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The Food For Fitness Podcast | Nutrition | Training | Lifestyle | Healthy Living

FFF 036: Low Carb Dieting Flaws, Examining The Claims vs Evidence - with Alan Aragon

The Food For Fitness Podcast | Nutrition | Training | Lifestyle | Healthy Living

Scott Baptie

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8631 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2015

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This week on the podcast we’re chatting all things low carb. Specifically some of the flaws regarding the claims made about ditching carbs from your diet.

Alan Aragon is the man in the guest’s chair. He is someone who is held in extremely high regard in the nutrition and fitness industry and for many good reasons. He is a nutritionist, researcher, writer and speaker, he also loves a good troll on Facebook too…but in a good way, he provides evidence, is polite and doesn’t block folks who disagree with him.

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0:00.0

Are you tired of falling off the proverbial fitness bandwagon?

0:04.5

Join us as we share simple, realistic, and above all, achievable weight loss advice

0:09.5

based on evidence gathered from helping hundreds of people look, feel, move, and perform better.

0:15.4

You don't need to starve yourself or hop on the latest fitness craze.

0:19.1

We'll show you how the smallest change can give you

0:21.5

the largest impact. Now join your healthy living host, Scott Baptee, for the Food for Fitness

0:27.4

podcast. Welcome to episode 36 of the Food for Fitness podcast, brought to you by Food for Fitness.com.

0:42.5

I'm your host, Scott Baptie, and this is an episode I've been looking forward to for quite some time to get it recorded.

0:49.3

My guest is Mr. Alan Aragon.

0:51.7

Now, for those of you who don't know who Alan is, he's held in very high

0:55.5

regard in this industry and for a very good reason. He is a researcher, he's a nutritionist,

1:02.0

writer, speaker, and well-known internet troll. But we say troll in the nicest possible way,

1:08.1

because Alan questions some beliefs that people hold or challenges

1:12.7

their stance by providing evidence and questioning some mainstream nutrition approaches that

1:19.5

are potentially a bit flawed. One of them is the idea around the low-carb dieting and how it's

1:26.3

supposedly superior for weight loss.

1:29.6

Alan has debated some quite high-profile people in the low-carb camp,

1:33.5

so I thought he'd be a superb guest to come on the show to chat about what are some of the

1:38.3

reported benefits, what is the evidence to actually say, what are some of the flaws,

1:43.4

all regarding low-carb dieting. And then we'll

1:47.0

talk about some other nutrition trends as well, like where does he stand on on protein recommendations?

1:53.5

What does he think the next big thing in 2016 will be? And we'll look at some nutrition cultism.

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