Originally Posted by
KevinB
Actually from what I understand 30 grams a day of carbs would be a very low amount of carbs a day even from low carb promoters.Especially for people who do not need to lose weight The people who say they are against low carb recommend that people get 70 percent of there diet from carbs. Lets say that a person needs 2500 calories a day to maintain there weight. 70 percent of 2500 calories would be 437 grams of carbs a day. If you wanted to eat 437 grams 0f vegetables a day you would need to go buy about 20 bags of frozen broccoli a day and eat it.
Not disagreeing with you just pointing out the fact the the math makes no sense when it comes to high carb diets.
Uh, actually not. At only 2500 cal./day, you sure don't need to be at 70%. At 6000 cal., yes. One figures carb calories by first specifying so many calories for protein and so many for fat and then the rest can be carbs. So the higher the level of activity, the higher the carb percentage.