1. Cut down on carbs by cutting down on portion size: One serving of pasta equals 1/2 cup of cooked pasta, however, the average restaurant portion serves 4 servings of pasta!

2. Eat your carbs! Carbohydrates are your body’s primary energy source and your brains only energy source. Stick to a healthy diet of good carbs such as whole fruits and vegetables, grains, cereal and brown rice.

3. Carbohydrates come in two basic forms: complex and simple. Simple sugars are easily identified by their taste: sweet. Complex carbs, such as potatoes, are pleasant to the taste buds, but not sweet.

4. White and brown rice have the same amount of calories, except that brown rice has twice as much potassium, six times more fibre, ten times more folate and twenty times more vitamin E.

5. White bread is high in refined sugar and pack in more calories than grains. Switch up these "bad carbs" with whole grain, whole weat or multi-grain bread.
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