Is a low carb diet a good idea for me?
Source. The primary health benefit of low-carb is that people stop eating so much sugar and, to a lesser extent, refined carbohydrates (flours) and poorly prepared grains (e.g., not sourdough or sprouted). But it’s not as simple as it seems; you can also go wrong with low-carb, since you need to distinguish between “good” fats and “bad” fats just like “good” carbs and “bad” carbs. If you’re eating a lot of vegetable oils (canola, corn, etc.) on a low-carb diet, you are going to get your body into a very inflammatory state. Most people combine sugar and hydrogenated vegetable oils (look at the ingredients to any chocolate bar) to get the worst of both worlds. At a young, still growing age, lots of people can get by without noticing any detrimental effects on their body fat, but these foods will slowly cause metabolic syndrome and other degenerative diseases if eaten year after year. And as long as it takes to gradually acquire these conditions, it can be even harder to reverse them. Low
