What are Good Carbs - From the Heart Doctor

Dr. Arthur Agatston: I’m Dr. Agatston, Preventions from the Heart Doctor. And we are going to talk about carbohydrates, just the few years ago everyone seem to be counting carbs. That low carb diet was very popular, what we know now is not all carbs like all fat are made the same. There are good carbs and bad carbs; we only want to avoid the bad ones. Those are the starches and the sugars. This play habit with our blood glucose causing big swings that make us hungry, give us cravings, put on fat and need to pre diabetes, diabetes and hurt disease. The bad carbs are often known as the white carbs because sugar is white and flour is white, now one misconception was the idea that potatoes, rice or complex carbohydrates becaue there starches is not sugars. And what they are really is just change of simple sugars and they actually can raise our blood sugar faster than table sugar. Thus a starch can play just as great having with our blood sugars causing us to be hungry and having cravings has simple table sugar. So, good carbohydrates are the vegetables, whole fruits and whole grains they are fiber rich and also rich in nutrients. In fact most vitamins and minerals are associated with the fiber and the good carbohydrates. What we understand today is having a variety of the good carbohydrates is very important for our health. If you use multiple colors as your guide, you will get the greatest variety of nutrients and have the best protection against chronic disease. Remember that fruits are a good carbohydrate; they are filled with fiber and antioxidants. Now, the more skin of fruit has which usually means berries and smaller fruits, the more antioxidants and the more fiber will be in the fruits. So fruits are good, some fruits are bad. Today Americans consumed only freshen of the fiber that our ancestors consumed and this is probably responsible for obesity, diabetes and lot of our chronic diseases. So ehen you are eating the good carbs you are getting a lot of fiber and this helps keep us healthy.