White bread or whole-wheat? It may depend on your gut
Photos: Carbohydrates' health history
Carbohydrates' health history: Where do we stand now? – It's thumbs up today, but the news on carbs has not always been positive. Take a look at the arguments for and against carbohydrates through the centuries:
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2 million B.C.: Man cannot live on meat alone – Eating a healthy portion of carbohydrates might have been critical for our evolution into a highly intelligent species.
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3,000 B.C.: Thank the gods for bread – Bread and beer were staple foods in ancient Egypt and Greece. Pictured is a limestone statuette of an Egyptian servant pressing out the fermented barley-bread from which beer was brewed.
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Early 20th century: Sliced bread is the best thing since ... ever – American inventor Otto Rohwedder developed the first mechanic bread slicer. By the end of the 1920s, 90% of store-bought bread came sliced.
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1972: Atkins says we have been dieting all wrong – The principle of Dr. Robert Atkins' diet is that, if you deprive your body of carbs, it will start burning fat for energy.
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1980s: Minimizing carbs could help manage cancer – Studies started coming out in the 1980s that low-carb ketogenic diets could reduce the size of tumors in lab mice with a range of cancers, including prostate and brain.
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1991: Carb-oholics! – Carbohydrates are not just bad for your waistline, they can be habit-forming, too, according to "The Carbohydrate Addict's Diet" by Drs. Rachael and Richard Heller.
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