Road to Fitness; Eliminating Carbs - or Any Food Group - Isn't Healthy

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Years ago, popular diets claimed that the ticket to weight-loss success was to eat low-fat or no-fat foods. In place of fats, we began over-consuming carbohydrate calories in the form of fat-free cookies, cakes, chips, ice cream, crackers and more, counting fat grams rather than the number of calories eaten.

The result? Weight gain.

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Road to Fitness; Eliminating Carbs - or Any Food Group - Isn't Healthy

Unfortunately, instead of addressing the real problem - calorie and portion control - we simply chose to make carbohydrate foods the enemy. Making the same mistake we did with fat-free foods, we now count carb grams, assuming if ...

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