WS+Carbophonia+Questions

Because people are confused about the relationship of eating and becoming fat. For example most people think the Low Carb diet is the best
 * 1. Read the NYT article via the link below. Why is it called Carbophobia?**

GOOD CALORIES, BAD CALORIES Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease.
 * 2. The author Gary Taubes has just written a book called....**


 * 3. Taubes argues that the best diet is high in calories from and _ but low in calories from _.**

Too much dietary fat causes .... -** heart disease
 * 4. Taubes thinks there are three important diet myths.
 * Lack of dietary fiber causes ... -** colon cancer
 * Too much dietary salt causes ... -** high blood pressure

people get fat because the carbohydrates level drive up the insulin levels in the blood encouraging the storage of fat
 * 5. Taubes argues that calories from ___**sugar**_____ are worse than calories from ____**fat**_____. But what evidence suggests that a calorie is a calorie regardless of the source?**

-Diabetes is a life-long disease marked caused by high sugar levels in the blood - is cause by your body not producing enough insulin and it normal role is move glucose from the blood to the muscles - The difference between Type 1 an Type 2 diabetes is type 1 occurs at childhood and the body generates little or no insulin; daily insulin shots are needed to sustain life. Type 2 is more common, occurs in adulthood. The pancreas does not make enough insulin and often because the body does not respond well to insulin.
 * 6. 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?**