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[quote=Anonymous]I think a lot of diets geared toward Americans skew toward "no carbs" because Americans tend to eat so damn many of them, and a lot of them just don't exercise.

I mean, take my dad.  He is a lovely person but he eats like crap, and it shows.  He used to be a normal weight but he hit almost 300 lbs in his 60's and now it's really affecting his health and his lifestyle.  We'll go out to dinner and he'll order a steak with a baked potato and often corn (two starches) and then he'll ask for refills on the bread.  (He'll also drink like 3 regular cokes, but that's a whole other ball of wax.)  He gets very little exercise, so none of those carbs have anywhere to go.  They just end up as excess weight.

I told him that if he wanted to get serious about weight loss, he needed to pick one carb per meal and that's it. If he wants the baked potato (yum), no bread.  No corn unless that's his only carb - he needs to order a salad or green veggies like broccoli or asparagus as his other side.

Me, I have always eaten carbs, but I use portion control, and I use the same rule I taught my dad.  If I eat pasta, no bread for me.  (So I don't serve garlic bread with lasagne.)  Mostly whole grains vs. white bread/white rice.  I'm also fairly strict about portion control.  I differ from my dad in that I get cardiovascular activity every single day, and often quite a lot of it.  Those carbs are getting used as fuel.  Humans do need carbs.  They fuel cardio and they fuel brain activity.  We just tend to eat too many of them and burn too few of them.

My runner/cyclist/swimmer friends eat carbs.  My friends who only lift or who don't do much cardio tend to go keto or paleo when they diet.[/quote]

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