Carbohydrate in a sentence as a noun

A plate of steamed vegetables and a can of Coke both contain carbohydrate, but they are at opposite poles in nutritional terms.

We have quite a lot of evidence that diets high in processed carbohydrates contribute to obesity.

But that doesn't mean calories don't count and carbohydrates/insulin cause obesity.

Saccharides are sugars, who all belong to the carbohydrate family.

Increase in diabetes and obesity correlate not just with sugar but with all carbohydrates.

He is a writer of books in favor of low-carbohydrate diets, and he often badly misinterprets the scientific literature.

Metabolic advantage with low carbohydrate diets is well established in the literature.

He has a selection bias about which studies he thinks are worth talking about, so as to make it appear that low-carbohydrate diets are the answer to everything.

As a practicing Endocrinologist I will go out on a limb and say excess carbohydrates are the problem leading to obesity.

The extent to which metabolic advantage will have significant impact in treating obesity is unknown and it is widely said in studies of low carbohydrate diets that "more work needs to be done.

From the article I linked above: "On the very low-carbohydrate diet, Dr. Ludwigs subjects expended 300 more calories a day than they did on the low-fat diet and 150 calories more than on the low-glycemic-index diet.

Reducing carbohydrate is the best strategy for improving diabetes and obesity -- you can do it by emphasizing sugar but if you keep those healthy high starch fibers high, you will still have a problem.

Complexity of carbohydrates is a spectrum, with formaldehyde being at one end and ultra-complex molecules such as huge amino-saccharides or polymers on the other.

Dismissing any suggestion that eating less processed carbohydrate might be a good thing with the "pseudoscience" label is almost as bad as mindlessly shouting about paleo without accepting any evidence against it.

Erm... did you read the article?The only mention of carbohydrate's effect is because it's chosen as a large, easy number to reduce in favor of raising the protein amount, raising the overall inefficiency of the system.

The very detrimental effects of fructose occur at high levels of total carbohydrate intake and whereas it is good to point out that low fat has been bad advice, the label from the low-fat food was on screen long enough to see that flour was the second ingredient.

These individuals have an extremely dysfunctional carbohydrate metabolism and the transition to a low-carbohydrate metabolism is often accompanied by fatigue often called Keto Flu.

I'm not sure whether this is utopian thinking or just sticking your head in the sand, but I can tell you my course of action as a father in the face of an obesity epidemic and inconclusive evidence: I'm strongly limiting sugar and refined carbohydrate intake in my household, particularly in between meals.

Carbohydrate definitions

noun

an essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain

See also: saccharide sugar