Carbohydrate in diets

People are told to avoid most foods that contain carbohydrate. Without adequate amounts of fiber intakes, however (especially from whole, unrefined foods), it becomes extremely difficult (not to mention dangerous to our health) to participate in such diets for prolonged time periods. Ultimately this approach will fail because it only offers short-term results. In other words, when the weight-loss goal is reached, the diet is abandoned, and the dieter returns to previous eating habits. And the result is weight gain. The dieter essentially falls into a vicious cycle of weight-loss followed by weight gain, which has been shown to be health threatening.