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Originally Posted by stinkubus
The USDA tried to convince my generation to eat a high carb diet when it introduced the "Food Pyramid" when I was a child.
Yeah, because saturated fat was the devil incarnate for cardiovascular health. Then it turned out that only certain saturated fats are bad for cardiovascular health, that even the "bad" ones weren't as bad as people thought, and that high-carb diets are worse for inflammation and cardiovascular health than high-fat diets are. Oops!
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True, but it's all essentially just a way to trick yourself into not overeating, which is the ultimate goal.
"Trick" is kind of a slanted way of putting it. It's just easier to eat a pile of calories eating carbs. I could probably eat 1000 calories worth of pasta, eating the same of chicken breast would involve eating 2.25lb raw weight of chicken in a sitting, which is like impossible. I don't think that's the only benefit personally btw, but it's an open question.