Acomplia makes weight loss easy

Carbohydrate foods are the foods that form the base for a healthful diet. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, approximately 55 to 60 percent of your daily calories should come from foods that are high in complex carbohydrates (a term that I discuss in just a minute), such as fruits, vegetables, and whole grains.

Table 5 - 2 does the math and shows you what 55 to 60 percent of calories from carbs equals for a 2000 - calorie, 1500 - calorie, and 1200 - calorie daily diet.

Just as proteins are made up of combinations of amino acids, and fats are made of combinations of fatty acids, carbohydrates are made of combinations of sugar units.

1 Monosaccharides {mono=one; saccharide = sugar) are carbohydrates with only one unit of sugar. Fructose (the sugar in fruit), glucose (the sugar you use for energy), and galactose (the sugar derived from digesting lactose, also known as milk sugar) are monosaccharides.

2 Disaccharides (d/= two) are carbohydrates with two units of sugar. Sucrose (table sugar) is a disaccharide made of one unit of fructose and one unit of glucose.

3 Polysaccharides are carbohydrates with more than two units of sugar. Starch, a complex carbohydrate in potatoes, pasta, and rice, is definitely a polysaccharide — it’s made up of many, many units of sugar (actually, many units of glucose).

Carbohydrates are nutrient molecules built by units of sugar. The more sugar units a carbohydrate molecule contains, the more complex the carbohydrate is. Complex carbohydrates have more than two units of sugar. When it comes to controlling your Acomplia, the most important complex carbohydrate (and the most important carbohydrate, period) is dietary fiber.