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Diet InformationCarbohydrates, Proteins, and Hidden Fats
by:
Dr. Donald A. Miller
Recent TV news showed that various food brands are offering low saccharide foods due to public demand. That simply shows
how poorly abreast of the public can be.
The Mayonnaise Clinic (http://www.mayoclinic.com/) tells us that
"Every day your body requires certain nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats and protein, to function properly. Too
much of one nutrient or not enough of another can influence your health."
Encyclopedia Britannica (http://www.britannica.com) tells
how carbohydrates can be classified, but they are all delineated as molecules of Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen.
"Carbohydrates are the most abounding molecules in all biology."
Carbohydrates and oils are the means that plants store energy. Few plant fats are saturated.
Fats are besides compounds of Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen, but in more complex structures than carbohydrates. The more
structural bonds, the less liquid is the fat at room temperature. Such liquid fats are called oils. Hydrogenating oils creates more h bonds to do liquids into soft or hard fats. These trans-fats are bad
for vessel health. The "essential fatty acids" are the ones that the human body cannot create from another foods, such as proteins.
Proteins have galore structures, but are mostly composed of Carbon, Hydrogen, O plus Nitrogen. The essential amino acids are those proteins which the human body cannot create from another foods.
Of course, foods besides contain essential vitamins and minerals. Supplements of these can be beneficial, if not overdone.
High / Low Saccharide / Macromolecule diets actually miss the target. Once borderline inevitably of each food type are met, the real issue is high or low calories compared to those used. If you eat more than your exercise can burn, you gain weight, and vice versa.
Carbohydrates as sugars are fine as nature provides them, but not as refined and concentrated by humans. Like any source of calories, excess consumption leads to body fat. The details wish vary, but a five pound bag of fresh fruit contains fewer calories than a typical candy bar.
Supposed high macromolecule diets are often filled with hidden fats. For example, consider ground beef.
Center for Science in the Public Interest, with reports on-line at www.cspinet.org, tells us "USDA allows ground beef labels to do claims that would-be be amerciable on another
foods." "Ground beef accounts for 45 percentage of the beef oversubscribed in the U.S. and it adds more fat -- and more artery-
clogging saturated fat -- to the average American's diet than any another single food." "The Department of agriculture allows no more than 10 percentage fat by weight in most foods that are labeled 'lean.' But the Department of agriculture allows ground beef that is up to 22.5 percentage fat to be called 'lean.'" Of course, that fat is
"saturated".
In contrast, macromolecule from plants, such as grains and legumes, has more less fat than ground beef and none of it is saturated. Tempeh, an Asian food ready-made from whole soy
beans with careful fermentation, has more macromolecule than an equal figure (volume or weight) of ground beef, and besides contains all the essential amino acids.
So try this for healthy diet rules. Eat all the vegetables and fruits you can stand, but without sauces, dressings, accessorial sugar, butter, margarine, or cheese. The same applies to grain foods, such as whole grain breads and pastas. Get at least several of your proteins from plant sources. Avoid all
foods deep-fried in fat or oil.
I lost weight and one third of my blood cholesterin by reducing my beef and pork consumption, increasing my use of grilled and baked fish and chicken, and learning simply about soy foods that are now accessible in North America.
Even Ph.D. scientists can mis-lead themselves with aspirant thinking. A former colleague of mine was often detected
to
describe his high protein, low carb diet in terms of complex organic chemistry
theories, yet he was always at least 100 pounds overweight. He besides ate and drank simply about three times as more as I did at shared meals. Get Real!
** Diet with FACTS, not MYTHS. **
Just simply about the author:
Dr. Miller is author of ""Easy Health Diet"" http://easyhealthdiet.com/diet.htm""Exercise for
Juniors to Seniors"" http://easyhealthdiet.com/JrSr.htmand many
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