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A food is either a carbohydrate, or it is something else like a protein foods or fat.   You can have all 3 on the same plate.  Like, you can stuff a fat chicken with breadcrumbs. But they all start out independently. As for Carbohydrates in general, they cover a very wide range of food.  Good carbohydrates are vegetables, particularly those that grow above ground.  All fruits are carbohydrates.  Most have a very high sugar content.   The best carbohydrates foods are those people ate throughout evolution. In other words; food that grows in nature.  As to Bad carbohydrates.  Anything that comes out of a factory or a processing plant, in other words; anything you buy pre packaged,  should carry a label with a skull and crossbow.   It is not real food.  It contains chemicals, transfat and loads of salt and sugar.

Your body can stay in a healthy condition without carbohydrates.  Human beings did without it for centuries, including an Ice Age.  What the body cannot do without are what we used to call ‘The Building Blocks of life’ – Protein foods.

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Steak
chicken
pork chop
fish (no breading)
blueberries
raspberries
strawberries
any non-starchy vegetable

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You gain weight.
You can raise your blood sugar level.
You can become a carbohydrate addict.

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Carbohydrate IS sugar and all carbohydrates end up as glucose, (Sugar).  That includes bananas.  Carbohydrates foods is what you body uses to replenish you energy if and when you’ve used it.  The fat you eat is very different to the fat we call body fat. That’s what our body manufactures from surplus carbohydrates that we have not been able to use for energy.  The fat you eat does not make you fat. It simply gets burned along with your carbs food.  Its carbs food that makes you fat.

The human body cannot store glucose (sugar).  If you don’t burn it up your body converts it to body fat and stores it on your body.

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I don’t know that you can say carbohydrates stunt your growth.  What we should say is that protein foods are the most important food to human beings.  They are what builds and repairs you muscles, skin, tissue, bones and organs.  We cannot grow and thrive without protein foods.  We can, and have often lived without carbohydrates.  That’s because our body has only one use for carbohydrates and that’s for fuel.  Since the body is able to convert protein foods into glucose, just as well as it does with all carbs food,  it’s fair to say carbohydrates foods are clearly not essential to human survival, the way protein foods are.

Learn more here:  The Carbohydrate Addicts Manual