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Carbohydrates are in such a lot of food these days. We probably don’t even realise half the time how many we should or shouldn’t be eating. I’m not saying there is anything wrong with carbohydrates. We do need a certain amount in order to provide us with energy, but realistically, how many do we actually need?

The underlying problem with eating too many carbohydrates is when your body has enough of them, which is used to provide reserve and for your liver. Any that isn’t used results in spillage, which means your liver will take what it needs, and stores the rest, as fat, which is something, you don’t need.

If you are somebody who is very active and using lots of energy throughout the day. Then you may not notice, especially if you’re an athlete or something similar. However, a lot of us don’t fit into that particular category. So we’re going to need to watch how many we are consuming because we do not want to gain weight.

Here are some guidelines that I found on a blog called Mark’s Daily Apple. If you are eating more than 300g per day, then this is what he considered to be the danger zone. In other words, you are consuming far too many carbs, which is very easy to do in today’s society.

When you consider what we are consuming most of the time, carbohydrates are in quite a lot of food these days. They are in cereals, pasta, pancakes and so on. If you are consuming this amount of carbohydrate in your diet, then you are at risk of diabetes and inflammation, and he recommends that at this level, you need a sharp reduction in the amount of carbohydrates that you are consuming.

Next is 150–300 g per day at this level of consumption, you should expect the following, steady weight gain. If you have continued insulin dumps, which happen every time you eat food and even more so when you’re eating too many carbohydrates. The reason being is insulin interferes with the fat-burning mechanism. When you are in this range, it can lead to an average a 1.5 pounds of fat gain per annum for a period of 40 years.

A more acceptable range is between 100 –150g per day, and tends to be based on your body weight and the amount of activity that you do each day. It allows for optimal fat burning and will help with muscle development.

Between 50 – 100g per day. This is supposedly the ultimate amount for promotion of fat burning and keeping insulin levels to a minimum, which is what you need to aim for. If you want to lose weight effectively eating this amount really ramps up fat metabolism. If you eat the average daily requirement of protein, which is based on the .7-1gram per lean body weight formula.

And by eating nutritionally rich vegetables and fruits. You will find it easy to stay in the range of 50 – 100 grams per day even if you eat quite large portions of food. If you do keep in this range y will range, it very easy to lose one or two pounds of body fat per week and keep it off as long as you stay within the above stated range.

Between 0-50g a day, this is okay for the odd day of intermittent fasting. Just make sure that you intake adequate amounts of protein, fat, and what other supplements, you may need. This would possibly be a good route for diabetics, but not recommended for a long time, practice.

Source material: Marks Daily Apple