Nutrition for Pregnancy and Gestational Diabetes with Whitney English, RD – E107

Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience

Mastering Diabetes

Nutrition, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Whitney English is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist known for her engaging and evidence-based communication style. Whitney’s “Predominantly Plant-Based” nutrition philosophy is geared toward combating chronic disease and promoting longevity and is in stark contrast to the fad diets she encountered as a Hollywood news reporter. Her dedication to unbiased reporting makes her the perfect partner for spreading credible nutrition information to the masses.

In this episode of the Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience, we’ll cover:

What are the benefits of a plant-based pregnancy?
Her response to critics that say a vegan or vegetarian diet isn’t safe for pregnancy
What causes gestational diabetes?
What is the current recommendation for the dietary management of GDM (gestational diabetes mellitus)?
Why do some practitioners recommend a low-carb diet for the treatment of GDM?
What diet she would recommend if she were commander in chief of nutrition for pregnant women.
Is it hard to meet protein needs on a plant-based diet?
What do you eat on a daily basis in your 3rd trimester?
Iron needs are greatly increased during pregnancy and some suggest you need to eat meat to get it – what’s the truth?
What supplements should you take during pregnancy on a plant-based diet?
Are there any other lifestyle changes that can help?

You can find Whitney on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whitneyerd/

You can also find her pregnancy guide here:

https://plantbasedjuniors.com/plant-based-juniors-pregnancy-guide/

If you enjoyed this episode please join us and Whitney in spreading the word about the benefits of plant-based nutrition by sharing this episode on social media and tagging us - @masteringdiabetes

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0:00.0	what we were talking about before, we've got a lot of these pseudoscience Instagram influencers
0:05.7	telling you carbs if you want to manage diabetes or gestational diabetes because they're only looking
0:12.1	at the initial immediate post-perandial response to carbohydrate intake, which is a spike in glucose,
0:18.8	and not looking at what happens after weeks or months on a specific diet, which is a spike in glucose, and not looking at what happens after weeks
0:21.9	or months on a specific diet, which is that a low-carb diet, which is low in fiber, ends up creating
0:29.6	more insulin resistance, ends up resulting in women eating a higher fat diet.
0:50.1	Welcome to the mastering diabetes audio experience, where we teach you how to sit in the driver's seat of your diabetes health for the rest of your life.
0:54.1	We'll teach you how to reverse insulin resistance, achieve your ideal body weight, the driver's seat of your diabetes health for the rest of your life.
0:59.1	We'll teach you how to reverse insulin resistance, achieve your ideal body weight, gain energy, and get your best A1C following more than 85 years of evidence-based research in the mastering
1:05.3	diabetes program.
1:07.2	Our program teaches you how to reverse pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes and how to simplify
1:13.9	your life with type 1 diabetes by maximizing your insulin sensitivity using food as medicine.
1:21.3	We're on a bold mission to reverse insulin resistance in 1 million people.
1:26.0	We're glad to have you joining us. I'm super excited to be here today with
1:33.0	Whitney English. Now, for those of you that have never heard about Whitney before, I think you're
1:37.6	going to really like this episode because Whitney is a registered dietitian, and she's known for her
1:42.8	engaging in evidence-based communication style.
1:45.8	She coins her form of nutrition as, quote, predominantly plant-based nutrition.
1:52.1	And she doesn't put herself into a box, and she doesn't necessarily put her dietary philosophy
1:55.6	into a box of either vegetarian or vegan or 100% plant-based, Because her philosophy is about combating chronic disease and promoting longevity using
2:07.3	a diet that is as plant-based as possible.
2:11.7	And we like this a lot because similar to how we do it, she contrasts a predominantly
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