What are some "good" carbs as opposed to bad ones?

Answer 1

The healthiest carbohydrates come from unrefined, natural foods. Examples are whole-grains, such as whole wheat flour, brown rice, quinoa, buckwheat, and any kind of fruit, eaten whole (not juiced).

The more refined and processed a carbohydrate food is, the less healthy it will be, and the more likely it will cause blood sugar increases. For instance, eating an orange is preferable to drinking orange juice. Eating whole corn, as a vegetable or as unrefined corn meal, is preferable to eating it as corn syrup or corn starch.

In general, if eating healthfully while avoiding poor quality carbs, you should not eat refined sugar, corn syrup, honey, or fruit juices. In terms of fruits, temperate-zone fruits (apples, berries) have less sugar than tropical fruits (bananas, pineapples). Therefore, you should choose temperate-zone fruits to lower your sugar intake.

Alcohol is a special case. It is a carbohydrate, but unlike regular carbs, such as sugar and starch, which each have 4 calories per gram, alcohol has 7 cal/gram, which means that alcohol has about 75% more food energy, as sugars, than starch. This is why many diets restrict or forbid the consumption of alcohol.

Another way that is useful to look at carbohydrates is via the glycemic index. Foods that rank over 60 on the index are considered high-carbohydrate, and are best avoided in a low carb diet. Browse to http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/id/QAA367357 for more information on how the glycemic index is used, and go to http://www.mendosa.com/gilists.htm for an international list of foods, and how they rank on the index.

Answer 2

Eat whole wheat, not white breads or wheat's. Make sure it is 100% whole wheat and not bleached flour. Stay away from white rice, use brown rice in it's place. Replace your potatoes with other vegetables. Bad carbs are made up of mostly refined products that taste better, but will kill you slowly. Read the labels on the things which you purchase, the longer the ingredients list, the worst that product is for you. .......KECK

Answer 3

The good carbs are the complex carbs, because they take longer for your body to digest than simple carbs like table sugar, honey, fruit, soda, and most processed food. Complex carbs are generally much healthier for you and include vegetables, legumes (beans), oatmeal, cereal, bread and pasta.

Answer 4

Good carbs are complex carbs like breads, pasta, starches. They are low on the glycemic index, meaning they won't cause your blood sugar to spike & therefore won't cause your insulin to spike- which is what stimulates fat storage. "Bad carbs" or simple carbs are high on the glycemic index, easily digested and spike blood sugar, then insulin, causing fat storage, simple carbs are found in fruits, table sugar, soda pop and candy...anything that tastes sweet.

Answer 5

like instead of white bread eat wheat or whole grain

Answer 6

go to www.carbs.com, & (no. 1 ->)www.usgyms.net/goodfoods.htm , use brown 100% whole wheat bread, brown rice, brown flour, anything brown is better then white.

Answer 7

Whole grains vs pretty much everything else.

Answer 8

Good ones are the ones you don't eat.