To wonder why if pasta, rice, bread, noodles etc are so fattening and have no nutritional value, why we still eat them?

[Scarletohello]

So nutritional advice seems to have changed a lot the last few years and it seems to be much more accepted that low carb is both a healthier and more effective way to eat. So why are we still eating the above products? They don't add anything except give energy. There is 0 nutritional value in these products, so, what's going on..?

Would you prefer to have no energy? And isn't there quite a bit of fibre in bread and potatoes?

Because they don't eat processed shit and don't sit around on their arses all day

Scarlett I'm guessing that although you lost a lot of weight, you have put it back on again. I found low carb hard to maintain. I now eat partly low-carb, so have more meals with no carbs and a few with- oats, rice, not so much wheat as it makes me bloat, I'm not fanatical though and would prefer to eat my eggs with half a slice of bread than two, but much better than none. I think moderate carbs are ok, it's the excessive stuffing of your face with white bread and large portions of potatoes that makes you put on weight.

worra no, I said it concerns people with hormonal imbalance. I ate very little and exercised and nothing cane off for 6 months.

'Humanised mice'?!?!?!

I wonder what the 'specially prepared unhealthy chow' tasted like. I can't help thinking that it was probably YUMMY

Going off this thread now, I can see the brigade 'hasn't happened to me so cannot be true' is in force.

Drink this is a genuine question so I hope you'll take it as such...

If you had (for example) been in the jungle on basic rations and doing a ton of exercise during that time, would it still have taken you 6 months to lose some weight?

Worts, you would of course lose weight.

The difficulty would be keeping it off once you went back to eating processed food.

I totally disagree though that carbs are filling. Pasta and veggie sauce and my lot are rifling the cupboards an hour later. We need protein to feel full.

Because as a nation we are addicted to wheat in all its forms.

Agree protein is more filling then carbs

SpeciallyPreparedUnhealthyChow would be a fab username.

Cheap and filling.

They taste nice.

That Gary Taubes book is shit. He seriously tries to say that ever since aerobics, diet coke and low fat food has been invented, everybody has got fat. Therefore low fat foods cause fatness.

OH PLEASE

He then shows some troubling 'medical photo's of a tribe of people from a remote part of the world who were given rice for the first time then put on weight.

Oh well that's that then Gary, the vast obesity crisis in the USA is caused by people trying to cut fat from their diet. And there was me thinking it was vast quantities of processed food that was the culprit.

Huh? What a weird thread. All those foods are very low in fat and have plenty of nutrition.

You're talking about them as if you'd posted 'marshmallows, mars bars, pringles, toffee and coca cola!' not the staple foods our various societies has thrived on for centuries!

Op go on a low carb diet if thats what you want - but your posts are full of inaccuracies, you have also ignored posters who have pointed this out!

But food manufactured to be low fat, and processed foods contain a lot of sugar which will make people put on weight because sugar is stored as fat.

Low carb is just one opinion. You could post in low carb, but they tend to be zealots in there.

Just eat normally. Real food, not too much of anything. Demonising carbs is a stupid as demonising fat, or meat, or anything else.
And if you think "carbs" have no nutritional value, you don't understand the first thing about food anyway. Which is quite clear from your posts.
Read a cook book, not a diet book. They are all a pile of wank.

just to add, a potato has high levels of vit c, b and b6, rich in folic acid, magnesium, potassium, copper and zinc, as well as being a good source of fibre and carbohydrate.
What the fucking hell is wrong with a potato then?

tinkly pasta and veg do contain protein. You can always add a bit of cheese as well.
Not you personally, but some people on this forum seem to obsess about eating enough protein . I sometimes feel as if I've wandered onto a bodybuilding forum by mistake.