"Current carbohydrates often take the form of sugars and sweeteners. ... Products of this sort, together with items made from highly refined grain flours, constitute empty calories ... devoid of accompanying essential amino and fatty acids, vitamins, minerals and possibly phytochemicals,"<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>You're wrong about one point though, bro. Yeah, we have teeth for eating plants. Plants, man. Not grains. Plants. Grains could not be gathered efficiently - hell, most varieties didn't even exist until we bred them within the past 100 years - and they weren't gathered our eaten much by primitive man. We didn't eat grains until fairly recently. We ate plants, but I already gave you that. I eat plants, too - fruits, stalks of things like celery, roots, etc. - but that's not grains, which is where we get most of our carbs from.
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You are absolutely correct on that point. Highly refined grains were not present until the last 10,000 years or so. I also do not advocate eating a ton of those because of their negative usable nutritional value. When I espouse the benefit of carbohydrate intake for maximal training effectiveness and mass building, I am talking specifically about potatoes, rice, fruits, whole grains,other vegetables and NOT processed carbohydrate sources.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Show me someone who eats a lot of carbs, and I'll show you someone who could afford to drop a few pounds. I don't understand even how you could argue with that.
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I'll also show you someone that eats a lot of everything. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img] Let's face it, the most abundant junk food available is carbohydrate based. Twinkies are not made out of beef! If you eat ANYTHING in huge amounts and don't excercise at all, you will not have a schwarzeneggar physique.
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