Eat Carbs! with Hillary Wright, MEd, RDN & Elizabeth Ward, MS, RDN (Episode 8)

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Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Low fat. High protein. Low carb. No carb. This week’s guests and authors of The Menopause Diet Plan, Hillary Wright and Elizabeth Ward, have seen diet trends come and go and come around again. And they know what works. Spoiler alert: Yes, you can - and should - eat carbs. We get into why, as well as all the other macronutrients, vitamins. minerals, and foods that menopausal women need for optimum health and performance. Hillary Wright, MEd, RDN, is a registered dietitian and the author of The PCOS Diet Plan and The Prediabetes Diet Plan. She is the director of nutrition counseling for the Domar Center for Mind/Body Health at Boston IVF, a Harvard-affiliated fertility treatment center. She works part-time as a senior nutritionist at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, and is a founding member of the nutrition technology company Good Measures LLC. Elizabeth Ward, MS, RDN, is a registered dietitian with more than 30 years of experience counseling patients and writing about nutrition and health. She is a recipe developer and food photographer and the author or co-author of several books, including Expect the Best, Your Guide to Healthy Eating Before, During, and After Pregnancy. Ward blogs about a healthy lifestyle at www.betteristhenewperfect.com. Learn more about their book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/612208/the-menopause-diet-plan-by-hillary-wright-med-rdn-and-elizabeth-ward-ms-rdn/

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0:00.0	You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.
0:14.6	I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers,
0:19.7	and other experts to help you feel and perform your best no matter what your hormones are doing.
0:25.0	This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.
0:31.8	Hey, Feisty's.
0:33.8	This week, by popular demand, we are talking nutrition.
0:38.5	Whether it's low fat, high protein, low carb, no carb, this week's guests and authors of the menopause diet plan, Hillary Wright and Elizabeth Ward, have seen the diet trends come and they've seen them go, and in some cases they've seen
0:54.3	them come around again and again.
0:56.8	And well, they know what works.
0:59.2	And spoiler alert, as much as we want one, there's no magic formula.
1:04.1	It's just about a well-balanced plate.
1:07.0	And I can tell you from personal experience, I know this to be true.
1:15.3	Because over the years, as I would write about all these diets, I would try them myself.
1:26.7	And I can tell you, low fat was hands down the worst because I found myself eating all the time, bonking on long bike rides, gaining weight, not feeling great.
1:34.1	Unfortunately, the disastrous result of that low-fat period led to the current demonization of carbs, as we all decided that it was the carbohydrates that were making us sick and causing
1:39.7	us to gain weight and all these problems.
1:43.0	When, well, that was kind of true because we were eating tons and tons of carbohydrates when we took
1:49.0	out the fat.
1:50.3	And now that we swung all the way over to the other side, so many people think carbs are the
1:55.6	devil, and that's not working for us either.
1:59.0	Because when you swing your diet all the way out to the other
2:02.0	extreme and take out all the carbs and put in all the fat, it robs your body of very important energy
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