Calorie Obsession Of The Carb-Laden

Surely it is no coincidence that many people with a high carbohydrate diet get obsessed with calories. The whole calorie-counting thing, watching portion sizes like a hawk, and just an obsession with how fattening a food may be is in my opinion and experience, totally unnecessary. However, in a carb-laden diet, it is essential to be careful about calories and portion sizes. And what is more, it is very hard to have a particularly high carbohydrate diet unless one's food is pretty much processed. I observe so much unnecessary worry and fretting about calories, which in my experience can be prevented by eating less carbs.

Let us stop fretting and think back to nature and what Nature or God provided for us. To illustrate, let me ask you some questions:

When was the last time you saw a bread loaf tree?

Where do cartons of fruit juice grow? Do you pick them off bushes or trees? Or are they in the ground?

How many kinds of fish in batter can you find swimming in the sea?

What do you call a group of Chicken Kievs, and how do you tell the males from the females?

Does pasta grow in the ground, or above, and what do its flowers look like?

And where on Earth can you grow cans of fizzy pop?!

I think you get the picture. The more processed a food gets, it seems to me that the more carbs it has. And it is increasingly being found that weight gain and obesity are linked to a high carb diet. For example, in any nation that embraced the low-fat diet fully, obesity seems to have increased. This is especially so since the low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet was developed after the wide prevalence of processed food. A quick search for scientific research on the high carbohydrate diet on the Internet produced many criticisms of the highly processed carbs that most of us are exposed to daily. My search also produced research that found high carbohydrate and low protein not very helpful in fighting obesity.

Now I am not a nutritionist and only expressing an opinion based on observations. But if our great great-grandparents did not eat something, then maybe we should treat that something with respectful caution. And if Nature or God did not make it, maybe we should also tread with caution. It only makes sense.

I have personally given up the low-fat high carb diet many moons ago and gradually lost 27 kgs. Everyone I know who goes low-carb manages to lose weight or maintain a slim body without having to worry about calorie-counting. Maybe my experience is too limited, but I do think there is something there. It would be nice if more definitive research was out there. In the meantime, I am happy with decent portions of relatively low carb food. Others can count calories all they like. It is not a life for me.