What are bad carbs? Bad carbs are formerly good carbohydrates that have been refined and processed, resulting in food that has significantly less fiber and fewer nutrients than good carbs. These dietary devils include such processed foods as cookies, white bread and "fruit" punch, foods that contain the white flour and refined sugar that remain when grains and other plant products are stripped of their fiber and nutrients to make them taste better or have superior "mouth feel." How do good carbs turn into bad carbs? To make a bad carb, food manufacturers remove the healthy part of a plant food (such as the bran and germ in wheat); mix it with salt, sugar, fat and other flavor enhancers; then put it in a colorful package and advertise it on television with clever jingles or cute characters (e.g., "Rice-a-Roni the San Francisco Treat," the Lucky Charm leprechaun and Keebler elves). After processing out most of the fiber and nutrients in a plant food, manufacturers often add back some nutrients or fiber and add the word "enriched" to the label (similar to someone robbing a bank and then mailing the bank a check for part of the amount).
Posted on: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 01:37:47 +0000
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