High-carb diets are ideal for health.

Outline I. Summary thus far II. Rebuttal of Con III. Final summary IV. Links I. Summary thus far So far Con has almost exclusively attacked complex carbs and refined sugars. While effectively narrowing down the healthy choices, this does little to impact the resolution since fruits and vegetables contain high amounts of the macro nutrient carbohydrates. Con only attack on fruit and vegetables are wide swipes at carbohydrates in general. At the same time Con makes a Pro argument stating that fruits and vegetables are natural and necessary for vitamins. Yet, fails to demonstrate the parameters of how much fruits and vegetables are healthy eaten. Meanwhile Pro has shown the health benefits of fruits and vegetables. Including phytonutrients, anti-oxidants, fiber, and vitamins. While showing that fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, and excess animal protein are detrimental to health. These arguments made by Pro can be found in round 2. These facts show that not only are the high-carbohydrate foods known as fruits and vegetables good for health, but that high fat and high animal protein foods are bad for health. Next Pro and Con agree humans are omnivores, yet debate where on the sliding scale humans fit as an omnivore. Pro contends that humans are closer to herbivores than carnivores. Con contends that humans are closer to carnivores than herbivores. Pro shows through five factors teeth, saliva, stomach Ph, small intestine length, and transit times that humans are closer to herbivores. Con relies upon two factors the number of stomachs humans have and how long herbivores spend chewing grass. II. Rebuttal of Con "1. Processed sugar is bad for you. White sugar is the worse, brown sugar better, molasses better still and treacle best." Con Irrelevant. Nobody is arguing that processed sugar is good for you. "Fruit is good for you until you juice it then it becomes too much for the digestive system and if the fibre has been removed it is bad." Con Agreed, without the fiber there is too much of a blood sugar spike. Besides fiber is good for you. Warrant: See round 2. "Most herbivores have 4 stomachs." Con Bare assertion. "The point being, that there is a big difference between the average herbivore and a human." Con Claim based upon a previous claim which is a bare assertion. "Humans and most carnivores have heaps of leisure time in comparison to herbivores which spend most of their waking hours grazing." Con Bare assertion. Claim: Deer are herbivores Warrant: " Type: Mammal Diet: Herbivore Average life span in captivity: 6 to 14 years Size: 6 to 7.75 ft (1.8 to 2.4 m) Weight: 110 to 300 lbs (50 to 136 kg) Group name: Herd Did you know? "White-tailed"" [35] Claim: Deer have time to play around. Warrant: Seen with my own eyes. Impact: Deer are herbivores that seem to have plenty of time to play around and not graze all the time. Thus, weakening Con's claim that carnivores have heaps of time in comparison to herbivores. "Humans are closest to carnivores with similar sized intestines and stomachs." Con Bare assertion. "Eating meat is the fastest way to get a lot of leisure time." Con Bare assertion. "When you eat vegetables, it requires a lot of preparation and mucking around." Bare assertion. Claim: Romaine lettuce is a vegetable Warrant: "Vegetables Lettuce Romaine" [36]. Claim: Romaine lettuce can be eaten raw with little to no prep work. Warrant: Common knowledge, performed claim on several occasions. Impact: Contrary evidence to Con's claim, thus disproving the notion. Not all vegetables take a lot of preparation and mucking around. "You have to cook vegetables before you can eat them because the human gut can't digest cellulose." Con Bare assertion. Note Cons claim is true nevertheless, yet cellulose is fiber and fiber is healthy. Warrant: [37] Impact: The fact that cellulose is indigestible is good for human health. "No, he has avoided discusing this issue because he knows that high carb diets lead to many health problems and diseases." Con As I stated in round 1 you can eat an unhealthy high-carb diet. Nevertheless, you can also eat a healthy and ideal high-carb diet. If you wanted to criticize the resolution round one and two were the time for that. In brief, a high-carb diet can cause disease. A person can consume only high-carb junk food. Yet, this doesn't mean all foods containing carbohydrates are unhealthy. Con's second half of round 4 is most likely plagiarized.[38] Starting with this sentence "1. Artificial sweeteners: Aspartame (i.e. Nutrasweet) and Sucralose (i.e. Splenda)," Most of the text is just copied and pasted from the Bonfire link. Con could be the author. Con also failed to give credit to the author in round 2. Even so, I will refute the copied text. Pro almost entirely agrees with all eleven points. Pro only disagrees with points 8 and 9. "8. Pasteurized and homogenized milk and milk products (butter, ice cream, yogurt, etc.) " cause heart disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity. Butter and heavy cream from organic pasture-fed cows is the exception. 9. Sugar " leads to insulin resistance, diabetes, heart disease, cancer and obesity. We must look at refined sugar as the poison it truly is." Con 8. Organic pasture-fed cows will not make the difference. There is still animal protein, fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol in these products. [39]. As show in Pro's round two over-nutrition of these substances is detrimental to human health. Not only that but milk contains, you guessed what? Sugar, which Con has condemned. This is hypocritical on Con's part to state sugar is unhealthy and then to state a food with sugar in it is healthy. 9. Again, with the broad sugar hating. Yet, recommending milk which contains 13g of sugar [38]. Also recommending fruit and vegetables which contain sugar while criticizing sugar in general. III. Final summary It is unclear whether Con thinks sugar is good or bad. Con both praises and condemns sugar. In contrast Pro continually contents that whole fruits and vegetables are ideal for health. Pro makes no sweeping statements about sugar being bad. Instead, Pro decides by individual foods. For example, Pro thinks whole fruits and vegetables are good, yet makes the distinction that fruit juice is unhealthy. Overall, Pro's resolution and round two argument still stands. Con relies upon many bare assertions, blatant plagiarism, condemning all carbohydrates , and conspiracy theories about an anti-fat campaign. Thanks for the debate, thanks for reading, and vote Pro. IV. Links 35. http://animals.nationalgeographic.com... 36. http://www.burpee.com... 37. http://www.scienceclarified.com... 38. http://bonfirehealth.com... 39. http://nutritiondata.self.com...