Carbohydrates

9 solid reasons why one should not give up carbohydrates completely?

Cutting on chips, cookies, candy and other carbohydrates from the diet can help you loose weight but laying your carbohydrates completely can cause you some problems like:

Slower Metabolism
Fueling muscles with carbohydrates helps you get through exhausting fat-loss routines. The body needs a decent supply of carbohydrates post work out to keep that burn going as long as possible.
- Lousy Attitude
Too low carbohydrate intake is not only bad for the body but it is also bad for your spirit. Extremely low carbohydrate diet negatively impacts your mood.
- Laziness
Carbohydrates provides your muscles with glycogen that you need when you are going to gym. You may feel weaker and more apathetic about training hard.
- Less Hunger
Slow digesting carbohydrates like oatmeal take longer to enter your blood stream and help satisfy the appetite much better than the junk food.
- Speedy Recovery
Opt for a small meal of protein and carbohydrates 30 to 60 minutes after training as the body needs carbohydrates to repair the muscles and get stronger. The body needs nutrients to replenish, rebuild, and repair muscle tissue for next workout.
- Trimmer Bottom line
Reduced calorie diets, whether carbohydrate predominant or carbohydrate poor, all produced similar weight loss results.
- Stupidity
Going too low on carbohydrates can impair and affect brain function and reduces the ability to concentrate properly.
- Weight is regained
- Vitamin Deficiencies
A low carbohydrate diet can cause a deficiency in several vitamin types. Starchy grains produce B vitamins like folic acid. A lack of folic acid can be bad for the heart as well as for pregnant women.
Lack of Fiber
Most low carbohydrate diets encourage people to eat foods that are not fiber rich, leading to an increase in constipation.

When carbohydrates are in short supply, your body doesn’t just turn to fats for energy but also protein (muscle), breaking it down and turning it into glucose.

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What is the ideal time for eating fruits?

More than just eating fruits, it is very important to know how and when to eat them. Fruits should be eaten empty stomach and not after meals or after deserts.

BENEFITS OF EATING FRUITS

- Best source of natural sugars.
- Best sources of vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, amino acids and fatty acids that a human requires.
- Good sources of anti-oxidants.
- Easy to digest.
- Fruits are alkaline forming.
- Abundance of pure water.
- Healthy body and skin.
- Good source of fiber.

TIMING AND BENEFITS OF EATING FRUITS EMPTY STOMACH

- Eating fruits empty stomach will play a major role to detoxify your system, supplying you with a great deal of energy for weight loss and other life activities.
- Graying hair, balding, nervous outburst, and dark circles under the eyes will not happen if you take fruits on an empty stomach.
- After eating fruit, leave a time gap of 30 minutes before you eat any other food.
- After meal, take a gap of three hours and then eat.
- Try to eat fruit mostly before noon. This helps to raise blood sugar in a slow and unhurried manner.
- Try eating bananas and avocados in mid-day.
- Avoid canned, frozen and processed fruit.
- Go on a 3-day fruit fast to cleanse your body. Just eat fruits and drink fruit juice throughout the 3 days.
- Eating 5 servings of fruit a day is beneficial to weight loss and maintaining sugar balance and so on, but it is all about timing.

Some Fruits :
- KIWI: good source of potassium, magnesium, vitamin E, fiber and vitamin C.
- APPLE: antioxidants & flavonoids which enhances the activity of vitamin C thereby helping to lower the risks of colon cancer, heart attack & stroke.
- STRAWBERRY: highest total antioxidant power among major fruits & protect the body from cancer-causing, blood vessel-clogging free radicals.
- ORANGE: reduces cholesterol, keep away from colds, prevents and dissolves kidney stones.
- WATERMELON: Coolest thirst quencher.
- GUAVA & PAPAYA: Highest vitamin C content. Guava is rich in fiber and prevents constipation. P

Diabetic person should be selective in eating fruits and the time for eating should be always in between the regular meals and definitely not after the meals. Timing regularity and punctuality in eating fruit is definitely important to get the desired result of eating fruit. Grape is good for health but preferably in limited quantity.