Weight Loss

[Bazile]

Re that programme that started yesterday on BBC where a GP spends some time living with a family , looking at their health issues .

Among the products like fizzy drinks / sugar / fatty products - did the GP also say that they should cut out wheat products , to aid good health and in losing weight

If so why is wheat products ( e.g. bread / pasta ) not good if you want to lose weight ?

[dannyk13]

Most are high in carbohydrates.

[Buenchico]

Wheat itself isn't a problem. It's simply the number of calories that wheat-based products can contain that means that they shouldn't form too great a part of the diet of anyone who is seeking to lose weight.

Scroll down to 'Can cutting out wheat help me lose weight?' here:
http://www.nhs.uk/livewell/loseweight/pages/the-truth-about-carbs.aspx

[Copacetic]

I think the cull of carbs was more to do with the man in the house having type 2 diabetes.

Most of my diet is made up with carbs and I have not gained weight.

[hc4361]

If you have an active lifestyle carbs are essential and you will not gain weight.

If you are mostly sedentary the carbs will turn in to sugar - causing weight gain and problems for diabetics.

It's not so long ago that everyone ate carbs freely - toast for breakfast, sandwiches at lunchtime, potatoes for dinner - and there was no obesity crisis. It is the change in lifestyle that is causing the problems.

[Tilly2]

Carbohydrates convert into glucose....energy. If the body is not using that energy, it turns into 'fat'.

That's a simplistic answer. It's a bit more complicated than that.

http://www.caloriesecrets.net/how-many-carbs-should-you-eat-per-day-to-lose-weight/