Carbophobia+Questions

[|Carbophobia Article]
 * 1) Why is it called **Carbophobia**? **The article is called "Carbophobia" because Gary Taubes has a hypothesis that carbohydrates are addictive, and that they cause fat storage. So naturally for him, he believes in a diet with as little carbohydrates as possible, creating a fear of carbohydrates, or "carbophobia"**
 * 2) The author Gary Taubes has just written a book called.... **"Good Calories, Bad Calories"**
 * 3) Taubes argues that the best diet is high in calories from _ but low in calories from _. **protein and fat. carbohydrates**
 * 4) Taubes thinks there are three important diet myths.
 * 5) Too much dietary fat causes .... **heart disease**
 * 6) Lack of dietary fiber causes ... **cancer**
 * 7) Too much dietary salt causes ... **high blood pressure**
 * 8) Taubes argues that calories from are worse than calories from _. But what evidence suggests that a calorie is a calorie regardless of the source?
 * 9) Click on "**diabetes**". What is diabetes? What causes diabetes? What is the normal role of insulin? What are some differences between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes? **Diabetes is when glucose is not properly absorbed by the cells of the body. Diabetes is caused by many things including obesity, diet, low levels of insulin, heredity, age, ethnicity, the amount of exercise a person gets, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and high triglycerides.**
 * 10) Click on "**obesity**". What is the BMI range for an obese person? overweight? What percentage of Americans are overweight? How has the percentage of obese adolescents changed? **An obese person has a BMI over 30, and an overweight person has a BMI from 25-29.9. Two thirds of Americans are overweight, and childhood obes**
 * 11) Click on "**colon cancer**". Where does the colon begin? End? Look on this page, who recently had 5 polyps removed from his colon? What is a colon polyp? **The colon begins in the long intestine and ends in the rectum. A colon polyp is a growth in the colon that can lead to cancer. President Bush has had five polyps removed from his colon.**
 * 12) Click on "**cholesterol**" What is cholesterol? What is its function? What is a side effect of cholesterol in your diet? What are food sources high in cholesterol? What is LDL? What is HDL? What percentage of your diet should be fat? What percentage of the diet is fat for the average American? Which diet had more food (the average American diet or the Low-fat diet? Why? **Cholesterol is a substance that is soft, and waxy, and is found throughout the body and in all animal products. Cholesterol is made in a persons liver so that it can make hormones, bile acids, and D vitamins. The general side effect is an increased chance of heart disease. Foods that are high in cholesterol include any "organ meat," egg yolks, and some shellfish. LDL is low density lipoprotein and is considered "the bad cholesterol;" HDL, on the other hand, is high density lipoprotein. HDL is considered "the good cholesterol." Fat should only consist of 25-35% of a persons daily calories; most Americans, however, have a daily percent of 38% fat, and 15% saturated fat when the recommended percent of saturated fats is 7%. A person on a Low Fat Diet eats the same amount of food as the average American. The difference is in what they eat. A person on the Low Fat Diet chooses foods that are better for them, and obviously, foods that do not have a lot of fat.**