286: How to Love Your Body
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2017
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
One of the best ways to love your body is to stop poisoning it with excess sugar, starch and carbohydrates. This sounds obvious, but it's actually a huge challenge. Excess sugar is everywhere and without careful study, most everyone walks around with chronically elevated blood sugar levels. In the short term, this affects your mood and waistline; in the long term, it reduces your healthspan and lifespan very dramatically.
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Listen & Learn:
- Carbs vs net carbs – what's the difference?
- Why there is no need to be scared of white sugar
- How whole grains can actually be a problem
- Why to focus on the fabulous four: fiber, fat, protein and greens
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Kelly LeVeque is a holistic nutritionist based in Los Angeles, California. Kelly loves to cook. She believes in real food, real ingredients and a clean diet. The Be Well kitchen is constantly buzzing. Kelly loves creating tasty, clean, nutrient-dense recipes and dishes. She loves sharing them even more.
Kelly completed her Postgraduate Clinical Nutrition education through UCLA and UC Berkeley. She is a regular contributor for numerous health, wellness and lifestyle publications. She is also a certified health coach, yoga instructor and personal trainer.
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| 0:39.9 | We have a recurring theme here on the yoga talk show Sugar. We talk about cleansing sugar, quitting sugar, throttling carbohydrates. |
| 0:51.0 | It's something we come back to you again and again on this week's show we'll talk about loving your and because sugar is not bad for you, your body loves it, your brain loves it, but too much sugar |
| 1:05.0 | is bad for you. |
| 1:06.2 | And that's the challenge. |
| 1:07.2 | We need and want sugar, our bodies handle it really well. |
| 1:10.4 | In excess, it suddenly flips into a metabolic disaster it flips into a nerve |
| 1:16.8 | toxin it creates kidney damage and diabetes and all kinds of other terrible things |
| 1:21.2 | so it's really just a matter of understanding how much your body needs and can manage, measuring that and adjusting |
| 1:26.8 | your food accordingly. This is not as complicated as it sounds but it's |
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