In my case I never ate much coke or ketchup, neither after nor before going to Singapore. I'm from Spain and the most typical way to have beef is together with

In my case I never ate much coke or ketchup, neither after nor before going to Singapore. I'm from Spain and the most typical way to have beef is together with homemade fries. I suppose the kind of carbohydrates is everything: noodles and cereal good, sucrose bad... so that makes me wonder if the studies mentioned in the article might be too US-centric. Probably many Americans could lose weight by replacing the sugary coke and ketchup with more fat, so "high fat, low carb" may be a good advice for them. But in Spain where coke and ketchup aren't so widespread (some people have them, of course, but probably not even 10% as much as in the US) most people would do better to replace their fatty beef with carbs in noodle, pasta or rice form...