As a nation – we LOVE to demonise certain foods and food groups! Over the past few decades, there’s been a trend for ‘cutting carbs’ fuelled by diets such as Atkins, Keto, Dukan to name a few, as well as phrases such as ‘no carbs before marbs!’ or ‘carbs make you fat’.
Many of these phrases and diets have confused people with the importance of carbohydrates, making them out to be ‘bad’ or a driver of weight gain. But in fact, no food is inherently ‘good’ or ‘bad’ – it depends on the portion and frequency in which we eat them (+ of course how we cook them and what we add to them!)
Carbs also contain the SAME amount of calories per gram as protein (4 kcal/g), in comparison to 9 kcal/g for fats!
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1️⃣ Energy – Carbs are the body’s