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"Sugar and “Bad” Carbs Cause Early Signs of Dementia"
This seems to be true. And the first signs are righting articles on left wing food bogs claiming that "bad" carbs cause early signs of dementia.
What is a "bad" carb? To the food nuts a bad carb is any carb that is "processed" any unnatural sugar, and especially HFCS. In fact the HFCS derangement syndrome has gotten so bad it could well be the very early signs of dementia.
When you eat a carb your stomach and small intestines break it down into it's smallest molecule. If you eat an apple you will break down the carbs into fructose and glucose and these molecules pass though the intestine walls into the blood stream where they are used for energy in yur muscles and brain. The body doesn't know if these molecules came from "bad" carbs or good carbs. In fact the body doesn't know what a "bad" carb is. This is a figment of the imagination of someone suffering HFCS derangement syndrome and quite possibly early signs of dementia.

This persistent misconception about carbs stems from the fact that certain diseases, such as diabetes benefit from a diet either low in carbs or primarily consuming carbs that digest slowly. I guess the theory is if it is good for an abnormal health condition then it certainly must be great for a normal healthy person. Then everyone who is searching for a disease to call their own reads one of these crazy food blogs or books about diet and suddenly they begin to have the symptoms which can only be magically cured by the lastest fad diet.

Frankly I don't care if people want to follow these fads, I simply want them to stop making up these crazy theories that fly in the face of common sense. I do wish though that the Natural News site would begin a war on bacon. Have you noticed the price of bacon lately? Com'on can't we get a war on bacon with some phoney disease and early signs of dementia so the price will cme down. I'm tired of paying $6 a pound for really good thick cut bacon.

The belief that "something" causes you to "catch" diabetes persists. But diabetes is genetic. Often, not always but often enough diabetes doesn't show real symptoms until the victim is in their 20's or 30's. So it's understandable that if you got diabetes when you were 30 or so you might think you did something to "catch" it. But in fact you had it at birth and got it from your parents and grand parents and not from your diet. But it is a disease that is greatly affected by diet so again it is quite understandable to jump to the conclusion your diet gave you diabetes. But it doesn't. If you don't have the genetic predisposition to get diabetes then all the carbs and sugar you want to eat won't give it to you. However if you do have diabetes and aren't yet aware of it a good healthy dose of refined carbs and sugar will indeed give you symptoms that even someone not familiar with the disease could recognize as abnormal. Thus was born the old wives tale that sugar causes diabetes. The biggest risk to getting diabetes is being descendant from Australian Aboriginal, Native South or North American of black African.
The real risk from bad carbs or sugar is that someone might choose to not eat their broccoli or spinach etc. It is only a problem if it causes you to not get the MDR of vitamins and minerals from your diet. I have no doubt that this is a real risk but it is also a real risk with almost every fad diet as well. Every vegan is at risk everyday of failing to get their MDR of all vitamins and minerals and most take specific steps to make sure they make up for this risk. The secret is indeed everything in moderation or simply eat a balanced diet and don't exclude major food groups like leafy greens or meat, etc.