Why Are Low-Carbohydrate Diets Popular?
Because we Americans just dont know moderation and portion control. Weight control is still clearly based on the fact that you need to exercise more and consume fewer calories to lose weight. Diet plans that let us eat all we want of certain foods are very appealing. In the 90s, calorie counting went out as we shifted our dieting focus to fats. After all, fats are more than double the calories of proteins and carbohydrates, so when you take the hidden fats out of the diet (as well as the obvious ones in fried foods, gooey desserts and ice cream) you reduce your calorie intake and lose weight. You even have glucose available to exercise. That worked until the arrival of the fat-free fun foods. Lower-fat diets were helping many people clean up their eating and lose weight. But the lure of a box of fat-free cookies could not compete with a low-fat apple. Fat-free somehow mistakenly got translated into Eat all you want — it has no fat! So, as Americans gorged on fat-free frozen yogurt, ba
