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Farmer-Rick

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10. Replacing meat and fat with carbs, lots and lots of carbs
Thu Dec 12, 2024, 12:04 PM
Dec 12

Carbs are cheap. It's what the majority of processed foods provide or add to foods.

No thank you. I don't want more carbs in my diet. Yes these beans and lentils have some vegetable proteins but why not add eggplants, nuts and nutritional
yeast to that list? And eggs, low calorie and very few carbs with the protein.

Those items listed above have far less carbs then beans and lentils....(unless you are talking black soy beans. But keep the sugar out of the black soy beans or you are just back to the same excess carb problem.)

No thanks. I'll take my proteins without such large quantities of carbs with it.

Carbs are so much easier to grow, process and feed to masses of people. It was the basic staple for feudal societies, workhouses, Irish famine victims, serfs and peasants. Throw in lots and lots of potatoes and it's cheap to hand out to a population growing poorer and poorer.

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