HouseCall: Is It Okay to Skip Meals, Are All Calories Equal, How Many Carbohydrates Should You Eat
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Dr. Stephen Cabral
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🗓️ 6 January 2016
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Have you ever wondered if you should skip lunch if you're going to have a big dinner out? Or if all calories are created equal - Does 100 calories of popcorn = 1 calories of kale in your body? And, how many carbohydrates should you be eating everyday in order to lose weight and keep it off? Find out today on Cabral House Call!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Cabral House Call. I'm Stephen Cabral, Board certified naturohic doctor and today I'm here to answer your wellness weight loss and anti-aging based questions. |
| 0:16.7 | We're going to stick to the weight loss and nutrition based topic for today. |
| 0:20.9 | We've kind of honed in on three of your specific questions, boiled |
| 0:25.3 | them down to some of the most frequently asked ones. So today's first question is |
| 0:30.0 | is it okay to skip meals to save calories so this is one literally I've heard for |
| 0:35.2 | last 20 years and it really it never seems to die and get old and that's one of those |
| 0:39.7 | ones that will just last forever it's kind of like women shouldn't lift weights because |
| 0:43.5 | they'll build big muscles. It's one of those things that like literally will |
| 0:46.5 | never seem to go away, but that's okay. So we'll answer that today and the reason is |
| 0:51.4 | this you can never skip meals to save calories, because what happens is you end up overeating at that next meal, and then you also start to drop blood sugar levels, you more irritable your energy goes down and |
| 1:04.6 | it's really difficult to stick to a plan like that. Now can you do intermittent |
| 1:09.4 | fasting which is completely different that would be like from 7 p.m. at night to 7 a.m. in the morning |
| 1:15.1 | and maybe even a longer one where you're going from 7 p.m. at night to lunchtime that next day. |
| 1:19.1 | Now that would be a little bit different. We also have a 24-hour intermittent fast where someone |
| 1:23.9 | will go from let's say like six o'clock the night before to six the next night, so |
| 1:28.6 | they're still having dinner that next night. They're not missing out on one |
| 1:31.8 | days worth of a food. |
| 1:33.0 | But what I would say is in general, it's a very bad idea to skip meals, |
| 1:39.0 | to what we call it, calorie banking. |
| 1:41.0 | And that means like, oh, well, typically I can eat 1, eat 1500 calories a day so I'm not going to eat the entire day so that at night I can go out and have a couple drinks and then have dinner as well. |
| 1:49.2 | To me that's a bad idea again it's going to lead to potentially more fat increase as well and that's because the body |
| 1:56.2 | could potentially think that it's in almost like a starvation-based mode and it's going |
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