Gwyneth Paltrow and avoiding carbs for kids - what do you think?

[JaneGMumsnet]

Hi,

You may have read news stories today about Gwynneth Paltrow avoiding carbs for the whole family, including her children aged eight and six:

"Sometimes when my family is not eating pasta, bread or processed grains like white rice, we're left with that specific hunger that comes with avoiding carbs."

We'd be interested to hear what you think about this story.

Does your own diet influence the way you feed your children?

Thanks,

MNHQ

my DDs know that as I have PCOS my body deals with carbohydrates differently to them. So I need to eat slightly differently to them. All three eat sensibly and healthily (even DD1 at uni), despite not eating exactly the same meal as me at every meal.

The people I've known on a low carbdiet poor cream and stuff it. It makes me feel a bit sick, looking at them.

Exotic, agree re labelling.

Pour, obvs.

Cream IS allowed in small quantities. I like a drop in coffee but not much elsr.

I do have butter on veg thoigh....its delish.

Delightful.

Once you read the blurb on lowcarbing it all makes sense!

Opposite to weightwatchers though?

Once ds has eaten the last of the cheerios he will be eating a healthier breakfast to fill him up!

Much less sugar being consumed here. Not about pouring cream over everything either. I was as sceptical as some of you are as a long term weight watcher but my life has changed for the better since low carbing.

Dinner tonight is a lamb chop with celeriac and broccoli. Lots of water to drink and I will feel full til morning. No cream but a bit of butter on the broccoli. ..not loads and loads.
Low and not no carb.

To be honest ny coffee with cream is a morning thing and I only have one.

DS by special request is having fish fingers and chips .

I enjoy this way of eating ...but dont impose it totally on DS. And he has had chocolate today.

I think its healthy to look at our diets now and then. I have PCOS and this way of eating helps.

Gwynnnie has got it all wrong if her kids are hungry thoigh.

Think it's also a bit weird how people feel sick around a food group - fat is good for your body - feeling sick at the thought of it just shows you how much damage the extreme low fat approach has had on us. Essentially fatty acid anyone? Omega 3s anyone?

quite, snow. Cream me up.

Although not really.

Dinner for me is venison steak with celeriac cheesy mash and swiss chard with butter.

Parmesan shortbread with wensleydale for dessert.

Going back to Gwyneth and her 'specific hunger,' I wonder if she meant that the only hunger her children feel is genuine hunger, whereas those of us who aren't yet converted to low carb do often feel fake hunger in the form of craving for sugar or carbs.

Ruprekt - which low carb blurb do you recommend? This thread is quite persuasive. And I want your dinner

Dinner for me is rib eye, fried onions and mushrooms, chips baked in lard and homemade Irish griddle scones - tis Saturday after all! but I do watch the carbs most meals. And when I visit someone's house I eat what I'm given - most people don't want to cook for me though because I have very high standards when I'm cooking - I'm a bit of a perfectionist in the kitchen....but I'd gratefully eat whatever I'm given.

apatchylass - that's how I read it too. The hunger I experience when low-carb is specific - ie it's specific to my body actually requiring food, not the 'hunger' I experience when eating high-carb which is just as often about boredom, stress, low blood sugar, (did I mention boredom?) as it is about wanting or needing food.

Apatchy.......go to low carb thread in Big/slim on Mumsnet.

Biwi and co are amazing.

And I read Gwyneth's comment as being a specific hunger. Not needing a sugar kick like I used to have.

Now if I do feel hungry I have a drink of water or eat cucumber or slice ham or distract myself instead of gorging on cake.

Yes, I endorse all that (above).

Lots of people eat when not really hungry because they want some kind of sugar rush. If instead you eat properly then you are eating when properly hungry. Most British children drink and eat a load of junk day in day out.

I am cutting out the crap my kids eat and as I wean them off sugar they get used to it. Ds2 is more than happy with a plate of salad and ds1 loves raw broccoli!

There do seem to be lots of fads and fashions in food and lots of people making a lot of money out of them!
Eat smaller portions and keep off processed food as much as possible and take plenty of exercise works fine but you don't make money out of it!

There are only so many ways you can say eat less- exercise more.

Well she clearly looks better on a no car diet that I do on a card diet.

but as far as my dd (who plays sports every day) goes she craves and needs as part of her lifestyle.

Mind you many on this thread are talking sugar, when I say carbs I mean, jacket potatoes, brown rice, pulses and whole meal pasta.

... and jacket potatoes, rice, pulses and pasta are all turned by the body into sugar.