Carbs vs. Sugar Clarified
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 2 February 2023
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Carbs and sugars: what’s the difference? Find out!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Doctor Burg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | Now, your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level. |
| 0:12.0 | Doctor Eric Burg. |
| 0:14.0 | So, I want to clarify the difference between carbs and sugar. |
| 0:19.0 | When you're on keto, normally you want to keep your carbs below 50 grams per day, preferably |
| 0:25.0 | 20 grams per day, maybe 30 but between 20 and 30 on average. |
| 0:29.0 | So, when you're reading labels, do you look at carbs? |
| 0:32.0 | Do you look at sugars? |
| 0:33.0 | What do you focus on? |
| 0:34.0 | And really, what is the difference between the two? |
| 0:37.0 | Very simply, the difference between carbs and sugar is this. |
| 0:42.0 | Carbs contain three things, starches, fiber, and sugars. |
| 0:48.0 | Okay, versus sugar is this sugar. |
| 0:51.0 | I'm going to try to keep this really simple, but let's just first talk about sugars, okay? |
| 0:55.0 | There are a lot of different types of sugar, |
| 0:57.0 | but they're mainly broken down into two different categories. |
| 1:01.0 | You have monosaccharides, which means one saccharide. |
| 1:07.0 | Now, the Latin word for the word saccharide means sweet sand. |
| 1:11.0 | And the Greek word for saccharide means sugar. |
| 1:14.0 | So, when we talk about saccharides, we're really talking about sugars. |
| 1:17.0 | So, you can just have one simple sugar, okay? |
| 1:19.0 | That would be like glucose or fructose. |
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