The Secret Behind Carbohydrates — Part One
Atkins Diet, South Beach Diet, Glycemic Index Diet, Raw Diet, Hollywood Diet, Watermelon Diet…
Ever wonder why there are so many diets out there concerning carbohydrate consumption? With every diet claiming they are the one with the secret and each having different sets of standards, it is no wonder that America is losing the battle of the bulge.
What is the real truth behind carbohydrates? Here is the REAL science behind what makes our body do what it does.
FACT: Any diet that strays away from what our ancestors ate thousands of years ago is absolute B.S.! Their diet consisted of predominately vegetables and fruits with animal protein when available. There are some rare tribes like the Inuits who ate almost all meat (where the origin of Atkins diet came from), but before you start gorging on bacon, I will discuss the downside to all the diet misconceptions (Article Coming Soon).
Getting back to our ancestors. Our bodies were designed from hundreds of thousands of years of evolution to eat a certain way, and this way is the only true successful way. Think about it. For these many, many years our genetics and physiology has adapted to eating what was available, and the only things available were vegetables, fruits and animals. With limited abilities of controlling fire and temperature, most things were eaten raw with the exception of animal protein as it was easier to chew cooked. Any other way of eating is literally going against every fiber of our being. With millions of years of evolution in mind, of course our bodies are going hay-wire. We are going against everything our bodies are designed to do while we are waiting inline at McDonalds. Everything today is fried, processed, slathered, smothered, canned, frozen, and packaged for our convenience. Our food today is absolutely nothing like what our ancestors ate for all those years before the modern diet came along.
Here is the secret! As long as you eat it the way it grows out of the ground, or no one has touched it between mother nature and you, it is perfect. Get all your groceries at the butcher and the produce section. Leave the middle of the grocery store for the people who are not “in the know”. Keep it simple. The highest percentage of what you eat should be vegetables and fruits followed by lean animal protein. This will align yourself with your genetic evolution. No more fighting your natural instincts governed by your DNA.
Now, let’s get to the science of carbs shall we? Please see Part Two of this article!
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I don’t agree with you about evolution.
Something cannot come from nothing.
There is a creator and His name is
Jesus Christ.
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Totally agree. Waiting for part 2.
By the way, I wonder if Jesus Christ would eat McD’s if he was around today. 
Reply to Textig:
Thanks for your comment. Although this article is not a place to discuss Religion, I will address this comment.
Please read the article with care, and don’t jump to judgments. I was referring to the evolution of our digestive system, not the evolution of where humans came from. If you want a more in depth discussion on my stance on religion and the christian God, please see this article, and its comments.
Other than that, I will say that if you do not believe something can’t come from nothing, then where do you stand on where “your” God came from? And, what about where the first people came from. Even though you say She created them, their matter still had to poof right out of thin air. Ah, quite the ultimate contradiction. Oh, one more thing. What happened to giving God some credit? I though She was the creator of everything? Now it is Jesus Christ that is the creator? I thought he was just God’s son?
It still stands that scientific evolution sounds more rational than a god going around creating stuff out of thin air.
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Thanks for reading,
Cerebral
ADDED AT LATER TIME: My Wife, that went through 12 years of catholic private school by the way, just asked me a wonderful question. How did Jesus create everything after everything was already created? This is what you call causality, in time travel science that is.
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