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Message: <blockquote data-quote="whatisitgoodfor" data-source="post: 1247343" data-attributes="member: 932">Carbs are bad, m'kay. As someone stated earlier, the really bad ones are the white ones. Potatos are really bad, and "enriched" white bread is the worst. If you still want some bread in your diet, there are some whole grain high fiber breads that you can buy. One is available at Wal-Mart in my town and only has 5 grams of carbs per slice. You should, however be aware that food sensitivies are relatively common, and can include Wheat Gluten (which is in a huge percentage of prepared foods), Rice, and Potatoes. Virtually everything that people develop food allergies to is high carb, if you will notice; which reinforces once again that Carbs are Bad.If your GF starts to develop any difficulties on the diet, getting rid of those should be one of the first steps to identifying the problem. Another thing that you should be aware of when attempting a low-carb low-fat diet is that in excessive quantities, your body will convert protein into sugars. The general cutoff for this is around 1g/lb. (So, for your GF, eating more than about 100g of protein is just making more carbs.)****To all of the people talking about the Atkins diet as a "fad diet," you should realize that just because a diet is becoming popular doesn't make it a fad.The diet has been being used for at least 50 years. Dr. Atkins himself didn't create the diet, he read about it in a medical journal shortly after graduating med school (1954 I think it was). He decided to give it a try, and found it to be extremely effective, then started telling his patients about it. Also, recent estimates have placed the total number of people on low-carb diets at up to 15% of the US population. For a fad, that seems to be a fairly high number of people. In regards to the statement that your body has a large number of processes that need carbohydrates in order to function, there are very few bodily processes that require carbs in order to function. And all of these processes are related to converting the consumed carbs into blood sugar or fat.Every other process in the body could care less where the energy comes from, they simply need blood sugar in order to function. Dietary fat and protein are much better sources for blood sugar than sugar, because of the speed with which they are converted. Sugars rush into the blood stream too quickly, causing Insulin surges that uptake too much blood sugar to form glycogen and actually end up causing low blood sugar (you know, the tiredness that you get after eating a high carb meal). Fat and protein, on the other hand are metabolized slowly and give your body sufficient time to adjust itself.And, of course, the final argument about Atkins is the evolutionary argument. For 10 million years, humans (or what would become human) lived as a scavenger or hunter/gatherer. Living like that, the foods that were readily available were limited quantities of meat, primarily fatty meats like marrow or brain tissue, and large quantities of green vegetables. Only occassionaly would fruits, tubers, or grains be available before the advent of agriculture.Then, of course, man discovered beer. (If you don't believe me, look it up in archaeological journals. Beer making equipment dates back further than bread making ovens.) Man moves into the valleys and starts growing grains. Health rapidly declines. (It is depatable, of course, as to whether it was the carb rich lifestyle or the open sewage that contribuited the most.)So, its apparent that you can pursue a diet that your body was slowly designed to prosper off or for 10 million years, or one that your body was thrust into for a measly 10 thousand years.</blockquote>

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