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The Good Vs Bad Carbohydrates #goodcarbs #badcarbs #complexcarbs #simplecarbs #shorts #youtubeshorts

4 Oct 2023 · 1 min

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A short spoken explanation distinguishing "good" (complex) and "bad" (simple) carbohydrates. The speaker defines good carbs as high-fiber, slow-to-digest foods (lettuce, spinach, beets, cauliflower, zoodles, almond meal, etc.) that should be eaten more, and bad carbs as simple carbs (bread, breading, pasta, potato chips) that spike blood sugar and can cause insulin resistance. The clip gives practical food examples and suggests avoiding breading and simple-carb foods.

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Now, there are good carbohydrates and there are bad carbohydrates. The good carbs are called the complex carbohydrates and they're high in fiber. It takes longer for your body to digest it, so you burn more calories digesting the food and you want to eat a lot more of this. So the good carbohydrates are lettuce, spinach, arugula, beets, or even low carb tortilla and grated cheese, almond meal, pork rind mash, cauliflower, zoodles. The wet food are the bad carbohydrates. Those are the bread and breading on either the protein or on the vegetable itself. You want to avoid breading. Potato chip pasta is delicious, but it is simple carbohydrates and it spike up your blood sugar and it's going to give you insulin resistance.