{"id":9293,"date":"2019-03-07T11:17:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T00:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/180nps.wordpress.com\/?p=629"},"modified":"2019-07-22T15:58:12","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T05:58:12","slug":"ok-so-whos-the-culprit-carbohydrates-innocent-until-proven-guilty-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/180nutrition.com.au\/nutrition\/ok-so-whos-the-culprit-carbohydrates-innocent-until-proven-guilty-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes a Carbohydrate Bad?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By 180 Nutrition<\/a><\/p>\n Over the last century, along with a technology boom, there’s been a major shift in the foods we eat. With more and more demands now put on us than ever before, convenience has risen above nutrition. So for the greater good of mankind (well any one who reads this anyway) we’ve decided to delve into and philosophise slightly on carbohydrates over the coming weeks. Hence the technical term below:<\/p>\n hy\u00b7poth\u00b7e\u00b7sis<\/strong><\/p>\n Every day we get bombarded with some form of advertising. You can’t even go in a public toilet these days with out a sales pitch staring straight back at you, with many many claims about that particular product\/service. But the one thing we’ve quickly learned is that marketing is perception<\/strong>. Once your mind is made up, regardless of the quality of the product, it is perceived a certain way, and it takes a lot of convincing to change this. It’s clear to see many companies play on this big time.<\/p>\n Let’s take a look at the perception of food with marketing, and whether if a product is of quality or not:<\/p>\n In our view, there\u2019s way too much trust in the food products that we eat every day, simply because of what the manufacturer and their marketing team are telling us.<\/p>\n We don’t want to sound like we’re bashing carbohydrates, as they play their role in a healthy diet, just like fats and proteins. It’s just what the manufacturers do to the carbs, and who they hang out with that becomes the problem. The major ingredients and usual suspects being refined grains, vegetable oils and added sugar. This alone will impact your blood sugar levels and in turn your health.<\/p>\n Well, first of all, as we understand more on the effects that foods have on our blood sugar levels, we can begin to see more of the bigger picture on what carbohydrates tend to do in general to our overall body and weight control. But could there be more to it?<\/p>\n Then you got they’re friends who they seem to rub shoulders with… processed vegetable oils<\/a>, salt, corn starch, preservatives and colourings etc.<\/p>\n And if it’s a low fat carbohydrate option you can guarantee it’s loaded with sugar!<\/p>\n So imagine if you were to get the required amounts of all these on a daily basis in their natural state, before manufacturing and processing which effected the composition of all these whole foods…\u00a0what would your health be like then? Pretty good we’d imagine.<\/p>\n But with today’s fast-paced lifestyle and mounting commitments, it would\u00a0not be the easiest thing to accomplish to say the least!<\/p>\n Processed food options now make up 70% of foods consumed in western society. This by default, and their inclusion into our diet now displaces more healthy options like fruits, vegetables, healthy meats and seafood etc, the staple foods of our ancestors.<\/p>\n GOT CARB CRAVINGS? READ THIS…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By 180 Nutrition Over the last century, along with a technology boom, there’s been a major shift in the foods we eat. With more and more demands now put on us than ever before, convenience has risen above nutrition. So for the greater good of mankind (well any one who reads this anyway) we’ve decided Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[244],"tags":[388,389,211,390,391,392,215,303,221,393,394,395,326,330,239,396,397,228,337],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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So what makes a Carbohydrate bad?<\/h3>\n
If you buy low-fat products, ask yourself this:<\/h3>\n
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Stop and think about this for a moment:<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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So we’ll leave you with this:<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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