Weird to realize that there are professional carbohydrate defenders, and that the health establishment confers advanced degrees in Carbohydrate Defense.

Why?
Leaving aside the merits or demerits of carbs, the answer IMO hinges on saturated fat, which the health establishment has told us to avoid for decades.

They told us to eat carbs instead.

Therefore, if carbs fall, the nutrition establishment falls.

It was all a pack of lies.
If you're lean and healthy and you exercise with intensity regularly, there's likely nothing wrong with some carbs.

Although you might be surprised when that bowl of "healthy" oatmeal spikes your blood sugar to 180.
It goes without saying that 90% of Americans are neither lean nor healthy nor regularly exercise.

Carb restriction will do most of them a world of good.

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