I am not telling anyone to eat pasta or bread. Or cakes and chocolates. @HeresWhatYouReturned and if you are eating 100-150 g of carbs, it is not low carb, you eat whole food which is great.
I think it is time to stop talking about carb as one category alone. A slice of watermelon is not a slice of cake. A hearty lentil soup is not a bag of chips.
We are pure chemistry, All of our body, every process, from growing to repairing, the immune system, our brain, even our thoughts, everything is chemistry.
Those who sell programs, memberships , books, plans demonising carbs oversimplify and often manipulate how this chemistry works.
The cell has many receptors that send and receive messages. The powerhouse of the cell is centred around energy. The source of this energy will alter its functioning. Neurotransmitters are damaged by high fat diets which lower dopamine and GABA . We know that ADHD is worse in diet low in fruit and vegetables.
@blingerswinger This article suggests how more plants, not less, could help Long COVID www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8429479/
Long covid seems horrible, I hope you can get over it very soon.
We need carbs. We have evolved with them. The paleo crowd has this romanticised picture of hunters. Primitive hominids were mostly plant based and scavengers. It is very difficult to hunt an animal without a gun. They weren't eating animals on a daily basis and certainly not three times a day . They were eating whatever plants including wild grains they could find. We have evolved thanks to grains. We would still be living in caves if it wasn't for grains and the ability to cultivate them. Grains allowed us to stay in one location. Socialise and become a society and civilisation. Develop writing, thinking and sharing ideas. Become inventors. And drive Tesla some thousand years later. Agriculture saved and made us.
The primitive human was dead by the age of 30-40.
By all means, cut the crap food, not the carb food.
For the gut , Pubmed papers might be hard to follow www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7589116/
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4896489/
, but Erica Sonnenburg, the most recognised expert has made presentations which can explain gut dysbiosis. (around min 28 )
If you go on pubmed and type "high fat diets and gene methylation" , thousands of papers with titles such as alters genome, and verbs such as compromise, alter, induce, ... and the process is highly complex, it involves inflammation, hormones secretion , metabolic alterations.
Processed , packaged food is damaging us. Not carbs. That chickpeas salad isn't making anyone overweight or sick.
We need to think longterm about our health. It isn't a bag of cherries that made anyone fat, but a bag of lollies.
Pulses and grains have polyphenols, antioxidants, ... they promote longevity.
Industrial food is very different from real food. I can teach volleyball to my kids with supermarket sliced toast bread. I can kill an intruder with my one day old homemade spelt bread.
And it is what we make with the food that changes its value. Take pasta. In Italy, they put very little sauce , they have pasta with clams, eggplants,.. and they don't put half a packet of shredded industrial cheese that is more solidified fat than real cheese. And portion size? incomparable.