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Pros and cons of a low-carbohydrate diet

Ari Shika


Pros and cons of a low-carbohydrate diet


When it comes to low-carbohydrate diets, the staple foods such as rice, bread, and noodles are eliminated as much as possible, and a lot of meat, fish, eggs, vegetables, and mushrooms are eaten.
It is basically an animal diet and is a way of eating indigenous hunter-gatherers.
It is advocated by many scholars, and scientifically speaking, it is done with a certain rationale.


There may be some differences in sugar-restricted diets, but basically alcohol is OK, and you can drink distilled alcohol such as shochu, whiskey, brandy, and dry wine.
In a sense, you can eat freely as long as you skip the staple food, so it's easy to say that it's easy and you don't have to calculate calories.
The basic guideline for a low-carbohydrate diet depends on the person, but some people want to keep the amount of sugar in one meal to 20g or less, while others want to keep the amount of sugar in a day to 30g.


For example, pumpkins, carrots, and root vegetables with high GI values ​​are also NG in sugar-restricted diets.
Seaweed and kelp are NG.
Milk is low-carbohydrate, so it seems to be OK for the time being.
Almost all fruits will be NG.
However, since we are basically particular about the total carbohydrate intake, the basics are NG regardless of whether it is brown rice or whole grains.
In addition, sugar-restricted diets do not care about the number of meals a day.
It is basically based on three meals and may be two meals.


Here's my personal opinion, but I'm partly in favor of this low-carb diet.
The benefits are as stated by a low-carb diet, no more, no less.
However, there are still some questions or strange things about low-carbohydrate diets.
I can't put out all of them, but the pros and cons of cereal whole food, the pros and cons of toxicity due to bioconcentration of meat, fish, eggs and milk, and the pros and cons of vegetables such as pesticides, foods containing radioactivity are actually low GI values. There are many, the judgment that indigenous people are eating fruits, the lack of consideration about the number of meals, and the most important problem is that the consideration that food is not determined by sugar alone is too thin.


My family doesn't use any sugar directly, but I eat brown rice occasionally and sometimes ramen.
Older people who eat white rice don't live up to 90 years old (well, humans live longer), and they often die prematurely after eating animals.
For those who are sick, carbohydrate restriction has great significance, but for those who are eating foods with a high GI value without getting sick, there are many different factors (such as spirituality). Must be taken into consideration.
However, it is certain that modern people consume too much carbohydrates, and it is certain that many people get better with petit sugar restriction.
The most important thing is to see and try various things and consider the diet that suits you.