It's fairly well established that lower-carbohydrate diets result in more weight loss and improvements in blood markers (cholesterol, triglycerides, blood pressure) versus the standard American diet and Mediterranean diets. It's also a fact that human beings do not need to consume dietary carbohydrate to live, so worrying about it is unnecessary.
That being said, the point of my post was not so much to crap on you as to push people towards eating more nutrient dense (and less calorically dense) foods, especially of the kind that will make weight loss or even maintenance difficult if not impossible.
For hard training athletes, who need more carbohydrates to maintain performance, good sources are sweet potatoes, squash, root vegetables (carrots/turnips/celery root), white potatoes (if you're not nightshade sensitive), zucchini, bananas, plantains, fruit. Lots of safe (i.e. low/no lectins/antinutrients) carbs plus the added benefit of they fill you up better, digest more slowly, include more fiber, and have micronutrients that you don't get from processed foods like wheat flour.
I'm not going to lie, I am an advocate of the Paleo diet, so take whatever I say with that knowledge in hand. As a Crossfit and Olympic weightlifting coach I've seen a lot of positive transformations in people when they switch to a Paleo diet, so that's one of the reasons I'm convinced of its efficacy and supremacy, but that's just my experience.
Oats contain a high proline, that's inflammatory and causes tons of digestive issues.Wheat in general is not good (gluten, lectins, etc.) plus the fact that it's a huge bolus of carbs (spike insulin, prevent lipolysis aka fat loss) and absolutely no nutrients (unless enriched, but come on that's still fake food). Oats aren't as bad (no gluten), but still pretty nutritionally bereft when compared to meat and veggies. And sugar is pretty much the devil, at least for fat loss/general health.
Oats are essentially an anti-nutrient, and should be avoided at all costs.
Oats contain a high proline, that's inflammatory and causes tons of digestive issues.
Oats are essentially an anti-nutrient, and should be avoided at all costs.
Quorn is the leading brand of imitation meat mycoprotein in the United Kingdom.[1] The mycoprotein used to produce Quorn is extracted from the fungus Fusarium venenatum, which is grown in large vats.
During the 1960s, it was predicted that by the 1980s there would be a shortage of protein-rich foods.[5][6] In response to this, research programmes were undertaken to use single-cell biomass as an animal feed. Contrary to the trend, J. Arthur Rank instructed the Rank Hovis McDougall (RHM) Research Centre to investigate converting starch (the waste product of cereal manufacturing undertaken by RHM) into a protein-rich food for human consumption.
I meant prolamine, dunno why I didn't notice that earlier.A high proline? A high amount of proline? Proline is a simple amino acid and is NOT inflammatory. If you have something that says differently (i.e. peer reviewed research), I'm more than happy to see it.
I meant prolamine, dunno why I didn't notice that earlier.