The Myth of Eating Complex Carbs by Chuck Bluestein
Feb.13, 2010
How exciting!! My first ever guest blogger:) His name is Chuck Bluestein and he, like me, is passionate about and does extensive research on the topics of Health and Nutrition. Below he gives his opinion on complex carbs based on his research…
It is a myth that people eat complex carbs. Once I saw a video of a Buddhist monk in Japan eating complex carbs. My rule is that all rules have exceptions, except this one. Or all rules have exceptions including this one. But society was built on myths. It used to be a fact that the earth was flat until people learned that that was a myth. Then there was the fact that the sun orbited around the earth. When Copernicus first said that this was false, the Church killed him. The myth that the white Christian was better than everyone else has made history what it is. This is why native Americans were put on reservataions and blacks were made slaves.
There was some facts that all physicists knew until Albert Einstein came along and proved that they were myths. Note his theory of relativity was tested a little later when there was an eclipse and it proved his theory to be a fact or law of nature. He became a celebrity over night when his theory was proved with very precise mathematics.
Before that a newspaper reporter told him that 100 top physicists said that his theory of relativity was nonsense. He showed that the idea that time always moved at the same rate and lengths or distances are always the same were myths. Time slows down and distances shorten or contract as you move faster. Things also get heavier as they move faster. This amount is negligible unless you move at speeds near 180,000 miles per second (the speed of light).
So foods that have mostly simple carbs are called simple carbs or sugars. Foods that are mostly complex carbs are called complex carbs or starches. Actually when someone even mentions that a carb (carbohydrate) is simple or complex when talking about a healthy diet shows that they are confused. So here is how simple it is to know what is healthy. Dr Oz says to eat foods that do not have an ingredient list. Others says to eat foods created or grown by nature and not foods made by man. Some say to eat foods that have a high water content. They are also called back to nature foods.
When it comes to foods that are called simple carbs like apples and oranges, because they have a lot of simple carbs in them, people take them out of the package or wash them and then eat them. But when it comes to complex carbs or starches that are foods that are high in complex carbs, people do not wash them and eat them. Complex carbs are foods like potatoes, yucca roots, rice and other grains. You can sprout a grain but then it is no longer a grain or complex carb since you changed it.
The unripe banana is a complex carb and that is why you do not eat it. Complex carbs are harder and do not taste good. They are even harder to digest. Then the banana ripens and becomes a simple carb. That is why it gets sweeter the more it ripens. My grandfaher owned a wholesale fruit and produce business. He would say that when a banana was brown, it was as sweet as sugar and a baby can eat it. Now if you do not want to wait for the banana to ripen, you can change it into a simple carb by cooking it and then eating it.
So how long do you cook a complex carb like rice or potatoes? For as long as it takes for most of the complex carbs to change into simple carbs. Then not only is it softer, but it is better and sweeter tasting after you cooked it. It is also easier to digest. The raw (uncooked) yucca root is so hard that you can beat a guy to death with it. It would probably break your teeth if you tried to eat it raw. So that Buddhist monk in Japan on that video that I saw, was eating raw, uncooked hard rice that no one eats. So he was eating complex carbs. Vegetables are a mix of simple and complex carbs and it is more optional if they are cooked or not.
Then some people get really confused by mixing up simple and complex carbs, whole and refined grains and single and double sugars (mono and disaccharides). Then they say simple sugar instead of single sugar Just do an internet search for “simple sugar.” They talk about simple grains, whole carbohydrates and other things that do not exist. If someone says that eating complex carbs is healthier than eating simple carbs then they are saying that it is healthier to eat a raw unripe banana than a ripe banana.
Chuck Bluestein
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P.S. I would love to hear your thoughts and feedback below. What is your experience/take on complex carbs and carbs in general?
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February 14th, 2010 on 12:42 pm
Happy Valentines Day! Also Happy Chinese New Years! It is the year of the tiger. This weekend East and West are in an alignment of celebration. In the West people are celebrating Valentines Day. In the East people are celebrating the new year of the tiger. Although Philadelphia has a fast growing Chinatown and a large Chinese community.
About 25% of the students at University of Pennsylvnia are Chinese or Chinese-American. I hear a similar thing for Princeton University. When I created this article I did not even think about how it would be out on Valentines Day weekend. But I bet that my subconscious mind was aware of it and maybe even of the Chinese New Year of the Tiger– roar. They say that we use 10% of our brain. Maybe that is to limit the stupid things that we do. But our subconscious mind uses the other 90%.
But we probably only use 10% of our hearts. That is a pick-up line from the movie Wedding Crashers but it is a good one. So Happy Chinese New Years 2010 “Chinese Year” 4708, 4707, or 4647. I do not know why Wikipedia lists these 3 different years for the Chinese year. But it is the year of the tiger. Happy Valentines Day 2010.
Chuck Bluestein´s last blog ..Winter in Elementary School
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February 16th, 2010 on 6:41 pm
Wikpedia says “Ehret was a founder of naturopathy and pioneer of Ehretism. He claimed to have discovered that the human body is an “air-gas engine” that is powered exclusively by oxygen and that a diet consisting of fruits, starchless vegetables and edible green leaves (”herbs”), which he dubbed ‘mucusless’ foods, is the optimum food for human consumption.”
Starchless means the vegetables that are not complex carbs that need to be cooked. Arnold Ehret was an expert on fasting and diet. Wikpedia has some interedsting things about him. I read his book many years ago. For decades after his book most writers about health would refer to mucusless foods.
He experimented with his diet by cutting himself. On a diet with lots of meat and bread, his cuts would hurt a lot and take a long time to heal. With a better diet without meat but some starch vegetables, he had some pain and a shorter healing time. With the mucusless diet, the pain was minimal and the cuts healed extremely fast. The reason that he got into this was because he was dying and the doctors could not help him. He created a fasting center where he healed many people.
Chuck Bluestein´s last blog ..Are Unripe Fruits Healthier to Eat Than Ripe Fruits
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February 17th, 2010 on 1:27 am
Here are a few highlights of what Wikipedia says about Arnold Ehret (1866 to 1922 died from an accident)
At 31, he was diagnosed with Bright’s disease (inflammation of the kidneys) by Dr G. Riedlin, and pronounced incurable by 24 of Europe’s most respected doctors.
He took a course at a university of medicine, physiology and chemistry.
Due to his new lifestyle, Ehret claimed to have cured himself of his diseases and to be able to perform feats of physiological strength, including a 1000 mile bicycle trip from Algiers to Tunis.
Having renounced the nitrogenous-albumin metabolic theory in 1909, he learned of a contemporary, Thomas Powell M.D. in 1912, who concurred with his belief that “grape sugar” (simple sugars in fruits and vegetables) was the optimum fuel source, body building material and agent of vitality, for humans, not protein rich foods.
His findings about food values and pH values, were supported by chemist, Julius Hensel,[48] and Swedish chemist, Ragnar Berg.
After collaborating with Henri Oedenkoven who owned Monte Verità,[38][39] Ehret opened a sanitarium in Ascona, Switzerland[40] and another ‘Fruit and Fasting Sanitarium’,[41] in nearby Locarno, treating thousands of patients considered incurable.
In 1994, Gary Null Ph.D. wrote: “Arnold Ehret was a man of unique insight with a prophetic understanding of how to cleanse and rebuild the body. It would take the world of orthodox medicine 80 years to catch up with him.”[85]
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May 9th, 2010 on 5:10 pm
Hi Rose Goddess and Chuck Bluestein,
Nice to see you are writing about a pioneer of Fasting and the Fruit diet, Prof. Arnolf Ehret. Just finished readin his book, did a 4 day fast, broke it with fruit for 2 days after the fast, but then meat and regular pre-fast diet. I did manage to start a transitional phaser, whihc may take many months or years even before a full change over takes place. Thats what I liked most about his theory and practices, allowing time for the full change to occur. Interestingly, during my fast on 6 lemons per day with 2 litres of water and herb teas, I had my left knee kick back into place, whiole walking down the street on day 3 of the fast. I hope to cure my tendonits of my scapula, thanks to a Massage Therapist looking to cash in, on the next fast which may end up to be 3-6days, dependingon my to do list that week. This si totake place by the end of the month May 2010. Will let you know how I do….bye for now.
Steve
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September 30th, 2010 on 6:45 pm
‘It is a myth that people eat complex carbs. Once I saw a video of a Buddhist monk in Japan eating complex carbs.’
This article is full of contradictions. The opening statement sums it all up. How is it a myth?!
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