As A Energy Source, Carbohydrates Must Not Be Avoided When Diet

JAKARTA - Having balanced weight is not only to beautify appearances, but also to maintain health. Many consider diet a way to correct weight. Often feeling considered fat, carbohydrates should not be avoided during a diet, but only need to be regulated in portion.

"People know that diet doesn't eat, right. Actually, if we google, the diet actually means the intake of food consumed by someone. We eat it called a diet," said Dr Christopher, a specialist doctor quoted from ANTARA, Thursday, September 15.

"Well, most carbohydrates often have bad input in Indonesia. Because Indonesians are almost 70 to 80 percent, the food is carbohydrates. But actually, what is the problem with us to eat rice? For example, what is the problem with breakfast using uduk rice using fried meatballs, fried milk, ballad potatoes, that's almost 80 percent of all carbohydrates," he continued.

Christopher further explained that if such a diet continues to become a habit, it can cause cholesterol and blood sugar to increase. So, consuming carbohydrates is actually still good because it functions as an energy source. However, people should get rid of the habit of consuming excess carbohydrates.

"If it's continued, cholesterol can rise, sugar also increases. Just like bread, the habit is to eat bread with jams. It's carbos using carbos again. So it will double triple carbos. That's the problem. Plus carbos have a function for burning calories, but they only sit only every day. In the end, carbon is fat," he explained.

"So actually the truth is never combine two to three carbohydrates in one meal," Christopher continued.

Then, Christopher also appealed to the public to be able to distinguish complex carbohydrates and simplex during a diet. If you can distinguish these two types of carbohydrates, then the diet can be done properly and healthyly.

"There are two types of carbohydrates. Some are as simple as complex. It is simple because it is simple. It is easily absorbed by the body, so there is no need for much effort to digest it. For example, white rice, white bread, sugar, Javanese sugar. That's what is simple. Meanwhile, if it is complex, our bodies must be effortful so that our bodies can be fresh with food. For example, cassava, brown rice, wheat bread," he concluded.