Carbophobia+Article

Read the NYT article via the link below. Why is it called Carbophobia? The author Gary Taubes has just written a book called.... Taubes argues that the best diet is high in calories from and ___ but low in calories from ___. Taubes thinks there are three important diet myths. Too much dietary fat causes .... Lack of dietary fiber causes ... Too much dietary salt causes ... Taubes argues that calories from __are worse than calories from _. But what evidence suggests that a calorie is a calorie regardless of the source? 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? 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? Click on "colon cancer". Where does the colon begin? Look on this page, who recently had 5 polyps removed from his colon? What is a colon polyp? 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? Which diet had more food (the average American diet or the Low-fat diet? Why?
 * "Good Calories, Bad Calories"
 * protein and fat
 * carbohydrates
 * heart disease
 * heart disease
 * heart disease
 * he says that calories from fat is much less worse than calories from sugar.
 * the studies done by Jules Hirsch of Rockefeller University and Rudolph Leibel of Columbia say that all calories are calories.
 * it is a life long disease that is marked by high levels of sugar in the blood.
 * it can be caused by to little insulin in a persons blood level, or resistance to insulin.
 * a normal role of insulin is when glucose enters the body and creates insulin that carries the glucose from the blood stream to the fat and muscles in your body.
 * some differences between type 1 and type 2 diabetes is that type one is mostly found in children when their body does not create enough insulin normally. type 2 is mostly found i adults and insulin is injected to help monitor the sugar in the blood to control the blood level.
 * the BMI range for an obese person is greater than 30
 * 25-29.9
 * 2/3 of Americans are over weight.
 * the percentage of obese adolescents have triples in the last 20 years.
 * starts in the large intestine or in the rectum.
 * President Bush recently had 5 polyps removed from him colon.
 * a colon polyp is when small groups of cells form on the interior of the intestine
 * cholesterol is a soft waxy substance found in all parts of the body.
 * its function is used for normal functions in the body such as the production of hormones, bile acid, and vitamin D.
 * you have a greater chance of getting heart disease if you have high cholesterol
 * eggs, dairy products, meat
 * Bad cholesterol
 * good cholesterol
 * 25-35%
 * the low fat diet has more food