High-carb diets are ideal for health.

Outline I. Benefits of vegetables and fruits. II. Benefits of antioxidants and fiber III. Detrimental health affects of meat consumption. IV. Consequences of over-nutrition including cholesterol, fat, saturated fat, and animal protein. V. Rebuttal of Con VI. Links I. Benefits of fruits and vegetables. Its common knowledge that fruits and vegetables are good for you. Antioxidants, fiber, phytonutrients, vitamins, and minerals. Let's first make sure everyone knows the difference between a macro nutrients and micro nutrients. Macro are the ones that have calories, carbs, fats, and proteins. Micro are vitamin and minerals. "The major nutrients-protein, carbohydrate, and fat-provide the body with energy."[1] "Nutritionists call vitamins and minerals "micronutrients" to distinguish them from the macronutrients such as proteins, carbohydrates, and fats that make up the bulk of our food. "[2] "But when you eat or drink phytonutrients, they may help prevent disease and keep your body working properly."[3] Now if you search kale nutrition on the internet you will find kale has an amazing amount of micronutrients and kale's main macronutrient is carbohydrates. Kale's calories come from 72% carbohydrates. Nutritiondata gives kale a five star rating. [4] Collards are 68% carbohydrates and again has a five star rating. [5] Admittedly you could still have kale and collards and eat low-carb if the rest of your food was low-carb. Yet, some of the healthiest food on the planet is high carbohydrates. I haven't defined what constitutes a high carb diet. Since there are only three macronutrients, let's assume a range between 67% and 85% carbohydrates. II. Benefits of antioxidants and fiber Beta-carotene, an antioxidant is only found in fruits and vegetables. Fruits and vegetables are high in carbohydrates, which I've already proven with kale and collards. "Beta-carotene has been best studied since, in most countries it is the most common carotenoid in fruits and vegetables. "[6] " Epidemiologic studies have shown an inverse relationship between presence of various cancers and dietary carotenoids or blood carotenoid levels." [6] I have proven that beta-carotene is only found in vegetables and fruit and that beta-carotene is beneficial. "Individuals with high intakes of dietary fiber appear to be at significantly lower risk for developing coronary heart disease, stroke, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, and certain gastrointestinal diseases. Increasing fiber intake lowers blood pressure and serum cholesterol levels." [7] I have now proven that fiber is beneficial. Fiber is found in many high carbohydrate foods including fruits and vegetables. III. Detrimental health affects of meat consumption. Low carbohydrate foods like meat and dairy have no fiber. As you can see from the factsecret link whole milk has no fiber. [8] A beef sirloin steak has no fiber. [9] By eating meat and dairy which are high in fat and protein, while being low in carbs you are displacing high carb foods that contain high amounts of beta-carotene antioxidants, phytonutrients, vitamins. minerals and fiber. Not only that but low-carb foods like meat and dairy are high in fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol. Excess animal protein generates IGF-1. "For years we didn"t know why eating a plant-based diet appeared to so dramatically improve cancer defenses within just a matter of weeks. But researchers recently figured it out: eating healthy lowers the level of the cancer promoting growth hormone IGF-1. " [9] "Even vegans eating the same amount of protein as meateaters still had lower levels of the IGF-1, so it"s apparently not about excessive protein in general, but about animal protein in particular. "[9] "High cholesterol is one of the major controllable risk factors for coronary heart disease, heart attack and stroke. " [10] " Intramyocellular lipid content is lower with a low-fat diet than with high-fat diets" [11] "Insulin resistance has been associated with the accumulation of fat within skeletal muscle fibers as intramyocellular lipid" [12] "Limiting the amount of saturated fats you eat to less than 7 percent of your total daily calories. That means if you need about 2,000 calories a day, less than 140 calories (or 16 grams) should come from saturated fats." [12]. I have now proven that excess fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, and animal protein are detrimental to health. Since these are found so often in low-carb foods, and low carb foods displace fiber, phytonutrients, vitamins, minerals and antioxidants I conclude that low-carb diets are unhealthy. V. Rebuttal of Con I'm pretty sure this was con's link. Authoritynutrition.com In your link "2. Consumption of Soda and Fruit Juice Has Increased Dramatically" [13] Yes, it has and neither is soda and fruit juice healthy for you as explained in this tedvideo by Christina Warinner. Soda and fruit juice are unhealthy because the food is not fresh and the calories are too tightly packed in. [14] Soda and fruit juice are unhealthy for reasons other than just simply containing carbohydrates. High-carbohydrates is a confounding factor. Just as criminals wearing shirts or eating bread doesn't mean all people who wear shirts or eat bread are criminals. As for Con's argument. The first paragraph is just one large bare assertion. No outside sources nor quotes. "This caused a reduction in meat consumption of about 30%. This was followed by an increase in carbohydrate consumption of 30% to replace the meat and fat." Con Let's assume this is true. The carbohydrates were most likely replaced with soda and fruit juice which I've shown above to have negative health effects for reasons other than containing carbohydrates. Based on the evidence I supplied about antioxidants, phytonutrients, and fiber that if the 30% carbohydrate consumption would have been whole fruit and vegetables health would have surely increased. "Since this was fist introduced there has been an increase in sugar diabetes of around 30%. " Con Meat also causes diabetes through excess fat. The excess fat is linked to higher IMCL (intramyocellular lipids). High IMCL content is linked with insulin resistance. As seen above in my argument. "The human gut and teeth are designed for an omnivorous diet of fruit, nuts, meat and vegetables." Con Bare assertion and Warinner disagrees. "She begins by stating: "human has no known anatomical, physiological, or genetic adaptations to meat consumption". " [15]. "Grains require a crop in the throat to properly digest them." Con There are primitive stone tools called a mortar and pestle to grind them. See the video [14]. "cause health problems such as obesity, sugar diabetes, allergies, colds, flu, arthritis, heart attack, stroke and many other problems which are too numerous to mention." Con Bare assertion. The only cases where I've seen a correlation between grain intake and disease is in the China Study. [16] This is due to a confounding factor that dietary vegetables are decreased. This data means that vegetables are healthier than grains. Not that grains cause disease. " "Higher wheat flour consumption, for example, is correlated, as univariate correlations, with lower green vegetable consumption (many of these people live in northern, arid regions where they often consume meat based diets with little no consumption of vegetables)." [16]. In conclusion, eat your fruit and veggies. :) The increase in beta-carotene antioxidants, fiber, phytonutrients, minerals, and vitamins while avoiding high levels of fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, and animal protein will do your body wonders. Finally, wild animals caught in the paleolithic era were lean in sharp contrast with factory farm animals. ""human has no known anatomical, physiological, or genetic adaptations to meat consumption"." [15]. Thanks for the read. High-carb diets are ideal for health. Vote Pro. VI. 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