Sugar, whether simple (i.e. common sugar and sweeteners, such as honey, fructose, etc.) or complex (starch and in general all foods that contain it) has become the number one public enemy of most diets and especially it is the new great enemy of the United States : it doesn’t matter if it’s the icing of the cake or the plate of pasta, low carb diets prohibit both (i.e. low carbohydrates: diets where the only source of carbohydrates are often vegetables), saying that it is carbohydrates intended as complex sugars (bread, pasta, pizza, cereals, baked goods) and simple sugars that make us fat.
Let ‘s see some reasons why it is not true that carbohydrates make you fat,or rather, not all carbohydrates and let’s try to understand which are the carbohydrates that really make you fat.

BECAUSE CARBOHYDRATES DO NOT GET FAT

By carbohydrates here we mean starchy foods, such as bread, pasta, pizza, cereals, rice. Are there other foods containing carbohydrates? Absolutely yes. Fruits, legumes, nuts, peanuts, seeds, all vegetables and of course potatoes and other tubers contain carbohydrates, but the list goes on and on. Clearly all desserts contain carbohydrates, but looking at the list of foods according to their percentage of carbohydrates , we also find minimal quantities in eggs, crustaceans, cheeses. In general, oils and fats are exempt, and so-called foods with pure proteins, namely meat and fish in the first place.
1) A low carb or no-carb diet is one that excludes all foods that contain largely carbohydrates, for at least half of their composition: for which those who want to give up carbohydrates should say goodbye not only to pasta, bread, pizza or cereals and to all desserts, but also to fruit, for example, and in some diets to most of the legumes and peanuts. There remain the vegetables, the nuts, the oil seeds.
2) Our body normally needs carbohydrates to survive, but it can also do without them, in the sense that carbohydrates are not necessary for the strict survival of man. Then one wonders why they are so recommended in our diet : for example , or the WHO recommends an intake range between 55 and 75 percent . A little bit for some foods that make you fat? Do they want us dead? (continue to PAGE 2)