064: Dr. Zoe Harcombe - Reversing Outdated Dietary Guidelines, Understanding Food Cravings, and What it Takes to Stop Overeating Carbs and Sugar
The Natural State with Dr. Anthony Gustin
Dr. Anthony Gustin
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🗓️ 12 June 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
What does the research support when it comes to our current nutritional guidelines?
What about with regards to dietary fat and carbohydrate intake?
Dr. Zoe Harcombe quickly discovered that our current dietary guidelines are outdated and not supported by science.
Instead, the research is proving that just the opposite is true -- following a low-carb, high-fat diet is the key to better health.
Dr. Harcombe discusses why that is and she digs deeper into understanding food cravings, especially those for sweet and carb-heavy foods, in this episode.
You’ll also learn how to stop overeating, what it takes to improve public health, and why she transitioned from being a vegetarian for 20 years.
If you’re not familiar with Dr. Harcombe, she has a Ph.D. in public health nutrition and has authored six books, including, Why Do You Overeat?, The Obesity Epidemic, and Stop Counting Calories and Start Losing Weight.
In this podcast episode, you’ll get to hear a condensed version of her top principles from several decades of research.
Listen in now to learn more about how rewriting our nutritional guidelines can drastically improve health, combat cravings, and promote weight loss.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and thank you for listening to the Keto Answers podcast. |
| 0:08.3 | I'm your host Dr. Anthony Guestan and joining me this week is Zoe Harcombe. |
| 0:12.1 | Zoe has a really interesting background. |
| 0:14.0 | She did not come from nutrition but now has published many many books and her favorite |
| 0:18.7 | pastime like we get in tune this show is One My which is calling people out in bullshit |
| 0:22.7 | on health and nutrition claims. |
| 0:24.5 | She does so on Twitter and is just a beast at it. |
| 0:27.3 | We talk a lot about many nutrition myths and why they are ridiculous nutrition policy, |
| 0:32.4 | how it differs from the USA and the UK. |
| 0:34.4 | It turns out that stuff in this episode so tune in and I hope you enjoy. |
| 0:39.3 | Before we get to the episode I wanted to chat about a sponsor, Perfect Keto. |
| 0:42.8 | Perfect Keto is all about making a Keto joint diet healthy and accessible. |
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| 0:55.3 | And know what you're thinking. |
| 0:56.2 | Hey aren't you the founder of Perfect Keto? |
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| 1:02.5 | My background is a functional medicine clinician helps me craft the cleanest and healthiest |
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| 1:09.5 | Head on over to perfectketo.com to learn anything you need to know about the ketones diet |
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