The human body is an exquisite machine. You can be eating a high fat high-processed food

diet for 20 years, 30 years, 40 years, 50 years. And within weeks you can start to see significant

improvements in blood glucose and people are losing their minds.

Welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. Hi, I am

the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. Thank you so very much for raising your health

IQ with us coast to coast in the US and in more than 150 countries. Hi to everyone

listening in Brainerd, Minnesota, Seabrook, Washington, and St. Jerome, Quebec, Canada.

We appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place.

This is episode 58 of season 5, number 357 overall. It also happens to be Card Day here

on the exam room. We will be putting carbohydrates under the microscope, taking a close look

at what they mean for diabetes. Are they really these big villains that they're made

out to be? Or is nutrition one big cast of characters where you've got some good guys

in there as well? And not every carb is the bad guy that's out to get you. That's what

we're going to be finding out. Separating the good from the bad and rethinking your

diet when it comes to diabetes. And we're going to be doing that with our good friend

from mastering diabetes, Cyrus Cumbata, PhD. He joined me on the exam room live to dish

all the facts when it comes to carbs. Everything that you could possibly need to know. And

we got to so much material. We opened up the mail bag to questions from exam roomies who

joined us live. Some real gems that were asked. A lot of people got quite creative with

their questions. Like, can you compare the blood sugar spike from a breakfast cereal that

is made from oatmeal and oatmeal itself? How do they compare? What's the healthiest

bread that you can eat if you have diabetes? And then when it comes to gaming the system,

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