http://www.carbfreecafe.com/carb/carb-counts.html Carb counts are something you should keep, but they are only part of the health equation. en-us Fri, 28 Apr 2006 07:04:12 EDT Fri, 28 Apr 2006 07:04:12 EDT Weblog Editor 2.0 When you have accurate carb counts, you have... A good start. That's it. In no way, by tracking your intake of carbohydrates and keeping it to a certain number, do you have the recipe for healthy living. Come on. It is more complicated than that and surely you must recognize this. With carb counts, you are counting how many carbs per serving you eat and all that. So what? There are good carbs and bad ones. There are carbs that give you some vital nutrients that your body needs and others that flat out suck. When you are thinking about getting on a diet, you have to recall this one fact about carb counts that should resonate with you forever... Unless you stay in shape and watch your diet overall, and get the adequate amount of exercise, carb counts are not going to do you a heck of a lot of good. They just aren't, plain and simple. Dog. Sorry to break it down so forcefully there. If you were super into your carb counts and thinking you were doing good things for your health as a result, well, don't beat yourself up too bad just because you greivously overestimated the importance of your actions. It is all about moderation, just like anything else. You have to watch what you eat in addition to how much of certain things. If you eat all carbs that's bad. If you eat all meat, that's bad too. If you never work out, that is also bad. See where we are going with this? When you get too caught up in things like counting carbs bad things can happen. Such as... You talk incessantly about carb counts, to everyone you know, all the while you are damaging your body in other more subtle ways, and you will soon become a laughingstock at work or school. No one wants that. Fri, 28 Apr 2006 07:04:12 EDT