Authors Declare Which Ones, How Much to Eat and Why
Part 1 of a series of posts on carbohydrates and diet.
Love Your Carbohydrates! That’s right—eat and savor carbohydrates from whole foods like low-glycemic fruits, legumes, starchy vegetables, and nuts and seeds. Banish refined carbohydrates, packaged products and sugary treats from your diet for improved health, weight loss and a greater sense of wellness. That’s what, in part, authors in alternative and popular literature encourage you to do to achieve radiant health.
Nowadays we concern ourselves with steering clear of carbs because we believe carbohydrates to be disreputable and the villains in our struggle to keep healthy. There’s a conviction that carbs are bad because of the belief that carbs (read: sugars) cause disease. Some foods are labelled “carbohydrate” and are indeed bad for our health, but not all are bad. In the media, we find very little to support the idea that carbohydrates are good for us. There’s lots of data and info but it’s confusing to sort out.
In fact, “carbs” in your diet should represent a whole range of foods. Not the ones with a food product label, whole food carbs are the healthy ones to eat: they form 1/3 of the nutrients needed by the body for nourishment and healthy digestion. They need to be the right kinds of carbs and in the right amounts for you.
Does your digestion, weight or suffering from the effects of disease make you question your choices of food and lifestyle? If so, you might benefit from the advice of authors Kshirsagar, Barnard and Minich in this post; and Chopra, Synder, Noel-Groves, Fuhrman, Gittleman and Perlmutter in subsequent posts. In the later posts, there are more lifestyle, herbal, and nutritional approaches from 6 more distinctive authors.
Carbohydrates-One of Three Life-Giving Foods is a post that discusses carbohydrates in the context of weight loss, diet and nutrition in 9 recently published books. Carbohydrates are controversial foods that greatly influence diet and weight loss. In each author’s plan carbohydrates are featured with instructions on how to combine them with other foods. In their books, carbohydrates play a key role in weight loss and subsequent optimal health.
The authors I’ve chosen make memorable points concerning food and health, and each book has its unique set of assumptions on the three macronutrients. However, these authors provide far more than simple access to their theories. They are medical doctors or nutritionists with the education and clinical experience to make claims about nutrition. They have clinical substantiation to share which makes me think their theories are based in part on solid evidence. Their theories are also generated in part from their genius to make sense of all the data in a way that is substantive for those who need it. In addition to citing studies and articles, they also provide even more basis for why we should make certain food choices and not others.
Often, they warn against indulgence in eating certain foods or “food products”, items we can all too easily purchase for quick dinner fixes. But frankly, we would be a lot healthier without their presence on our dinner plates. We face such temptations daily. Readers will recognize how easy it is to fall prey to the many ways that the food industry as a whole has stolen away our ability to defend ourselves against their campaigns. Food and our relationship to it, in the marketplace at least, is a tale of psychological proportions.
If you, too, think an awareness of diet strategies concerning carbohydrates might be helpful, let’s explore these authors together.
The opinions I share are the result of examining each author’s plan for using carbohydrates in a special diet. As always, statements on this blog are meant to ignite interest in reading. The statements are not intended as medical advice of any kind.
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