Dr. Barnard Q&A: How Much Fat Is Too Much Fat, Smoothies and Blood Sugar, and When Eating Organic Matters
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🗓️ 10 November 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Get a master's in health from a master of health as Dr. Neal Barnard answers your diet and nutrition questions!
"The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll opens up The Doctors Mailbag for Dr. Barnard to feed your appetite for nutrition knowledge.
Among the questions answered:
- How much fat is too much fat on a whole food plant-based diet?
- When is it worth paying extra to eat organic?
- Do smoothies raise blood sugar more than whole fruits?
- How can you avoid eating oil at restaurants?
- Do plant fats react differently than animal fats for people with diabetes?
- And many more!
Plus, former college football star Marc Ramirez joins the show to share the amazing true story of how he was able to lose weight and reverse a diabetes diagnosis even though the disease had ravaged his family. For years he believed that diabetes was his genetic destiny. Not only had his mother died from it, but several of his siblings experienced devastating complications. In 2011, Marc adopted a plant-based diet and transformed his life! He reversed type 2 diabetes, and lowered both high cholesterol and high blood pressure. He also lost more than 50 pounds! Today, he's teaching others about the potential life-saving benefits of a plant-based diet so they too can reclaim their health!
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| 0:00.0 | I have a friend with tight-to-diabetes who says he can't drink smoothies because blending |
| 0:04.0 | fruits increases the glycemic index. |
| 0:06.5 | Is there any substance to that claim? |
| 0:08.6 | There could be. |
| 0:09.6 | The apple actually releases its sugars rather slowly, and that's true for almost all fruits. |
| 0:14.3 | Then let's say I cook the apple, or I blended the apple. |
| 0:17.7 | That causes the sugars to be released rapidly. |
| 0:20.4 | Well, hello there! |
| 0:30.1 | And welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:33.8 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:36.8 | Thank you so very much for giving the show a listen, or a view, or a download. |
| 0:42.3 | Wherever it is in the world that you are, we appreciate the fact that you are here. |
| 0:49.9 | In my friend today, we will be raising our nutrition IQs once again, as Dr. Neal Barnard |
| 0:56.9 | joins us for a wide-ranging question and answer session. |
| 1:01.5 | We are going to be opening up the doctor's mail bag. |
| 1:05.1 | And that means that he will be answering a ton of your health-related questions. |
| 1:12.6 | Questions like, how much fat is too much fat on a whole food plant-based diet? |
| 1:19.0 | Thinking about healthy fats there, how much is too much? |
| 1:22.1 | And then when is it worth paying that extra money to buy organic produce versus the conventional? |
| 1:30.3 | Had another great question? |
| 1:31.9 | Somebody wondering whether smoothies can raise your blood sugar more than eating a whole |
| 1:36.6 | fruit? |
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