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Carbs - Part 3: Simple Carbs
'Simple' carb-based foods are bad… plain and simple! These foods have been processed down into other 'food' and have been stripped of nearly all nutritional value and injected with other non-natural ingredients and additives - most of which are comprised of sugars that go by names we can't even pronounce. What happens during food processing is the germ (yeast) and bacteria in the whole food gets removed (‘brown’ whole grain becomes ‘white’). Although proponents of food processing claim that stripping out the germ/bacteria reduces the risk of getting sick from eating potentially spoiled food (e.g. “leaky gut” syndrome), the main reason is to extend the food’s shelf life so consumers continue buying (doing it for the money!). Not that you’re eating bread, but if you were to go to the bread aisle in a grocery store and find a loaf that says “100% Whole Grain,” look at the expiration date. REAL, whole grain bread, once baked, should last no longer than 2-3 days. If that loaf of bread in the aisle indicates multiple weeks until expiration, walk away - it’s NOT true whole grain. Think of it as white bread with a tan. When we eat simple carbs, they process very rapidly in the body and can’t digest efficiently. Rather than regulating the body and controlling blood sugar like Complex carbs do, Simple carbs do the exact opposite - they deregulate the body and spike blood sugar (extremely High on the GI). Not only do these foods increase the sugar in your body that continues feeding this toxic disease, but high amounts of sugar can lead to Type II diabetes, which in turn can lead to a host of all sorts of cardiovascular diseases. Big
Big takeaway here is to just avoid Simple carbs (i.e. processed foods) altogether - they don’t do our bodies any good from an overall healthy lifestyle, and they certainly won’t help to restore our health.
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