94: Why is losing weight so difficult?
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2017
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Why is losing weight so difficult? This is the question Zoe Harcombe set out to answer while studying at Cambridge University. We are trained from an early age to seek solace in food. Sweet treats are a central part of nearly every holiday we celebrate. According to Zoe, food in the form of starchy carbohydrates has become the world's most accessible and acceptable drug. At the same time, the US Dietary guidelines reinforce these behaviors by recommending a diet high in carbohydrates and low in fat.
After years of following these dietary recommendations, most people find themselves with one or more of the following conditions, that in all likelihood is sabotaging their weight loss efforts: hypoglycemia, candida, and food intolerances.
Today Zoe helps us understand the symptoms and treatments of these conditions. Her suggestions for finding lasting change include addressing these issues with simple, practical advice including: eating real food, lowering your carbohydrate intake, and being careful from whom you get your nutritional advice!
Learn more at zoeharcombe.com.
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| 0:00.0 | It kind of releases people from making them feel that they're useless or they're greedy or their weak world. |
| 0:06.4 | Because when you point out to them, actually you've got some pretty powerful actual medical conditions going on here. And if you don't get these in check |
| 0:15.0 | you've got virtually no chance of eating in the way that you would like to eat. Welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast, |
| 0:27.0 | The Wise Traditions Podcast, sponsored by the Westin A Price Foundation for Wise Traditions and Food Farming and |
| 0:34.7 | The Healing Arts. We are your source for scientific knowledge and |
| 0:38.1 | traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal health. I'm your host, Hoda-Labrada Gore. |
| 0:48.0 | This is episode 94 and my guest today is Dr. Zoe Harcombe. |
| 0:52.0 | Zoe is a popular speaker and the author of several books including |
| 0:56.0 | Why Do You Over Eat when all you want is to be Slim. |
| 0:59.0 | In today's episode, she really gets to the crux of the matter of why so many of us feel compelled |
| 1:04.7 | to keep eating when we know better. |
| 1:06.9 | She suggests that there are other factors at play. |
| 1:09.8 | We may have issues with food addiction and struggle with weight loss because of one or more of the |
| 1:14.6 | following conditions, hypoglycemia, candida, and food intolerances. She enumerates the symptoms |
| 1:21.6 | associated with each of these so you can more easily identify what's going on in your own body. |
| 1:26.5 | She also gives us today practical ideas for turning things around. |
| 1:30.5 | Before we get into the conversation, we want to recognize our sponsors. This episode is |
| 1:35.2 | brought to you in part by nourishing our children. Nourishing our children, timeless |
| 1:40.6 | principles for supporting learning, behavior, and health through optimal nutrition. |
| 1:45.6 | Visit nourishing our children.org. |
| 1:48.4 | Hey and don't forget that the Wise Traditions Conference is coming up in Minneapolis this |
| 1:52.4 | November the 10th through |
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