Episode 66: It’s NOT All About Carbs!
Cut The Fat Weight Loss Podcast
Ray Hinish And Blythe Wagner
4.7 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2013
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Recently a listerner, Sam, wrote us about our position on low-carb eating. He referenced an article on leangains.com that seemed to contradict our approach to fat loss. In the article, titled Low-Carb Taliban, the author goes on to equate the low-carb movement to religious fundamentalists who preach unproven concepts and refuse to sway from their […]
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| 0:00.0 | All right. Hello, everybody. It's Dr. Ray Heinisch. I'm joined here in the virtual studio |
| 0:24.2 | with Blythalberg. Hey, Blyth. Hey, Ray. How's it going? Awesome. How about with you? |
| 0:29.7 | Everything's great. I'm going to apologize in advance if you hear any frog noises coming from |
| 0:34.8 | the back. The frogs are really loud in the pond behind my house. Okay. No worries. I hear no frogs. |
| 0:40.4 | Okay. I'm Puerto Rican. I'm used to it because we have a tiny little frog called the cookie |
| 0:45.0 | on the island of Puerto Rico. And it's just all night long. You hear millions of little cookie. |
| 0:51.7 | Yeah. Yeah. It's why it's kind of a soothing noise though. It is. You get used to it, so. |
| 0:56.8 | It is very soothing. All right. Well, in today's podcast episode, basically what we're going to |
| 1:01.6 | be discussing, what we've titled the podcast, it's not all about carbs. Can it give us the back |
| 1:08.0 | story? Like, why are we talking about that today? Okay. Well, we did get an email from one of our |
| 1:14.2 | listeners named Sam and he inquired about an article that he read that was entitled the Taliban. |
| 1:22.8 | The low carb Taliban. Yes. Thank you. And it was rather interesting article I thought. |
| 1:29.1 | There was a lot of good points in there. And I thought that if you and I were to discuss this, |
| 1:33.4 | we could bring out some golden nuggets that are used for our users can find useful. |
| 1:39.9 | Right. And the author's name is Martin Burkhan. And the blog is leangains.com. So, |
| 1:49.3 | you know, basically, I think he's trying to really shake some people up by using the terminology, |
| 1:54.1 | the low carb Taliban. And what he's basically describing is that within the community of the fat |
| 2:01.8 | loss and fitness industry, there are the equivalent of religious zealots as it pertains to specific |
| 2:08.7 | philosophies, right? And the low carb philosophy of living is one area where you can find people who |
| 2:15.1 | are like only do low carb. Low carb is the solution to your fat loss woes. And as long as you cut out |
| 2:22.4 | all carbs out of your diet, you're going to live a long healthy lean and fit life, right? |
| 2:27.3 | Which is a really, really like off the spectrum. Tough way to go. Most people can't live a life |
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