How To Tell Good Carbs From Bad
All carbs are not equal! This is something that almost everyone has become quite aware of over the past few years. However, the carb issue does leave room for a lot of questions. Some of those being, “does everyone have to eat fewer carbohydrates or count carbs?” or “exactly which carbs are bad and which ones are good?” In many cases, people started eliminating carbs all together thinking they had to eat just protein, that’s how the Atkins® trend had a resurgence of popularity.

Just as the question is not a simple one, neither is the answer. There are a lot of if's, and’s and but's when answering the question of “How many carbs should I eat?”

First and foremost, this answer will become a lot easier to answer if you have Diet Typing done.

Diet Typing will help us determine which of the 5 Hauser Diets is best for you. Should you be eating the Lion Diet, Otter Diet, Bear Diet, Monkey Diet, Giraffe Diet?

The carbohydrate content of each of those eating plans varies depending on your test results. Once we know how much carbohydrate you should have in your daily diet, we can expand on which carbohydrates we’re talking about. In any of these Diet Types, the majority of the carbs are going to complex. This means whole grain foods, not simple carbs such as sugary candies, pop, or white bread! Yet depending on which Hauser Diet you are on, there can be some room for a small amount of simple carbohydrate.

“Good Carbs” aka Complex Carbohydrates
Anything in this category is a high fiber carbohydrate, such as whole grain food, vegetables. Whole grain bread, whole wheat pasta, and brown rice would all fall into this category, unlike their low-fiber counterparts-white bread, white pasta, and white rice which are all considered simple, or bad, carbs. But even with the carbohydrates that have fiber, such as fruit, there needs to be guidance as to how much to have. For example, so many people think that fruit can be consumed in endless amounts as a “health” food. They are pretty shocked when I reveal that fruit is a lot more limited than they anticipated. Why? Because most of the calories in fruit come from sugar, and yes it’s naturally occurring sugar, but it’s still sugar. And sugar is a simple carb!

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