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🗓️ 3 August 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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In this week’s episode of our summer shorts series, Pixie and Laura tackle some myths about carbs, including debunking the one that says that “carbs make you fat” and discussing why this is problematic.
In this episode Laura and Pixie discussed:
✨What whole grains are and why we shouldn't sweat eating 'white' grain varieties if we want to
✨Tips for boosting your fibre intake
✨Why carbs don't cause diabetes
✨That eating a potato is not the same as eating a bowl of sugar
Show Notes
{Pixie Turner Nutrition}
{Pixie on Instagram | Twitter | Facebook}
{The Wellness Rebel}
{Ep.71 - But Is It Healthy to Be Fat}
{Ep.62 - Overcoming Fat Phobia}
{Ep.36 - Challenging the Assumptions of the Weight Normative Paradigm}
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| 0:16.4 | Now on don't solve my game. |
| 0:20.2 | No, don't solve my game. No, don't salt my game. |
| 0:23.1 | Hey guys, welcome back to the Don't Salt My Game summer shorts series, which are a little |
| 0:28.2 | concentrated, focused bite-sized podcast nugs that just get straight to the fucking point. |
| 0:33.6 | I'm Laura Thomas, and I'm a registered nutritionist and certified intuitive eating |
| 0:37.3 | counselor. And today I'm back with friend of'm a registered nutritionist and certified intuitive eating counselor. |
| 0:38.3 | And today I'm back with friend of the podcast and fellow nutritionist, Pixie Turner. |
| 0:43.0 | And today we're taking down some more neuterbolics. |
| 0:46.7 | So Pixie, what are we taking down today? |
| 0:49.2 | Today we are talking all things carbs because carbs are so wonderfully demonized at the moment yeah so i think it's |
| 0:55.8 | pretty safe to say that carbs are pretty much the most vilified food there's certainly the thing |
| 1:01.5 | that people seem to have the most hang-ups about in clinic absolutely yeah so i thought we could first |
| 1:08.0 | of all talk about what carbs are where they come, and why you shouldn't be afraid of them. |
| 1:14.1 | So actually, when we talk about foods that are high in carbs, what we actually mean are starchy foods like breads, pasta, potato, rice, oats, etc. |
| 1:24.7 | And predominantly starches come from grains, with the exception of things like potatoes, |
| 1:29.5 | which are tubers. And we can further break those starchy foods down into two groups, refined grains |
| 1:36.8 | and unrefined grains. So I think let's start with whole grains, first of all. Whole grains, just so we are on the same page as to what these definitions mean, because I think there's a lot of confusion. |
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