Comment by LordHumungous
9 years ago
>Then there is the issue that most people, left to their own devices, will eat too much of sugar and too little of the other two.
Yep. I'm pretty sure the reason low carb diets work is because they eliminate most of the processed junk that people like to binge on. It doesn't really have anything to do with carbs.
It is more nuanced than that, but you've got the right idea.
Some years ago I tried the Zone Diet(TM), and was able to loose in the ballpark of 20 lbs. For the first month, all carb-rich food was strictly banned, and that did have physiological effects. Later, once the process had been kickstarted, non-junky carbs were gradually reintroduced with little effect on my pace of weight loss.
So... I tend to agree with you. People evolved to eat carbs, but not necessarily highly concentrated, processed carbs.