How dietary carbohydrates cause weight gain

Part 4: So, if you are overweight, is it your fault — or theirs?

Conventional nutritionists will invariably tell you, if you are overweight, it's your own fault: You are eating too much or not exercising enough — or both.

But are they right? In my experience, nobody wants to be overweight. You are ridiculed, stared at, are embarrassed to be seen in a bathing costume on the beach. In other words, if you are overweight you live a generally less happy life.

And it may not be your fault at all if you are doing what you are told by the 'diet police' because a lot of what you are told by them is nonsense.

All dieters know that sugar, above all else, is fattening. Every diet yet devised counsels, quite rightly, against eating sugar. At the same time, many modern dieticians also tell dieters that they should eat more starchy foods: bread, pasta or potatoes and 'five portions of fruit and vegetables a day'.

But you need to know that it doesn't matter whether you eat sugar and jam or pasta, bread, breakfast cereals or fruit, your digestion makes no distinction between them. All the digestible carbohydrates you eat are destined ultimately to be converted and enter your bloodstream as the blood sugar, glucose.