It is absolutely carbs causing the fat. Any carbohydrate, from HFCS to whole wheat bread, not metabolized into energy is stored in the body as fat. This includes all those whole grains they keep pushing on us too. Nobody needs 11 servings of grains a day, not even an Amish farmer.
Nobody needs 11 servings of grains a day, not even an Amish farmer.
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I’ve been in Wise Food stores in Pennsylvania. The Amish will be shopping next to the non Amish locals. The Amish are all thin as rails and the locals are all fat. They’re all from fairly similiar genetic stock. They’re socio economically about the same.
So why are the Amish thin and the locals fat? The reason is that the Amish do hard physical labor every day. The locals don’t do hard physical labor even when they’re working.
Great distance runners or swimmers will carb up before a meet. They have very similiar builds as the Amish. For similar reasons. Hey they need the extra calories.
Professional football players will often gain 100-200 pounds when they retire because they’re still taking in 8000 calories a day when they should be taking in only 2000 calories. Why? Because they’re not burning calories at the high rate that they were before.
For most sedentary people 1500 calories a day is plenty.
If you want to lose weight, you have to eat less and exercise more.