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Old November 21st, 2003, 06:20 AM
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Default How did nature make human body so vulnerable to carbohydrate?

Ben Park wrote:

This world has so much food energy sources in the form of
carbohydrate. Why did evolution make our body so vulnerable to
carbohydrate? The theory underlying those low-carb diets doesn't seem
to make much sense.


A better question would be "Why did man create so many carbohydrates?"

Our bodies have not changed much since the neanderthal man in regards to
dietary needs. Our bodies were not made for refined carbs.

Exerpt from
http://www.zoneperfect.com/site/cont...2_ZoneDiet.asp

This is from the Zone Diet web site. The basic reason of our problem
with carbs is the same just because this eating plan allows more carbs
in the diet.

"What about grains? Well, 8,000 years ago, there were no grains, bread
or pasta. Agriculture is a very recent (by evolutionary standards)
invention.

Evolution works very slowly. As far as our genes are concerned, we're
still a bunch of hunter/gatherers foraging for food. The problem, of
course, is that our genes may be programmed that way, but that's not the
way we actually live. We regularly eat large quantities of dense, highly
processed carbohydrates such as grains and grain based products such as
pasta. Because we haven't evolved to a stage where we can eat excessive
amounts of these high density carbohydrates without adverse biochemical
consequences, our bodies aren't able to operate properly. We gain excess
weight, suffer from diabetes, heart disease and a host of other ills,
feel sluggish, and generally perform at a sub-par level. "

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