I found this quite amusing, that this is “NEWS”.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080715/hl_time/arefatcaloriesmorefatteningthancarbs
To sum it up it is a leading story on Yahoo.com frontpage from Time. It basically brings up in general everything that the fitness community has already known for quite sometime.
this story should be filed under the category of “water is wet and the sky is blue”
I think most people on this site need to read that as so many think carbs are now evil.
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We’ve now looked at over 250,000 men and women for up to 30 years, and we [also] haven’t seen that the percentage of calories from fat or from carbohydrates in your diet makes any difference in relation to heart attacks, various cancers, or stroke. Having said that, the type of fat is very important, and so is the type of carbohydrate. So we find that trans fats, again, are particularly harmful with regard to type 2 diabetes and heart disease. On the other hand, unsaturated fats are actually beneficial in terms of reducing the risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes. It’s the same with carbohydrates. The total amount is not important. But high intake of refined starch and sugar is related to a higher risk of heart disease and diabetes, whereas high-fiber whole-grain carbohydrates are related to a lower risk. That’s not too surprising, as we know that high intakes of sugar and refined starch have an adverse effect on blood glucose levels.
So the quality of the diet is really important, but just looking at fat versus carbohydrate misses where all the action is.
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you need to be careful when you see any information that relies a lot on words like “higher”, “lower”, “more”, “less”, “greater”, etc.
“lower risk” by how much ?
how much lower would it be by substituting those whole grains with legumes and veggies ?