Thanks to diet culture, many of us have a love-hate relationship with carbohydrates. We love them because they’re delicious and filling, but hate them because they’re considered unhealthy and ...

Whether you're trying to lose weight, manage your blood sugar levels or reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease, you've probably heard the adage that focusing on whole or complex carbs and cutting ...

Carbs often get blamed for weight gain. But what are carbohydrates? And are they really a detriment to our health? The truth is that we need carbs to fuel our bodies. But not all carbs are created ...

Complex carbs have lots of sugar molecules bonded together in long chains and take longer to digest. Whereas simple carbs have just one or two molecules that your body absorbs quickly. Since complex ...

The Glycemic Index (GI) measures how quickly carbohydrate-containing foods raise blood glucose after you eat them, and this ...

Soups are an amazing way to dish up some truly fantastic flavors but keeping the carb-count low is essential to a healthier ...

The No. 1 health and wellness goal shared by most patients is to lose weight! That has led to a lot of attention being paid to sugar. In fact, some people have decided to avoid all refined sugars with ...

THAT IS HOT, ERIC. THANK YOU. WELL, IN YOUR HEALTH NEWS RIGHT NOW, CARBOHYDRATES HAVE HAVE LONG BEEN THE SO-CALLED BAD GUY IN THE DIET AND FITNESS WORLD. BUT AS KOAT, UNM HEALTH EXPERT DOCTOR ASH ...

Bread. Pasta. Potatoes. Cake. Many of our favorite things are packed with a biomolecule called carbohydrates. We need them – they are what allows our bodies to produce the energy required to maintain ...

These days, carbs are blamed for everything from weight gain to heart problems. Given this bad rap, it’s no wonder that many people are cutting back on pasta, bread, and potatoes. You often hear of ...

Refined versus more complex carbohydrate consumption has been an ongoing concern for a long time. At the present time with social distancing and individuals staying at home, many so-called “comfort ...

Whether you’re trying to lose weight, manage your blood sugar levels or reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease, you’ve probably heard the adage that focusing on whole or complex carbs and cutting ...