239: Fast carbs vs. slow carbs | David Kessler, M.D.

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🗓️ 29 July 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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David A. Kessler, M.D.: "LDL, fasting blood glucose, and blood pressure: If we work on those as a country, we can change health care as we know it.” Kessler, a pediatrician and former commissioner of the FDA, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how to change your diet for optimal metabolic health, plus: *Why your GI tract is more complex than you think* *Why only 12.2% of Americans are metabolically healthy* *Why eating less and exercising more isn't always effective for weight loss* *The perfect plate for metabolic health* *How to incorporate "slow carbs" into your diet* Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: [email protected]. Also be sure to check out Kessler's book, Fast Carbs, Slow Carbs, which you can find at https://www.harpercollins.com/products/fast-carbs-slow-carbs-david-a-kessler. Thanks to Prima for sponsoring this episode of the mindbodygreen podcast. Visit Prima.co and enter the code MINDBODY for 25% off your first order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the My Buddy Green podcast. I'm Jason Walkab, founder and co-ceeo of My Buddy Green, and your host.
0:09.0	Dr David Kessler served as Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration under President's George
0:14.8	H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
0:17.9	He is the author of the New York Times Best Seller The End of Over Reading, and his latest
0:21.8	must read is titled Fast Carbs Slow Carbs.
0:25.2	He's a pediatrician and has been the dean of the medical schools at Yale and the
0:29.8	University of California San Francisco. He's a graduate of Amperse College, the University of
0:35.4	Chicago Law School, and the Harvard Medical School. David, welcome, it's so great to have you here.
0:44.0	Thanks, it's a pleasure. So I love the book. I love the title of the book.
0:47.0	Fast carbs, slow carbs, because carbs are not the enemy.
0:54.0	But what you state so clearly in the book, which I love is not all carbs are created equal,
1:00.0	and you
1:05.0	just instinctively break them up into fast carbs and slow carbs. So can you walk us through fast versus slow and give us some example
1:10.0	so we can wrap our head around this concept?
1:12.0	Sure. So fast... we can wrap our head around this concept.
1:12.6	Sure.
1:14.4	So fast relates to where and how it gets digested. How fast, but also where in the digestive system it gets absorbed.
1:29.8	And the consequences, but fast carbs are, I mean if you look at the food, they are sugars, but they're also
1:38.2	storches. So they are any carbohydrates that are rapidly absorbable in the digestive track.
1:50.0	And meaning that anything that gets converted quickly into from you know the natural
1:59.2	state of starch or sugars.
2:03.3	They're long chains of carbohydrates.
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