The Science - my understanding

I realized I haven't really laid out my understanding of nutrition on this blog yet. Here goes, in the shortest form I can manage:

I believe that carbohydrates are the major obstacle to weight loss, and perhaps health in general for most people.

Eating carbs elevates insulin levels in the blood, which does 3 things: inhibits fat burning, triggers fat storage, and increases hunger. The effects are almost immediate and last for several hours.

These three effects of insulin are undisputed and clearly demonstrated in humans as well as dozens of animal species. It's also undisputed that consuming carbs raises insulin levels. So it's really an "open and shut case".

I suspect the world would have far less obesity, perhaps hardly any at all, if there were no such thing as processed sugar and high fructose corn syrup. So perhaps blaming all carbs goes too far. However, taste and hunger and biochemistry being what they are, I suspect if those 2 evil things didn't exist, we'd find a way to put potato, or rice, or apple juice concentrate or something in everything we eat.

So carbs = bad.