“Bad Carbs” Aren’t To Blame for Obesity, Professor Claims! Hogwash, I Say! It’s Time for a Debate

Filed under: Health — Jon Gales @ 10:34 am

If you’ve read SUGAR SHOCK! and check out this blog regularly, you’ll know that I found a preponderance of research studies (which still keep pouring in) to support the theory that refined carbs — which I often call “culprit carbs” — can make you fat and give you other diseases.

So, it was certainly with great interest (and, I confess, a huge amount of skepticism) that I learned about a new review article in the October Journal of the American Dietetic Association from a University of Virginia professor, who considers the bad-carbs-make-you-fat theory complete rubbish.

Not one to shy away from controversy, I thought you should know that Glenn Gaesser, Ph.D., professor of exercise physiology and director of the Kinesiology Program in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, believes that this heavily documented hypothesis about culprit carbs is