Does The Keto Diet Cause Diabetes?
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 5 February 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Does the popular Keto Diet cause diabetes?
We're going to answer that question by diving into what research shows on this episode of The Exam Room™ podcast!
"The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll is joined by Dr. Hana Kahleova who has studied the link between the Keto Diet and diabetes. She says that it's time to rethink sugar and carbohydrates as the culprits behind diabetes and instead look at the other foods on your plate, including meat and dairy. In fact, she cites a long-term study that finds following a low-carb diet for 10 years or more significantly increases the risk of becoming diabetic.
Dr. Kahleova and Chuck explore the three major nutritional problems that are causing people to live sicker and die younger. It turns out that the three are directly to related to the carbohydrate-restricted Keto Diet.
Chuck then explores the plant-based scene in England with a little help from Emma Humfrey. Interest in healthy eating is leading to a boom in options for plant-based eaters it seems! Emma, a paramedic by day and yoga master by night, also shares her own journey to a plant-based diet and how she's teaching her yoga students about nutrition with homemade healthy plant-based treats!
Emma's mom, who was skeptical of her diet at first, has now even opened her own plant-based eatery after seeing her daughter thrive!
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Chuck Carroll
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Facebook: https://wghtloss.cc/ChuckFacebook
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Physicians Committee
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Emma Humfrey
IG: @emmahumfrey
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| 0:00.0 | The rates of diabetes are going up, so it's been estimated that one out of four or five |
| 0:06.2 | people in the United States have diabetes and 25% of these people even don't know about |
| 0:12.8 | it. |
| 0:13.8 | When you say that they don't know about it, they don't know that they have it, so they're |
| 0:16.4 | just kind of walking around and they have it. |
| 0:18.6 | No idea. |
| 0:19.6 | Exactly. |
| 0:20.6 | Well, hello there and welcome to the Exam Room podcast brought to you by the Physicians |
| 0:33.0 | Committee. |
| 0:34.0 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:36.8 | Thank you so very much for giving the show a listen this week or a view or a download |
| 0:41.8 | wherever it is in the world that you are. |
| 0:44.9 | We appreciate the fact that you are here. |
| 0:49.8 | The keto diet, it is as popular as ever, but as millions thumb their nose, it carbs and |
| 0:57.8 | turn toward meat, are they putting themselves at a higher risk for diabetes? |
| 1:03.9 | That is the question we'll be answering on today's show as I'm joined by Dr. Hanakali |
| 1:08.2 | Ova. |
| 1:09.2 | She and her team have been taking a close look at the connection between low carb diets |
| 1:13.9 | like keto and insulin resistance in the body. |
| 1:18.0 | And what she's found is that there are really three key problems that millions have with |
| 1:23.6 | their diet and these problems they're making people sick and they're even causing them |
| 1:29.4 | to diet a younger age. |
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