REFUSE/RESIST

When you eat a large load of carbohydrate... think breakfast cereal, pasta, bread, etc... your body releases insulin to remove the glucose (sugar) from your blood.  Not only are large doses of glucose in the blood toxic to your beta cells which produce the insulin but over time other cells develope insulin resistance.  Once this happens your cells require more insulin to move the same amount of glucose into the cells to provide energy.  Net effect is your blood sugar stays higher longer.  Over time this leads to diabetes.  And people say high carbohydrate diets are good for us.  I personally dont see how this can be the case given the effect that excess carbohydrates have on blood sugar and the negative effects on health high blood sugar have.  A little common sense would tell us that lower carbohydrate diets would lead to healthier people provided the foods consumed in place of the breads, cookies, pastas, etc... are healthy whole foods that provide real nutrients.