Healthy Food

By Vincent Pham and Vien Pham

Whether you are trying to lose weight or just simply want to live a healthy lifestyle, consulting a carbohydrates food chart would make it a lot easier to achieve your desired health goals. As the term implies, this is a chart that lists all of the different kinds of foods that we normally consume on a daily basis. It not only contains the number of grams of carbohydrates you get per serving of a particular food. This also provides the number of grams of sugar and starch each food serving contains.

Carbohydrates are the primary source of our body's energy. While the most common sources of carbohydrates come from grain products such as bread and pasta, nearly all of the foods that we consume contain some amount of carbohydrates in them. But just because a particular type of food contains carbohydrates means that it is good for you.

Food nutritionists have classified the different foods into simple and complex carbohydrates. Of the two, they recommend to consume more quantities of complex carbohydrates. Unlike foods that contain simple carbohydrates, the body takes a longer time to convert complex carbohydrates into energy. This is essential, particularly for those that are suffering from diabetes and high blood pressure since foods rich in simple carbohydrates can cause a sudden spike in the body's blood sugar levels.

The amount of carbohydrates to include in your diet greatly depends on your goals and your health condition. A person suffering from high blood pressure or someone who is trying to lose weight may require a lower amount of carbohydrates in the body as compare to a healthy, average person. The information provided in a carbohydrates food chart can help you not only make sure that you are able to stick to your prescribed diet. Because it also provides you information on the amount of sugar and starch contained in each serving of the different foods included here, you are able to choose what you eat more wisely, making living a healthy lifestyle a lot easier.