Eat the Damn Banana (if you want!) - Understanding Carbs with Kevin Hall, PhD
Wellness: Fact vs. Fiction
Danielle Belardo
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🗓️ 4 May 2022
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TW: Diet, weight
Join Dr. Danielle Belardo for part two of her fascinating conversation surrounding carbs, energy balance, and body weight with NIH nutrition and metabolism scientist, Dr. Kevin Hall. Danielle and Kevin discuss the phenomenal research Kevin and his team have done evaluating the impact of different diets and their studies in regards to the carbohydrate insulin model. They debunk myths about low carb versus low fat diets, the effects of carbs and fat on appetite, and whether keto deserves all the hype. If you have ever had anxiety about eating a banana because of the carbs, this one is for you!
Dr. Kevin Hall received his Ph.D. in Physics from McGill University and is now a tenured senior investigator at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) where he is the Section Chief of Integrative Physiology. His main research interests are the regulation of food intake, macronutrient metabolism, energy balance, and body weight. Dr. Hall is the recipient of many prestigious awards including the NIH Director’s Award, and his award-winning Body Weight Planner has been used by millions of people.
They discuss myths and misconceptions in regards to:
- Calories, insulin, and glucose
- Social media’ newest enemy, fruit
- The latest fad diets
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:06.4 | The passive overconsumption model predicts the ketogenic diet folks. |
| 0:10.6 | They should have eaten many more calories, gained a bunch of weight. |
| 0:14.7 | And the other carbohydrate insulin models would suggest that the high glycemic, |
| 0:19.2 | high carb diet should have caused these big insulin |
| 0:21.5 | excursions and those folks should have got hungrier and therefore eat more calories and gain more |
| 0:26.4 | weight. And the answer was none of them were true. Welcome to wellness, fact versus fiction. I'm Dr. Danielle Ballardo, and I'm a cardiologist who loves evidence-based |
| 0:43.4 | medicine and nutrition science. But as a millennial, I've watched endless wellness vads take over social media. |
| 0:49.8 | It's my mission to get to the bottom of things by bringing on the top expert physicians and scientists |
| 0:54.5 | to help us determine what is fact versus fiction when it comes to your health. It's time to leave |
| 1:00.3 | the pseudoscience behind and become empowered when it comes to our wellness. Welcome back, everyone, to part two of our episode with one of my favorite scientists in the world of nutrition, Dr. Kevin Hall, who is the senior investigator at the National Institute of Health, where he's the section chief of integrated physiology. |
| 1:27.3 | In today's |
| 1:27.8 | episode, we discussed the phenomenal research Kevin's done evaluating how different diets impact |
| 1:32.6 | energy balance and body weight. We discussed the carbohydrate insulin model and what studies |
| 1:37.0 | Kevin's research group has done to evaluate it. We talk about his research evaluating low carb |
| 1:41.5 | or low fat diets, different myths and misconceptions about both |
| 1:44.8 | over time, and what questions remain about nutrition, obesity, and weight loss. |
| 1:49.9 | We discussed the latest fat trend of using continuous glucose monitors and individuals without |
| 1:54.6 | diabetes and how mechanistic speculation but not rigorous evidence drives it. |
| 1:59.6 | And for anyone that's had anxiety about eating an |
| 2:01.8 | apple or banana because you're worried they have too many carbs, this episode is definitely for you. |
| 2:07.2 | So have a listen and enjoy. To touch on one of the other most popular topics that everyone wanted me to ask you about. Focusing on |
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