Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with.Let's give it up for Australia's science boffins, for they have given us good reason to enjoy our carbs with relish. Between the CSIRO, South Australia University, and Flinders University, they've worked out that in a throw down between low carb and low fat diet alternatives, the low carb option makes people more depressed, anxious, tense, and hostile.
They tracked 106 overweight people over a year long diet process, and surveyed their emotional state four times along the way. And yes, on average they all lost about 13kg, so we're not talking about a group of cheaters, either.
Everybody felt happier eight weeks in, but from there the low carb crew just got grumpy. One suggestion for the reason why was chemicals doing different things based on the diet types. But a simpler answer is that people are just happier getting to enjoy the magic of bread, pasta, rice, and other such nommables while still losing weight. That's what we're saying as we tuck into another round of noodles. You know, for science.
