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You are absolutely right.  The food pyramid is a marketing tool for food manufacturers.  Nutritionists base their theories on 1970′s ideas about dieting.  Both are equally wrong.  Why do they mislead you?   it’s how they make their living.  Chances are, they believe their own nonsense.  Instead of listening to misinformation and lies, try to listen to your own body.   If it could – your body would tell you it is not designed to diet.  Diets are a way to reduce calories.  This is a signal to your body that you are in a famine.

Your body is programmed to protect you in a famine.  It does that by slowing your metabolism and preparing to conserve and store fat.   As soon as your Famine is over your body will do everything possible to restore whatever weight you have lost.  It will also add some extra weight to prepare you for the next famine.  Everybody diets and now you know why everybody is getting fat.

Don’t ever listen to diet ‘experts’.  Most are employed by the dairy and cereal food industries.  They believe in the food pyramid not because it is good for your health, but because it is good for their business.  These industries have a stranglehold on the government’s official nutrition guidelines.

Even Harvard’s School Of Public health calls it a sham.

Stop being a victim to vested interests and learn how to permanently remain slim and healthy using you own body as your ally.

The carbohydrate Addicts Manual

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It would all depend on the source of the carbohydrates. The food pyramid is a joke, it’s not based on science but on what growers and manufacturers would like us to eat.  To eat healthy carbs food simply avoid all food that is processed and packaged.  If a food is wrapped, packaged, boxed,  or in any way processed – avoid it.   We might think some of these foods are healthy, but our body does not.  Evolution takes centuries, not a few decades.  Our body has simply not evolved to process factory produced foods.   Another point to remember: The sedentary individual simply does not need a high intake of carbohydrates.

When the body is at rest, watching tv, computing, walking, light house work, desk work, etc. The primary energy source is free fatty acids not glucose.  No carbohydrate, however great it is said to be, has no use other than to turn into glucose.   What is glucose is liquid sugar.   It is the fuel your body used to burn energy.  If you don’t use it your body turns it into body fat.  All that means is that unless you are an athlete, the more carbs food you eat – and cannot burn off – the fatter you get.

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All fruit and vegetables are carbohydrates foods.   Your body converts every single one you eat into glucose.  So it really doesn’t serve a purpose to rate them.   The only difference between a good carbs food and a bad carbs food is whether it has a natural origin so that your body has evolved to process it.   What is glucose?  It is liquid sugar.  It is what your body likes to use as fuel.

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There is nothing healthy about grain food.  Humankind would not exist if it had depended on grain food for survival.   All grain foods are highly addictive.  You dont need more carbs food. it sounds to me like you need a lot more proteins food.  You also need to stop counting calories. They are irrelevant and they make us obsessed about food.

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Forget percentages, forget calories and start listening to your body.  It’s not complicated.  it just expects you to know and understand the type of food it has evolved and learned how to process.  That means a lot less carbs food.  A lot more proteins food and more fat.   Don’t bother with the food pyramid – it’s abysmal, and was funded and designed by the grain growers of America association, hence the ridiculously high amount of carbs food recommended.

Kirsten Plotkin

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The Carbohydrate Addicts Manual

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