Low Carbohydrate-High Fat?
One can choose low carbohydrate and high fat, but the wise, health-conscious low carbohydrate diner has the same choices to make as any other healthy eater. That is, to choose better foods and better cooking methods.
For the person wanting to eat low carbohydrate, this means choosing good oils, steaming rather than frying, buying lean cuts of meat and fat-reduced cheese, such as Edam. These exact same questions face anyone trying to maintain a healthy eating lifestyle.
Full fat cream cheese, sour cream, cream, and butter are the better than their fat-reduced counterparts for the purposes of a low carbohydrate diet. This is in part due to low fat versions tending to contain a much higher carbohydrate content. However, the main reason is because the body burns fat. Excess sugars, which are ingested and cannot be used by the body, are converted to fat - that is, they create fat. Without an intake of refined sugars, the body is then forced to burn its own fat stores for energy. This is why many people turn to a low carbohydrate diet in order to shed their excess weight.
This is where a lot of the myth begins that low carbohydrate means high fat. Again, the choice lies in how much of these foods you wish to put into your everyday diet. A 'normal' eater may slather cream cheese on bagels, butter on bread, and sour cream on potatoes. Removing the carbohydrate-rich starchy foods from this equation does not increase the fat intake. When taken into context, low carbohydrate is only high fat if you choose to eat that way.
Low carbohydrate is an eating lifestyle, which eliminates simple sugars and drastically reduces complex sugars, such as those found in grains, rice, and bread. This eating lifestyle could almost be termed as 'low processed foods'. That is, foods which are as natural as possible. Vegetables, meats, and dairy are the mainstays of this diet, topped up with wise carbohydrate choices such as fruit and potato (rather than bread or pasta).
Low carbohydrate eating may seem at face value as though it is high in fat. In fact, given the choices between highly processed, sugar-laden modern foods and the natural form of animal and vegetable products, one should not have too much difficulty in seeing where improvements, for the sake of one's health, are made.
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Belinda Osgood is an author on http://www.Writing.Com which is a site for Writers. A long-time proponent of a low-carb lifestyle, Belinda is currently working on adapting and creating low-carb recipes for a recipe book.
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