High Carbohydrate Food List

Looking on a high carbohydrate food list can better educate you on which carbs you should avoid and which carbs you can have. Carbohydrates are an essential part of your diet regardless of what some fad diets want us to believe.

There is a difference between good carbs and bad carbs though some diets will have you believing they are all in the same and want you to avoid them like the plague. Diets that utilize just protein are very one sided. Carbohydrates fuel our bodies so that we can keep going. All carbohydrates are turned in to glucose in our bodies. The difference between good and bad carbs is how they are turned in to glucose. Good carbs are processed slowly but the bad ones more rapidly.

Bad carbohydrates or high carbohydrates are foods that we typically want to avoid. These carbohydrates turn in to glucose just like good carbohydrates but do so in a way that makes them not so good for us. Unlike the good carbs these are processed rather quickly by our bodies and are turned in to glucose at such a radical rate that the body does not have any place to store it. The energy we feel is fast and lasts for a very short period of time. The rest is placed in to fat cells. This means that the more bad carbs we eat the more the sugar is stored in fat so we get heavier.

Many people find that healthy cooking at home is far too time consuming or simply just a burden. This means that many of us like to get our food right now and so our business is given to fast food joints that only care about the bottom line and not what they are actually serving us. But in order to remain healthy or to improve our health we should try to avoid fast foods, greasy foods and foods that are found on the following high carbohydrate food list:

• Uncooked barley
• Bagels (regular ones)
• Sugar
• Honey
• Dried apricots
• Whole wheat flour
• Dried dates
• White bread
• Waffles
• Graham crackers
• White rice
• Spaghettis and other pasta made with white flour
• Raisins
• Muffins
• Ice cream
• Baked beans
• Gumdrops
• Corn starch
• Nestle Quik
• Kellogg’s Corn Flakes
• General Mills cereals
• Cocoa mix
• Crackers
• …hundreds more

This is just an example and there are a lot more found on line and through common sense you should be able to begin to pick out the carbs that are bad for you. It is all about the choice we make and it is easy to say no to the foods on this list.

For every bad food in this list there are great alternatives that are low in carbohydrates. Just because you are watching what you eat does not mean you have to eat poor tasting food.

Many of us eat foods from the high carbohydrate food list. Not all of us gain weight from eating them. Are these foods really that bad? No. Moderation is the key to have foods from this bad list. Eating 4 cups of mashed potatoes is very, very bad but eating a half cup – a normal serving size – is not all that bad. Just like eating one square from a chocolate bar is not that bad but eating an entire bar can be.

Athletes will often do something called “carb loading”. This is a special circumstance. People who are very active and play professional sports with a high exertion rate will eat food very high in carbohydrates because their bodies burn it at an express rate and they need to maintain the energy level in order to compete.

There are many lists available on the Internet and in various diet books that can include many tasty recipes and menu plans to help you on your way to a healthier diet and better living.

• High Protein Low Fat Foods
• Low Calorie Alcoholic Drinks
• What Can I Eat On a Detox Diet
• Fast Crash Diet: Survey
• What Is A Good Heart Healthy Diet

• The Lemonade Diet
• Weight Watchers Points Calculators
• 1200 Calorie Menus
• Weight Watchers Points
• Weight Watchers Restaurant Points

• List of Foods Containing Gluten
• Fast Food Good or Bad
• Atkins Diet Food List
• Diabetic Food List
• Healthy Food List