No. Not true. But that is the sort of nonsense that is being put out by the medical people, and that more than anything else is keeping people fat and getting them fat. Surely if you have enough background in biochemistry or medicine to make these pronouncements you know about metabolic syndrome, which they say is involved in perhaps 80% of overweight people, not 1%. The reality is that many of us, myself certainly included, can not process carbohydrates to the extent we are told to eat them, and were fed them by parents trying to save money etc. We did not evolve to have a high carbohydrate diet, many of us, particularly northern Europeans, Inuiet, Native American etc. (By carbohydrate I mean those with calories such as starches and sugars). Some people do better, particularly those of Mediterranean heritage because they were the first to grow grains etc. and have had longer to adapt. Because of famines in our heritage, we developed the insulin response, and now they are saying the purpose of insulin is to store fat..not to regulate blood sugar. If you chronically eat too many carbs, particularly refined and ground up, like flour, you produce more and more insulin which wants you to store more and more fat. The famine never comes and it doesn't get burned off. Once you start burning out your pancreatic cells, you can eat fewer and fewer carbs to maintain your weight but the doctors and "nutritionists" keep telling you to eat more. Look at what they tell diabetics to eat, which people in this cycle essentially are, whether they reach a certain blood sugar number or not.

Check your blood sugar and then just try to get someone to check your insulin level. You need to know both of them. Look at the ratio of them. It is one of the most crucial scores you need--the insulin level -- correlated to everything, and doctors don't even request it and will deny you if you do request it.

Once this information, which is available in best sellers, reaches the medical profession, obesity will decline, people will be told to eat healthy fats and proteins and almost unlimited amounts of green vegetables and berries and our basic ancestral diet, and prescription medications will go skyrocketing down down down. I am not saying this applies to everyone..some do fine on a higher carb diet, but some do just absolutely awful. Of course some of the problem is, as mentioned above, sweets and fizzies...but chocolate itself is not really a problem for some people. You have to know what metabolic type you are..there are generally 4 types..one does well on vegetarian, very high carb diets. One does well on the mixed balanced diet that everyone recommends..one does well with higher lean protein and fewer carbs..and the fourth, highly denounced group, gets diabetes unless they eat right for their type, which is high amounts of heavier, darker proteins and more FATS FATS FATS.   

But we have to quit passing on bad advice...read Dr. Rob Thompson..forget the name of his book..he takes the pretty standard approach to this but adds a few twists... mg