The Truth About Carbohydrates: The Link Between Carbs and Weight Loss

Your body has evolved to rely on carbs for:

• Energy, especially during exercise and strenuous physical movement.
• Preserving and protecting your muscle mass and muscle strength.
• Maintaining healthy digestion, especially in terms of starches to feed your beneficial gut bacteria, and fibre to keep your digestion moving smoothly.

Your body can adapt. Significantly restricting or eliminating carbs forces your body to produce ketones (a type of fuel) from your stored body fat.

Some low-carb diets claim that using ketones for fuel accelerates fat loss. However, your body’s first natural inclination is to turn to carbohydrates as fuel.