So, start thinking differently about planning your meals. Make the rice, pasta, bread or cereal and vegetables the centre of the meal, and then add the meat, fish or poultry to this. People who eat lots of complex carbohydrates and fibre and less fat are healthier. They have less risk of having heart disease and certain cancers, and they have fewer digestive problems such as constipation and haemorrhoids.
Carbohydrates are our bodies most efficient and preferred form of fuel.
Eating foods which are high in complex carbohydrates and low in fat is a good way to control your weight. Our body may have to work harder and use up more energy to digest foods high in carbohydrates. Weight for weight, carbohydrates provide less Calories than fats. A gram of carbohydrate only has four Calories as opposed to a gram of fat that has nine. It isn't the bread, potatoes or pasta that make you fat, it's the toppings, spreads and sauces that we add to them.