As the latest wave of fad diets, the low-carb craze, wanes, many long-standing nutrition recommendations are under close scrutiny. The typical recommendation is that 45-65% of our dietary intake should come from carbohydrates. While this is a broad, flexible range, it’s higher than many low-carbohydrate diets allow. As a result, dieters and non-dieters alike express confusion and conflict about what to eat.

For example, you may have heard someone say, “Carbohydrates just turn to sugar in your body.” Since many people think of sugar as “bad,” they think of carbohydrates as “bad.” But actually, sugar is just another word for “glucose” which is an important form of energy. So the truth is, the majority of carbohydrates do turn into sugar during digestion because that’s what they’re supposed to do!

In the next post of this series on carbs, I’ll help you understand why that’s not “bad” by giving you a very simple lesson in carbohydrate metabolism.

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