Refined carbs may not have an immediately negative effect on your health, but they should be avoided if you want to live long and healthily. A lot of people loo

Refined carbs may not have an immediately negative effect on your health, but they should be avoided if you want to live long and healthily. A lot of people look at carbs only from the perspective of diabetes, weight gain, and taxing your pancreas, but there's more - don't ignore glycation, which has harmful effects way beyond diabetes, which is considered to be "accelerated aging" due to AGEs [1]. My supplementation is specifically targeting AGEs and try to reduce fast carbs as much as possible. I love yams, cold potatoes with vinegar and cold rice (to get resistant starch), and raw fruits, so, I'm not saying carbs should be avoided at all, but definitely should be reduced to a bare minimum and in forms where you get more than just carbs - loads of phytochemicals. Commercial pasta and bread are terrible not only because of the carbs, but also because of the fortification - folic acid should be avoided as roughly 30% cannot metabolize it and free folic acid is without a doubt harmful - especially to Mexicans due to wide-spread methylation issues. If you have 23andMe, go check your methylation and detox profile here [2] (it's a free service). It was an eye-opening subject to me and explained much of the evidence why blindly (over)supplementing could be harmful! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_glycation_end-product https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_glycation_end-product [2] https://geneticgenie.org/methylation-analysis/ https://geneticgenie.org/methylation-analysis/