You may of heard or have been told to stay away from the "white foods" or more commonly known as white carbohydrates.
This is because everyone's going on about how the more colorful foods are better for you.
Now good as they are with the antioxidants they contain there not necessarily better.
Now I would highly recommend avoiding white bread and refined sugar because these are really bad for our bodies.
On the matter of avoiding all white carbohydrates I strongly disagree.
The thing is there is a lot of "white food" that contain specific nutrients that are hard to find anywhere else.
You might also heard there a bad choice because of the high glycemic index, a buzz word for fitness and nutritionist experts.
I'm going to explain why this is not a big deal later.
First lets take a look at some of the good white carbs.
Cauliflower Cauliflower is packed full of vitamin C, fiber, minerals and specific compounds such as glucosinolates and thiocyanates.
These compounds can also be found in broccoli and cabbage and are known to prevent excess belly fat! Onions & Garlic These both contain protective phytonutrients, vitamins, and trace minerals that are really hard to find elsewhere.
Plus they also have unique anti-inflammatory nutrients.
So bad for your breath but great for your body! Mushrooms Mushrooms, surprisingly contain high levels of unique nutrients and antioxidants.
This includes white mushrooms to.
potatoes Now potatoes are always under fire from fitness professionals & nutritionist as a bad carbohydrate, "the worst kind".
This is because of what I mentioned earlier, the high glycemic index.
What I want you to realise and take from this is that the glycemic index is not always the most important thing to look for when choosing your carbs.
Many people say and believe that the low glycemic index carbs will help you shift the pounds easier than the high glycemic carbs, however this is not always the case.
Other factors come into it.
The glycemic load is one of them and also the combination of high GI food with other food.
If we look at a water melon for example.
Now this has a high glycemic index but because the gylcemic load is very low you will not get a negative effect.
You would have to eat an unimaginably oversized portion to get enough grams of carbohydrates to see a negative effect.
You would be silly to miss out on the water melon.
Again it's packed full of vitamins, minerals and lycopene.
So what im getting across here is things like cakes, sweets and donuts make you fat.
NOT cauliflower, potatoes and carrots! Important Note: Potatoes remain healthy for us as long as we don't change what they are.
What I mean is potatoes deep fried in refined oils and made into chips does not mean it's still healthy!