David Bailey
Member
I do agree that there is a puzzle regarding diets that are mainly composed of very slowly digested carbs.
The discussion about LCHF diets has been mainly about the diets suggested for Western people with T2 diabetes, or those tending that way. They are told that carbs are good and fat is bad. A lot of doctors seem to be saying that this advice is wrong, and that those with T2 diabetes are observed to do better on the high fat alternative. I think possibly the confusion here is that the carbs such people will eat (bread, potatoes etc) are not complex enough and are still digested rapidly to glucose. Incidentally, saturated fat can be derived from peanuts or coconuts.
One think I am not clear about, is whether all carbs do digest into sugars, even if they aren't digested until they reach the colon - where all sorts of wonderful chemistry can be performed by the gut bacteria. Otherwise, eating even the best carbs would seem to be be nutritionally equivalent to sipping a glucose solution very slowly - which doesn't sound very healthy!
Furthermore, the fact that saturated fat has been demonised has obviously pushed people into consuming 'low fat' alternatives, that are frequently sweetened to make them more palatable!
David
The discussion about LCHF diets has been mainly about the diets suggested for Western people with T2 diabetes, or those tending that way. They are told that carbs are good and fat is bad. A lot of doctors seem to be saying that this advice is wrong, and that those with T2 diabetes are observed to do better on the high fat alternative. I think possibly the confusion here is that the carbs such people will eat (bread, potatoes etc) are not complex enough and are still digested rapidly to glucose. Incidentally, saturated fat can be derived from peanuts or coconuts.
One think I am not clear about, is whether all carbs do digest into sugars, even if they aren't digested until they reach the colon - where all sorts of wonderful chemistry can be performed by the gut bacteria. Otherwise, eating even the best carbs would seem to be be nutritionally equivalent to sipping a glucose solution very slowly - which doesn't sound very healthy!
Furthermore, the fact that saturated fat has been demonised has obviously pushed people into consuming 'low fat' alternatives, that are frequently sweetened to make them more palatable!
David