These days I hear people boasting about the fact that they have stopped eating carbs so often that I felt compelled to write this column. It’s time to stop the blanket carbohydrate-foods bashing. Demonising all carbohydrate foods like noodles, pizza, rice, roti does us no good. That’s because firstly it is difficult and very impractical to completely stop eating them.
They have after all been a mainstay of our diet for a long time. The same people who boast, tend to succumb to them every now and then and then feel guilty after eating them, which is worse. Secondly, it is a downright silly idea to even try and remove them completely from our diet as that is not needed at all.