It is more nuanced than that, but you've got the right idea. Some years ago I tried the Zone Diet(TM), and was able to loose in the ballpark of 20 lbs. For the

It is more nuanced than that, but you've got the right idea. Some years ago I tried the Zone Diet(TM), and was able to loose in the ballpark of 20 lbs. For the first month, all carb-rich food was strictly banned, and that did have physiological effects. Later, once the process had been kickstarted, non-junky carbs were gradually reintroduced with little effect on my pace of weight loss. So... I tend to agree with you. People evolved to eat carbs, but not necessarily highly concentrated, processed carbs.