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by will_brown 3459 days ago
>Suggesting that grains, or even carbs, are somehow worse than literal fat is misleading at best, and delusional at it's worst.

Carbs/sugars trigger insulin production...fats don't do that. Just look at the Western diet and the substitution of fats with sugars in the food industry in the 70's and you will trace origins of type 2 diabetes that would begin appearing in children - yes, it used to be called adult onset diabetes - now over a million cases.

Carbs are not inherently bad, but there is no doubt way to much in the Western diet and from poor sources.