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Carbohydrate-loaded foods make us fat - this fact has been well established since famous Banting wrote his breakthrough weight-loss book “Letters on Corpulence”. Although many of us understand very well that, in order to shed off those annoying extra pounds, we have to give up our favourite bread, pasta, chips and cakes, in practice it is very hard to abstain from eating carbs.

According to U.S. researchers, obese people do not fit the joyful stereotype attached to them. To the contrary, they are more likely to become victims of a whole range of psychiatric disorders, a new scientific study says.