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Medical Forum / General / Nutrition / February 2005Carbohydrate type, not amount, linked to obesity
http://www.reutershealth.com/archive/2005/02/16/eline/links/20050216eli right link: http://www.reutershealth.com/archive/2005/02/16/eline/links/20050216elin003.html > right link: > >http://www.reutershealth.com/archive/2005/02/16/eline/links/20050216elin003.html The mainstream recommends that around 55% of ones caloric intake should be catbs. 55% of 2400 kcal = 1320 kcal / 4 gram/kcal = 330 grams of carbs. I challenge anyone to eat 330 grams of lower-carb wholefood carbohydrates per day. It can be easily done with pasta, white bread and sugars, but it becomes very difficult to do with whole foods. And it is commonly recognized that 120 grams per day is plenty of carbs for us, why would we want to almost triple that. More than that is an excess of carbs. TC The 55% is a very crude way to define the CHO needs of an individual. It depends on several other factors - activity level and EAR for energy. An inactive person should maintain the fruit, vegetable, proteins and essential fats components of their diet but should probably reduce the CHO component. In the western world we eat too many refined CHOs, the only nutritional value of many of them is simple energy - this can be reduced. Complex, wholefood CHO rich foods have more nutritional value. BTW - very active people probably need the higher CHO weight in their diet to replenish glycogen reserves. Tim T. > > right link: > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > TC Various highly respected government agencies and supposedly independent bodies recommend anywheres from 45% to 65% of calories from carbs. I tend to use the middle ground for my discussions, hence the 55%. TC > The 55% is a very crude way to define the CHO needs of an individual. It > depends on several other factors - activity level and EAR for energy. An > inactive person should maintain the fruit, vegetable, proteins and essential > fats components of their diet but should probably reduce the CHO component. [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > > > TC |
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