Lucy+**Carbophobia+Article

Why is it called **Carbophobia**? It is called carbophobia because it makes us believe a low fat diet is better and carbs are bad. The author Gary Taubes has just written a book called....GOOD Calories, BAD Calories. 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. Taubes argues that calories from are worse than calories from _. But what evidence suggests that a calorie is a calorie regardless of the source? - A sugar calorie is worse than a fat calorie. The fat calorie is less fattenin than a suar calorie. In the 1950- 1960's a study siggested that a complex system of metabolic controls edfinitive, is a calorie is a calorie.
 * Protein and Fats and low in calories from carbohydrates
 * 1) Too much dietary fat causes .... heart disease
 * 2) Lack of dietary fiber causes ... colon cancer
 * 3) Too much dietary salt causes ... high blood pressure
 * 1) Too much dietary salt causes ... high blood pressure
 * 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 a life long disease caused by high levels of sugar in the blood. Diabetes can be caused by too little insulin ( a hormone produced by the pancreas that controls blood sugars.) Type 1 is usually diagonised in childhood and the body produces little or no insulin. They body must be injected with insulin every day. In type 2, the pancreas doesn't make enough insulin to keep blood sugar levels down to a normal, often because the body doesn't respond to the insulin. Many people don't know they have this type and its becoming more and more common to have due to obesity growths and lack of exercise.
 * 1) 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?
 * A BMI between 25 and 29.9 is considered overweight. 30 is considered obese. Nearly 2/3 of Americans are overweight. The percentage of obese adolescents had tripled in the last 20 years.
 * 1) 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 at the large intestine and ends at the rectum. Bush had 5 polyps removed from his colon. A colon polyp is when cancer slowly develops into cancer
 * 1) 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 soft waxy substance found in all parts of the body ( the nervous system, skin, muscles, liver, intestines, heart) It is make by the body and obtained from animal products in the diet. You could develop heart disease or atherosclerosis as your level of blood cholesterol goes up. Cholesterol is found in eggs, dairy products, meats, poultry, egg yolks, organic meats. ( all of these are high in cholesterol). HDL is high density lipoprotein or known as a "good cholesterol" And LDL is low density lipopeorien known as "bad cholesterol" 25- 35 % of fat should be in your diet, but the average American has 38 % in his or her diet. Because fat is high in calories, the low fat diet actually had more food than the American diet.