5 key points about carbs in your diet

CONFUSED about carbs? One minute they’re ‘bad’, then they’re ‘good’ again (or should that be the other way round?).
Many of the most publicised diet plans of recent years — from Atkins to Paleo and Dukan, and everything in-between — have seen carbohydrates demonised, either chucking them off the menu entirely, or allowing them, but with strict (and sometimes mind-boggling) ‘rules’ and restrictions.