Everything You Think You Know About Carbs Is Wrong

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Please stop cutting out all your favorite foods because of bad science.

of more than 600 adults found people who followed a healthy, low-fat diet — eating about 50% carbs, 30% fat, and 20% protein — lost the same amount of weight in three months as folks who ate a healthy, low-carb diet . That’s probably because they ended up eating about the same number of calories naturally.

At the end of the day, gaining weight is still about excess calories in, Young says. And healthy carbs are loaded with fiber, which aids in satiety, helping you feel full and signaling to you when to stop eating so you don’t over eat, she explains.Of course, if weight-loss is your goal, exercise is the other part of the equation. But daily exercise is also directly tied to heart health and lower disease risk — and carbohydrates are the body’s preferred source of fuel for said exercise.

Yes, your body can learn how to become fat-adapted and convert fat to fuel as every low-carber argues — but it’s way harder. Even if you become fat-adapted, you can’t convert fat to fuel at the same rate you can carbs to fuel, Young explains. For example, athletes who followed a super low-carb, ketogenic diet had less power output during short, high-intensity bursts of exercise, says a 2018 study in theThat efficient conversion makes carbs just as important for endurance exercise, Moon adds.

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