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Originally Posted by chrisrushton  Eating carbs is not bad. Eating refined sugar, sweets, cola and other soda types products etc, is bad unless managed properly. There are times when a hit of high GI carbs is good, like before the gym or something similar but they aren't good for people who just sit around on message boards  |
If I eat before I work out, I get cramps and stitches in my side. So I don't. I can also go without food for a long long time without suffering the effects of it. Efficient metabolism gifted from my caveman ancestors. Bad in the modern world where people eat too much. Good in the ancient world where you didn't know where your next meal was coming from.
Carbs, for someone with my ancestry--recent and ancient--are more than the sum of their parts in how they interact on my metabolism. If I don't restrict my carbs, despite my workouts, I gain weight even when eating probably 50% of what a normal person eats. To stay my normal weight I have to both restrict carbs and workout often.
Many obese people, or people that can't seem to lose weight would benefit from this knowledge. Instead, society shuns them as hidden bingers or lazy....
This is where conventional science loses the race.
Jennifer