Article: Carbohydrate Myths

[The Press]

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[Swordfish II]

Once again, huffington posts a crap article

 

[STPlover]

I think its a pretty accurate article with some very valid points

 

[Swordfish II]

Parts are valid and parts are not. They lost all credibility when they stated "how our ancestors ate..." Sorry but our ancestors also had much shorter life spans (30 was ancient during the paleolithic era), and please tell me the last time you hunted down and killed your food like "our ancestors"

 

[rricketts]

I doubt that the short life span of our ancestors had anything to do with not consuming carbs. That point is to show that the body doesn't necessarily need carbs, especially starches. Plenty of energy from fats

 

[Clemenza]

I usually take whatever the huffington post says, and do/believe the complete opposite

 

[Vengeance187]

They lost all credibility when they stated "how our ancestors ate..." Sorry but our ancestors also had much shorter life spans

If you think their short life expectancy had anything to do with their diet, then you don't know WTF you're talking about...

(30 was ancient during the paleolithic era), and please tell me the last time you hunted down and killed your food like "our ancestors"

Yeah, you clearly don't know WTF you're talking about. 30 was not "ancient", 33 was the average life expectancy in the paleolithic era; and if they made it to age 15 then the average expectancy was at least 54 years. The average life expectancy in the early 20th century was only 31.
The last time I hunted my own food was last hunting season. We don't get to do that when ever we want anymore. We only get a month.

 

[Swordfish II]

I doubt that the short life span of our ancestors had anything to do with not consuming carbs. That point is to show that the body doesn't necessarily need carbs, especially starches. Plenty of energy from fats

My point is you cannot make an apples to apples comparison with us and them. Thousands of years of evolution has occured between the two. Who knows if "our ancestors" would have run into the same problems in old age that we currently have despite not eating carbs. Maybe the problem with most people today is more a factor of contaminants in carbs/grain from the poluted air and water (compared to the Paleo era).

Simply put there are far two many differences between the two societies/cultures to make a specific generalization. It is simply bad science to leap to such conclusions, especially when there are so many programs of eatting that incorporate carbs with no problems (eg Skip Loading)