I am glad that the freaking out about carbohydrates is mostly over, and that this wave of the protein craze has died out. There are still the protein die-hards, but the evidence for whole grains has definitely changed the focus. It will come around again, I am sure, with some new “break through diet”, but for now, whole grains rule the day.
This is how it should be. I mean think about it, most people for most of the worlds history have eaten a diet mostly based on grains and vegetable staples like yams or potatoes etc.. The protein diet people look back at our hunter gatherer days for their clues on the perfect diet, but that was also when most of the human race went largely hungry. Not until wide spread agriculture did we consistently have enough to eat so we could concentrate on more higher and more important things, like internet solitaire.
Anyway, grains, fruits and vegetables—the carb foods—have most the vitamins and minerals we need to function, isn’t that a clue? It seems like in the never-ending American pursuit for some new health idea, that we tend to look past to obvious answers and wind up doing some pretty strange and unnatural things.